I agree with Pamela Geller’s column here, that Wright should have been given life in prison. He will get out before 28 years are up. His jihadi beliefs won’t be weakened, but strengthened while he is incarcerated, thanks to a prison system that will allow him to meet with and pray with other Muslim inmates, and will treat the Qur’an that incited him to murder over cartoons with the utmost respect. While he is in prison he may also recruit or inspire others to murder Pamela Geller or others who stand for the freedom of speech against jihad and Sharia oppression. Wright is a dangerous man, but this sentence is consistent with a justice system that does not recognize the danger that he and others like him present.
“Man convicted of plotting to behead blogger sentenced,” WPRI, December 19, 2017:
BOSTON (AP/WPRI) — A Massachusetts man convicted of leading an Islamic State group-inspired plot to behead a conservative blogger was sentenced to 28 years in prison Tuesday afternoon.
Prosecutors requested a life sentence for David Wright, 28, for his role in the plot to kill New York resident Pamela Geller, who upset Muslims when she organized a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas.
The plot was never carried out.
Jurors found Wright guilty in October of conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism and other crimes.
Prosecutors say a harsh punishment will help to deter future crimes.
Wright’s attorneys are asking for 16 years. Wright argued at trial that he didn’t really support the Islamic State group and was living in a fantasy world. His lawyers say a life sentence is “draconian.”
Prosecutors attempted to portray Wright as the ringleader of the conspiracy, arguing he recruited his uncle, Ussamah Rahim, of Boston, and another man, Nicholas Rovinski, of Warwick, Rhode Island, to help him commit attacks.
In May of 2015, Wright met with Rahim and Rovinski for more than two hours on a secluded Warwick beach and discussed plans to kill Geller, according to the indictment….
Champ says
Pamela Geller exposes islam, and this evil perp affirms it …
islam is *wholly* evil!
gravenimage says
Brava Pamela Geller!
mortimer says
Pamela is heroic. She loves people and loves their freedom, even if they aren’t wise enough to love it.
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer.
Karen says
‘Heroic’ is the perfect word for Ms. Geller.
And, when she talks about the First Amendment, she brings tears to my eyes, she is that inspirational.
Prophecy says
gravenimage +1
Karen says
Yes!! +1, 🙂
CRUSADER says
Plenty of proselytizing going on in Prison System….
Da‘wah ( Arabic: دعوة “invitation” ) = preaching of Islam.
One of the ways it spreads….like cancer….
What would Shari’ah call for as punishment if the shoe were on the other foot?
Not only 28 years…
J D S says
I agree Champ, Islam is evil…most evil and imprisoned Muslims just continue their evilness while imprisoned….It will never happen but my suggestion of many years now was and is….These Muslim criminals should be kept separate from other inmates thereby at least keeping them from polluting other inmates with their evilness. Never happen, that’s too islamophobic. Oh how America is sliding down the “slippery slope”.
CRUSADER says
PAMELA GELLER for President 2024 !
Norman Moffatt says
Should be a 1 in front of the 28.
Nonie Darwish says
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are a national treasure…
JawsV says
I enjoyed your recent book “Wholly Different” so much! I bought it at Barnes & Noble a few months ago. Learned a lot, thank you! I’ve also used it as a reference book.
Terry Gain says
As is you, Nonie.
WESTPAC Spy says
I didn’t see this. But I second his comment.
gravenimage says
True, Terry!
gravenimage says
Thank you, Nonie Darwish!
WESTPAC Spy says
So are you, Nonie. Glad to have you on board.
Lynne says
Along with you and those who champion this courageous fight.
Joe says
28 years for somebody with a murdering plot? Life in prison at least! If not the death row.
Charles says
My favorite cartoon catches the energetic, young Mohammed copulating with the neighbors goat!
Then the camel, the donkey, the sheep…..
samdav7 says
LOL .. it became a common traddition amongst muslim men in all muslim countries till today !
Guy Macher says
Too long a sentence! He should be dead already.
May God continue to protect Pamela!
endislam says
Should have been thrown in gitmo for the rest of his life.
Wellington says
Wright argued that he…….”was living in a fantasy world.”
Every Muslim is. Only the degree and danger of such are variables.
Terry Gain says
Yes. Muslims actually believe Mohammed wasn’t evil or that God chose an evil man as his prophet.
gravenimage says
Not only is it a fantasy world, but for pious Muslims it is a damned ugly fantasy.
