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Florida: Convert to Islam gets 25 years for jihad plot to blow up synagogue

Nov 28, 2017 6:34 pm By Robert Spencer

“James Medina, 41, will first be treated at a U.S. prison medical facility for a brain cyst and mental illness…”

Of course. Mental illness. What else could it possibly be?

Authorities will never consider that it might have something to do with the fact that the Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).

Nah. He must be mentally ill. After all, it’s a religion of peace!

“Florida man sentenced to 25 years for attempt to blow up synagogue,” Reuters, November 28, 2017 (thanks to the Geller Report):

(Reuters) – A Florida man was sentenced by a U.S. judge on Tuesday to 25 years in prison for trying to blow up a synagogue in the state during a Jewish holiday last year, court officials said.

James Medina, 41, will first be treated at a U.S. prison medical facility for a brain cyst and mental illness before being moved into the general prison population, U.S. District Judge Robert Scola in Miami ruled.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation began watching Medina, who had converted to Islam, after he began expressing anti-Semitic views and a wish to attack a synagogue. They launched an investigation in late March 2016, court documents showed

Medina, who faced up to life in prison, had pleaded guilty in August 2017 to charges of an attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and an attempted religious hate crime, court documents showed….

Medina met with an FBI-affiliated confidential informant and explained his plan to attack a synagogue in Aventura, Florida, near Miami, the documents showed.

“Medina wanted to witness the explosion, hearing and feeling the blast from (a) nearby car,” the informant cited Medina as saying, according to the documents.

Asked why he wanted to do it, Medina said he wanted to kill Jews, adding: “It’s my call of duty.”

Medina was supplied with what he thought was an explosive device by federal law enforcement. The device was inert and posed no danger to the public, federal law enforcement said in court filings….

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  1. duh swami says

    Nov 28, 2017 at 7:00 pm

    A brain cyst could cause a ‘mental illness’ but they dom’t ,make decisions…
    Generally a person afflicted with a brain infection, are usually too confused to organize anything…

    • Michael Copeland says

      Nov 29, 2017 at 6:05 am

      The Afghan muslim who, because she had left Islam, slit the throat of an Afghan mother outside the supermarket and in front of her children in Priem, Germany, was initially taken to a psychiatric hospital.
      Western law enforcement are ignorant of Sharia penalties.
      https://libertygb.org.uk/news/killing-someone-who-deserves-die

  2. Undaunted says

    Nov 28, 2017 at 10:19 pm

    The ones who plan bomb attacks often are caught because putting together the plan and the bomb and then actually getting the bomb to target and successfully detonating it is a very difficult operation. Not difficult as all that are vehicle-attacks, small-arms attacks, and edged-weapons attacks.

    The less-difficult attacks will happen more often, cops will try to respond effectively but won’t always get the job done. People will die.

    Unless…

    https://www.amazon.com/Six-Actual-Need-Charge-These-Dangerous-ebook/dp/B075Z4PLKC

  3. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Nov 28, 2017 at 11:13 pm

    How racist we all are for blaming good honest jihad on mental illness all the time.

    We should expect muslims everywhere to rightfully protest their outrage at an embassy or nearby 7/11. If things should get out of hand, with explosions, gunfire and rape, then we only have ourselves to blame.

  4. Stonewall says

    Nov 28, 2017 at 11:22 pm

    He is smiling… probably figuring it is his best look.

    That is not gonna work. He is not gonna make the ‘cover of the rolling stone’.

    You gotta look good, and actually carry out the attack, plus kill or maim lots of American Infidels.

    Otherwise, you are just a kook.

  5. mortimer says

    Nov 29, 2017 at 12:18 am

    Robert Spencer wrote: “Nah. He must be mentally ill. After all, it’s a religion of peace!”

    Perfect!

    Of course, why believe that the JIHADISTS actually believe the Koran’s 164 jihad verses?

    The Koran’s 164 Jihad Verses: K 002:178-179, 190-191, 193-194, 216-218, 244; 003:121-126, 140-143, 146, 152-158, 165-167,169, 172-173, 195; 004:071-072, 074-077, 084, 089-091, 094-095,100-104; 005:033, 035, 082; 008:001, 005, 007, 009-010, 012, 015-017, 039-048,057-060, 065-075; 009:005, 012-014, 016, 019-020, 024-026, 029,036, 038-039, 041, 044, 052, 073, 081, 083,086, 088, 092, 111, 120, 122-123; 016:110; 022:039, 058, 078; 024:053, 055; 025:052; 029:006, 069; 033:015, 018, 020, 023, 025-027, 050; 042:039; 047:004, 020, 035; 048:015-024; 049:015; 059:002, 005-008, 014; 060:009; 061:004, 011, 013; 063:004; 064:014; 066:009; 073:020; 076:008.

  6. M says

    Nov 29, 2017 at 5:35 am

    Following the Quran is again and again being whitewashed as “mental illness” and/or “nothing to do with Islam.”

    • D Austin says

      Nov 29, 2017 at 9:32 am

      They have a point about mental illness. Anyone that believes Islam’s crap must be mentally ill!

  7. DRHazard says

    Nov 29, 2017 at 6:12 pm

    He’s just another person who doesn’t understand the “true” Islam which includes most Muslims.

  8. gravenimage says

    Nov 30, 2017 at 11:23 pm

    Florida: Convert to Islam gets 25 years for jihad plot to blow up synagogue
    ………………….

    A Muslim who wanted to mass murder Jews? Say it ain’t so! sarc/off

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