Toronto 18 jihad mass-murder plot ringleader plays victim card, still gets life sentence

shareef_abdelhaleem.jpgRacism! Bigotry! Islamophobia! You'd love me if I were a Catholic mass-murderer!


Abdelhaleem got his life sentence "for his role in a homegrown terror plot to detonate bombs at the Toronto offices of CSIS, the Toronto Stock Exchange and an Ontario military base." So he wanted to commit mass murder of the kuffar, on the grand scale, but he nonetheless has in abundance the characteristic Islamic supremacist chutzpah we have seen so often: the petulant whining, the claiming of victim status, the charges of racism and Islamophobia. "He asked the judge to sentence him as if he were a 'white Catholic and not a Muslim.'" Oh yes, Canadian courts are notoriously gentle with white Catholic would-be mass murderers.

"Convicted Toronto 18 member handed life sentence," from CTV News, March 4 (thanks to Sr. Soph):

Shareef Abdelhaleem, the final member of the Toronto 18 to be sentenced for his crimes, has been handed a life sentence with no chance of parole for 10 years.

Abdelhaleem, 35, was sentenced Friday just before noon for his role in a homegrown terror plot to detonate bombs at the Toronto offices of CSIS, the Toronto Stock Exchange and an Ontario military base. He was found guilty last year of participating in a terrorist group and intending to cause an explosion.

Ahead of his sentence, Shareef delivered a 23-minute rambling speech, in which he claimed he never intended to harm anyone. He also said that Canadians have been silent on the blatant injustice of his case.

He asked the judge to sentence him as if he were a "white Catholic and not a Muslim."

Justice Fletcher Dawson responded that his decision had nothing to do with Abdelhaleem's religious affiliation....

No doubt about that. After all, we're talking about Canada here.

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Rather less than the desirable total victory for the anti-Jihadist camp, I'm afraid, given the cozy sensitivity of the Canadian corrections system. After all, "life" is potentially a good many years of prison dawah.

"No doubt about that. After all, we're talking about Canada here."

Robert, not sure what you are implying with this statement. Are you suggesting that in Canada, a person's religion should be (and/or is) taken into account during sentencing? We already know his "motivation" has everything to do with his Islam, so I'm unclear as to what you're alluding to.

Care to elaborate?

Ima

What's he complaining about?

He asked to be sentenced like a white Catholic, and they sentenced him like one.

Islam instills a weak boy mentality: Beg before the physically strong, oppress the physically weak. It's a weak boy mentality because only a weakling would sacrifice the principles of their soul for physical comfort.

JW readers, I was on The Daily Show the other night, discussing Pigman, and while I expected some dirty editing tricks, I do think the fact that a cartoonist is taking on Jihad in a serious way came through.

There are no white Catholic mass-murderers.

Christianity does not mandate mass-murder of others'.

Islam, however, does:

"Kill non-Muslims wherever you find them. Lie in wait and ambush them, seize and capture them using every stratagem of war." - Qur'an 9:5

"Fight then against them till strife be at an end, and the religion be all of it Allah's." - Qur'an 8:40

"Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their
goods; for theirs in return is the garden of Paradise: they fight in his cause and slay and are slain." - Qur'an 9:111

Incredible. Canada - what the heck are you doing, besides destroying your country? Stop importing the Barbarians.

Correction: his religion, or simply Islam.

Ima

Of course not. I believe in the equality of rights of all people before the law, and have stated that ad infinitum, and have been consistent in endorsing policies that protected that principle and eschewing those that did not.

I meant that it was absurd to think that someone was sentenced more harshly in Canada for being a Muslim. The same would be true of any Western country.

Cordially
Robert Spencer

Correction: his religion, or simply Islam.

Correct, though liberals imagine in some random imaginary Book of Lenny, chapter 17:76, Christians are commanded to do so.

Thank you, Robert, and keep up the amazing work.

Ima

He asked the judge to sentence him as if he were a "white Catholic and not a Muslim."

Shareef is in a tough spot here.

On the one hand, he wants to do the right thing by his religion, as it is commanded in the scriptures of his religion.

On the other, the things he wants to do to do right by his religion are felonies.

What Shareef wants is to be a devout, faithful and observant Moslem who acts on Allah's commands and Mohammed's example, much like white Catholics want do right by Yaweh's commands Jesus' example.

And, in civilization at least, that's illegal. So something has got to give. Something, or somebody, has got to give in.

Hi Robert! I asked you a question a few times and I would like to know if is it ok for me to post a question here and ask you something about Reza Aslan. not sure how else to do it.
thank you

Expect this verdict to prompt yet another "Day of Rage." Some day perhaps we will hold one of our own, and may they reap what they sow.

He'll likely get his parole after 10 years.

And really, this is a surprising sentence - usually only people who actually commit first degree murder get this. I have seen second degrees get 10 years as a total sentence.

I think the judge and those in high up places realized the public is a tad angry over the others being let go scot-free, or nearly so.

