Islamic supremacist attempts to play the Muslims-are-always-victims card. Islamic supremacists always portray themselves as victims, and never take responsibility for any wrongdoing.
Said his lawyer: "If he was a Catholic priest, he would have never been charged."
Oh, really?
Ohio priest starts prison sentence for tax fraud -- Associated Press, November 3, 2012
"Imam gets year in prison over tax fraud," by Jennie Rodriguez-Moore for The Record, November 9 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
STOCKTON - The imam of the Islamic Center of Stockton was sentenced to a year in prison Thursday for property tax fraud charges, a conviction that likely means he will be deported.A federal jury in October found that 47-year-old Saeed Ur Rahman of Stockton failed to pay taxes on the sale of a property several years ago.
His defense attorney said, however, the case was a ploy to get Rahman deported to Pakistan because he was the target of an unjustified anti-terrorism probe that yielded nothing more than a tax mistake.
But federal prosecutors said Rahman attempted to pass the property sale as a "like-kind exchange," a tax break allowed for property owners who may use the money from one property sale to buy another property. Rahman was found to have used it falsely in 2004 to avoid paying taxes.
And in 2005, Rahman fraudulently reported another property had been his personal residence for two years to avoid paying sales taxes on it, but authorities found out he actually only owned it for seven months, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Rahman's attorney, Sacramento-based Mark Reichert, said the Islamic leader was prosecuted because of his origin and his religion.
"He was never given an opportunity to file an amendment," Reichert said. "They just charged him with a crime because it's a deportable offense.
"If he was a Catholic priest, he would have never been charged."


























"If he was a Catholic priest, he would have never been charged."
Nah, the IRS tends to be equal opportunity folks. And, after all their trouble with the male priests with kids, I doubt the RC Church would be sweeping much embarrassing issues under the rug.
Now, the 2004 issue is a 1031 exchange. I'm not saying it is some highly sophisticated real estate deal that only people like Donald Trump uses (I've known people who have used it) but when you have multiple properties, thinking of a 1031 means you have a certain level of knowledge and one tends to gravitate towards a person to help file correct returns (not a canned program), an accountant who specializes in this so you can take all of the possible deductions one can. Now, after you have been doing it a while, then if you have confidence, taking over and doing it yourself is a different matter. Being cheap from the get-go can cost you big time down the road.
As for the 2005 (note it was a different property - this guy is into real estate big time) it is hard to imagine how one could miss those words about have you held this for a certain period of time - not saying that he could not but with multiple properties, multiple years it becomes harder to say it was just a mistake because I didn't bother to check which can be fixed by filing an amended return ... If he did remember correctly later, why did it take him until now to talk amending?
I run in some real estate investment circles and most people could tell me when they bought this property or that one. They have pride in it.
The other thing is that this took place in California where property is very expensive. Big bucks are needed to buy something. How did he fund his buys? Don't know. Leads to questions.