From The Weekly Standard, in Boston, Massachusetts:
Today, after deliberating for less than ten hours, a federal jury found Tarek Mehanna guilty of the most serious charges leveled by federal prosecutors against him, including providing material support to terrorists, conspiring to kill in a foreign country, and lying to counterterrorism officials. He faces a possible life sentence.
When Islam is shut down, on any level, for any reason — particularly in my country — I rejoice.
As I reported in the July 25 issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Mehanna, a young Egyptian-American pharmacist who self-radicalized shortly after 9/11, gained notoriety as an English-language al Qaeda propagandist who helped plan multiple terror attacks. Mehanna’s dreams of waging physical jihad against the United States never materialized—mostly thanks to the incompetence of Mehanna and his terrorist cohort.
Islam is here, ladies and gentlemen. It is in our country, actively recruiting the dregs of society, the brain-damaged, the ignorant, the ill-educated, and is making serious inroads because of Do-Goody-ism in our prisons via GOWPs (Guilty Overeducated White People in the guise of pastors, priests, fathers, sisters and others brimming with irrational religious naivete.)
Continuing, from The Weekly Standard:
Misguided Boston leftists had come to view Mehanna as some sort of authentic Muslim civil rights activist. Here was a young man who took joy in the 9/11 attacks, celebrated Osama bin Laden as his spiritual father, and called for moderate and liberal Muslims to be brutalized for daring to challenge Islamism in their communities. Nevertheless, not long after my piece was published, Mehanna’s cause became a staple of the local Occupy Wall Street protest. Boston “occupiers” dressed in pink spandex and organized a flash mob near Boston’s South Station to bring attention to his “plight.”
An “authentic Muslim” means that all disbelievers must convert or die. An “authentic Muslim” believes that women are subservient and must be covered from head-to-toe, endure clitorectomies, walk behind their men, have no votes or rights in Muslim society. They can be killed for any perceived affront. They are chattel.
By delivering a guilty verdict, the Boston jury decisively repudiated the nauseating message put forth by this bizarre—and politically sophisticated—alliance of the far left and radical Islamism.
And because of this decision, I find it unusual that a jury somehow managed, in this Politically Correct and guilty climate, to deliver a finding based upon fact, history and logic.
My hat is off to this Boston jury who, despite their surroundings and the heat they’re clearly now having to take, made the proper decision here.
I say once again, people: “demography is prophecy.”
You can do the Logical Extension on that one.
BZ
