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Boston jihadis who wanted to murder Pamela Geller plead not guilty

Jun 19, 2015 8:29 pm By Robert Spencer

Abdul Khaliq and al-AmrikiPamela Geller asks the key question: “Are we to refrain from doing anything that Muslims don’t like or might anger them?” All too many people in the West would answer yes to that question.

“Men accused in terror plot to kill blogger plead not guilty,” WCVB, June 19, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

BOSTON —Two men pleaded not guilty Friday to conspiring to support the Islamic State group in a plot to kill a conservative blogger who has angered Muslims.

David Wright, 25, of Everett, Massachusetts, and Nicholas Rovinski, 24, of Warwick, Rhode Island, entered the pleas in federal court in Boston.

Both were indicted Thursday on charges of conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization by plotting with Boston terror suspect Usaamah Rahim, 26, to behead blogger Pamela Geller. The plot wasn’t carried out.

Rahim was killed by investigators who say he lunged at them with a knife in Boston on June 2 when they approached him to talk about a recorded phone conversation. In the phone conversation, authorities say, Rahim told Wright he had changed his mind about killing Geller and now wanted to kill police officers. Rahim’s family has questioned that account.

Wright and Rovinski will remain in custody until at least a status conference, which is set for July 29.

Wright also pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Authorities say he urged Rahim to destroy his phone and wipe his computer.

An FBI affidavit says the men targeted Geller after she organized a conference in Texas in May featuring cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Muslims generally believe any physical depiction of the Prophet Muhammad is blasphemous.

Two men showed up with assault rifles at the conference and began firing. Police shot and killed them.

Days later, the Islamic State group publicly condemned Geller and called for her to be killed.

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Filed Under: American jihadis, Featured, free speech, Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: David Wright, Dawud Abdul Khaliq, Nicholas Rovinski, Nur al-Amriki, Pamela Geller, Usaamah Rahim


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  1. Angemon says

    Jun 19, 2015 at 8:45 pm

    “Not guilty”, eh? Alea iacta est.

    • Saleem Smith says

      Jun 19, 2015 at 9:33 pm

      Muslims are never guilty of anything because everything that Muhammad said and did is to be considered perfect by all devout Muslims. Except of course the ill-fated hypocrites as they are to be put to death.

      The Boston Muslim that wanted to murder Pamela Geller pleaded not guilty because he is a devout Muslim and takes his religion seriously and is willing to enact “all of the laws of Allah” he finds contained within the Qur’an and Moe’s Sunnah.

      We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know that Islamic theology is a complete fraud.

      Islam and Mohammed are perfect and must never be criticized upon pain of death!

      Islam is no “religion of peace.” Islam is primarily a religion of “injustice, intolerance, hatred, and violence.” The fact is, if we non-Muslims were to say about Muslims what the Qur’an says about us, we would be arrested for hate speech. The Qur’an largely preaches discrimination, death, and imposition of its dogma on everyone. Certainly some Muslims will be offended by such statements, but frankly, so what? Judaism and Christianity, the world’s two other major monotheistic religions, have had to face the harshest of scrutiny and criticism for several hundred years which continues to this day. Islam must not be granted any special privileges or be exempt from such treatment – the implications are of tremendous importance.

      Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:

      “One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…

      The statement continues,

      Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.”

      • USMAN says

        Jun 20, 2015 at 4:55 am

        Thanks Saleem Smith. You have really made my day.

        • EYESOPEN says

          Jun 20, 2015 at 4:28 pm

          And mine as well…

  2. mortimer says

    Jun 19, 2015 at 9:46 pm

    Agree. Usaamah Rahim knew all the horrible things about Mohammed, but ADMIRED them instead of being appalled!

    Muslims have an inverted morality.

    • Shane says

      Jun 20, 2015 at 9:36 am

      He’s a typical Muslim. They celebrate all the Muslim victories against the infidels in their holy wars, but insist that Islam is a religion of peace. They are demonstrating “doublethink” which George Orwell described in his great novel, 1984.

  3. DP111 says

    Jun 20, 2015 at 7:04 am

    They object to the word “kill/murder”. They were simply being devout Muslims, following the example of Muhammed (pbuh).

  4. duh_swami says

    Jun 20, 2015 at 9:00 am

    In the US at least, there are basically two types of kuffar…Those who have surrendered to Islam out of fear and intimidation, and those who refuse to surrender, period…The ‘O’Rielly Factor’ represents the first group of kuffar who have openly expressed their fear…Gellertwoman and Spencerman represent the anti-surrender factor…They may not have anticipated these roles when they first started out, but the ‘Pen of Destiny’ has written that they have it now. Will they prevail in the end? I don’t know, but ‘The Pen’ seems to think so…

  5. John Stefan Obeda says

    Jun 20, 2015 at 3:51 pm

    I would like to remind all Christians to please remember to pray for Pamela and Robert and all of the others who dare to courageously inform people what Islam stands for and to pray for the persecuted Christians (and also the non-Christians, of course) which includes the many that the Islamists have jailed and to pray for our leaders in State and Church to speak and to do what’s right even though there are many that do not want to hear the truth. Often the truth hurts but the truth brings life.

  6. Christian says

    Jun 20, 2015 at 4:56 pm

    I have one complaint about this article and all the other articles that have the same error in them. All the time i read about a prophet named Muhammad. I know of no such prophet. I do know of a false prophet Muhammad however. So please see to it that “FALSE” is added to this title. He is NOT a messenger of god. He might be an apostle of satan. But most certainly he has NOTHING to do with god.

  7. William Lucas Harvey Jr. says

    Jun 21, 2015 at 10:18 pm

    This IS the TRUE Islam, which OPPOSES America’s Constitution, as it IS Antithetical to Islamic Law, with America’s Muslims, using their “American Granted Constitutional Rights”, to plead “Not Guilty”, of their Planned Bloody Islamic Butchery, which they REALLY feel is “Granted” to them according to their “Richts” as Given by Islam’s God of HATE – Allah, Islam’s Propher of HATE – Mohammed, and Islam’s Holy Book of HATE – the Qur’an.

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