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Should this also be in +Category:Al-Qaeda ?

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I am helping to categorize this article. It crossed my mind that Category:Al-Qaeda might be a helpful or useful category, as the entire focus of this article is the relationship between this person and Al-Quaeda and the resulting prosecution. At the same time I don't want to imply that this person is an Al-Qaeda member, so this gives me pause before adding a category. What is the procedure for determining categorization in this case? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThReCr (talkcontribs) 20:36, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say adding the category is justified. It doesn't necessarily imply that he's a member of Al-Qaeda, only that he's related to it, which (as a result of his prosecution and conviction) he clearly is. I just added {{WikiProject Terrorism}} for the same reason - I don't think it violates BLP, as he's undoubtedly in the scope of the project by being convicted of a terrorism-related crime. Robofish (talk) 01:22, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Focus and NPOV

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The article seems to me to be focused improperly on freedom of speech issues. Based on what I have read here, Mehanna was convicted of planning to conduct a terrorist attack on a suburban mall, among other things. The reference dates from 2009, and the trial results may be different, but perhaps a more comprehensive listing of his convictions is in order in order to avoid giving the impression that his crimes were against sensibility. TreacherousWays (talk) 14:31, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely agree. While there may indeed be important freedom of speech issues, when one follows the links backwards (to Islamic Society of Boston), the charges mentioned there are wholly different; so there needs to be some cleanup here, introducing a proper balance to the discussion of charges. This page might almost have been written by his appeal lawyers. Theonemacduff (talk) 00:27, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]