Mississippi grad student was Hamas leader

How illustrative!

Like I always say: Islam teaches first-degree murder!!! If US colleges and universities start picking up on this they could well title their new class "Jihad 101."

There's nothing quite like a terrorist going to an American university to dramatize Islam's fundamental doctrine of first-degree murder.

So, I guess the Muslims now think they are going to get American universities to start teaching first degree murder.

Could they be correct in thinking this? Am I correct in thinking this?

“no one reports of the murder they do”,
From Tabari IX:69
As for one who disbelieves, we will Fight him forever in the Cause of Allah. Killing him is a small matter to us."
From Al-Jalalayn, 2:178
A Muslim cannot be killed in return for an disbeliever, even if the former be a slave and the latter a free man."
Its all there and much much more, just sit down and open one up, if you dare.

Ashqar, of Springfield, Va., does not support terrorism and has done nothing illegal, according to his defense attorney, William Moffitt. Ashqar was merely trying to get charitable contributions to impoverished Palestinians on the West Bank under Israeli army occupation, Moffitt says.

Yeah, right...The 'impoverished' 'Palestinians', were Hamas terrorists no doubt.Maybe instead of violating US law, he could have asked the PA, or Arafats survivors, what they did with all those jillions of dollars provided by the gullible west...
We do know that Mrs Arafat recieves lotsa cash so she can maintain a lavish lifestle in Paris. She is only the tip of the iceberg to the corruption in 'Palestine'. The chances that Ashqar was donating to 'Palestinian charity', is doubtful.

OT U>S orces storm Iranian consulate in Irbil

And if I recall correctly, an attack on a consulate or diplomatic mission is an act of war..as in when Ahmadinutjob and his moonbat companions attacked the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979. Let's see if Iran now declares war on the U.S. in retaliation for the attack... don't hold your breath.

And if I recall correctly, an attack on a consulate or diplomatic mission is an act of war..as in when Ahmadinutjob and his moonbat companions attacked the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979. Let's see if Iran now declares war on the U.S. in retaliation for the attack... don't hold your breath.

Posted by: Nariz at January 11, 2007 02:19 PM

If I remember correctly... back in 79 war was declared on us by the ayatollah khomeini and I don't think it has ever been rescinded. Anybody know for sure??

Got in there before me Nariz, but lets hope this is just the start.

Personally speaking this thing with Islam/Iran needs to come to a head and the sooner we do it the less painful on both sides it is going to be.

`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'

`The question is,' said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

`The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master -- that's all.'

- from Alice Through the Looking Glass

I wonder what Humpty-Dumpty would do with the words "terrorism" and "illegal" in this case.

"Abdelhaleem Ashqar"

.....sometimes just a name tells a lot.......

"to impoverished Palestinians"

......they are all impoverished, none have a job....did he send money or food...If he sent money, weapons were purchased....The Palestinians would be uncomfortable with food donations.....

"Ashqar, of Springfield, Va., does not support terrorism and has done nothing illegal, according to his defense attorney, William Moffitt."

One William B. Moffitt was lead defense counsel in the Sami Amin Al-Arian case in federal district court in Tampa, Fla.
Al-Arian, a Palestinian activist, computer science professor at the University of South Florida and leader of the Islamic Committee for Palestine was acquitted. (To avoid acquittal in the recent case of Fawaz Damra, US prosecutors went for deportation.)

For a glimpse at Moffitt's fancy footwork (he sure gets around) , read this AP report about Ashqar's trial.

Islamic "charities" = jihadist fund-raising enterprises

as to nariz's OT-posting of the purported US forces raid on an iranian consulate in Iraq:

"After raiding the consulate, the US forces headed for Eikawa district, which hosts foreign companies and countries' representatives. Security forces of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (KDP) reportedly surrounded three US military vehicles to prevent them from further action."

This "reported" action by "Security forces of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (KDP)"--if fact--shows how idiotic the venture into Iraq has become.

