First I will review the case of Iqbal Madni in more detail (Ahmed, 2011). Second, I will have a brief synopsis of dehumanization and demonization in orientalism, and the idea of suspect communities. Thirdly I will describe extraordinary rendition with the example of Guantánamo Bay. I will then discuss the idea of suspect communities in more detail, comparing Madni's case with the cases in "Surviving the Dragnet" (Ahmed, 2011 & Mathur, 2006). Finally I will be reviewing the different examples of orientalism taking place in the walls of Black Sites with reference to the case of Maher Arar and Nayak's model (Nayak, 2006 & Macklin, 2008).
Review on Iqbal Madni.
Iqbal Madni is a thirty-three year old Islamic scholar, who was extraordinarily rendered and tortured at Guantánamo Bay (Ahmed, 2011). Madni was arrested in September 2002 in Jakarta, by Indonesian authorities, who were working with the CIA. Madni was visiting his step brother and mother at the time, and was falsely accused of plotting a "shoe-bomb style attack". From Jakarta, he was moved to Egypt, then to the Bagram prison in Afghanistan and finally to the Guantánamo Bay, a black site, where he was detained for over five years. The British government was also involved in the rendering of Madni (New York Times, 2009). At Guantánamo Bay he was constantly tortured in ways such as sleep deprivation, sexual abuse, starvation leading him to wanting to commit suicide. His experience at Guantánamo Bay demolished his life perhaps due to the mental and physical abuse. .
Orientalism and Suspect Communities.
Orientalism is, "The systematic attempt to create the categories of the the 'West' and the 'Orient' whereby, the West is equated with self, rational, civilized, humane, superior; and the East/orient with other, irrational, undeveloped, savage, inferior" as defined by Edward Said (Trainor, 2015).