Yet another convert misunderstands his peaceful new religion, and yet Honest Ibe Hooper and Brave Ahmed Rehab of CAIR have still made no move, and no Muslim spokesmen or authorities have made any move, toward crafting a program to instruct converts in the true, peaceful and tolerant Islam. Now, why is that?
“German confesses to anti-US bomb plot,” from Expatica, August 11 (thanks to Sr. Soph):
Düsseldorf — A 29-year-old convert to Islam confessed in court on Monday to plotting devastating bombings against US soldiers and diplomats stationed in Germany.
Mastermind Fritz Gelowicz told a panel of judges in the western city of Düsseldorf that he and three other defendants had aimed above all to kill as many US soldiers based in Germany as possible.
“That was our very clear intent,” Gelowicz said.
He said the group had also targeted US consulates in Germany as “the absolute final warning” to the Berlin government before a key parliamentary vote to pull its troops out of Afghanistan.
Gelowicz, on trial since April, could face 15 years in prison for the bid to mount at least three car bombings against US military installations and American citizens in Germany. The other defendants are to testify in the coming weeks.
Defence attorneys said the men aimed to shorten what had been expected to be a mammoth trial and reduce their sentences by confessing. They have not expressed remorse….
The men are charged with belonging to a terrorist organisation — the Islamic Jihadic Union (IJU) in Pakistan, an extremist group linked to Al-Qaeda — and plotting to stage attacks with explosives in September 2007….