Guilty of being Muslim: A review of ‘Entrapped’  The new
documentary “Entrapped,” which was aired as a special report by
Democracy Now! on October 6 and is due to be released on DVD by
Big Noise Films, is that rare documentary that not only informs
us about an issue, but in doing so, actually transforms our
understanding of this issue.  “Entrapped” is a thirty-five-
minute documentary that encapsulates months of investigations
and interviews by the filmmakers — Anjali Kamat, a producer at
Democracy Now!, and Jacquie Soohen, a member of the Big Noise
Films collective — involving cases of government surveillance
aimed at Muslim communities in the U.S. While it draws on and
references a much larger body of examples, the film focuses in
particular upon three recent cases: the case of the “Fort Dix
Five,” in which five men from suburban New Jersey were convicted
last year of conspiring to kill American soldiers at the Fort
Dix Army base; a 2006 case in Albany, New York, in which a
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