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Elashi was a founding board member of CAIR-Texas.
"Defendant scolded over outburst during Holy Land trial," by Jason Trahan for The Dallas Morning News (thanks to LGF):
U.S. District Judge A. Joe Fish threatened to bar one of the Holy Land trial defendants from the courtroom Monday after he shouted in frustration as the courtroom was clearing for a mid-morning break.It wasn’t immediately clear what Ghassan Elashi, the Holy Land Foundation’s former board chairman, said after the judge had left and the jury was exiting, but he yelled and pointed as court security guards escorted him to a holding cell. During breaks and at night, Mr. Elashi goes back into federal custody to serve time on a previous sentence.
Judge Fish addressed the outburst after jurors left the courtroom for their lunch break.
“It was reported to me during the last recess, although I didn’t hear it myself, as the jury was leaving the courtroom, there was an outburst from Ghassan Elashi,” Judge Fish said. “It was reported to me that [Mr. Elashi said] ‘This trial is an extension of a Zionist conspiracy,’ or something to that effect. I just need to tell Mr. Elashi, and what I’m saying to him applies to all the defendants, we can’t have outbursts like that that will disrupt the trial.”
He said federal law allows defendants to sit in on their own trials, but “it can be waived” if there are disruptions....
At the time of the outburst, the courtroom was cleared of spectators as an Israeli government agent known by the pseudonym “Avi” was being cross examined. Holy Land supporters and members of the media were listening in through an audio feed in an overflow courtroom.
Khalil Meek, president of the Muslim Legal Fund of America, spoke to the defendants after Mr. Elashi’s outburst. He said that they told him that what triggered the incident was the judge’s decision not to allow into evidence a document that showed the Israeli government appeared to sanction some of the work by one of the Palestinian charity committees Holy Land is accused of illegally funding.
Posted by Robert at August 20, 2007 7:44 PM
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I hope the leaders of these Muslim Brotherhood front groups--CAIR et al--are publicly exposed as the sociopaths and haters they are.
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at August 20, 2007 8:28 PM
Did I read that correctly , the HLF was upset that evidence to prove their guilt was denied Standing at the trial?
My gawd , only a Muslim could twist their logic to the point of helping the Court convict them.
Posted by: ala-sux at August 20, 2007 8:29 PM
Such rational and composed utterances, you can see the close resemblance to this paranoid rambling to the other similar paranoid ramblings over at the Democratic Moonbat Caves.
Don't they know?...It's always a Zionist conspiracy, now if every court case against this lying and deceiving "face" and "voice" of Islam in the US started by getting that out of the way before the preceedings commenced then........
We would have true justice from this scourge that is plaguing the West and they will be shut down and sent packing back to their camels and wives in the middle east.
At least the Camels and their wives will take a beating without any complaints....that should help them get over it.
Posted by: Joe Bananas in Pajamas at August 20, 2007 8:35 PM
I wonder if the judge is Jewish or a Zionist (I am a Catholic Zionist). Then he could be, according to the psycho-idealogues, part of the plot to convict them.
Posted by: CapitalistGig at August 20, 2007 8:46 PM
"This trial is an extension of Snowball’s conspiracy"
Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball. If a window was broken or a drain was blocked up, someone was certain to say that Snowball had come in the night and done it, and when the key of the store-shed was lost, the whole farm was convinced that Snowball had thrown it down the well. Curiously enough, they went on believing this even after the mislaid key was found under a sack of meal. The cows declared unanimously that Snowball crept into their stalls and milked them in their sleep. The rats, which had been troublesome that winter, were also said to be in league with Snowball.
http://www.mondopolitico.com/library/animalfarm/c7.htm
at August 20, 2007 8:52 PM
drat! those eeeeeeevil joooooooooooooozzzzz are at it again!
Is no terrorist act sacred from the eeeeeeevil clutches of the eeeeeevil zionist conspiracy????
(/sarc)
You can always tell when they're down to their last card & in imminent danger of losing their asses...they always invoke the same old adage of "zionist conspiracy!". *yawn*
LOL
at August 20, 2007 9:14 PM
[Mr. Elashi said] ‘This trial is an extension of a Zionist conspiracy’
You can take the radical Muslim out of CAIR, but you can't take CAIR out of the radical Muslim...
Posted by: DCWatson at August 20, 2007 10:14 PM
If there's going to be any kind of 'conspiracy' going on in America we're better off with a "Zionist" one than any other sort.
At least we can count on tasty matza balls with a "Zionist conspiracy" while with an Islamic conspiracy we can count on exploding matza balls (or at least exploding objects that resemble matza balls).
at August 20, 2007 10:41 PM
With a "Zionist" conspiracy you get The Marx Brothers, Jonas Salk, Albert Einstein, Lenny Bruce, Sigmund Freud, Itzhak Perlman, Heinrich Heine, Hannah Arendt, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Kafka, Elie Weisel, Ayn Rand, Eugene Ormandy, Dorothy Parker, and Rod Serling.
With an "Islamic" Conspiracy, you just get the Twilight Zone.
at August 20, 2007 11:51 PM
How does this one tiny little country orchestrate, by conspiracy, every event in every country and all at the same time. Amazing,isnt it?
This truly is a miracle from God!!
And not only that; He created a billion and a half member group of people to continually testify loudly about this miracle!!
Isnt God good!!!
P.S. I think He orchestrates far more than we give him credit for.
Posted by: guide inside at August 21, 2007 12:44 AM
Das Jooozz, Das Joooozz,
Das Amerikaz, Daz Amerikaz,
Das Otherz, Das Otherz!!
Dang this is getting old fast.
Posted by: senor doeboy at August 21, 2007 2:25 AM
Unfortunately, Israel has been pressured into recognizing a lot of groups that are either directly involved in terror or fronts for the terrorists - like Yasser Arafat's PLO.
Posted by: Ryan Jones at August 21, 2007 4:03 AM
It's comical that this powerful religious group of people(muslims) hold 400,000,000 Jews responsible for everything that happens to their 1.5 billion. It boggles the mind.
at August 21, 2007 7:24 AM
I think, imamerican, the arithmetic works out to about 15 or 16 million Zionist schemers and plotters versus 1,300 million victims comprising the Ummah.
Posted by: John C at August 21, 2007 8:51 AM
Mr Elashi is angry because he realizes he's about to be convicted along with the other "holy land" defendants and sentenced to more time in federal prison. Thus the predictable (and tiresome) lashing out at "Zionists" as the source of Muslim problems.The reality is these Muslims are going to prison because they engaged in a criminal conspiracy. They were also either too stupid or too arrogant to take a plea so the government will throw the book at them.
Posted by: Roxane at August 21, 2007 8:52 AM
About one hundred to one, let's say. Dar al-Islam doesn't stand a chance against David & Co.
Posted by: John C at August 21, 2007 8:57 AM
That's a very observant and telling point, Roxane.
Posted by: John C at August 21, 2007 9:02 AM
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