"War is deceit," said the Prophet Muhammad. Nuradin Abdi update from AP, with thanks to DC Watson:
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Mental health experts who examined a Somali man accused of plotting to bomb a shopping mall have concluded he was faking when he became a wild-eyed defendant who tapped his head on a table, mumbled and giggled in court.Documents made public last week from two analysts at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minn., said Nuradin Abdi was pretending to be mentally ill.
Abdi told psychiatrists that Hillary Rodham Clinton and Teresa Heinz Kerry would represent him in his terrorism trial.
He sometimes refused to shower, or he showered with his clothes on. Although a devout Muslim, he tore up a copy of the Quran and shoved the pieces into a toilet.
"We believe such behaviors were calculated attempts to appear severely mentally ill," forensic psychologist Andrew Simcox and staff psychiatrist Daniel Shine Jr. said in their report....
Abdi's attorneys have sought to bar statements he made to authorities in which he admitted to falsifying immigration documents and planning to blow up a Columbus-area shopping mall....
Federal agents arrested Abdi on Nov. 28, 2003, after convicted al-Qaida operative Iyman Faris told them Abdi suggested shooting up a shopping mall....
Officials said Abdi went from a model prisoner to one who abused himself, failed to communicate appropriately and had to be watched.
Simcox and Shine said Abdi had reason to feign mental illness, to avoid being tried on charges that could send him to prison for decades.
They said Abdi had no history of mental illness, that the onset of the symptoms was convenient, that the symptoms didn't match those of legitimate illness and _ though Abdi was not cooperative _ testing didn't support a finding of mental illness.
Pretended?????????
It does say he was a Muslim......right ?
Nuff-said!
Although a devout Muslim, he tore up a copy of the Quran and shoved the pieces into a toilet.
OK...where are the fatwas and riots? This guy defiled a qur'an!
Catholic bishop says Hurricane Katrina is God's revenge for American policy
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/622278.html
Ryan,
That wasn't a Catholic bishop -- it was: "Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a former chief rabbi and the spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas movement". He seems to be a wacko.
However, as we know, for every ONE rare oddball we might have among Jewish or Christian leaders, there have been HUNDREDS among the Muslim clergy.
What a bloody joke. No history of mental illness. Wait a tick, the shonk's been arrested and could spend the rest of his pathetic existence in gaol, so now he's all troppo.
Send him up the billabong and throw the key in the loo....
Abdi made a misateke. If he had said that he was mislead by a mad man who lived in the 7th century, I for one, would sympathise.
To the Jewish people who are worried about the Rabbi's comments in this link,
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/622278.html
We know that this is the opinion of a few, not of Jews in general. Christianity has their doom-sayers too. It just doesn't affect me...the stories about cannibalism and bombing the levee bother me, outright lies bother me.
He can rightfully claim spiritual illness.
Hmmmm?
The rabbi who said Katrina was divine punishment looks just like an Iranian mullah. Nuts come in all flavors.
I once lived in Ohio. Believe me, that would be enough to make anyone insane.
Dr. Pepper,
"He seems to be a wacko."
No. Is!
Most of his outrageous statements used to come on Saturday nights when he would give his sermon and have the whole country in fits.
I'll be it wasn't that much of a stretch.
Let's leave some rope around and see if he puts it to good use.
There are definitely more muslim wackos. But there are also more muslim people. Out of a small Jewish population of 5 million people, Israel seems to have quite a few wackos. There are 200 times more people in the muslim world than Israel. Are there 200 times more wackos? Probably. It seems like about the same percentage wise.
Christianity is not known for wackos as much but there are a few Christian wackos too but lower in percentage terms than both Muslims and Jews.
Carolyn2
This may come a bit late for the post and your comment but just for the record
http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11271690.html
We're quite sure that God did not send Hurricane Katrina to wipe out New Orleans because He's pissed off about disengagement. This puts us on the opposite side of the argument as Stan Goodenough, Rabbi Lazer Brody, and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
Of course, the two rabbis were mercilessly ridiculed by the Jewish and Israeli public and press, while Goodenough was flamed so thoroughly that he had to promptly apologize: