Massachusetts Muslim gets seventeen years of prison dawah for jihad plot to blow up Pentagon, Capitol building

It's "Islamophobia Awareness Month," and here is an apt story to explain why many Americans are suspicious of Muslims and Islam: "Massachusetts man sentenced to 17 years after FBI terrorism sting," from Reuters, November 1 (thanks to Kenneth):

BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts man was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday for a plot to attack the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol building in Washington with explosives loaded into remote-control model airplanes.

Rezwan Ferdaus, who was arrested in September 2011 and pleaded guilty in July to terrorism-related charges in a deal with prosecutors, told the court he has devoted a lot of time to self-reflection while in jail awaiting sentencing and that he accepted his fate.

Ferdaus, 26, was arrested after an FBI sting operation in which he requested and took delivery of plastic explosives, three grenades and six assault rifles from undercover FBI agents who he believed were members of the al Qaeda network.

"I, the other, the uniquely dressed, the lone man in these hours, I speak of humanity," Ferdaus told the court, reading from a two-page, sometimes flowery statement. "No dehumanization can serve as justification for inhumanity in other places."

About two dozen members of his family and friends cheered and said, "We love you, we support you," as the Massachusetts-born Ferdaus was led into court, handcuffed, with close-cropped hair and a beard.

The 17-year sentence, which also includes 10 years of supervised release, was the result of a July plea agreement worked out between his attorneys and prosecutors. Ferdaus pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to destroy and damage a federal building and attempting to provide material support to terrorists.

Prosecutors dropped four other counts that could have raised the total possible sentence to 35 years.

'MY SON IS INNOCENT'

Members of his family wept and embraced outside the courtroom after Ferdaus was led away.

"My son is innocent," his mother, Ana Maria Ferdaus, told reporters outside court. "We are the best family that America will ever have."...

Yeah, except for the odd jihad terror attack, you're golden.

The government had alleged that Ferdaus, who is Muslim, told undercover agents of his plans to commit acts of violence against the United States by "decapitating" its "military center" and killing "kafirs," an Arabic term meaning non-believers.
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jihad to mulims like him are innocence. his mother is right.
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We are the best family that America will ever have?!?!!!

"We are the best family that America will ever have."...

Sounds like a curse to me.
God help America if it shall ever turn true.

"We are the best family that America will ever have."...

How swell is that? Roll models to look up to, the 'ultimate family'...You can't do any better than best...I wonder what it is that makes them the best? Whatever it is, it must be special...
If they are the best, then other Mahoundian families are not...certainly not kuffar families, so what is special about this family that makes them the best?
This requires further research for inquiring minds who want to know...But I'm not going to do it because I don't want to know that badly...

"I, the other ..."

Straight out of the post-colonial lexicon of the academic left. Boy's been doing his homework.

Plotting jihadi mass murder will get you about as much time as being convicted of marihuana possession twice or thrice..
The powers to be are encouraging more terrorist plots since the penalties are nowhere near to adequate to the seriousness of the crime.

By golly, they're just the best darn family America will ever have!

How disrespectful of the writer not to give "other" a capital "O".
Back to school for him!

These are the new rules for capital letters
Koran: capital "K"
Bible: lower-case "b"
Allah: likewise, captal "A"
God: lower-case "g"
The Other: capital "O"
Etcetera..

Priorities!!

''The 17-year sentence, which also includes 10 years of supervised release, ...''

And who will be doing the 'supervising' ?

Folks, they've got to go. As "free" as America has been for centuries, this is not a religion; this is a movement that wants nothing more than to dismantle our entire way of life.

Time to go.

To those muslims that do just want to integrate while peacefully practicing your faith (and no doubt there are many)...well...sorry. You should have been the ones denouncing this sort of thing.

We don't see a lot of that, do we?

Mass deportation. Remodel mosques. Ban qu'rans. Close the borders.

And MOST Of all:find a better energy source than oil!

Who will be doing the supervising..... Allah of course. And anyway it was entrapment wasn't it. No follower of the Religion of Peace would plot to blow up anything in his country of adoption.

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