James Yee: Ministering to Muslims at Guantanamo

An important topic we have explored over several BCR programs is the work carried out by Witness Against Torture – who for 15 years have actively protested the incarceration of Muslim men from all over the world -- at Guantanamo, Cuba. Since 2002 almost 800 have been detained – most released and now 40 remain – uncharged with a crime. Some have been there going on 20 years in extremely ugly conditions.For this episode we talked with a former U.S. Army Captain who loyally served his country at the Guantanamo Prison, as a Muslim Chaplain. Then at the end of his deployment was wrongly arrested and accused of espionage and threatened with execution. James Yee’s story was documented in the popular press and this story is available in his book “For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.