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Faheem Khalid Lodhi Update. Apparently when he said "jihad is the best thing that man can ever volunteer to do," he of course meant a peaceful inner struggle, which is why he attained such a height of holiness that he used a false name to buy a map of Australia's electricity grid.
We have seen this, of course, many times before. In fact, I don't think any accused jihadist has ever been anything but a peaceful person railroaded by racist authorities.
"Terror suspect a 'peaceful person,'" from The Australian, with thanks to JE:
AUSTRALIAN politicians have been accused by a lawyer defending a suspected terrorist of playing on people's fears and emotions about terrorism for political gain.But Phillip Boulten, SC, said Sydney architect Faheem Khalid Lodhi was a "peaceful person" entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Pakistan-born Lodhi, 36, has pleaded not guilty in the Supreme Court of New South Wales to four terrorism-related offences. He was accused of plotting a terrorist attack in an effort to wage "violent jihad" in Australia.
Crown Prosecutor Richard Maidment, SC, alleges that in October 2003 Lodhi bought two maps of the national electricity supply system and inquired about buying chemicals capable of making explosives, in preparation for a terrorist attack....
Politicians were "doing quite nicely in this country by playing on people's fears and emotions about terrorism," Mr Boulten told the jury....
He described his client as a "peaceful person" who although upset by the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, took the approach that "blowing up things here (in Australia) wouldn't settle anything".
"There's no history of this man being a violent person," Mr Boulten said.
"He's not part of a group that believes in violence as a means to an end."...
He isn't?
In his closing submissions today, Mr Maidment told the jury Lodhi had tried to get out of the trouble he was in by lying.Mr Maidment said many accused people in criminal cases "tried to bluster their way out of trouble by telling a pack of lies".
Gee, ya think?
Posted by Robert at June 1, 2006 6:20 AM
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Jihad terror suspect a 'peaceful person'
The hits just keep on coming...now let's hear Rat Stevens Peace train..
Now I've been smiling lately, thinking about the jihad things to come
And I believe it could be, jihad has begun
Oh jihad train sounding louder
Bomb on a peace train
Come on now peace train
Yes, jihad train holy roller
Everyone jump upon the peace train
Come on Infidel jump on the peace train
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at June 1, 2006 6:56 AM
a. muslim.
b. pakistani.
c. Upset over afghanistan and iraq.
d. Buying map of electricity grid by giving a false name.
e. Buying chemicals to make explosives.
Is not all this info sufficient to indict him ? His lawyer must be an optimist. Or should I be a pessimist ?
at June 1, 2006 6:57 AM
Yea! He’s got that same kind of peaceful streak that Bin Laden has!
Posted by: Pass It On at June 1, 2006 6:57 AM
Mr Maidment said many accused people in criminal cases "tried to bluster their way out of trouble by telling a pack of lies".
And of course his first lie was "I am not quilty!".
Posted by: JanuaryMan at June 1, 2006 7:15 AM
"He described his client as a "peaceful person."
Aren't they always peaceful? That is how they all start out before they blow up buses, buildings, and flying planes into skyscrapers!
What gets me is how the lawyers that defend these Islamofeces, pee on our leg and try to convince us that it's raining.
Shysters, all of them.
at June 1, 2006 9:18 AM
Sharansky was invited to meet with the president after Bush was greatly impressed with a book authored by the MK, "The Case for Democracy." In his book, Sharansky claims that the principles of democracy should form the basis for coexistence with the Arab world, and that Arab countries should be encouraged to undergo democratic processes that will culminate in general elections.
Ever since that meeting, Washington officials have kept in touch with Sharansky, and the president himself has made it a custom to write to the Israeli MK frequently. In his last letter to Sharansky, written following an article published by the latter in The Wall Street Journal, Bush wrote that he was proud to be Sharansky's "soul mate."( YNETNEWS )....After i read Mr.Sharansky's book.I too thought that people yearned to be Free,Natan is a brave man with a good heart.But Islam is a power unto itself just wanting freedom wont break its chains...Robert and hugh know this...Allah is the terror in a Muslims heart...Until he is asked to leave that heart...No Muslim could ever be free!!!
Posted by: storagemanager at June 1, 2006 9:30 AM
Store manager points out: Bush wrote that he was proud to be Sharansky's "soul mate."
Now thats funny...Bush has no idea what a 'soul mate' is. The definitions of that are OT, but it
is not a usual way for one male to refer to another male.
The reason that muslims lie is because the truth is a killer. The 'truth' will destroy Islam. Thats why they must rely on lying and jihad...the more the better. The truth is just not in them. Allah has seen to it by replacing conscience with venom. Some muslims have developed lying into a high art form. Lodhi is not that developed, so his lawyer must do it for him. Thats what lawyers are for...to make a lie believable.
Posted by: duh_swami at June 1, 2006 9:58 AM
duh_swami...We must reach out...to hope for the ones who seek Truth....Who like the Brave Souls in Leaving Islam wish to break the chains of allah.Make them doubt...Plant a seed and maybe they will read the koran with new understanding...Then throw that dirty book as far as they can!
Posted by: storagemanager at June 1, 2006 10:04 AM
It is all rather simple.
