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Massachusetts: Convicted jihad terrorist appeals to Supreme Court

Mar 21, 2014 7:29 pm By Robert Spencer

tarek mehannaTarek Mehanna was convicted in 2011. Then in 2013, an appeals court upheld his conviction. Now he is appealing again, to the Supreme Court. Whether he wins or loses, he has tied up untold amounts of Infidel money and resources with these appeals, and that is a jihad in itself.

His lawyers say that he “didn’t give any tangible support to al-Qaida, and his online activities were protected free speech.” That is a supremely ironic defense in light of the fact that Abdul Cader Asmal, a self-described “friend and supporter” of Tarek Mehanna, brought about my cancellation from a conference last year in Worcester, Massachusetts. Free speech, you see, belongs only to Islamic jihadists, not to defenders of freedom and the equality of rights of all people before the law.

“Convicted Sudbury terrorist appeals to Supreme Court,” from the Associated Press, March 21:

BOSTON — A former volunteer teacher at a Muslim school in Worcester who was convicted in 2011 of trying to help al-Qaida has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case.

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston upheld Tarek Mehanna’s conviction and 17½-year sentence in November.

A notice filed Thursday with the appeals court says Mehanna’s lawyers filed the request Monday with the Supreme Court.

Mehanna, of Sudbury, was convicted of four terror-related charges and three charges of lying to authorities.

Prosecutors said he traveled to Yemen seeking terrorist training and intended to fight U.S. soldiers in Iraq. When that failed, they said, he returned home and promoted violent jihad online.

Mehanna’s lawyers said he didn’t give any tangible support to al-Qaida, and his online activities were protected free speech….

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  1. Transmaster says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 7:50 pm

    The Supreme Court is not going to hear this case.

    • EYESOPEN says

      Mar 21, 2014 at 11:29 pm

      I sincerely hope not.

  2. mortimer says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 7:57 pm

    At what cost will Western countries decide that Islam is too expensive?

  3. jack says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 8:47 pm

    he needs 2 in the hat. Put him down like a mad dog. human? detritus

  4. RodSerling says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 9:57 pm

    Glenn Greenwald, a passionate defender of Tarek Mehanna, reproduced Mehanna’s lengthy statement to the court. In it, Mehanna cites the usual grievances against the U.S., and uses the typical kinds of Muslim polemics we see on the internet. Mehanna is engaging in propaganda on behalf of a group whose main method is to kill civilians, and Greenwald calls this al Qaeda propaganda statement “extraordinary,” and agrees with Mehanna that the true enemy is the U.S., not al Qaeda. (Of course, Greenwald would deny that by claiming he didn’t say that explicitly, but read his intro to Mehanna’s statement, and that is the thrust of it).

    http://www.salon.com/2012/04/13/the_real_criminals_in_the_tarek_mehanna_case/

    “At some point in the future, I believe history will be quite clear about who the actual criminals are in this case: not Mehanna, but rather the architects of the policies he felt compelled to battle and the entities that have conspired to consign him to a cage for two decades: “

    • RodSerling says

      Mar 21, 2014 at 9:59 pm

      note: The statement and Greenwald’s comment is on a previous trial of Mehanna. As far as I’m aware, Greenwald’s views haven’t changed.

    • PGuud says

      Mar 21, 2014 at 10:58 pm

      Greenwald is an abomination. If he were a man of integrity, he would have offed himself years ago.

      The deeper one looks into the Left, the better one sees that the Left is the proverbial road to ruin.

      Islam: where freedom ends and slavery begins.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 25, 2014 at 5:29 pm

      Rod Serling,

      “Glenn Greenwald is a traitor to everything decent.

      Here he is, sneering at the idea that the brutal slaughter of British soldier Lee Rigby was terrorism, all the while excoriating any defense by the US and UK against Jihad:

      “Was the London killing of a British soldier ‘terrorism’?

