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NOVANEWS SHUKRI ABU BAKER The author during a visit with his grandson Zackaria on Dec. 25, 2015. Shukri Abu Baker doesn’t like to pose for photos when his family visits him in prison because he says it’s too painful for him to look at the pictures. (COURTESY ABU BAKER FAMILY) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2019, p. 28 Islam in America By Shukri Abu Baker SICK, IS ALL I’D BEEN FEELING on that cold Monday night. Some hours earlier, the ominous air in that courtroom, the timid gestures, the awful anticipation, the dreadful verdicts...all was too much to stomach. I cringed every time the judge’s voice rang “guilty” in my head; his gloating only amplified by the claustrophobic compactness in my prison cell. But it wasn’t until bedtime, when, to discern the re...