Tunisian Planned `Violent Jihad' Involvement, Berlin Court Says

From Bloomberg.com, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:

April 6 (Bloomberg) -- A Tunisian man had planned to become ``active in a violent Jihad'' while living in Germany, a Berlin court said today. He was sentenced to 3 3/4 years in prison for the possession of weapons and other offences.

Ihsan Garnaoui, 33, was found guilty of violating laws on the possession of weapons, forgery, tax evasion and entering Germany illegally, said Judge Frank-Michael Libera. After an 11- month trial, the regional court acquitted him of the main charge of founding a terrorist organization to plan bomb attacks.

``He entered Germany with the intention of becoming active in a violent Jihad and carrying out at least one attack with explosives,'' Judge Libera said. ``This is not enough to find the accused guilty of founding a terror organization.''

Federal Prosecutor Silke Ritzert accused Garnaoui of forming and training a terrorist group in Berlin after returning to Germany illegally in January 2003. The group was suspected in particular of planning a bomb attack during a demonstration against the Iraq war to ``kill or injure a large number of people,'' according to the Federal Prosecutor's Office.

The group's aim was to ``humble western society and hallow the Muslim world and its moral concepts,'' Ritzert told the court in her closing arguments. She had sought a six-year prison sentence for Garnaoui.

Acquittal Reasons

The court said it acquitted Garnaoui of the charge of founding the terror organization to carry out bomb attacks on Jewish and U.S. targets in Germany because it couldn't prove that Garnaoui convinced other people to join him. The court also had ``doubts about the reliability'' of evidence submitted by unidentified police informants, Libera said. He said some of this evidence was contradictory and based on hearsay.

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Thank God he lacked charisma or did he?
Germans lack the sensibility to distinguish between doctrine they sufferer from amazing guilt associate with the Nazi movement al the while failing to realize Nazis had allies in the Muslims and Islam has the Quran proving they are a hate group and a crime syndicate there is no moral equivalency

"...couldn't prove that Garnaoui convinced other people to join him."

Here's some proof. Just a "small" "minority"

"Adherents of militant Islam account for some 15-20 percent of the Muslim world..."

www.meforum.org/article/168

3 & 3/4 years. WOW! That'll learn him!

Just enough time for him to re-read the Koran and then he'll be out. Resfreshed, restored and re-energized -and ready to destroy the foolish Germans who didn't give him a one way ticket to a new 'Homeland for Captured Jihadis' that I recommend that Europe establish NOW.

At the bottom of the North Atlantic.

They can have their own flag (an octopus holding 8 virgins?) and 1,000 square miles of that prime (if a little damp) pelagian real estate.

Just add lead weights, and send them home to their new kingdom.

Breathing optional.

And if Allah wants them to survive, he can provide gills, ASAP.

Eurabia is in big trouble. Demographically they're up the creek without a paddle. Only a matter of time before suicide bombers start paying a visit to discos and pizza places, then well see how liberal europe negotiaties with these jihadist scum.

I say let them wallow in there terrorist appeasing, anti american, and anti semetic mess they've created. Let them find out when it comes to be rescued again america will stand back and shrug its shoulders.

[quote]The group's aim was to ``humble western society and hallow the Muslim world and its moral concepts,'[/quote]

The moral concepts of Islam are conservative...ahem.

Meaning patriarchial and all that encompasses, and at the end of the day is not distinghuisable (from a secular liberal) point of view from Orthodox Judaism and conservative Christianity.

The not surprising unity of Islam, Orthodox Judaism and conservative Christianity.

The Future of the Past

Political scientist Samuel P. Huntington has argued that we are now engaged in a clash of civilizations that pits the liberalism of the West against the orthodoxy of Islam. Huntington's on to something, but I think he has located his fault line in the wrong place. The opposition to liberalism -- Jeffersonian liberalism, with its belief in science and, correspondingly, human equality -- extends well beyond the backwaters of Islam. It includes the church that the pope bequeaths us, the Protestant Christian Right, the Orthodox rabbis of Israel.

The blue state-red state division in the United States is increasingly a global reality as well, and just as it sunders nations, it can also at least partially erase some preexisting borders. In the Middle East, it's not just onetime orthodox rivals who look increasingly alike. My friend Jo-Ann Mort, one of the keenest observers of Israeli society, has noted the similarities between the young, nightclubbing, pro-democracy demonstrators in Beirut and the young, nightclubbing, pro-peace demonstrators in Tel Aviv. The real Green Line in Israel and Palestine may one day separate the red and the blue.

