Mohamad Shnewer “told the judge that he talked like a jihadist, but didn’t have what it takes to be one.” However, it does seem that he was plotting to become one.
Why wasn’t Honest Ibe Hooper of CAIR or someone like him on the scene to explain to Shnewer that jihad is an interior spiritual struggle, and that Muslims have no reason to plot to attack the United States, since Islam is fully compatible with secular democracy?
More on this story. “4th plotter in Fort Dix case gets life sentence,” from AP, April 29 (thanks to Block Ness):
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge in New Jersey has sentenced a fourth man to spend the rest of his life in prison for plotting to kill military personnel at Fort Dix.
Twenty-four-year-old cab driver Mohamad Shnewer (SHNOO’-er) of Cherry Hill was heard repeatedly on tapes made by an FBI informant talking about attacking the United States.
Shnewer told the judge that he talked like a jihadist, but didn’t have what it takes to be one.
The judge called him the “epicenter of the conspiracy” and sentenced him to life plus 30 years in prison….