Although his book was written before the September 11 attacks , John Coffey explicitly compares the English fear of the Popish Plot with the contemporary Islamophobia in the Western world . Among the Muslims imprisoned in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp there also were Mehdi Ghezali and Murat Kurnaz who could not have been found to have any connections with terrorism , but had traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan because of their religious interests
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