Membership in a listed group justifies presumed future terrorism

Evidence

In 2001 Mr Justice Nadon found the security certificate issued for Mahjoub to be reasonable on the grounds that he was a member of the Vanguards of Conquest and/or Al Jihad and was therefore likely to engage in terrorism in the future. As in Almrei’s case, Mahjoub’s case is particularly marked by the fact that he initially lied at this first certificate hearing about his conviction in Egypt in absentia for his involvement in ‘Sunni Islamic terrorism including his role in connection with the U.S. Embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya.’ Although he ‘came clean’ before the end of the proceedings, his credibility was certainly not helped by the initial denial. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 130

Categorization

• XREF: The presumption that group membership predicts future action echoes the Milgrom trade-institution material on how membership substitutes for direct evidence of conduct.