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Virginia: “Mentally ill” Muslim accused to trying to join al-Qaeda

May 12, 2016 11:25 pm By Robert Spencer

Jihad is a mental illness, say the political and media elites. After all, it doesn’t have anything to do with Islam, so what else could it be?

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“Court considers medication in terror suspect case,” by Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press, May 12, 2016:

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – An attorney for a mentally ill man accused of trying to join al-Qaida-linked fighters in Syria asked a federal appeals court Thursday to overturn a ruling that would allow his client to be forcibly medicated, arguing that neither the public nor the government would be harmed if the man was civilly committed instead of prosecuted.

Joseph Gilbert told a three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals that civilly committing Basit Sheikh would virtually ensure he wouldn’t be released to the community any time soon. He suggested that allowing the government to forcibly medicate in this case could open the door for many more to follow.

“If you allow it in this case, there’s no case where the government wouldn’t be able to say: ‘Serious crime, we should be able to stick him with this medicine,'” Gilbert said.

Sheikh, of North Carolina, is charged with providing material support to a terrorist group for attempting to join Jabhat al-Nusra militants. He was arrested almost two years ago in an FBI sting to find and arrest Americans before they fought in Syria.

A federal judge ruled in October that Sheikh could be forcibly injected with anti-psychotic medication to see if it would make him competent to stand trial. Prosecutors say the Pakistan native refuses to talk to doctors and has resisted physical exams.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Phillip Rubin rejected Gilbert’s suggestion that retribution against Sheikh is the only interest the government has in prosecuting his case instead of civilly committing him. Rubin argued that Sheikh’s prosecution would protect the public by deterring others from trying to join terror groups.

“This is a priority for the executive branch,” Rubin said. “Those interests demand a prosecution here.”

Rubin also dismissed Gilbert’s claim that the government failed to show that the proposed treatment ensures Sheikh is competent to stand trial. He said a research study discussed by one of the doctors who testified at an earlier hearing showed that nearly 80 percent of the 133 federal defendants who were forcibly medicated between 2003 and 2009 were restored to competency….

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  1. Kathy Brown, Esq. says

    May 13, 2016 at 12:21 am

    You know who’s ‘mentally ill’? Any attorney who represents one of these pieces of S_ _T. And I’m as serious as a heart attack.

  2. Cecilia Ellis says

    May 13, 2016 at 12:26 am

    As Robert Spencer first stated in an introduction to a previously posted article, due to the widespread phenomena of “mentally-ill” actions uniquely attributed to jihadists, it is time for a DSM update.

  3. SBJ says

    May 13, 2016 at 12:41 am

    This sounds like a good deal for BIG Pharma. A never ending supply of feel good narcotics to subdue Islam. Hell, there’s billions of them.

  4. RichardL says

    May 13, 2016 at 12:53 am

    Let’s be honest here: we all agree that islam is a mental disease so that defense is based on quite a bit of truth.

  5. jayell says

    May 13, 2016 at 12:59 am

    They admit that the struggle to.promote islam is a mental illness? So what is that saying about islam itself?

    • Zeke Zick says

      May 13, 2016 at 7:52 am

      Yup, they are all as nutty as Grandma’s Christmas Fruitcake!

  6. Jack Holan says

    May 13, 2016 at 1:54 am

    If this Jihadist has refused to speak to the Psychologists Attorney Rubin how would you know that he is Clinicly Mentally Ill and in Your Opinion should be kept in a comatose state. I don’t know how long you’ve walked this a Earth but do you know who used to put people in mental asylums and drug them for political reasons, The The Soviet Union. Does this mean. We’ve gone so far that we are now on a par with the CCCP? Each day that pass this country wants to do your crazy idea eliminate #1,2,4 and 5A and it’s made to sound so reasonable and necessary. All of you need to be be put in prison and if you don’t know why as you sit in Prison you will figure it out.
    7 years all we hear is mental illness, it’s not Islam as if the ones saying so know any thing about it, the person didn’t understand Islam, we caused it through Islamophobia. #wakeUpAmerica don’t listen to enemy propaganda or traitors who help spread it. Just remember Major Nidal the President 2 hours after the carnage before an investigation as he always does he publicly declared it “work place” violence. He based his conclusion on the the first thing that came to his mind that he could bamboozle the public. Finally Nidals story was exposed and everyone knows he is an Islamic Terrorist. The President still doesn’t use those 2 words together