I wonder if this animal ever heard of the Nuremberg Trials that took place in Allied occupied Germany after WW II? A lot of former Catholic, Protestant, Nordic pagans, and non believing Nazi's got hanged after those trials for their participation in the killings of millions of Jews, Slavic peoples, Gays, Gypsies, and other Europeans who got in the way of their plans to dominate the world and turn it into a Nazi "paradise". In 1960 the former Catholic Adolf Eichmann, who most likely never killed anyone in person, helped plan at the Wansee Conference, in Berlin in 1942, the extermination of over 80% of European Jews and he was later directly responsible for atcually organizing the Holocaust in Europe from 1942 until 1945. This white, former Catholic, was captured by the Israeli's in 1960 in Argentina. He was taken secretly to Israel, put on trial and was executed. Stop your whining Abduljaleem and face your just punishment for planning the mass murder of innocent "infidels" like a brave Jihadist is supposed to do with the promise of 72 virgins in Allah's X rated "heaven" if you are killed along with your victims. You should be hanged as Eichmann was for what you and your pig friends planned in Canada. As far as you playing the race card, when I look at photos and drawings of you, I don't see a black, Asian, Native American, or Hispanic man. You may come from the Middle East but you look as white as I am, my mother is a Catholic Czech and my father is a Scot.

The judge simply ignored the ramblings and sentenced him to life. Good.

But lets consider a while.

1. If Abdelhaleem wished to get a lighter sentence, he should have asked for clemency on the basis that he was merely following his duty as a good Muslim should - he had no alternative. A judge might have considered this - given the liberal atmosphere in Canada.

2. A good Catholic could never ask the judge for such clemency on the basis of his faith. The judge, or I could argue, that as Christianity does not call for such murderous acts, the defendant has no excuse and should in fact be punished more harshly, as he went against his own faith.

Abdelhaleem should have gone for the first option. But then that puts him in the position of blaming Islam - which is not good dawa politics.

Boy - its a difficult being a good Muslim in the West.

I used to work two blocks from the Toronto Stock Exchange, in the very heart of downtown Toronto. Had this planned attack been successfully carried out, the killed and wounded might have numbered in the thousands.

I hope this scum serves his entire sentence. I hope he rots.

"...he nonetheless has in abundance the characteristic Islamic supremacist chutzpah we have seen so often: the petulant whining, the claiming of victim status, the charges of racism and Islamophobia."

No kidding, the trolls on JW offer up these tactics ad nauseam ...

In a better world, he'd be singing "Largo al Factotum" ("Fiiiiigaro!") in that illustration.

From the article:

"...Shareef delivered a 23-minute rambling speech, in which he claimed he never intended to harm anyone. He also said that Canadians have been silent on the blatant injustice of his case."

~~~~~

Fortunately, in this instance, Shareef isn't fooling anyone. Shareef intended to harm as many non-Muslims as possible. Shareef was merely the following the teachings of Muhammad's evil, self-defeating, barbaric religious cult. Shareef will likely continue to remain blind to the fact that it is the Islamic religion itself that is destroying he and his fellow adherents.

It should also be acknowledged that whatever injustices the Muslims have suffered at the hands of non-Muslims pales in comparison to the injustices that Islam itself has inflicted upon the Muslims - especially Muslim women. The abysmal state of the ummah is in large part due to Islam. Islam is the root cause of their problems. If the Muslims were to drop Islam their problems would largely end. If they continue on in Islam their endlessly repeating problems will continue and they will likely hasten another world war.

The Muslims, following Muhammad's murderous cult of Islam, slaughtered 80 million "infidels" in India alone through unprovoked offensive jihad warfare:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IstZSgniH8

I wonder if there is a relation between Islam and sociopaths. Apparently a sign of the sociopath is that when you catch him in his calculated manipulations and victimizations of you, he responds by playing the victim, and trying to manipulate your sense of compassion. The sociopath has little or no sense of conscience.

Interestingly, Robert Reilly in his book The Closing of the Muslim Mind says there is no word for conscience in Arabic. But then Islam gives little if any scope to individual moral judgment, i.e., conscience.

In spite of all the murders or attempted murders the koranimals are committing in the West why is the West permitting uncontrolled immigration of these animals. It is almost like a kind of self-immolation.

Robert: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/09/29/nyregion/1248069111343/taliban-video-of-faisal-shahzad.html

Faisal Shahzaad full video! Explanation of jihad and Islamic theology in general.

Toronto Star story from 2008, "Shareef Abdelhaleem, phoned me on Thursday to say he had started a hunger strike in an effort to speed up the case." It's funny because he's fat.
from Wiki: Shareef is the first son of Tariq Abdelhaleem, an engineer on contract with Atomic Energy of Canada, and an Imam. (he issued a fatwa telling his son attacks are “Islamically correct,” and if innocent civilians are killed, it is “their destiny.”) Shareef's sister was told her brother was in a "hospital" and behind plexiglass for all visits because he was "contagious".

Muhammed tried to replace the "us and them" idea based on race, and based on nationality, with a different version of "us and them".....

In Islam

"us" = believers and
"them" = non-believers.

All the other factors such as hate, violence, war, greed, lust, booty, are still all valid as shown in his Medina verses. It is simply a different way of dividing up people instead of race or nationality. It is is still divisive and supremacist since "them" are seen as lesser and "they" will pay tax to "us" (jizya).

"In spite of all the murders or attempted murders the koranimals are committing in the West why is the West permitting uncontrolled immigration of these animals. It is almost like a kind of self-immolation."

How about, it's insane? Sheer insanity to let these people in. When I think of the U.S. in about 50 years I feel sick. "What ye sow ye shall reap," you PC nutcases of America. Rather, your grandchildren will reap the horror.

"... no chance of parole for 10 years."

This represents a dangerous consequence of our failure to identify jihad as war against Western Civilization.

It means he, and many others of his kind, will be released some day. Prisons terms of many are already expiring soon.

These are not common criminals who can be reformed in prison and released back to society after "paying their debt to society". (They won't be singing, "Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree" on their way home.)

As religiously motivated jihadists, they are essentially enemy combatants who will be released to fight us another day.

Prisoners of War are supposed to be kept for the duration of the conflict. As a continual war, it will most likely mean life in prison. So be it.

I saw that show. I think it was a good interview and it did come across as a serious viewpoint. I was delighted. I have to admit now that though I watch Glen Beck and Hannity I slip over to Comedy Central to catch The Daily Show and Colbert Report most evenings.

Sean:
That is so absolutely brilliant!

" He asked the judge to sentence him as if he were a 'white Catholic and not a Muslim.'

"Justice Fletcher Dawson responded that his decision had nothing to do with Abdelhaleem's religious affiliation...." -- from the story

Not a bad retort, actually, since it it punctures Shareef Abdelhaleem's Islamovictimization balloon.

But as others have pointed out, he will be eligible for parole in ten years. By then he will have been able to perform quite a bit of prison dawa, as well as to plan in detail his revenge upon release.

How very interesting that CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) never reported that line about the white Catholic mass-murderer, as a matter of fact little of what this chubby jihadi said in court was reported by CBC news. How long will Canada remain wilfully ignorant to threat of Islamism?

They also lie, without any qualms whatsoever, in order to get what they want - just like islam.

You forgot to add 'thief'

Our Prime Minster Harper is working on that...the problem is that for the past 5 years he's had a minority government!

He is wanting to toughen up the immigration process but without being in the majority, he can't.

Elections will probably be held this Spring sometime....then, if he gets a majority Government, which it looks like he could according to the polls, I think we Canadians will see a lot of changes coming concerning Islam and it's Satanic followers!

I'd like to see Islam not recognized as a religion but a political agenda and have it banned as it goes against our Judeo-Christian cultural heritage.

I really hope things in Canada will change. I wish there was a political group to specifically fight islam in Canada. I would join in a heartbeat. There is a SIOC (stop islamization of Canada) but it is only a facebook group.

Marisol,

You kill me. That was the funniest post I've seen in a long time.

It motivated me to pull up largo al factotum and listen to it.

I also thought of "The Abduction of the Seraglio". Fantasy?

The Harper Government is working on changing our Criminal Code....a life sentence will mean: 25 years before you are even considered for parole. They will be able to keep you in even longer if you are considered a risk to re-offend!

BTW...did you know that most converts to Islam happen behind bars in the American system? Why, you ask? Because they get a third of their sentence off if they convert! How's that for Justice? It's mostly blacks who convert.

The one Government that we have the best chance with on fighting Islam and it's evil is the Harper Government!

In talking with some people recently, they have said they will be voting Conservative in the next Election. Even though it leaves a bad taste in their mouths to do so, but Mr. Harper has been making more sense in the past while and we find ourselves agreeing with him more and more! I have never voted Conservative before but will be doing so this time as I see his is the only one that is taking steps to stop islamamentians from carrying out their agenda! Not to mention we are sitting prettier financially than any of the other G20 members!

If you want to stop the Islamics from getting their way in Canada....I suggest voting Conservative!

sorry forgot to add....

Act for America has international groups. There are a few in Canada, especially in Ontario!

The website is: http://www.actforamerica.org

They have email addresses so you can get in touch with them.

If you don't have one close to you, perhaps consider starting a group with the help of Act for America.

Watch, if you can the video from the weekly show! It gives information on the background of the founder, Brigitte Gabriel, and has some interesting discussions!

Robert:
Quite ironical to ask to be sentences like a white Catholic. He'd better be careful what he wishes for because in Canada all Christians have been more severely prosecuted by legal entities- specifically the various provincial and Federal human rights tribunals.

The Rev Boission case in Alberta is particularly chilling. So if Shareef Abdelhaleem wants that, then be my guest but he'll be stunned.

xavier

Bosch Fawstin, thanks for showing that video.

I also read your explanation. And the show was doctored with. But still to me you sound OK. But I know that Aasif Mandvi was trying to ridicule what you said and that he cut out your more clarifying answers to him.

At Loonwatch this video is also shown and you get a lot of attention there. Although someone (Jack) is defending you and the overall tone is rather mild, of course the commentary there is disapproving.

Nassirh in a way summarizes : "The guy has Atlas Shrugs and JihadWatch on his blogroll. That explains everything."

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