Feds: Boston jihadist Tarek Mehanna was al-Qaeda mouthpiece

Peanut Butter Jelly Time

By moderating online chats from the “cushy bedroom” of his parents’ Sudbury home .......

Yup, another clown who forgot the infidel Internet has connections with the infidel law enforcement agencies.

Cuda-- you beat me to it! I think he should be officially known as Banana Man henceforth.

ok...off topic....I used the a=href code and it produced the link, but won't let me link (click) from my post....Anyone want to weigh in on what I am doing wrong with the HTML tag?

... prosecutors began painting for jurors a sinister portrait of a young man the feds said both al-Qaeda and the FBI recognized was becoming a mouthpiece for jihad.

Herein lies the problem. If a Moslem organizes to act on the Ko-Ran but does it too publicly and too frequently, then it's a federal crime. But if a Moslem believes in and reveres the same Ko-Ran, then he's a Great American.

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Warfare is ordained for you.

Isn't possession of a book containing this phrase and many like it all woven into a central theme of commanded violence and subjugation a federal hate crime?

Which axes the real question: what is the dividing line that will protect us? All the federal gubmint is saying with this prosecution is, "Don't be so rough. Go slow. Be gentle."

.''.rich Islamaic education opportunities. ''. Now that's Rich.

Speaking of Tarek the Pajamas Jihadist, doesn't it seem as if the Marxian explanation of Moslem violence has lost any possible credibility by now? But, I still hear our news entertainers giving or fielding that explanation.

But here's an out for the earnest Dhimmi news enetertainer who will not be contradicted: the reason so many of the Moslem Activists engaging in mass murder operations or providing moral support for such come from well-to-do families is because they are sympathizing with the plight of the downtrodden masses, it's just that in this case they are Moslem masses. Indeed, Karl Marx himself was a rich kid.

That should cover it.

Well, I guess the founding fathers committed treason, but for the purposes of freedom, liberty, and justice. And they fought against uniformed soldiers, not women and children. Mehanna promotes treason to impose a hateful, evil, intolerant, dictatorial ideology, that see Jews as the offspring of apes and pigs, subjugates and abuses women, seeks to enslave or kill non-Muslims. Not quite the same thing. Murder, intolerance, brigandry, anti-science, etc may have worked well when you could steal from and feed of conquered Dhimis, but it has made Islamic countries great in the long run.

a terroirist had an idiot for a lawyer. great combination!

I think you're off the mark scoffing at the opportunities for Islamic education available in Yemen. Yemen is indeed well known for such opportunities. The schools in question are not universities - they're madrassas. Of course, the ideology of many of these schools is not far from that of Islamic terrorism, so the line between going to Yemen to become a terrorist and going there to study Islam may not be well defined, but quite a few Muslims do in fact go to Yemen to study Islam. Yemen also has several schools that cater to foreigners wishing to learn Arabic.

So I guess there's an open spot at a pharmacy school in Boston now.

Comforting that he was going to be a pharmacist. You must be so proud, dhimmi Admissions Office wherever he was going.

Good argument for not letting your kids have computers in their bedrooms.

Mehanna’s religious and political beliefs — while perhaps treason to some — are “what make America so great, so strong, so free”

Yes, treason makes America great!
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I'm so tired of this perversion. This "argument"—such as it is—has devolved sharply from being a legitimate celebration of the freedom of speech, even controversial or dissenting speech, allowed under the First Amendment; to a celebration of that speech per se, under the rubric "Dissent is Patriotic" (some is, some is not); to, perversely, the idea that speech or actions that never would have been considered anything *but* treasonous are, *somehow*, the very essence of American greatness, or are, perhaps, its *only* claim to greatness.

Thus, you have the perverse spectacle of those who want to destroy America and murder her people presented as the only Americans practicing true American values. I've seen hard-core leftists and Communists try to pull this off—now, all too predictably—we are seeing this with Jihadists, as well.

More stupidity:

...said Carney, who treated Judge George A. O’Toole Jr.’s packed courtroom to boyhood photographs of a chubby Mehanna sitting on a mall Santa’s lap and playing baseball.
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Another thing I'm sick of. As if the essence of Western values was being allowed to indulge in a few Western pastimes during childhood. All this shows is that his parents were not strictly devout when he was growing up.

None of this makes Tarek Mehanna an "All American Boy", any more than ordering an occasional "Middle Eastern special" or owning a Tagine makes me a crazed Jihadist.

So Mehanna was a child once?
Such sentimentality is pathetic in a courtroom.

What I like about Jihad Watch is the “Comments” section. It’s almost like a neighborhood of friends and intellectuals. There’s Marisol helping a neighbor by sharing her “recipe” for a proper HTML tag. Now if somebody can tell me why my curser? pointer? arrow? whatever it’s called, disappears and appears on different parts of the page and why my page bounces up and down...

Seriously, what I like about Jihad Watch is the people who contribute in the comments section. Which I find as informative as the Articles themselves. Sometimes more so. I usually don’t spend a lot of time in the Comments section of a web-site. With Jihad Watch, which I read like my morning paper, the Comments section is required reading.

There is no other site on the Internet, that I’ve been able to find, where the Comments section is as enjoyable and informative as the articles themselves. And that’s because of the people themselves who are on top of, and knowledgeable about, the vital issues. And where the words consistent and reliable always applies.

And to a guy who almost qualifies as an old fart there’s considerable comfort in that.