A specter is haunting modernity. Powered by tradition, by a misogyny and homophobia for which a future pope will one day apologize as surely as John Paul did for the church's anti-Semitism, the Orthodox International marches forth to do battle against liberalism, invoking ancient beliefs against the claims of a common humanity.

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The neo cons and Islamists have more in common than not, they are both born out of hatred and fear of liberalism. Which is something they have in commmon with orthodox Jews and conservative Christians.

I am bemused that the battlefield today is between moral absolutists.

Straussians, the neo cons, believe that politicians should reassert absolute moral values that would unite society. A belief that is identical to the Muslims and "conservative" Jews and Christians. This would overcome social relevancy that liberalism creates.

For neo cons religion is an instrument to promote morality, religion becomes what Plato called a Noble Lie, it is a myth which is told to the majority of society by the philosophical elite to promote social order (shades of Hitler) .

In being a kind of secretive elitist approach, Straussians see themselves as a Leninist group who have this "correct vision" to change society while concealing it from those who don't understand.

Islamists, neo cons heads they win, tails I lose.

Gee,what a small world,if you research the
sorted past of the Canadian Maher Arar you'll see that CAIR jumped to his defense while not having all the facts.
Tunisia plays a mojor role in the U.S. returning
Maher Arar to his homeland,the CBC.ca website
will give the details after a "Search" function
and some of the info is just as skewed as CAIR's
version of the event.
Arar was a 17 year old Muslim male from Syria that showed up in Canada and claimed refugee status as a fleeing victim of Government oppression,keep this in mind since he never gave up his Syrian Citizenship and has toured the Middle East since arriving in Canada. He married a Canadian(Muslim with Citizenship) to secure his stay and even had children that would be Canadian to assure a future protection from deportation,this is the real story of what happened in 2002.

Arar vacationed in the Middle east with his wife and kids,he returned to Canada by himself leaving the family behind that would return later on.
He claimed his Air-miles points plan forced him to take a connecting flight from Tunisia to JFK
and then to Canada,he was pulled aside in a foreign Nation(USA) that had the right to protect its citizens,his version of the Globe-trotting
reeked of a cover for a sleeper cell of Al-Qaeda and since Canadian passports are so currupted by fakes and false ID's ,the passport doesn't prove the exact identity of the holder.
Put all that together along with CAIR gloating over the 9/11 hijackers as being in the Country illegally from weak security and you have a judgement call that must default in the favour of safety. CAIR must take some of the blame for mocking the 9/11 attack that lead to Arar being detained and assessed as a risk,Arar was deported to JORDAN and Syria as CAIR avers,Jordanians took him in a SUV and he ended up in Syria,
Remember, he fled Syria and one reason was that he wanted to avoid military service and that was an offence under the State Laws,he claimed he was tortured on a daily basis for about a year.
But Syria allowed him to return to Canada even though he still had his Syrian citizenship and skipped the draft system that he could be legally jailed for.
Upon returning to Canada he got a Lawyer and
held a press conference where he read a lengthy
scripted recount of his "Horror" in Syria,with no sign of PTSD or physical injuries he proceeded to launch law suits,first against the USA for 35 Million,and when that fizzed out he turned on Canada with a 400 Million dollar suit for allowing the USA to deport him.


He's now the poster-person for racial profiling
against Muslims in the West,Racism is the new catch-word along with "Islamophobia" and "Muslim bashing".
Arar was a Syrian longer than he was a Canadian and his travel records and background set off the alarm bells that CAIR said we missed on Sept/10/01
that caused Islam to be defamed by the hijackers that weren't "True" Muslims.
Arar's children now have a hate for Canada and the
USA for what happened to their Daddy,don't be suprised if the Arar name appear in the media
about 15 years from now,this time it might be the kids creating the cycle of violence that Muslims love to use against Israel.

The germans tacitly supported the goals cause they are all Nazi SOB's underneathe!

Pathetic sentence but it seems we've got to be grateful for even these small punishments. The Sydney one, Zeky Mallah, was just found not guilty of preparing a terrorist act. The jury was somehow convinced that he was just a lonely and misguided naughty boy who was merely throwing a hissy fit after the govt refused to issue him a passport. Sigh! When will we learn?

