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NJ Muslim accused of throwing lit firecrackers at synagogue while screaming “Allahu akbar”

Sep 2, 2015 9:02 am By Robert Spencer

“You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers to be the Jews…” — Qur’an 5:82

In practice, that generally means that Muslims are the most intense of the people in animosity toward the Jews. Musheisen’s lawyer says: “I’d like to know why, if this is a bias crime, the person who drove to the site who had to get out of the car as well as the passengers were not charged. If a crime were committed, they would certainly be complicit.” That’s a good point. They should be arrested.

Rizek Musheisen

“Man pleads not guilty to tossing firecrackers outside synagogue,” by Myles Ma, NJ.com, August 31, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

PATERSON — A Clifton man who allegedly threw lit firecrackers outside a synagogue and yelled “Allahu Akbar” — an Islamic phrase meaning “God is greater” — pleaded not guilty Monday to two counts of bias intimidation.

Rizek Musheisen, 21, appeared in Passaic County Superior Court before Judge Scott Bennion.

Police arrested Musheisen in April. He allegedly threw firecrackers outside the Ahavas Israel Synagogue at 181 Van Houten Ave. in Passaic, police there said.

The Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office has offered Musheisen a plea deal that would give him an 18-month sentence for pleading guilty to one of the bias intimidation charges. Harley Breite, Musheisen’s attorney, said they wouldn’t consider the offer.

“My client is not a racist,” Breite said. “He shouldn’t be imprisoned.”

Breite said the case was personal for him. He was a member of Ahavas Israel as a child and his father and grandfather are Holocaust survivors.

“When such allegations as these are made we need to think more of promoting understanding and reconciliation rather than demanding vengeance and harsh punishments,” he said.

Musheisen is free on bail and attending classes at Montclair State University, Breite said. He hopes to work as a teacher upon graduation.

Breite questioned why the other men in the car that took Musheisen to the synagogue, including the driver, weren’t charged.

“I’d like to know why, if this is a bias crime, the person who drove to the site who had to get out of the car as well as the passengers were not charged,” he said. “If a crime were committed, they would certainly be complicit.”

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Filed Under: American jihadis, Featured, Islamic antisemitism, Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Harley Breite, Rizek Musheisen


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  1. jihad3tracker says

    Sep 2, 2015 at 9:15 am

    SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER MIGHT BE OUR LAST HOPE OF PREVENTING OBAMA FROM PREVAILING ON THE IRAN DEAL VOTE.

    Email him with the Qur”an surah (5:82) quoted above by Robert, and remind the senator of Iran’s commitment to the destruction of Israel.

    AND HOW THE SUPREME LEADER’S RHETORIC HAS NOT CHANGED IN HOSTILITY TO THE U.S.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Sep 2, 2015 at 11:02 am

      ******** OFF-TOPIC BUT IMPORTANT — ABOUT THE UNC 9/11 COURSE POST EARLIER ********

      Here is a link to Robert’s reference of Qur’an scholars Alphonse Mingana and Christoph Luxenberg :

      http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/Mss/vowel.html

      A rather long article — but with astonishing logic. READ PARAGRAPHS IN *** RED *** TYPE for examples of the strength with which these two men assembled their case.

      • RonaldB says

        Sep 2, 2015 at 11:57 am

        This article is an attempted refutation of scholars who claim the Koran was crypted from previous sources.

        It is published on Islamic Awareness, which is an Islamist site dedicated to defending Islam.

        “The primary purpose of Islamic-Awareness website is to educate Muslims about the questions and issues frequently raised by the Christian Missionaries and Orientalists. You will find a variety of excellent articles and responses to missionary and orientalist writings”

        http://www.islamic-awareness.org/

        So, what’s the purpose of posting this link on this thread? What point are you trying to make?

        • jihad3tracker says

          Sep 2, 2015 at 1:17 pm

          Hello (again?) RonaldB —

          Yes, I know that is an islamist website. But in searching for RS’s reference to Mingana and Luxenberg, this was a “paper” with huge cited examples from the work of those scholars.

          I thought it to be a path to see how meticulous they were in their work, regardless of passages by the paper’s authors. I am confident that readers who slog through all of it, are smart enough to “consider the source” and come to accurate conclusions.

          And, quite aside from that, what we might call “proto alphabetics” is fascinating to me & maybe many others . . .

          Search my comment count and content here on JW over the last 4 years — you will find it to be 100% condemnatory regarding the pathology that Muhammad brought on mankind.

