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#MyJihad in Florida: Imam convicted of funneling thousands to Taliban

Mar 4, 2013 7:18 pm By Robert Spencer

Will the Islamophobia never end? How did this imam in Florida get the crazy idea that it would be Islamically meritorious to support the Taliban? Doesn’t he know that all, all, all Muslims in the West abhor the Taliban and reject everything it stands for? How did he come to misunderstand Islam in this way?

“Florida imam convicted in Pakistani Taliban case,” by Curt Anderson for the Associated Press, March 4 (thanks to all who sent this in):

MIAMI (AP) “” An elderly Muslim cleric was convicted Monday of funneling thousands of dollars to support the Pakistani Taliban terror organization, which is blamed for suicide bombings and other attacks that have killed both Americans and Pakistanis.

The jury returned its verdict after the two-month trial of Hafiz Khan, the 77-year-old imam at a downtown Miami mosque. Khan was found guilty of all four charges: two conspiracy counts and two counts of providing material support to terrorists.

“Despite being an imam, or spiritual leader, Hafiz Khan was by no means a man of peace,” said U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer, whose office prosecuted the case. “Instead, he acted with others to support terrorists to further acts of murder, kidnapping and maiming.”

The Imam Wifredo Ferrer did not apparently deign to explain how Hafiz Khan’s actions contradicted the teachings of Islam. More’s the pity.

Each charge carries a maximum 15-year prison sentence. U.S. District Judge Robert Scola set sentencing for May 30.

Prosecutors built their case largely around hundreds of FBI recordings of conversations in which Khan expressed support for Taliban attacks and discussed sending about $50,000 to Pakistan. There were also recordings in which Khan appeared to back the overthrow of Pakistan’s government in favor of strict Islamic law, praised the killing of American military personnel and lauded the failed 2010 attempt to detonate a bomb in New York’s Times Square.

“He said these things. He admitted these things. He did all of these things,” Assistant U.S. Attorney John Shipley said during closing arguments.

Khan, who testified over four combative days in his own defense, insisted the money he sent overseas was for family, charity and business reasons “” above all, his religious school, known as a madrassa, in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. Khan also said he repeatedly lied about harboring extremist views to obtain $1 million from a man who turned out to be an FBI informant wearing a wire to record their talk.

“That is not supporting terrorism,” said Khan attorney Khurrum Wahid in a closing argument. “That is an old guy running a scam, who got scammed.”

Prosecutors, however, said the purported $1 million offer was never heard on any tapes and no other witnesses testified about its existence. The informant, identified in court papers as Mahmood Siddiqui, did not testify.

“That is an absurd story,” Shipley said. “This whole defense is a lie.”

One of Khan’s sons, Irfan, said after the verdict that his father was mentally unable to express himself clearly on the witness stand.

“I wish he didn’t have dementia so he could explain himself better,” said Irfan Khan, a Miami taxi driver. “You’re asking him questions about five or six years ago. That really affects things.”…

Always the victim. Yet previously Hafiz Khan seems to have been quite devious in his own defense, with no indication of dementia at all.

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