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“We love death more than you love life!” Conviction upheld of Muslim in 2009 jihad plot to bomb New York subway

May 21, 2014 4:22 am By Robert Spencer

Adis MedunjaninIslamic supremacists frequently affirm how much they love death. Austrian Muslim teenage girls who recently traveled to Syria for jihad announced: “Death is our goal.” Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said: “I’m even longing for death, you vagabond.” A Muslim child preacher recently taunted those he has been taught to hate most: “Oh Zionists, we love death for the sake of Allah, just as much as you love life for the sake of Satan.” Jihad mass murderer Mohamed Merah said that he “loved death more than they loved life.”

Ayman al-Zawahiri’s wife advised Muslim women: “I advise you to raise your children in the cult of jihad and martyrdom and to instil in them a love for religion and death.” And as one jihadist put it, “We love death. You love your life!” And another: “The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death.” That was from Afghan jihadist Maulana Inyadullah.

This idea comes from the Qur’an: Say, “O you who are Jews, if you claim that you are allies of Allah, excluding the people, then wish for death, if you should be truthful.” (62:6)

“U.S. court upholds conviction of man in 2009 plot to bomb New York City subway,” by Larry Neumeister, Vancouver Desi, May 21, 2014 (thanks to Halal Pork Shop):

NEW YORK — A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the conviction of an American citizen who prosecutors said was persuaded by al-Qaida to carry out a suicide attack in New York’s subways with two former high school classmates from Queens.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected Adis Medunjanin’s claims that his 2012 trial was unfair because statements he made to FBI agents and police detectives should have been suppressed.

Medunjanin, originally from Bosnia, was sentenced to life in prison in November 2012 for his role in a foiled 2009 conspiracy considered the most serious al-Qaida plot inside the United States since the 9-11 terror attacks.

In a decision written by Judge Amalya Kearse, the appeals court said Medunjanin was apprised of his rights repeatedly during extensive questioning in January 2010. The three-judge panel concluded that law enforcement authorities had no obligation to inform Medunjanin that his attorney, Robert Gottlieb, was trying to reach him when they questioned him despite Gottlieb’s insistence that he not be questioned without him present.

Gottlieb promised to appeal.

“The government’s gross misconduct in intentionally hiding Mr. Medunjanin to prevent him from speaking with his lawyer and ignoring his lawyer’s demand not to interrogate him cries out for Supreme Court review,” he said. “The constitutional right to an attorney applies to everyone, no matter who he is or what the charges might be.”

At Medunjanin’s trial, former classmates Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay testified that the three men sought terror training in Pakistan after hearing the inflammatory recordings of a U.S.-born extremist cleric.

They said the trio travelled to Pakistan in 2008 to avenge the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan but were persuaded by al-Qaida operatives to return to the United States for a suicide-bombing mission against a major target such as the New York Stock Exchange, Times Square or Grand Central Terminal.

Eventually, the men settled on a plot to blow themselves up at rush hour, Zazi testified. The plot was abandoned after Zazi realized he was being followed by law enforcement.

Zazi, an Afghan-American cab driver living in the Denver suburbs, was arrested in September 2009. Zazi and Ahmedzay, a Bosnia-born former New York cab driver, are awaiting sentencing after co-operating with the government in the hopes of getting a reduced sentence.

In January 2010, Medunjanin realized he was being investigated on serious charges and took to a Queens highway, travelling at over 90 mph (145 kph) in a bid to cause a crash that would kill other motorists, the government said.

Prosecutors said that just before he crashed in an accident that caused no serious injuries he dialed emergency services and cried out: “We love death more than you love life!”

At his sentencing, Medunjanin recited verses from the Qur’an and said he had “nothing to do with any subway plot or bombing plot whatsoever.”

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  1. duh_swami says

    May 21, 2014 at 6:35 am

    ‘We love death’….That’s why Allah created tall bridges and buildings, crowded freeways to play on, and gasoline and matches for the really serious. Allah thinks of everything, is very wise, and will show you what you have done…Good luck, have a good trip…

  2. Charli Main says

    May 21, 2014 at 6:36 am

    Well, lets keep on granting their wish at every opportunity and make the World a better place at the same time.

  3. Mirren10 says

    May 21, 2014 at 7:42 am

    He looks like Manson’s twin brother.

  4. Atikva says

    May 21, 2014 at 9:19 am

    All these poor terrorists who love death so much should not be prevented from experiencing it, and the sooner the better, for it would be cruel to make them wait. And if they need help, we can oblige.

    Everyone would be happy: they would get what they want, the air we breathe would be purified and we would never have to hear their inanities or look at their ugly mugs ever again.

  5. Jay Boo says

    May 21, 2014 at 10:49 am

    “Jihad mass murderer Mohamed Merah said that he “loved death more than they loved life.”

    Well … DUH

    Trapped in a cult where he has to constantly prove “He is worthy” to a capricious insecure deity and where his only joy in life is in celebrating someone else’s misery while claiming victimhood, then what other future might he envision except looking forward to death.

  6. Fr. Basil says

    May 21, 2014 at 10:51 am

    Of course they love death. That’s because they hate God.

    God said in Proverbs, “All who hate Me love death.”

    • Champ ✞ says

      May 21, 2014 at 1:26 pm

      Thank you ..great scripture.

  7. Elias says

    May 21, 2014 at 11:14 am

    The Ba’al death cult at its best.

    This is actually a win-win mindset, when you think about it: they get death, and we get to keep on living. So, give them death!

  8. Paul says

    May 21, 2014 at 12:23 pm

    The problem with western legal system is that they do not give a suspect exactly what he or she wants. This kid loves death. So give him his wish asap.
    The 72 are waiting upstairs for him.

  9. Champ says

    May 21, 2014 at 1:29 pm

    Evil in, evil out …they are slaves to evil islam.

  10. mark says

    May 21, 2014 at 2:09 pm

    “The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death.” That perfectly sums it up right there. Extremists are about as zealous for their cause as the average American is zealous for his trivial pleasures. To be sure, however, the extremist leaders do not want to die too soon. They send others out to die. A proper response to Muslim extremism will only happen when enough average Americans realize that their ‘personal peace’ and ‘affluence,’ as Shaeffer would say, are at risk.

  11. Champ says

    May 21, 2014 at 6:23 pm

    “We love death more than you love life!”

    Imagine for a moment if a non-muslim made this statement ..he might be put in a straitjacket and placed under observation. But, oh, a muslim made this statement, so never mind. Yeah there’s nothing to see here. Hey this is normative islamic hate speech and muslims are entitled to say such *outrageous* things. Right!

  12. D.C. Watson says

    May 22, 2014 at 5:11 pm

    “We love death more than you love life!”

    Bullshit you do.

  13. LaVallette says

    Aug 1, 2014 at 5:47 am

    More evidence for the claim by Golda Meir, 4th Prime Minister of Israel that “There can never be peace between Israel and the Arabs until the Arabs learn to love their children more then they hate the Jews”. But that would mean they have to deny the wishes and directives of their Allah and their Prophet, which would make them apostates and liable to be killed by their own Muslim Jihadis to appease their cruel Allah.

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