Hundreds of Muslims were renditioned and detained without trial after 2001.

Evidence

Both Muslim men are forced to undergo the experience of abduction and rendition, which was the fate of hundreds of their coreligionists in the years after 2001, until an international outcry put an end to the practice. As Ahmed Rashid points out, “Rendered prisoners were truly ‘ghost detainees,’ with no rights, no prospect of a trial, and a future of permanent detention by unsavoury regimes. CIA snatch teams could pick up prisoners anywhere in the world.” — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 333

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘ghost detainee’ concept maps to the liminal stateless condition Changez describes in The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Useful addendum to the reader’s argument that statelessness is the master trope. — connects to: Tens of thousands of US Muslims faced registry, arbitrary arrest, detention or deportation