WESTPAC Spy says
No. Most Muslims think Muhammad is a cross between Santa and the Tooth Faiy. They don’t know how he tortured Kinana and raped his bride, Safira. Or that they killed 80 million Hindus, Jains, Buddhists.
gravenimage says
WESTPAC Spy, I’m sure there are some Muslims who think Muhammed was all sunshine and lollipops.
But obviously many Muslims know just what Muhammed was like, and use his model to rape and murder.
cyrus basile says
Rahim e Rovinski Should not be in prison?
Ashley says
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/usaamah-rahim-killed-boston-police-was-plotting-behead-activist-sources-n369436
Ashley says
As for Rovinski…
https://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Man-Plead-Guilty-to-Terror-Plot-Court-Rhode-Island-394393481.html
eagle says
This is GREAT NEWS!!!! Love you Pamela.. Keep up the great work.
eduardo odraude says
This man and tens or hundreds of millions like him are not just trying to kill freedom of speech. In the name of Islam they are trying to kill the free, individual, human spirit. Islam is one of the most anti-human ideologies ever created. Islam should not be equated to Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, or Christianity. Islam, far far more than any of the other major religions, is inimical to human freedom and liberal democracy.
Wellington says
Seconded. Islam and freedom are mortal enemies and by now one knows this or should know it. Those who still don’t are ignoramuses or liars.
gravenimage says
Muslim convicted of plotting to behead Pamela Geller over Muhammad cartoons gets 28 years prison
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Yes, the sentence should have been life. I just hope we don’t find this murderous Mohammedan out in ten years or so and walking our streets.
Champ says
Indeed, Graven!
gravenimage says
At least he’s in prison now. Better than things would have been in Europe, most likely.
Bezelel says
No doubt, Wright will have no problem making new friends where he’s going. An admission to fantasizing doesn’t imply remorse. What if he had been successful at carrying out his “fantasy”? We’re not talking about imagining some scenario where he’s got some justified vengeance to fulfill, as in some Hollywood drama movie. This behavior was attributed to a Cartoon Contest !!!! This indicates an extremely low threshold to lethal force. Wright has no place in a civilized environment and guess what. There’s plenty more where he came from and plenty more where he’s going. Without any honest sense of remorse and social reinforcement for his derangement, he will surely have no problem justifying acting out on his next “fantasy” His willingness to commit murder for the sake of islam will certainly see another offense to act on.
mortimer says
All jihad prisoners should get life, however, if they take advanced courses in counterjihad literature and teach counterjihad to other jihadist, they should be considered for reduced time. We need deprogrammed, former Muslims to deprogram other Muslims.
gravenimage says
Yeah–I can see it now. Most Jihadists will be happy to take such courses so they can get our and murder more Infidels.
b.a. freeman says
i’m sad to say that U’re almost certainly right, gravenimage. we *do* need to attempt to deprogram pious muslims while they are in prison (separated from non-muslim prisoners, and given no access to islamic materials at all), but no human argument is going to reach these victims of the mind disease of islam. this is a God-sized problem that only He can solve, but every christian should try to make himself available to help.
and no, mortimer, justice can only be served if these folks serve the full term for their deeds, and those should preferably be life sentences. these are not ordinary criminals; they *cannot* be deprogrammed by arguments, evidence, or exposure to other religions or ideas. islam is the fastest-growing religion, but not by conversion; it’s by *birthrate*. this means that the pious among them are usually exposed to islam’s evil very early in life, when they are most impressionable. the ideas learned in early childhood are very difficult to “unlearn,” so regardless of what we might wish, these folks have to restructure their entire personalities in order to abandon their evil gangsta cult. like i said, this is a *God-sized* problem. and i am on my knees before Him pleading for a solution that i cannot see.
gravenimage says
b.a. freeman wrote:
i’m sad to say that U’re almost certainly right, gravenimage. we *do* need to attempt to deprogram pious muslims while they are in prison (separated from non-muslim prisoners, and given no access to islamic materials at all), but no human argument is going to reach these victims of the mind disease of islam.
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I’m afraid you misunderstood my position, b.a. freeman. I do *not* believe that Muslims can be “deprogrammed”. This has never worked, and in any case pious Muslims despise the “filthy Infidels” and would never listen to us.