  7. linnte says

    May 13, 2016 at 2:36 am

    He is Pakistani? So why isn’t he being deported??? I KNOW! Give him to a fellow Pakistani, Sadiq Khan! Yeah, that’s it! Surely he won’t deny admittance to England to a fellow countryman?

  8. Tim says

    May 13, 2016 at 3:15 am

    I’ve often referred to this “illness” as Islamopsychosis. The preaching and prayer rituals of Islam are designed to twist and corrupt the mind into a psychotic state. The repetition and continuous rocking back and forward five times a day, try it for yourself and see what effect it has on your mental wellbeing.

  9. Angemon says

    May 13, 2016 at 6:33 am

    Sheikh, of North Carolina, is charged with providing material support to a terrorist group for attempting to join Jabhat al-Nusra militants.

    That’s al-qaeda in Syria. Al-qaeda is an entity who not only declared war on the US, it also perpetrated the biggest terrorist attack in the history of the US, if not world. He should be treated as an enemy combatant.

  10. mortimer says

    May 13, 2016 at 6:58 am

    What strikes one the most when reading the hadiths and Sira (Mohammed’s official biography) is the almost total absence of a conscience in the jihadists and Mohammed. They are all opportunists. The only people who express truly moral thought are the victims of Mohammed whom he has assassinated savagely, one by one. It is sociopathic.

    The only concern between Mohammed’s jihadists in the hadiths and Sira appears to be what constitutes a fair share of booty. It is Mohammed who decides that in all cases and no one else. Those who take something from the massive booty are often threatened with hell. Mohammed never seems to execute his followers for their crimes…including murder…as long as they have harmed a dirty kafir (rather than a Muslim).

    Once a man becomes a convinced Mohammedan, he immerses himself in the hadiths and Sira and transforms his brain into that of sociopath. Jihadism is a form of group sociopathy or even psychopathy. It is paranoid, oriented on us-them thinking and susceptible to outlandish conspiracy theories and plans for revenge and hatred of the other. Projecting the evil, hateful thoughts of Islamic supremacism onto ‘others’ is part of this delusion. The kafirs must be psychically blackened and dehumanized by the jihadists so that they can feel justified in abusing them. Islam turns fanatical Muslims into Allah’s bountyhunters, plunderers, enforcers and executioners. Fortunately, most Muslims are too busy earning a living to bother themselves with acting like Mohammed. Most Muslims are more outwardly moral than Mohammed.

  11. Eagle says

    May 13, 2016 at 12:39 pm

    Once again this Muslim Culture is here in America, in our faces, looking for special treatment. Imposing their sharia law on us all. The Constitution is the law for America, not sharia law. Equality means the same set of rules for everyone. Unfortunately, that’s not the kind of equality that CAIR and their Progressive allies are looking for. When the right time comes, encourage congress to move on S.2230: Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2015 and HB0461. This would have to be after our Muslim president leaves our great Capital. The sooner the better. God bless America. The American people may be asked to cleanse America by painting the streets with pigs blood, and fertilize all vegetables and feed all the chickens with pig products and pray to GOD the Muslim culture leaves America for good.

  12. Eagle says

    May 13, 2016 at 12:55 pm

    I have to concur with mortimer. There is not enough drugs to treat all these Muslims. When the right time comes, encourage congress to move on S.2230: Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2015 and HB0461. This would have to be after our Muslim president leaves our great Capital.

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