"The group's aim was to ``humble western society and hallow the Muslim world and its moral concepts"

Hallow. Definition: holy, sacred. Gives one a very positive feeling. Same with the word moral. So you'd assume one would go about in a positive, nurturing way to demonstrate this hallowness and morality. Bomb attacks where you kill and injure people just doesn't seem to fit that picture for me. Yet in Muslim's minds it does. It's so obvious we're dealing with a totally different mindset, polar opposites, nothing in common.

My best friends family is muslim, and we both concluded that u cannot be a moderate muslim, because if you practice islam theres no 50% devotion, you are either a good muslim or an infidel, which his parents remind him everyday he is.

Its a sad state of affairs when a religion supercededes ones country and becomes a culture onto its own.

Are you sick of subsidizing PBS/BBC fiction about Muslim cultural superiority over our accused unwashed and uncouth ancestry? I promote - and have participated in - noisy-campaigns against historicist whitewashes of the savage Muslim historical record. And these work, on occasion. See how one noisy-campaign ended subsidized textbook jihadism.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0406RemovedReading06-ON.html

If Christian concoction of the nominal "Dark Ages" - see apt rejoinders from Henri Pirenne, et al - was academic debauchery, then why on earth should Esposito-Armstrong spews about Muslim supremacism not receive similar scrutiny? Unfortunately, President Bush has a similar tunnel-vision problem (caused by Oil-Patch imperatives), viz Islam per se. Why won't anyone with influence criticize his ISNA/CAIR scripted (the "Islam is peace" vomit followed an Oval Office consultation - ISNA remains under State Department retainer - among the President and the above noted vermin) pre-emption of objective studies of the Islamic murder cult, and its savage adherents? Do you wallow in the IiP spin?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much for your hospitality. We've just had a -- wide-ranging discussions on the matter at hand. Like the good folks standing with me, the American people were appalled and outraged at last Tuesday's attacks. And so were Muslims all across the world. Both Americans and Muslim friends and citizens, tax-paying citizens, and Muslims in nations were just appalled and could not believe what we saw on our TV screens.

These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith. And it's important for my fellow Americans to understand that.

The English translation is not as eloquent as the original Arabic, but let me quote from the Koran, itself: In the long run, evil in the extreme will be the end of those who do evil. For that they rejected the signs of Allah and held them up to ridicule.

The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war.

When we think of Islam we think of a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. Billions of people find comfort and solace and peace. And that's made brothers and sisters out of every race -- out of every race.

America counts millions of Muslims amongst our citizens, and Muslims make an incredibly valuable contribution to our country. Muslims are doctors, lawyers, law professors, members of the military, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, moms and dads. And they need to be treated with respect. In our anger and emotion, our fellow Americans must treat each other with respect.

Women who cover their heads in this country must feel comfortable going outside their homes. Moms who wear cover must be not intimidated in America. That's not the America I know. That's not the America I value...
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In 6 weeks the well-head price of oil will hit consumers to the tune of at least a 30% increase in gas prices. Why? Because the animals who should have been disempowered, starting Sept. 12, 2001, are still in power. Notwithstanding transient rabble-democratic development in Muslim gutter entities like the Afghan and Iraq dog's breakfasts, the position of the Islamofascist opposition in the Muslim territorial-demographic cess pool has solidified immensely, since Wolfowitz-Bush inclusivism first polluted international diplomacy. It is axiomatic: OPPOSITION MOVEMENTS ALWAYS ACHIEVE POWER. And Bush's alliance with the terror entity of Pakistan, has legitimated both missile and WMD proliferation. The Wolfowitz' democratic-dominino indulgence, means: one-time plebiscites on shariazation. Maybe the May gas shock will free spin-slaves from misguided support for the suicidal subsidy of future peril.

We will be using more advanced and highly sophisticated, covert, cloak and dagger, technological countersurveillance methods in our mission to neutralize terrorist threats around the globe. We are raising the bar in Europe as well as Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas in the fight against terror.

You pessimists are trite and tiring. We will continue to prove you wrong, as terrorist cells will be broken off something proper, so to speak. In laymen's terms, we're going to kick some serious ass and put some combatants behind bars and/ or in the dirt permanently.

Furthermore, it's easy to scan these blogs and make a quick and accurate determination as to who the terrorist sympathizers are in that some of you through wishful-thinking make an attempt to propagandize on behalf of our enemies. The more you insist that terrorists acquire the upper-hand, the more we will use renditions, torture and counterassassination. So cry your eyes out you suckers as America and her allies beat down some chumps so that newer generations of freedom loving citizens around the world can live in a stable world. The terrorists and their adherents will lose.







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