How did a convert to Islam in Alabama get the idea that his new religion had something to do with waging war? Authorities persist in ignoring this question, and yet it is the key question — there will be many more Rasheed Wilsons as long as it remains unexamined and shrouded in politically correct fictions.
“Judge refuses defense request to dismiss charges in Alabama terrorism case,” by Brendan Kirby for AL.com, March 27 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):
MOBILE, Alabama — A federal judge has declined to throw out terrorism-related charges against a man accused of conspiring to wage violent jihad in a foreign country.
Dom Soto, an attorney for Randy “Rasheed” Wilson, had sought the dismissal of charges on grounds that the charges were unconstitutionally vague and overbroad. But U.S. District Judge Kristi DuBose ruled Tuesday that the charges are neither.
Federal prosecutors allege that Wilson, who was born in Mobile and spent time in Birmingham as an adolescent, struck up a friendship online with Mohammad Abdul Rahman Abukhdair and then planned to go to Africa and find a terrorist organization to join.
The issue, DuBose wrote, is whether the law adequately describes the outlawed conduct.
“Any ordinary person can understand that it is a crime to conspire to provide your own services, intending that your services be used to carry out a conspiracy to murder, maim or damage property in a foreign country,” the judge wrote. “This is what the government alleges happened in this case.”
DuBose wrote that Soto’s constitutional challenge essentially boils down to a disagreement over the evidence. The defense maintains that Wilson’s actions never amounted to more than constitutionally protected conduct, such as the right to free speech and the right to travel. Prosecutors cited secretly recorded conversations among Wilson, Abukhdair and an undercover agent in arguing that the defendant expressed a very real intent to commit violent acts….