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New Mexico jihadis’ defense attorney: “If these were white Christians…no one would bat an eye”

Sep 16, 2018 1:43 pm By Robert Spencer

“Federal prosecutors say that between Dec. 2017 and August 2018, the group, who are either siblings or related by marriage, had ‘a common plan to prepare for violent attacks on government, military, educational and financial institutions.'”

Yeah, if they were white Christians, no one would care about that.

“Federal Judge Denies New Mexico Compound Residents Bail,” by Vanessa Romo, KRWG, September 13, 2018:

A federal judge denied bail on Wednesday to all five members of an extended family accused of operating a training camp for a violent attack on public institutions out of their isolated New Mexico compound.

During the arraignment hearing, Magistrate Judge Kirtan Khalsa told the defendants there was “clear and convincing evidence that you are a danger to the community,” The Associated Press reported.

A federal grand jury indicted the group on Tuesday on conspiracy and federal firearms charges stemming from the discovery of a cache of weapons after law enforcement raided their home in search of a missing boy but, instead, found 11 malnourished children living in squalid conditions.

Federal prosecutors say that between Dec. 2017 and August 2018, the group, who are either siblings or related by marriage, had “a common plan to prepare for violent attacks on government, military, educational and financial institutions.”

U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson and Special Agent in Charge James C. Langenberg of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, said in a statement that the defendants’ home in Amalia, N.M., served as a firing range and training camp to carry out an attack as part of a religious prophecy. According to the indictment, some of the minors were being prepared “to engage in jihad and … to die as martyrs.”…

Siraj Ibn Wahhaj’s lawyer in the state case, suggested that those charges were motivated by a degree of racial and religious prejudice against his Muslim client. If the suspects were white Christians shooting guns on their property and practicing their religion, “No one would bat an eye,” Thomas Clark argued in court.

“If these were white people of a Christian faith who owned guns, that’s not a big deal because there’s a Second Amendment right to own firearms in this country. If these were white Christians, faith healing is of no consequence because we have freedom of religion in this country. But they look different and they worship differently from the rest of us,” Clark said….

Last month, two state judges were forced to dismiss child neglect charges against all five adults when the local district attorney’s office missed a 10-day deadline to present initial evidence of crime. A few days later, Taos-based District Attorney Donald Gallegos dropped charges related to the death of Siraj Wahhaj’s son, “saying he was seeking more time to assemble and analyze evidence, and that he intended to seek grand jury indictment,” The Durango Herald reported.

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Filed Under: American jihadis, FBI, Featured, Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Kirtan Khalsa, New Mexico, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj


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  1. Mr Frederick Revell says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 1:49 pm

    The duffer encephalitis us that Christians do not form terrorist groups or have a reputation for terrorism, muslims do. QED

  2. Jack Cade says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 2:17 pm

    It’s all about race with libtards, isn’t it?

  3. Halala Bacon says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 2:17 pm

    White Christians, new attempt at double wacism?

    What law school did this moron goto? See What Sticks U?

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Sep 17, 2018 at 9:51 am

      Same one as all the others: Get Rich Quick University.

  4. clap says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 2:20 pm

    If they were white christians, the media would be all over it.

  5. Buraq says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 2:21 pm

    The clown representing these would-be killers said that if the suspects were white Christians shooting guns on their property and practicing their religion, “No one would bat an eye.”

    May I just mention, Branch Davidians, Waco, Texas!

    • Emilie Green says

      Sep 16, 2018 at 2:42 pm

      Precisely. I too was going to mention the Branch Davidians who were murdered by Janet Leno, Bill Clinton, and their goons.

      • Rarely says

        Sep 16, 2018 at 6:30 pm

        Assisted suicide at worst.

      • alex smythe says

        Sep 16, 2018 at 9:55 pm

        Also, the late Timothy McVeigh, who carried out the Oklahoma City bombing of a federal building and killed some 169 people, was a white Irish-American of Roman Catholic background. He was executed in 2001; the government clearly cared about the deadly attack. Then there’s his accomplice Terry Nichols, who’s rotting away in prison; also a white American, though I’m not sure what his religious background is, or if he has one.

    • Kepha says

      Sep 16, 2018 at 7:15 pm

      Well, I have y doubts about whether the Branch Davidians could be called Christian, given that they thought their leader, not Jesus, was the Messiah. I would also see the white surpemacist group shot up on Ruby Ridge as at least somewhat heretical.

    • Andy says

      Sep 16, 2018 at 11:03 pm

      Jeff Sessions Finally Does Something Right. A Major Change About to Happen!

