Update on the Lodi case from AP via Fox News:
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — A white-bearded cleric, tutor to hundreds of Islamic students at a Pakistani seminary near the capital, on Tuesday branded FBI allegations that his 22-year-old grandson received jihadist training while attending the school a "pack of lies."Qari Saeed-ur Rehman, leader of the Jamia Islamia madrassah in Rawalpindi, said his grandson Hamid Hayat and son-in-law Umer Hayat, 47, were wrongfully arrested in California last week, and he dismissed suggestions they were linked to an al-Qaida cell.
"Hamid Hayat never received religious education at my madrassah. There is no terrorist camp here. We reject such FBI allegations," Rehman, a supporter of Afghanistan's former Taliban regime, told The Associated Press in an interview at the school, which lies inside a grand mosque in a teeming commercial district of the city -- also home to the headquarters of Pakistan's army.
"All allegations leveled against them by the FBI are a pack of lies," he said.
An FBI spokeswoman in Sacramento, Calif., said the agency stood by the allegations it made in court documents.
"Time will tell what we come up with," spokeswoman Marcie Soligo said. "That's his opinion and that's fine. We stick by what was in the affidavit."...
Oh, Mr. Bergen, call your office. You may want to interview Mr. Rehman. His views and yours mesh perfectly.
We are in so much trouble in this country. A member of my family is in a seminar for teacher training and a whole segment of the week long affair is devoted to respecting islamic culture. The instructor has been to SA for a week and thinks "it's not so bad." The only way to get through one of these brain-warping classes is to keep your mouth shut and teach the students in your charge the truth.
Islam is the "religion" of denial. When does Islam ever police itself or clean up it's own act?
"Adherents of militant Islam account for some 15-20 percent of the Muslim world..."
www.meforum.org/article/168
Oh yes, more islamic love from that ramshackle sh** shack around back tourist paradise of Islamic love Pakistan. Spreading that islamic love. Little bit here. Little bit there.
Carolyn2,
To be in Saudi Arabia an entire week and say "it wasn't so bad"--well, must be a man.
And I wonder if anyone knows just how many lies a pack consists of.
Was grandpa refering to a full pack? Maybe a pack and a half?
No PRCS, it is a woman who reserves her harshest criticism for the American red-necks. As I have said here and on other sites, they will "get it" sooner or later, probably after a lot more blood- shed.