Australian Electricity= The New Great Satan
Turning the lights out in Australia will surely win over the hearts and minds of Australians and thus result in droves of new Muslim converts.
Can't you see the connection?
Makes a lot of sense to the mentally ill.
Posted by: Johnathan at June 1, 2006 10:06 AM
Speaking of "peaceful persons", does anyone here know why a mosque would have visitors/meetings after 10pm on weeknights?
Every night this week, as I've driven past the mosque, just yards from my own driveway, the place has been fully lighted (not just the outside lights), and there have been several cars in the "lot". (For "lot", read "front yard". The place used to be just another house on my street.)
I know Friday is the big day for mosques, but this nightly meeting on weeknights really creeps me out. The lights are on, in the prayer area, but no one is praying--no one is even visible so they must be meeting in one of the other rooms.
Can anyone tell me whether or not this is an Islamic "sacred month", or if there's some benign reason for this activity?
Posted by: Abscedere at June 1, 2006 10:34 AM
I have always found it hard to have respect for the way law is practised throughout the western world, where the accused is given far more consideration than any of his victims ever received and the defence lawyers come out with the most incredibly unbelievable justifications for actions whose reasons perfectly obvious to everyone else.
To say that this man is peaceful shows simply NO idea of the concept of jihad. Many "jihadist" are "peaceful" until the time comes to deserve their 72 virgins. Of course, if you tap their phones, read their emails etc., it may not seem so but until they act they are simply another Muslim hoping to enter heaven.
I know a man, a christian man who makes it his point to go to the penitentiaries here for the most dangerous of criminals. He simply counsels and listens mostly usually to those who have no other visitors. He is no evangelist but tries simply to be very decent to every convict and act as a father figure. Surprisingly some of the most evil of our prisoners have talked sensibly with him.
However he has now refused to ever go back.
The reason is that he was asked to counsel two of the young Muslim mass rapists in our gaols who had severe problems with other prisoners and were separated from the others. Both of them spent the whole time gloating over what they had done, and in lurid detail, and told him that they had every intention of doing it again once the were released, but this time for revenge.
This man talked to Ivan Milat with no problems but after these two he was so distraught that he will never return.
A Muslim is a criminal to mankind on standby and while he remains a muslim he will always be a potential jihadist. He either apostasises or he is judged by his actions and convicted for them.
I know what I would do and mercy is not part of.
Posted by: Zathras at June 1, 2006 10:51 AM
Zathras...That is why I changed my mind about how to fight Islam....I will now ask muslims over and over again....Why they have such a weak god....Who is un-able "to fight for himself"......He needs a big army of human beings who have no love or mercy in their black hearts....Why cant the big bad allah...Fight his own battles?
Posted by: storagemanager at June 1, 2006 11:03 AM
Abscedere,
This is happening to me too. I have noticed them holed up in their mosques late at night. Earlier they did not do so. Lately there have been too many "sermons" at mosques too and the speakers are not from my city.
at June 1, 2006 11:06 AM
Abscedere,
Yes, it appears that muslims have been meeting and planning 'peaceful' responses that they're going to unleash on surrounding neighborhoods if and when the world finally acts against Iran. It's happening all over.
Do you have kids in daycare? Do you have children in elementary school? These type defenseless targets are the typical places muslims will likely go to demonstrate 'peacefully' at when they decide to collectively express their dissatisfaction with an Infidel attack on the muslim ummah.
Just to be safe, the moment you hear on the news that an attack on Iran had just been launched, you might want to have a plan with your buddies involving heading down to these type defenseless places in your local area and making sure that any peaceful demonstrations by muslims don't get out of hand.
Posted by: Mahdi Al-Dajjal at June 1, 2006 11:31 AM
arjun:
the test of criminal guilt is guilty mind + guilty act, and the more serious the charge, the more substantial a case the prosecution has to bring. Defence needs only to establish "reasonable doubt" on one element or the other to gain an acquital.
the guilty act is the combination of seeking bomb-building materials and a map of the grid under a false name. the guilty mind may possibly be established by inference-building to the lying and absence of any good reason for an architect to be trying to purchase information re: electrical grid under a false name (making it unlikely that he was doing it in connection with any activities that an architect might reasonably be engaged in) or to purchase massive quantities of chemicals in the pretext that he is going into the soap-manufacturing business.
It all seems so simple and obvious, but theese days the judges' benches seem to be occupied by minds that can "reason" their way into accepting the most idiotic arguments and facile defences put forward by defence council.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at June 1, 2006 12:37 PM
Good thing Lodhi doesnt have the same judge as two of the Lebenese arrested during the Cronulla riots.
These two were heading towards Cronulla with soft-drink bottles full of petrol - their excuse when caught was that they intended to SNIFF the petrol to get high.
Of course, they werent planning to make petrol bombs ...
They walked out of court free men when the idiot judge bought their fairytale. Small consolation that they spent 6 months in prison.
Posted by: Deecha at June 1, 2006 9:56 PM
Waterdragon, Deecha,
I have a strange feeling that the judges the world over are going to change very shortly. Call it a hunch, but it will happen.
at June 3, 2006 6:45 AM
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