You are quite right, though, that Muslims should not be given Qur’ans, prayer rugs, Wu’du baths, or access to Imams.
Bezelel says
I would like to see shock therapy at least tried. Ya know, taser the bastard while he’s watching videos of islam in action. 16 hrs a day 7 days a week for life, however long that is. Maybe he’ll gain a sense of remorse then. Or maybe not.
PRCS says
The “Draw Muhammed” art contest–to the best of my knowledge–never mentioned Islam’s founder (whose actual existence ain’t a sure thing).
Yet “News” outlets still–falsely–refer to the event as a “Prophet Muhammad” cartoon contest–or variations of that.
roberta says
And the undercover Government agent that was willing to sit in his car while PG’s head was supposed to be rolling across the floor?
How much time did he get?
Relic says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iksq9VyrCDI
Relic says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik5q9VyrCDI
Why not Muhammad? says
He’s going to have plenty of time on his hands in prison. He should take up art classes. I suggest portraits. Perhaps a historical figure. Like Muhammad. ?
gravenimage says
🙂
CRUSADER says
MUHAMMAD RESIGNS AS PROPHET AMID SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268747/muhammad-resigns-prophet-amid-sexual-assault-peoples-cube
On the heels of this week’s resignation of Karl Marx as leading figure in the communist movement due to allegations of sexual misconduct, the triggered social justice organizers of the #MeToo collective have claimed the scalp of another progressive icon.
At a press conference, supported by her family and lawyers, a woman named Aisha claimed that she was taken as a bride by Mr. Muhammad when she was nine years old. When asked why it took so long for her to come out, she stated that she feared nobody would believe her since the testimony of a woman is not worth a lot in her social circle. The crying woman also confessed that Mr. Muhammad used to beat her when she displeased him, and she feared physical retribution.
Mr. Beelzebub, the lawyer representing the accused prophet, denied the gravity of the accusations, saying that “everyone was doing it at the time,” and that his client “did not remember the situation in quite the same way.”
But later that day more stories emerged from other victims, encouraged by Aisha’s testimony and resulting in the viral #MuhammadToo campaign on Twitter.
The first ones to come out were members of a Muslim Boy Scout group, who claimed that Mr. Muhammad ordered their fathers to beat them if they refused to pray. They were followed by a slave girl who was a victim of sex trafficking and claimed that the Prophet of Islam was present while she was being gang-raped shortly after his companions captured her and turned her into a sex slave.
These revelations led the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, the prestigious Islamic university in Cairo, to issue a statement, calling on Mr. Muhammad to step aside. “I’ve struggled with this decision because he’s been a good Prophet, and I consider him a friend,” the statement said. “But that cannot excuse his behavior and his mistreatment of women.”
Reacting to pressure from colleagues and the media, Mr. Muhammad called a press conference and declared that after a good deal of soul-searching and consulting with his family members and lawyers, he finally made the tough decision to step down as prophet – a move that many in the Muslim community saw as a shock, followed by a sudden sense of relief.
The first world leader to respond was the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran. “I consider Mr. Muhammad a dear friend and respect his accomplishments, but he has a higher obligation to his believers,” Mr. Khamenei said in a short statement. “Now that his legacy is tainted beyond repair, I call for the immediate dissolution of Islam as an ideology and a political movement. We are making preparations to convert the Islamic Republic of Iran back to Zoroastrianism immediately. Praise Zarathustra.”
Worldwide, Muslims are now discovering further evidence of Mr. Muhammad’s past misdeeds in the Islamic holy texts, which has remained overlooked for 14 centuries, despite having been reproduced in millions of copies, written or printed in black ink on white paper.
“If only I had known!” cried King Salman of Saudi Arabia, who spoke on behalf of the world’s majority of Muslims. “Now that I’m reading the Quran more thoroughly, I’m suddenly finding all kinds of sexual misconduct and other improper behavior. All this talk about killing apostates, terrorism, and torture. Who could have guessed? He seemed like such a nice gentleman.”
King Salman has not yet made a decision on what new replacement religion he will impose on his country, but insiders have indicated he is “showing an interest in Judaism.”
People in the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank celebrated the resignation today by dancing in the streets and passing out candy to children. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, insisted that from now on he wanted to be known only as “Mr. Mo” and described the new faith of his people as “officially atheist.”