      “What definition of the term includes this horrific act of violence but excludes the acts of the US, the UK and its allies?”

      http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/23/woolwich-attack-terrorism-blowback

      At the bottom of the article it says, “comments have been removed for legal reasons”—which I can only hope means that posters handed Greenwald his ass.

  5. Tradewinds says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 10:21 pm

    How do you flag a comment on this new format?

  6. Ayatrollah says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 10:30 pm

    It is his right to appeal. But so sorry to hear he is unhappy about being in prison. 17 years is what they have been getting when we catch them following pbuh too closely. Allah Akbar

  7. Bezelel says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 7:59 am

    Why should a POS like him be allowed into the US to start with? And to freely go back and forth to progress his training and to come back.He should be charged with Espionage as well. What sort of treatment do islamic countries dish out for much less?

  8. DU says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 8:47 am

    When will all Western governments realize that Islam, like Nazism, has many evil aspects to it doctrines and directives to its heavily indoctrinated believers, especially in the Medina verses of the Koran.

  9. Alexander Forsyth says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 9:48 am

    Surely if it’s obvious to me then it should be obvious to the court that this is a case which is blatantly manufactured and should be treated accordingly resulting in the accuser facing the full force of the law for attempting to give a false account of events thereby perjuring themselves.
    A deliberate abuse of the system costing a small fortune and wasting precious court time and all involved in this exercise should be charged and convicted of wasting time and money and should be forced to pay it all back if convicted.

    • eib says

      Mar 22, 2014 at 10:04 am

      He should be charged with wasting police and court time, found guilty, and never heard from again.
      Mehanna and Greenwald are people for whom passion has become more important than reason.

    • Huck Folder says

      Mar 26, 2014 at 11:29 pm

      How about roulette? You’re so sure you’re ‘innocent’:

      Every time you appeal and lose, your sentence increases, and the higher you go, the bigger the increase?

      How about your ‘nothing-to-lose’ lawyer joins you if you lose, say for the balance of your sentence?

  10. Paleologos says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 10:08 am

    Although a New York native, lucky enough to have seen this magic moment, up close and personal, performed by the greatest baseball player ever created by God …

    Date: 6/10/2012, 4:15 PM, EST
    Name: Kenneth Kramer
    Email: kenman7@aol.com
    Number: 18

    I was at this game! My Dad and I had box seats right behind home plate. This was the only time I ever saw Mickey live. My family was living in Harrisburg, PA at the time. I was born in Mineola, NY, on 6/19/50, and always worshipped the Yankees, and, especially, “The Mick”.

    He will always be my favorite sports hero. God bless him!
    The date was October 10, 1964. Game 3 of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals was under way with the Series tied at 1-1. 67,101 fans packed into Yankee Stadium to watch the pitching matchup between twenty-five year old Jim Bouton and Cardinal veteran Al Simmons.
    With the game tied 1-1 going into the bottom of the ninth inning, Mickey came to bat as the lead-off hitter. He had made an error in right field earlier in the game that eventually allowed the Cardinals only run so he was hoping to redeem himself to his teammates and the fans.

    Cardinal manager, Johnny Keane called on his 38-year-old, right-handed, knuckleballer Barney Schultz to replace Simmons who had been lifted in the top of the ninth for a pinch hitter. Keane surely realized that Mickey’s batting average from the left side was just .241 compared to .424 from the right side so by removing the lefty Simmons, he would force Mickey to hit lefty.
    As Mickey was about to step into the on-deck circle, manager Yogi Berra gave him specific instructions. “Get up there and hit one. I’ll meet you inside.” As Mickey exited the dugout, he passed by Elston Howard who was in the on-deck circle preparing to bat. Mickey told Howard, “Elston, you might as well go on back to the clubhouse, because I’m going to hit the first pitch out of here for a home run.”