If we want to keep Iran from controlling Iraq, via Shi'ites and Iranian infiltration, it would be more effective to place Iran into an utterly defensive posture (use your imagination as how this can be accomplished).

Allowing Iraqi forces, of any of the three or four factions, to interfere with the US "nation-building" mission shows the impotence of the US policing effort.

Tilting windmills and ducking the vanes.

Apparently I haven't mastered creating imbedded links.

Here it is, the old fashioned way:

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/news/206697,3_1_EL11_A4HAMAS_S1.article

Al-Arian, a Palestinian activist most certainly had ties to terrorism
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"Ties to terrorism
Accusations that WISE and ICP were fronts for terrorists were made in a series of articles in the Tampa Tribune. ICP sponsored several conferences in the late 1980s and early 1990s, in which terrorists attended, including Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, who was implicated in the 1993 New York City landmark bomb plot.[2] Other attendees included Sheikh Abdel Aziz Odeh, spiritual leader of Islamic Jihad.[3] In 1995, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) submitted an affidavit for a search warrant against ICP, WISE, and Al-Arian, which alledged that ICP and WISE were fronts used to allow individuals to obtain visas and enter the United States.[2]

In February 2003, the FBI accused al-Arian and seven others of being involved since 1984 in a criminal organization that assists the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement. The authorities added that this organization had been responsible for hundreds of terrorist acts in Israel, resulting in over 100 deaths, and that Al-Arian was the jihad movement's chief of operations in the United States. Al-Arian denied any connection with terrorist activities.'

.S. District Judge James Moody sentenced al-Arian to the maximum 57 months in prison and gave him credit for time served. He will serve the balance of 19 months and then be deported, prosecutors said. In his ruling, Moody harshly criticized al-Arian for doing nothing to stop bombings perpetrated by Islamic Jihad. "You lifted not one finger. To the contrary, you laughed when you heard of the bombings," he said. "You are a master manipulator. The evidence is clear in this case. You were a leader of the PIJ." [5]

So they're impoverished? And just who's responsible for that??? Palestine "leaders" with a vested interest in poverty and HATE. Hmm. Sounds like Jesse Jackson and a host of "leaders" in the Democrat party generally...

Arab POVERTY is the ONLY THING that kept ISLAMIC terrorism from taking over Europe for the last couple of centuries, but that has been undone by OIL wealth and European cultural suicide. Let's make sure America doesn't follow suit, and that these seditious elements in academia and elsewhere get tossed in prison or out of the country! ...

Dumb Ox Daily News

I was once in the Krystal on McFarland Blvd. in Tuscaloosa, Alabama when I saw a guy wearing a Crimson Tide tee shirt that had this written on the back: "Friends don't let friends attend Ole Miss."

Now I know why.

This trial involves my neighborhood. Defendant Salah comes out of the Egyptian Brotherhood founded Bridgeview Mosque. A local reporter, Chris Hack, in our small local paper, The Daily Southtown, has been doing an EXCELLENT series on the trial.

Here is today’s episode which details the defense’s closing arguments.

