Gitmo Prisoner Is Innocent Victim of Islamophobia on 'NCIS'

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By Alexa Moutevelis Coombs | November 23, 2016 | 2:37 AM EST

After last week’s episode on the plight of the illegal immigrant, Tuesday night’s episode of NCIS on CBS gives us the plight of the poor, innocent Guantanamo Bay detainee.

While investigating the murder of a Muslim chaplain who once served at Gitmo, in the episode “Enemy Combatant,” the NCIS agents discover evidence that one of the detainees he counseled was an innocent man. It turns out that Amir Hassan was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, but those eeeeeevil defense contractors (surprised they didn't name drop Blackwater!) edited the transcripts of his interrogation to make him look guilty because they “were told to help prolong the confinement of detainees who refused to produce Intel vital to the War on Terror.”

NCIS Agent Ellie Bishop (Emily Wickersham) and translator Qasim Naasir (Rafi Silver) go down to Gitmo to talk to Hassan. Bishop worries Hassan won’t talk to her because “this place taught him not to trust anyone, especially U.S. Agents.” Hassan tells her, “I was put in this place by people like you, Agent Bishop. People who think I'm a terrorist because I'm Muslim.” Ah, yes, Gitmo is about Islamophobia, not terrorism.

After Amir Hassan is freed, Bishop regrets her past work at the NSA to put terrorists in Gitmo and wonders “if there's another Amir in there.”