  2. RonaldB says

    Sep 2, 2015 at 9:20 am

    What the hell is “bias Intimidation”?

    Apparently, it’s a law against making the target feet harassed because he’s a member of a protected group.

    “The state’s statute on bias intimidation was the only one of its kind in the nation in saying that defendants can be convicted of bias intimidation if their victims “reasonably believed” they were harassed or intimidated because of their race, color, gender, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/nyregion/parts-of-new-jerseys-bias-intimidation-law-ruled-unconstitutional.html?_r=0

    This Muslim was obviously harassing Jews. I can understand that the defense lawyer would feel even the lowest scum has a right to a defense. I don’t understand why a descendant of holocaust survivors would feel it a personal mission to get a Muslim supremacist antisemite off, but that’s his affair.

    This type of law is like the penalties for “hate”. It seems good at the time, but it will come back to bite you, when it is used against criticisms of Islam.

    If you throw firecrackers onto someone’s property, it seems you can be charged with something to do with what you actually did: trespassing, disturbing the peace, destruction of private property. It’s true you won’t be able to throw someone in jail for years because of an act that didn’t actually threaten anyone or cause real property damage. But, maybe we ought not to make laws that can easily enslave us, simply to make up for the mistake of allowing Muslims into the country in the first place.

    • Westman says

      Sep 2, 2015 at 2:55 pm

      Good careful thinking, RonaldB.

      I get a kick out of those OIC who want “blaspheme” laws on the world. They think they would get away with harassing, extorting, and enslaving the adherents and badmouthing the doctrines of other religions while suppressing criticism from the West. When the first Christian, Yazidi, or Shia took Sunnis to international court there would be a demonstration, likely resulting in some deaths.

      Blaspheme law is a threat mechanism that won’t grow any teeth in the West unless Muslims become the majority population.

  3. Rev g says

    Sep 2, 2015 at 9:23 am

    Lack of evidence? That the prosecutor didn’t see sufficient evidence to support , or reason to initiate, charges against others has nothing to do with this person’s case.
    When you get a speeding ticket, go ahead and argue that many others were also speeding, if they weren’t ticketed yours should be thrown out as well. See if it works for you.

  4. Beagle says

    Sep 2, 2015 at 9:49 am

    “Musheisen is free on bail and attending classes at Montclair State University, Breite said. He hopes to work as a teacher upon graduation.”
    — —
    Of course he does. ‘Joker’ Tsarnaev will be a college professor by 2050.

  5. More Ham Ed says

    Sep 2, 2015 at 10:01 am

    “…we need to think more of promoting understanding and reconciliation rather than…”

    “understanding”, “reconciliation”,

    the “we” never seems to include muslims.

    “He hopes to work as a teacher upon graduation.”

    A teacher of taqiyya.

  6. mortimer says

    Sep 2, 2015 at 10:26 am

    The lawyer’s being a non-practicing Jew is irrelevant to the guilt of the client. However, it certainly is sad.

    Here’s a non-practicing Jew who is helping an Islamic terrorist to escape punishment after TERRORIZING PRACTICING JEWS! Appalling.

    The lawyer is complicit in hurting PRACTICING Jews, since other terrorists will believe a smooth lawyer can keep them out of jail after future terrorist actions.

  7. Victor Redlick says

    Sep 2, 2015 at 11:20 am

    The slimy bastard should have put them in his mouth first while crying his plaintive common absurdity, Alahu..something.

  8. KrazyKafir says

    Sep 2, 2015 at 12:14 pm

    Will the Jewish lawyer’s kindness be an eye opener for the Muslim? Very doubtful, and the good lawyer’s actions will be more than likely seen as a mushy weakness proving to himself that he really is superiour. If the lawyer knew anything about Islam, this might occur to him.

  9. Mark says

    Sep 2, 2015 at 12:49 pm

    Wow another Islamic teacher… Just what this country needs fuck him he has no brain and could careless of others feelings.
    What he did is a crime and the others with him need to face a judge too

  10. Mark says

    Sep 2, 2015 at 12:53 pm

    Passaic County Administration Building
    401 Grand Street
    Paterson, New Jersey 07505
    Main Number: 973-881-4800
    Fax: 973-225-0155

    I’m sending a fax best I can do I think

  11. Jay Boo says

    Sep 2, 2015 at 1:15 pm

    They came in search of comradery.
    They came in search of fame and glory.
    They ended up with Islam’s bitter loneliness.