Defense attorneys make pleas
January 11, 2007
By Chris Hack Staff writer
In an impassioned plea for an acquittal, Mohammed Salah's defense attorney on Wednesday urged jurors to ignore his client's alleged confessions of terrorist activity and consider the plight of displaced Palestinians when they ponder Salah's fate.
After telling jurors he's Jewish, defense attorney Michael Deutsch condemned Israel's "brutal and genocidal occupation" of what once was Palestine. His voice cracking with fatigue and emotion three hours into his speech, he concluded by praising Salah and his family.
"By no stretch of the imagination is he a terrorist or involved with terrorism," Deutsch croaked at the jurors. "I know you won't let this happen. I know you believe in justice."
Salah, 53, of Bridgeview, is on trial in Chicago on federal racketeering charges that allege he served as a high-ranking operative of the militant Palestinian group Hamas, which is considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. government. He's accused of delivering money to Hamas military leaders in the Occupied Territories and recruiting Americans for the group in the early 1990s.
Prosecutors will deliver their rebuttal this morning, marking the fourth day of closing arguments in a trial that has lasted nearly three months. This afternoon, U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve is expected to read to the jury 110 pages of legal instructions before jurors begin their deliberations.
After watching Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Ferguson methodically outline the government's case against Salah during two full days of closing arguments, Deutsch took the floor Wednesday and blasted the prosecution as a stunt done at the behest of Israel.
As they have through much of the trial, dozens of Salah supporters waited hours to secure seats in the courtroom and an overflow room that has an audio feed of the proceedings.
Salah spent nearly five years in an Israeli prison after he was nabbed at a checkpoint in 1993 and accused of running money to militants. Six years after returning to Bridgeview, he was slapped with the similar U.S. charges he's fighting now.
"If there ever was a case of the government overreaching, this is it," Deutsch told jurors. "It's overreaching, it's stretching the truth to try to get some political result out of this."
Prosecutors have denied that the charges indicate the U.S. government is picking sides in the Israeli-Palestinian clash and contend that Salah broke American laws to aid Hamas abroad. Much of the case against Salah is based on a series of confessions he gave to Israeli authorities, detailing his status as a rising Hamas military commander.
Deutsch told jurors Salah was tortured during a 54-day interrogation period by Israeli security agents and forced to provide the bogus statements. But he also said that regardless of Salah's alleged actions, it's wrong for the U.S. government to criminalize helping a Palestinian group that's fighting an occupying force.
"There's atrocities on both sides -- it's a war," Deutsch said of the Mideast clash before comparing it to the American Revolution. "This country began because people went to war against British colonialism. They fired guns; they shot people."
William Moffitt, attorney for Salah's co-defendant, Abdelhaleem Ashqar, took a similar tack during his closing argument. Ashqar, a former university professor now living in Virginia, allegedly served as a liaison between Hamas operatives in the U.S. and abroad in the early 1990s and later refused to testify about Hamas before federal grand juries despite grants of immunity.
Moffitt compared Ashqar's support for militant leaders in his native Palestine to Moffitt's father hurling rocks at Ku Klux Klan marchers in post-Depression Atlanta. He said Palestinians are no different than others who've struggled against oppression and cited many historical examples such as Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X.
As a sarcastic visual aid, he showed jurors a mock-up of a wanted poster labeling George Washington a terrorist and read nearly the entire Declaration of Independence -- which advocates overthrowing repressive governments -- before telling jurors that its author, Thomas Jefferson, once was considered a terrorist.
Moffitt also gave a lengthy description of life inside the Occupied Territories -- an impoverished, overcrowded land rampant with barbed-wire barriers, high unemployment, open sewers and staggering infant-mortality rates.
"You see, it's real easy to call someone a terrorist when you don't walk in their shoes," Moffitt told the jury. "Dr. Ashqar's a terrorist because he believes his people should be free. And in order to be free, they have to struggle against the Israelis."
Chris Hack may be reached at
chack@dailysouthtown.com
or (708) 633-5984.

So moffitt won’t have a problem with Americans once again taking up arms to defend themselves from oppression/oppressors their lieyers and supporters?

You know what? Maybe it's time to get rid of all those wonderful student visas that bring all these "students" into the US. Let them study in cesspoolia-they have colleges there too.

"Arab POVERTY is the ONLY THING that kept ISLAMIC terrorism from taking over Europe for the last couple of centuries..."

The wealthiest oil-producing Islamic country on earth could not take over Europe without Europe itself agreeing to the venture.

It's time Europe showed a little "vested interest" in preserving itself from Islam. That is, if they still have the spine to do so.

From Al-Jalalayn, 2:178
A Muslim cannot be killed in return for an disbeliever, even if the former be a slave and the latter a free man."

sez *WHO*? I have NO problem seeing loads of them killed in return for any of our dead. In fact I see that is the only method that guarantees a zero-recidivism rate.

Funding poor people (terrorists), give me a break ! No, the Judge didn't believe it and neither do I .

Send him home so he can consul those poor people.