With no more reason for strife and jihad to continue, Mr. Mo set up a telephone call with Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu, proposing to start negotiations about the incorporation of the territories previously controlled by the PLO and HAMAS into the state of Israel. “Because after all,” the PLO leader explained, “their army has hotter chicks.”
Linda Sarsour was seen entering a nunnery. According to inside sources, she will henceforth be known as “Sister Linda of the Sacred Heart.” The abbess declined an interview, saying only that “Sister Linda has taken a vow of silence, to atone for her sins. Leave her alone. She has suffered enough.”
The website The Religion of Peace, known to keep track of jihad terror worldwide, has acknowledged a complete lack of new material since Mr. Muhammad’s resignation and announced that it will probably have to shut down. “The world seems to have suddenly become a less violent and a much safer place,” their editorial stated, asking readers to contact them if they find a reasonable explanation for this phenomenon.
Manufacturers of real news, CNN and BBC, were quick to point out that this newfound tranquility should not make us jump to conclusions, stressing that “world peace has nothing to do with the disappearance of Islam, and saying otherwise makes one a bigoted racist or maybe even a Trump supporter.”
Linde Barrera says
To CRUSADER-Good one! Love this and wish it would hapen this way.
gravenimage says
Brilliant!
Warren says
What sick twisted evil ideology this is. This nasty man has proved just that.
Michael Warden says
In the “bad old days” scum like this would have been given the rope. Or at least bed, bucket and bars for the rest of his natural. In Britain today, he would no doubt be given a light sentence and on his release given a house and a few thousand pounds compo. For this “enlightened” treatment we have to thank those well known recipients of the Vidkun Quisling Memorial Award for services to their country, Traitor Blair and Sharia May.
duh swami says
The prisons of the common people are hellish places where everyone is scared 24/7…The criminal elite get golf courses and swimming pools…
few to none convicted jihadists get golf courses…Twenty eight years is a long time, especially when your cell mate is Big Bruno who hates Muslims, and is a Geller fan…
gravenimage says
Swami, he will almost certainly be out in less than twenty years, unless he kills someone in prison.
Vann Boseman says
If you accept the traditional and popular concept of imprisonment as a valid punishment for crime, then this sentence represents a stand for weakness and fear on the part of the judge. Based on the insult to Pamela Geller’s personal right to life, the sentence should have been life imprisonment. Also, because Pamela Geller represents Western values, he should have been made an example of, and be given life imprisonment because that is the maximum sentence that can be given.
Life imprisonment was the only right sentence to give for a lot of reasons.
Were this defendant in this case to be assaulted or killed in prison and I was on a jury concerning the assailant, in determining guilty or not guilty of a crime, I would consider acting in a way that if everyone else acted the same way, that the world would be a better place. If Pamela Geller wished to totally forgive him and not wish that he receive any prison time at all, that would be important to my decision too.
I do not think that I will ever sit on any jury having such strong beliefs in jury nullification. But I can say what I believe is right concerning Pamela Geller’s natural right to life in the context of the ideological natural rights traditions from Thomas Aquinas to the considerations of Enlightenment thinkers in the American colonies beginning around 1700 up to the ratification debates concerning the Constitution.
samdav7 says
Considering that I’ve been studying islam for the past 50 years .. and still !
Un-luckily, I studied islam in it’s original arabic form .. the most vicious, barbaric and evil form .. which is very different from all the different western languages that are translated with extensive amounts of lies & deceits .. and sweetened with flavours of chocolate, honeycomb and caramel ( whatever the Soorah or the Verse might need )
Also, considering to put someone in jail is to .. Rehabilitate !
I’m strongly against all jail term sentencings for muslim extremists / fanatics.
Jail is a big burden on taxpayers
Do I need to pay my tax to look after a muslim in jail for decades in the hope that he/she will eventually be rehabilitated and willing to go out an assimilate and integrate into the society and be a better person ?
Of course Not !
Simply because islam can never ever be rehabilitated !
It’s just impossible !
That never succeeded in 1400 years !
To ask a muslim to let go of his/her strict islamic teachings of annihilating all mankind except muslims .. is stripping them off their identity .. and that will never happen !
Read my lips .. that’s impossible !