  6. No Muzzies Here says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 5:43 pm

    What the lawyer is saying is that Muslims should be allowed to set up training camps to teach Muslims to kill White Christians.

    • Rarely says

      Sep 16, 2018 at 6:33 pm

      Aren’t there one or two “survivalist” enclaves in Idaho and Montana that are armed to the teeth against the government?

  7. Reality Checker says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 8:31 pm

    Comparing “survivalists” and “patriots” training to defend themselves and their country to terrorists training to kill innocent Americans shows your ignorance of the law and the constitution!

    • Rarely says

      Sep 17, 2018 at 10:43 am

      It’s all a matter of perspective.

  8. kuriakose says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 9:10 pm

    “If these were white people of a Christian faith who owned guns, that’s not a big deal because there’s a Second Amendment right to own firearms in this country. If these were white Christians, faith healing is of no consequence because we have freedom of religion in this country. But they look different and they worship differently from the rest of us,” Clark said….
    Unbelievable, these lawyers using typical muhameddan tactics-deflecting the blame as always onto the Christians.
    Surely the prosecution can make mincemeat of such fallacious arguments.
    And look at the muhameddan’s face-hate, anger and arrogance all distilled into it-the true face of islam..

  9. Cunamarra says

    Sep 17, 2018 at 1:59 am

    Well in some ways he has a point. White Christians shooting guns on their property and practicing their religion doesn’t entail harming other human beings. No one would bat an eye at that. On the other hand if white-American people were planning some type of terror attack and they were not explicitly Muslim, I would imagine the media would be clamoring to portray them as Christian as well as all the other now meaningless pejoratives like “conservative,” “right wing,” “alt right,” “nationalist,” which are now meant to be synonymous with Nazi, fascist, racist. The media would also be quick to mention how it is part of a broader threat from these growing movements from the “right.” No doubt we should fear it far more than any fanciful and imagined threat from a peaceful and exotic religion.

    Islam is the only mainstream religion I am aware of that when practiced necessarily means waging open warfare, campaigns of terror, and outright oppression against all who don’t practice it. When I say “Allah is my Lord” it means I get to kill you, or take your things from you, or enslave you, or rape your wife and children in front of you, and it is all to be considered just and good. You feeling unhappy about it is equivalent to the most egregious crime and assault against me. And then I get to whine, “you would be intolerant of me just for saying ‘Allah is my Lord?'”

  10. Arnold Jackson says

    Sep 17, 2018 at 3:27 am

    Branch Davidians, Waco ,Texas 1993.

    • Enolagay says

      Sep 17, 2018 at 6:59 am

      Not Christians
      Just white

      Also the Bible doesn’t tell Christians to kill non Christians.

  11. J.W.K. says

    Sep 17, 2018 at 6:38 am

    Sleazy lawyers are why the legal system stopped working years ago.

  12. J.W.K. says

    Sep 17, 2018 at 6:39 am

    Anyone can see that sleazy lawyers are why the legal system stopped working years ago.

    • WPM says

      Sep 17, 2018 at 8:28 am

      I blame the judges who let Lawyers get away with general distorting the law .A lawyer job is defend a client, a judges job not let a lawyer slander and distort the juries views with falsehood, rumors, and racist lies about what goes though law enforcement minds when arrest are made in cases like this. If he can sight that the law enforcement authorities are acting in an unethically manner arresting these people go head. If they are arresting them for breaking the law as stated on the books ,because they are not of the same religion or beliefs as the people they arrested does not mean the cops are automatically making the arrest base on religious beliefs. It is all about making Islam a protected species above the law and exempt from the laws of other peoples of this nation. The story is about child abuse, kidnaping ,plan terror attacks using children as terrorist,police should not intervene because local elected officials and appointed judge might be called racist if these people are brought to justice??There are some of non-Islamic people charged with child abuse, kidnaping ,terror ,terror training seems the branch of Davidians in Waco Texas in 1993 did not even get a trail in there rush to bring them in they burned to death all the children and members of the cult . A few agents got themselves killed in the process because of the way their leaders did not take the threat seriously that the group was armed. If the authorities waited until the groups had formed a better plan of attacking them, it could have ended like the Texas Waco style arrest with all members of the Islamic cult killed ,with the children dead, and some law enforcement members dead also. I guess only the Islamics would be happy about that outcome dead Moslem children make good press for them to be better victimhood about the non-believers killing them they really love death better then their own children..

  13. Horseman says

    Sep 17, 2018 at 9:39 am

    Is that all he’s got? White Christians? Pretty lame. You have mush for brains if you believe that argument.

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