    Every Muslim’s neighbor is a stranger.
    Muhammad’s selfish disgrace is not fairytale.
    It’s a horror story.

  12. Westman says

    Sep 2, 2015 at 2:01 pm

    18 months for throwing a firecracker and declaring supremacy of the moon god? This is a bad choice of charges for the prosecutor. If it goes to trial he’ll lose simply because today’s liberal jury will consider it to be asymmetric punishment. It really doesn’t matter what serious students of Islam think about the symbolism – the jury will be hand-picked for ignorance of Islam.

    A monetary fine sufficient to impact the university studies with some periodic reporting to the court would have been sufficient. Now the court must determine whether to expend money and time or make some ineffective deal. Count on the deal and not hearing about it.

  13. Angemon says

    Sep 2, 2015 at 2:02 pm

    A Clifton man who allegedly threw lit firecrackers outside a synagogue and yelled “Allahu Akbar” — an Islamic phrase meaning “God is greater” — pleaded not guilty Monday to two counts of bias intimidation.

    Oh, for f***’s sake. Can’t the press get it right? “Allahu akbar” means “allah is greater”. Not “God is great”, not “God is greater”, not “allah is great”- it means “allah is greater”, as in “allah is greater than your God”. And for the foul-mouthed islamic apologists thinking of jumping in and saying “roar, roar, expletive, invective, allah means God in arabic, invective, expletive, roar, roar”, you can take that excuse and shove it – not only muslims in the west commonly refer to their divinity as “allah”, regardless of the language they’re speaking in, they also don’t consider allah to be the same God as the Jewish and Christian.

    • JawsV says

      Sep 2, 2015 at 2:52 pm

      “Allahu akbar” means “Allah is greatest.”

      • Hindu American says

        Sep 3, 2015 at 3:05 pm

        Precisely. Lets get our comparatives right.

        In other words, “my god is greatest” because this is often screamed in public in context or in reference to other religions and their gods. It is really a taunt or a challenge.

  14. gravenimage says

    Sep 2, 2015 at 6:57 pm

    NJ Muslim accused of throwing lit firecrackers at synagogue while screaming “Allahu akbar”
    …………………………..

    This has started in the US–and it is already *much* worse in Europe, where the population of Mohammedans is larger.

    “Muslims screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ murder four Jews in synagogue; ‘Palestinians’ celebrate the murders”

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/palestinians-celebrate-murders-of-four-jews-in-synagogue-by-muslims-screaming-allahu-akbar

    More:

    In practice, that generally means that Muslims are the most intense of the people in animosity toward the Jews. Musheisen’s lawyer says: “I’d like to know why, if this is a bias crime, the person who drove to the site who had to get out of the car as well as the passengers were not charged. If a crime were committed, they would certainly be complicit.” That’s a good point. They should be arrested.
    …………………………..

    What an *insane* argument–that if the responding police were acting out of “political correctness”, that the court must follow.

    More:

    Breite said the case was personal for him. He was a member of Ahavas Israel as a child and his father and grandfather are Holocaust survivors.

    “When such allegations as these are made we need to think more of promoting understanding and reconciliation rather than demanding vengeance and harsh punishments,” he said.
    …………………………..

    No better way to ensure another Holocaust than to wink at violent Muslim Jew hatred.

  15. Hindu American says

    Sep 3, 2015 at 3:00 pm

    So, according to the defendant’s attorney his client, a Muslim, “is not racist” even though he hurled lit firecrackers outside a synagogue and yelled “Allahu Akbar”. But, I bet, if someone said anything against his client’s religion or hurled lit firecrackers at a mosque that person will be immediately deemed “racist” and “islamophobic”.

  16. Keith Jordan says

    Sep 3, 2015 at 5:27 pm

    I’m sure this act had nothing to do with Islam.

    • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

      Sep 3, 2015 at 11:12 pm

      I’m certainly glad you mentioned that Keith. It’s a powerful truth which cannot be too often repeated.

      In like manner, I simply can’t express how admirable I think Mr. Breite. His father and grandfather escaped the Nazi gas but here he is, only a generation later, feeling [appropriately] guilty for that. Which he then services by representing only clients dying-literally-to cut his throat.

      Awe inspiring.

  17. Western Canadian says

    Sep 5, 2015 at 2:13 am

    Can you imagine the stick that would result, if a mosque and those vile enough to attend it, were to receive the same treatment with a comment mocking islam??

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