One wonders if Duffey has ever read the Qur'an or has the first foggiest idea of what aspects of Islam might have motivated Sadequee. Somehow I doubt it. But he is not the first non-Muslim judge to lecture a jihadist, and no doubt will not be the last. Ehsanul Sadequee Update. "Roswell terrorist given 17 years in prison," by Bill Rankin for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 14 (thanks to James):
A federal judge on Monday sentenced Ehsanul Islam Sadequee to 17 years in prison for terrorist offenses, saying the 23-year-old Roswell man viewed truth, justice and the American way as his "anti-Christ.""You used our country to advance your self interest and your distorted view of the world," U.S. District Judge Bill Duffey sternly told Sadequee before imposing sentence. "If there is any contradiction to God's will, I would say you are it."
As he did at his trial in August, Sadequee represented himself at sentencing. He quoted often from the Quran, saying that all authority belongs to God. Sadequee was convicted of four counts, including conspiring to provide material support to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, the Pakistani-based terrorist organization.
Duffey scolded Sadequee for never expressing remorse for any of his actions. His case, the judge said, provided "not just a glimpse into the dark side" of terrorism, but "a full portrait."
Sadequee's beliefs, the judge said, were "chillingly displayed" on videos Sadequee and his co-defendant Syed Haris Ahmed made of Washington-area landmarks. As the two men drove by the Pentagon, Sadequee turned the camera onto the military complex and can be heard saying reverently, "This is where our brothers attacked."
Those comments, Duffey told Sadequee, were "without any regard to those innocent fathers and mothers and children who were on the plane that crashed into that building."...
"This is not about your faith," Duffey told Sadequee. "This is about the rule of law in our country, which you say does not apply to you and what you pronounced today will never apply to you."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1235763/Pictured-Islamic-militants-stone-man-death-adultery-Somalia-villagers-forced-watch.html
From article..."If there is any contradiction to God's will, I would say you are it."
I think the judge should keep 'God's will' out of the courtroom...
From article..."This is not about your faith," Duffey told Sadequee. "This is about the rule of law in our country,
I think he had to make that disclaimer to prevent an appeal based on a violation of the 1st amendment...
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For "You used our country to advance your self interest and your distorted view of the world"
Read "You used our country to advance your self interest and your Islamic view of the world"
His case, the judge said, provided "not just a glimpse into the dark side" of terrorism, but "a full portrait."
His case does provide a glimpse into the dark side and a full portrait, true, but not just of terrorism, it portrays a true picture of islam.
If there is any contradiction to God's will, I would say you are it.
The right honorable Judge Duffey should keep an eye on exactly what God he's talking about, or he could come off sounding like an idiot, an ignoramous, or both. Yaweh or Allah? Buddha or Allah? Shiva or Allah? There's a distinction to be made there, dumass. A crucial distinction.
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You used our country to advance your self interest and your Islamic view of the world.
No, he selflessly put all self interest aside and his life on the line for the Cause. If Islam is above criticism, and it is, then Ehsanul Islam Sadequee should be given the Congressional Medal of Honor, cuz Peace is this guy's middle name, right?
I live in the Atlanta area and am surprised that the judge had that much courage. What most people don't know is that Atlanta is the San Francisco of the Southeast. We are soooo
tollerant here. Atlanta is more than two thirds black and there is a huge black muslim element here. I have already heard about how the punishment was too harsh and racially
motivated. I'm not sure what will destroy the USA first;
multiculturalism, jihad, or our own government.
Rico - you said, "I live in the Atlanta area and am surprised that the judge had that much courage."
Write to him. Praise him for what he got right. And give him some further information - things to think about, places where he can go to find out more about the absolute contempt in which Islam holds all things non-Islamic, most especially, non-Islamic systems of law and government.
You live in Atlanta, eh?
Check out some of the essays on this site by Hugh, about Muslim mass-murders (in Biafra and Southern Sudan) and mass enslavement of black Africans (especially, the eunuch trade which did not end till the early 20th century). Print them off into little pamphlets. Leave them strategically lying about, Johnny Appleseed style: tucked into a magazine in a cafe, or on the seat of your bus or train during your daily commute.
Look up the story of St Josephine Bakhita, Catholic saint: kidnapped as a little girl and forcibly 'converted' to Islam by Muslim slave raiders in the early 1870s, treated abominably by her Muslim masters, rescued upon being by an Italian diplomat, emancipated after being brought to Italy, and finally converting to Catholic Christianity and ending her life as a much-beloved saintly nun, in 1947, in her convent in Italy. Print off either the Wikipedia or one of the Catholic website versions of her story, with a nice pic of her sweet, sunny, smiling face, and scatter the pamphlet up and down the city for the benefit of black Catholics and black Christians generally.
What we really need ASAP is an English translation of Tidiane N'diaye's "Le Genocide Voilee" - he's a Francophone black historian who has written an expose of the 1200-year Muslim slavers' assault on black Africa.
*That* - especially if portions of it (together with some of the dramatically violent stories about Biafran, S Sudanese and historic Abyssinian/ Ethiopian Resistance to Jihad) could be turned into luridly-graphic comic book form to reach the semiliterate - might put a spanner in the works of Muslim da'wa among Afro-Americans.