Bezelel says
2 Peter 2:12
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
samdav7,
People want to appease their conscience and have a hard time even looking at the evidence that islam is as evil as the acts they commit. Scripture tells us that these people do exist. The remedy should not be taken lightly, no doubt but the evidence that convicts islam as evil is beyond doubt. The possibility that any one of them could have a “road to Damascus” white light conversion does not relieve civilization of the responsibility to guard against known threats, Our government has been horribly irresponsible and were elected by irresponsible and ignorant people who refuse to even look at the evidence. But we’re gaining ground.
Merry Christmas
WESTPAC Spy says
I don’t think Pamela would remember me. But I met her at a meeting of the Collin County Conservative Republicans. On my part it was love at first sight.
This makes me sick to my stomach,
samdav7 says
Beheading a fellow human being to please the god of islam ?
You can’t get more evil than that
The west doesn’t need islam
The wast can survive without islam
The west can do much better without islam
I’ve been saying that for decades
But … nobody listens
I always knew that the west is gonna learn it’s lesson the very hard way
Evil is creeping in the west in full force !
Hector Archytas says
We need to learn to use the Koran for what it is: a nuclear bomb ideology and the strongest ideological weapon ever created. It is not because the Koran is not from our, that we should not fight according to his terms.
In this situation, what would the Koran said:
-Idolaters should be beheaded.
– Those who make Mohamed above his creator are obviously idolater as we can draw image of our creator and so we can draw Mohamed.
– Therefore, those who claimed that Mohamed can’t be drawn turned Mohamed into an idolater above the creator.
– They are idolaters and Koranic sentence applied on them.
– The only mercy possible for the idolaters is the suspension of the sentence for an unlimited time if they cure themselves against the madness of idolatry. When the idolater passed to action, the suspension of the sentence expired and the sentence should be immediately applied.
We should definitely brought the Koran in our constitution for self-defense purpose and condemned idolatry as to be punished according to the sentence of the self-view of the idolaters. Time, to stop with this unappropriated ruling and adapt ourselves.
WESTPAC Spy says
I recommend the Oxford edition by Muhammad Abdel Haleem. It’s more honestly transliterated than the more commonly available Yussuf Ali version.
https://www.amazon.com/Quran-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199535957
Surah 4:24
“And [also prohibited to you are all] married women except those your right hands possess. [This is] the decree of Allah upon you. And lawful to you are [all others] beyond these, [provided] that you seek them [in marriage] with [gifts from] your property, desiring chastity, not unlawful sexual intercourse. So for whatever you enjoy [of marriage] from them, give them their due compensation as an obligation. And there is no blame upon you for what you mutually agree to beyond the obligation. Indeed, Allah is ever Knowing and Wise.”
I had no luck trying to convince a Muslim acquaintance that this is why the members of the Islamic State believe they can have sex slaves. He was convinced what they were doing was not Islamic. He refused to believe that “those that your right hand possess” meant women that are our possessions. He was the nicest guy you could ever want to meet. All of the Muslims I know are really nice people. He was convinced that if for some reason if a woman became Hors de combat he had to treat her with the same respect he’d treat his own mother. I’m going to leave aside the fact his father could treat his mother like a farmer’s field (S2:223) and enter her however and whenever he wished. He didn’t know that either.
Point being that he refused to believe that text meant what it said. But the Oxford version makes it plain. “And [also prohibited to you are all] married women except your slaves.” That may not be an exact quote as I don’t have that particular Quran at hand at the moment. But it definitely makes it clear that Muslims can have female slaves and that they are sexually available to them. Yusuf Ali does not make that clear. Like a lot of transliterators he whitewashes the religion.
eagle says
Wright is a dangerous man, but this sentence is consistent with a justice system that does not recognize the danger that he and others like him present. He should be sentenced to jail with a Bible, not a quran.
CRUSADER says
Plenty of proselytizing going on in Prison System….
Da‘wah ( Arabic: دعوة “invitation” ) = preaching of Islam.
One of the ways it spreads….like cancer….
What would Shari’ah call for as punishment if the shoe were on the other foot?
Not only 28 years…
WESTPAC Spy says
I said earlier that all the Muslims I know are really great, nice people. I have to amend that. I have met a few Muslims who learned their Islam in prison. And they know it’s really a gang code, and they live that religion. Muslims who didn’t learn their Islam in prison are, in my experience, an entirely different breed of cat.
WESTPAC Spy says
I don’t maintain any relations with prison Muslims, once I figure them out. Which isn’t hard. It takes, like, a minute.