    Schultz’s first pitch to Mickey was a knee-high knuckler. Mickey unleashed a mighty swing and connected solidly with the ball. It soared upwards towards the right field upper deck seats. It landed in about the third row of the upper deck and the game was over with the Yankees winning 2-1.

    http://m.mlb.com/video/v20095791/ws-1964-gm3-mantle-hits-a-walkoff-home-run

    *********************************************************

    I spent MANY YEARS IN MASSACHUSETTS, including working at the JFK Library, JFK, … the LAST GREAT DEMOCRAT President!

    https://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/images/1/1c/Photo-jfkl-02_0037-KN-C17599.jpg

    http://www.jfklibrary.org/~/media/assets/Audiovisual/Still%20Photographs/NLK%20Photographs%20Government%20-%20JFK%20Library/crop%20of%20NLJFK%2093-C52-29%20190x190px.jpg

    … so Board, if this asshole gets off, I am sure he will join the “Mike Dukakis Make Me Tank Commander In Chief, PLEASE!!!! GIVE ME ANOTHER CHANCE!!!” campaign.

    http://2guystalkingmetsbaseball.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/dukakis.jpg

    R/

    Paleologos

    • Joel says

      Mar 22, 2014 at 5:16 pm

      I disagree. I think harry Truman was the last ( and probably only truly good 20TH Centtury) Dem president.

  11. duh_swami says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 10:34 am

    Just because a jihadist is put in prison does not mean he gave up his jihad. Did KS Mohammad ever give up? Did Major Hasan ever give up? All the imprisoned jihdist do is change tactics. Demand this, demand that, and file lawsuits. Tarek is simply continuing his jihad, and PC lets him get away with it.

  12. Champ ✿ says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 11:20 am

    Whether he wins or loses, he has tied up untold amounts of Infidel money and resources with these appeals, and that is a jihad in itself.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Yep, jihad to the bitter end! …yeah evil allah must be very pleased with this mohammedan slave.

  13. RodSerling says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 11:53 am

    OT but of general interest to JW readers:

    http://www.cpac.ca/en/digital-archives/?search=Muslim+immigration
    Resolution: “Muslim immigration is no threat to Canada or the West” (February 27, 2014). Doug Saunders argued for the resolution, Salim Mansur argued against.

    A detail of interest to JW readers occurs at about 68:20 of the video, a questioner asks about Saunders’ characterization of Breivik,* then Saunders attacks Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller as “dangerous extreme right figures of hate…” and tries to lump them together with Nazis.

    *The questioner bungled the question, and Saunders misunderstood him initially, but if you listen to the exchange, you will get the gist of what he was asking, in light of Breivik’s recent claims about his real views of the counterjihad.

    More info on the debate:

    http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/audience-votes-are-in-on-mlis-great-canadian-debate-on-muslim-immigration/

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/is-muslim-immigration-a-threat-to-the-west/article17302855/

    On twitter Saunders has also blasted Steyn as “…an enormously ignorant racist with a huge fan base on the right, in Canada & the US.”

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Mar 22, 2014 at 1:37 pm

      Muslims are no different from other religious-minority immigrants…
      – Doug Saunders, Professional Pomp

      This Saunders guy is badly mistaken — badly as in willfully ignorant, obtrusive, pious and aggressive about his horrible mistake, a self-congratulatory error that will cost civilized people dearly in the future.

      He should shut the hell up. Moslems observe a belief system that is entirely different from that of all other religions, with explicit repeated calls for hate and violence against those of all other systems.

      If I were the attacking type, I’d attack Saunders by calling him dangerous extreme left figure of hate… and wretched self-delusion. Who is this clown to lecture Spencer and Geller, let alone the Holy Prophet APF, or any of us?

  14. George Reisman says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 6:37 pm

    ” he traveled to Yemen seeking terrorist training and intended to fight U.S. soldiers in Iraq. When that failed…. ”

    His lawyers say that he “didn’t give any tangible support to al-Qaida ….”

    That’s like saying if someone tries to rob a bank but doesn’t get any loot he’s not guilty.

  15. gravenimage says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 5:35 pm

    Lawfare…

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