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Muslim gets fifteen years of prison dawah for misunderstanding Islam, plotting to kill Obama

Jul 14, 2012 4:08 am By Robert Spencer

After all he has done for them, this is the thanks he gets. “Uzbek man gets more than 15 years for Obama threat,” from the Associated Press, July 13 (thanks to all who sent this in):

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An Uzbek man who came to America pursuing an Ivy League medical degree but wound up working seven days a week at a mall kiosk in Alabama was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison Friday for plotting to kill President Barack Obama.

U.S. District Judge Abdul K. Kallon imposed the sentence on Ulugbek Kodirov, 22. He had faced up to 30 years in prison.

Written and oral court pleadings showed Kodirov, whose parents are professionals who worked for the government in his native Uzbekistan, was accepted to study medicine at Columbia University in New York but never enrolled because his English was too poor.

He later moved to Alabama for a job and worked at the massive Riverchase Galleria in suburban Hoover, where the defense said he used his laptop and free wi-fi service to connect with extremists who turned him against the United States.

Wearing an orange jail uniforms and leg chains, Kodirov apologized in halting English.

“I am truly sorry for every mistake that I have done,” he told the judge.

Defense attorney Lance Bell argued that Kodirov “” who had the equivalent of a nursing degree in his native country before he moved to New York “” had accepted responsibility for his actions and was trying to straighten out his life. He said Kodirov wasn’t “a big, bad terrorist.”

“I’m not calling him a victim, but he’s a victim to a degree of social media,” Bell said.

No, he’s a victim of the jihad doctrine. After all, he could have used social media to improve his English and get to Columbia. Instead, jihad.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Whisonant said Kodirov would have tried to kill Obama and a foreign group would have taken credit had he not been arrested a year ago….

Kodirov pleaded guilty in February to threatening to kill the president, providing material support to terrorism and unlawfully possessing a firearm. He said he came up with the plan to kill Obama as he campaigned for re-election after communicating over the Internet with a man he believed to be a member of an Uzbek Islamic group the United States classifies as a terrorist organization.

Members of the Islamic community in Birmingham helped in the case against Kodirov, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors always note this cooperation when it happens, because even now, over ten years and millions of protestations about not all Muslims being terrorists or sympathizing with terrorists later, it still has a man-bites-dog feel.

A complaint said Kodirov contacted an unidentified person trying to buy weapons in early July 2011, and that person became a confidential source for the government. Accompanied by the witness, Kodirov purchased a Sendra M115A1 automatic rifle from an undercover agent at a Birmingham-area motel and made a final threat against the president, authorities said. The agent also gave Kodirov four hand grenades with the powder removed….

The defense argued Kodirov was lonely and turned to the Internet for entertainment and companionship after moving to Alabama, where few people speak his native language. He was able to communicate with other believers in Islam over his laptop computer, they said.

A sentencing memorandum submitted by his defense attorney said Kodirov began viewing jihadist websites and YouTube videos. After communicating with Muslim men, “came to the belief that Americans were killing his people in cold blood.”…

Located in central Asia, Uzbekistan and was once part of the former Soviet Union. It is slightly larger than California and the vast majority of its population is Muslim.

Islamic terrorists have been linked to sporadic violence in the country for more than a decade, according to the State Department.

No kidding, really?

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