“Esseghaier, who is unrepresented and has refused to participate in the trial because he believes he should be judged only under the Qur’an.” Why don’t all the moderate Muslim spokesmen in Canada and the U.S. who insist that Islam is a religion of peace go to Esseghaier’s sentencing and explain to the judge that the Qur’an teaches peace and justice, and that Esseghaier is misunderstanding it in thinking it would justify his mass murder plot?
“Via Rail terror trial: Jury finds Esseghaier guilty on 5 counts, Jaser on 3,” by Alyshah Hasham, Toronto Star, March 20, 2015:
Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser both conspired to commit murder in support of terrorism and participated in a terrorist group, a jury has found after 10 days of deliberating.
But only Esseghaier was found guilty for conspiring to derail a Via rail passenger train heading from New York to Toronto – a plan that involved drilling a hole into a railway bridge support under cover of darkness.
The jury remained deadlocked on Jaser’s charge after requesting additional clarification around the law of conspiracy and reviews of testimony during their lengthy deliberations.
“Some of the members of the jury weren’t quite sure that Mr. Jaser agreed to derail the train,” said Crown prosecutor Croft Michaelson of the deadlocked charge in what he described as a legally complex case. He described both men as “real, serious public dangers.”
Jaser was found guilty on three charges, Esseghaier on five.
Both face potential life sentences at an upcoming sentencing hearing.
Michaelson said the Crown will consider whether to prosecute Jaser again on the train plot conspiracy charge.
Jaser pleaded not guilty to all charges, and his lawyer told the jury Jaser never truly agreed to any terrorist plot, he was simply trying to scam money off Esseghaier and an undercover FBI agent.
Esseghaier, who is unrepresented and has refused to participate in the trial because he believes he should be judged only under the Qur’an, not the “man-made” Criminal Code, had a not-guilty plea placed on the record for him by Justice Michael Code….
Linde Barrera says
My guess is as good as the lawyers’ guess: these 2 cunning Islamists will, in all likelihood, look forward to prison because as we say in the ‘hood, they will get 3 hots and a cot. (3 hot meals and a warm, dry bed.) Could they aspire to more, with their mindset?
Shane says
Yes, and they will be able to recruit violent criminals to their cause while in prison. these traitors should have their citizenship revoked and be deported to a country where they would fit in just fine – Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, Tunisia, and dozens of other devout Muslim countries where jihad against the infidels is popular.
mortimer says
Jihadists should be put into seclusion away and quarantined from the general prison population. All Western countries need to begin courses of anti-jihad deprogramming that will make the inmate aware of every philosophical, moral and historical reason for not conducting jihad and for not believing in Islam. By seeing all the arguments that demolish belief in Islam and by writing about them, jihadists will be brought face to face with the flimsiness of the basis of jihad and Islam. Why die for something so unsupported by evidence?
Linde Barrera says
Mortimer, I think your suggestions for rehabilitation and stabilization are excellent. I would gladly write letters to every state and federal prison commissioner in the United States, using your ideas. How could I do this, as I don’t know who/where to write? Also, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is a holding tank for the jihadists of 9/11. I don’t believe there is any intervention on the part of the US gov’t to “detoxify” these criminals from their beloved Islam. I read where Mr President wants to close that detainee spot. Where will Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and his henchman go?
duh_swami says
In California at least there are special lock up facilities for Hannibal Lecter wannabee’s…Most prisons have a ‘black hole for hard cases’…The State Hospital at Atascadero is one, Vacaville State Prison has many, and Pelican Bay gets the hyper dangerous….Mainline prison where da’wah is daily is too good for these killers…There ain’t no da’wah at Pelican bay…
Joseph says
And the cemetery is an even better place for the ones that actually carry out their murderous ideas.
I wouldn’t even have the plots weeded or the grass mowed, just plain old dirt. Headstone should be made of ice too.
mortimer says
The comparison of Hannibal Lecter with jihadists is fair one…both have no feelings for their victims.
Dee says
More weirdness about Esseghaier, who was doing PhD work in nanosensors .. not your typical ignorant savage, still …
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/via-train-plot-trial-the-strange-non-defence-of-chiheb-esseghaier-1.2981497
mortimer says
Someone should ask Liberal leader Justin Trudeau whether Esseghaier ‘felt excluded’ or underprivileged?
bc says
Even if he was trying to scam money of the others he was still apart of the plot otherwise he would have reported them to the police. Whatever his weasel lawyer says.
BC says
because he believes he should be judged only under the Qur’an.
Which of course he believes gives him the right to murder innocent people, funny how so many Muslims in all corners of the world have this ‘erroneous’ interpretation of Islam. Obama et al. know that it is the religion of peace and love.
Montedoro44 says
“Esseghaier … believes he should be judged only under the Qur’an…”
Yes, he should be judged under the Qur’an (not only, though). Then infidels will get to see what’s in the Qur’an. Canada would do well to go ahead with his request, after this trial is over.
Uncle Vladdi says
I had contacted Jewish lawyers Ezra Levant and Solomon Friedman to urge them to take Esseghaier up on his request to be represented by being justified by the tenets of the Qur’an in his public trial, but they never got back to me.
WHAT A MISSED OPPORTUNITY it was, to have potentially have entered into the public record in court during a public attempted-mass-murder terrorism trial, all the nasty and official justifications for homicide the Qur’an itself so-openly provides!
And the leftist media would have been forced to report on it, maybe analyze it, too!
Jack HOLAN says
Esseghaier don’t worry you will eventually be tried under the Qur’an and judged by Allah. In the meantime you have nothing to lose fighting your charges. Maybe the court will exonerate you and you will meet all kinds of new Canadian coming to meet you Jews Christians Hindus Gays Lesbians and Transvestites. Of course you may meet them in prison too and bunk with 6’6″ Pierre