In the depths of hell or in paradise

What favours of your Lord will ye deny?

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Due to unprecedented demand for the addresses of prisoners held in the 'War on Terror' and www.helptheprisoners.org being offline for atleast two weeks.

This poem was written by a prisoner during his captivity in Guantanamo Bay. It was confiscated from the author soon after he wrote it and was not returned to him until the day of his release. He subsequently sang these words in a nasheed which he dedicated to Muslims prisoners all over the world

Guantanamo Bay may be off the radar screens, with some people actually believing the place has been closed down simply because Obama had promised to do so within a year of his presidency but, how can the men held there for so many years simply be erased from our memories? The campaign against the US prison may not have achieved the ultimate goal of acquiring justice for all the prisoners but, it has ensured that the men of Guantanamo are not forgotten. At least that's what it should have done. 

Moazzam Begg speaking at Masjid Umar, Sheffield, May 2010

The Guantanamo prisoners have, despite unimaginable odds, faced their ordeal with dignity and strength sustained by an unshakeable faith. This is one of the reasons why so many of them have returned stronger - not weaker - for the experience of imprisonment.

A study of the concepts of Jihad and terrorism in Islam through the prism of the war on terror. Click here to download PDF