Crime to Be a Muslim

United States is widely praised for the world's strongest democracy and for creating – and leading the world into following – the international system of human rights and humanitarian laws it to seeks to contravene. I firmly believe that Obama's decision to shut down Guantanamo Bay was definitely reasonable.

Benjamin Franklin states, "Those who are willing to sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither." Many Americans and Guantanamo Bay officials don't seem to be adhering this. Reported assaults, threats to kill, sleep deprivation, locking detainees in cold rooms for days on end without supplying food or water or allowing them to go to the bathroom and beating them unconscious, are just some of the means used for torturing terrorist suspects. Such atrocious behavior is illegal in 194 countries, including the United States. Other than a name, address or a serial number it is against the law –even under extreme orders – to ask for any other information and to as much as touch them for attaining this information. Breaking that law would be breaching the Geneva Conventions. As the Fourth Geneva Convention (Article 27) states, "Protected persons are entitled, in all circumstances, to respect for their persons, their honor, their family rights, their religious convictions and practices, and their manners and customs. They shall at all times be humanely treated and shall be protected especially against all acts of violence or thereof…" Yet, America has pulled the detainees out of any such protection, though they did sign the Geneva Conventions.

My second point: Imagine one of your family members being agonized day and night paying for a crime they didn't even do; wouldn't you feel vengeance towards the person hurting your loved one? Thus, enemies are made. Guantanamo bay was created for a purpose; which was to imply anti-American extremism and to control jihad. And now it is jeopardizing that purpose;