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Muslim in Connecticut prison who plotted to behead Pamela Geller asks for “compassionate release”

Jun 10, 2020 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Nicholas Rovinski and his accomplices wanted to murder Pamela Geller for the crime of exercising the freedom of speech. That freedom is under such concerted attack today that this appeal may well succeed. But what compassion were they going to show for their intended victim? Do her rights count in this at all, or are they to be discounted since she holds views that are out of favor with the elites?

“Warwick man in prison for terrorist plot asking for compassionate release,” by Melanie DaSilva, WPRI, June 8, 2020 (thanks to the Geller Report):

WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) — A Warwick man who was sentenced to serve 15 years in prison for conspiring to support ISIS and conspiring to commit an act of terrorism is asking for compassionate release.

Nicholas Rovinski, now 29, plotted to behead conservative blogger Pamela Geller back in 2015, after ISIS issued a decree urging members to kill her over a cartoon contest of the Prophet Muhammad. The plot was never carried out.

According to court documents, Rovinski says he wants to be released to home confinement.

Rovinski’s attorney says the prison in Danbury, Connecticut where he is being held has had 15 cases of COVID-19 among the inmate population and another 32 cases among prison staff. He continues to argue that since Rovinski has cerebral palsy, he is at a higher risk.

Rovinski pleaded guilty to plotting to behead Geller and later denounced his allegiance with the terrorist group and cooperated with federal investigators….

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Filed Under: blasphemy, converts to Islam, courtroom jihad, Featured, Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Connecticut, Danbury, Nicholas Rovinski, Rhode Island, Warwick


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  1. Eric says

    Jun 10, 2020 at 12:13 pm

    Hmmm. This is a close call for sure. I think i will go with “thumbs down”. Consequences for your plan to murder.

  2. Hasmat says

    Jun 10, 2020 at 12:37 pm

    Oh yes submit to Islam. They see any Compassion and Mercy as submission. They are warriors and Warriors of Islam consider all others Infidels that must be killed.

    • Lilith Wept says

      Jun 10, 2020 at 4:46 pm

      Maybe if he prays hard enough to Allah he will keep him from getting Covid. After all doesn’t Allah say that moslems are the best of people?

      • tim gallagher says

        Jun 10, 2020 at 6:18 pm

        Good comment, Lilith Wept. I thought that a whole lot of Muslim “scholars” have been telling the world that this virus can’t infect Muslims, so why would this piece of crap be afraid of getting infected by the virus. Muslims will tell any lie to infidels to achieve their goals. If their lips are moving then they are lying. Leave him to rot in jail. That’s where he belongs.

        • Rufolino says

          Jun 11, 2020 at 9:24 am

          This guy is a nutcase, he seems to think Moslems in the West are a priveleged class…
          Where on earth could be have got that idea ?

  3. .Bridgette says

    Jun 10, 2020 at 2:56 pm

    Doesn’t he have the gall. He has it because he doesn’t think that the killing of an infidel would have been any big deal. In pislam they’re supposed to be killed. Quran – jihad is prescribed for you though you may not like it. Damn him. No release!

    • AleX says

      Jun 10, 2020 at 9:47 pm

      I would cut off his hand and foot on opposite sides. Then I would forgive his being mischievious in the land. allah is most forgiving, wise.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 10, 2020 at 10:32 pm

        AleX, plotting to murder an Infidel–especially one critical of the horrors of Islam–is not a crime under Shari’ah. In fact, he would be considered a hero to pious Muslims.

  4. SB says

    Jun 10, 2020 at 3:21 pm

    Muslim who plotted to behead Pamela Geller wants compassionate release? If that ain’t an oxymoron . . .

  5. mortimer says

    Jun 10, 2020 at 3:47 pm

    Rovinski’s convictions about jihad changed after facing lengthy time in prison. If more jihadists were offered the chance to leave imprisonment sooner by studying counterjihad deprogramming materials, I think many would take the offer and soon few in prisons would be Muslims. They would be deprogrammed right out of the cult … voluntarily. Once a Muslim sees that the Koran is of human origin, he cannot be a Muslim anymore.

    • Lilith Wept says

      Jun 10, 2020 at 4:55 pm

      I don’t think so. A few might, but there will always be the die hard Jihadi . Like the Liberal left when confronted wirh facts that disprove their beliefs they just ignore them , or claim the fats are corrupt or wrong, and quote their own facts to disprove what you said ( even if they have to twist something to make it mean something it doesn’t) or attack the person presenting the facts.

      And how could you every trust them? You couldnt keep,them on probation forever, or watch them forever. Islam a Moslem supposed to lie when he thinks his life or faith is in danger? So they would just lie that they aren’t jihadi any more, maybe aren’t even a moslem any more…..then get out and leave the country so they can do Jihad without being caught and put back in prison.

      After all, Allah’s laws are more important than American’s man made laws, and Allah says jihad is prescribed for you.

      • b.a. freeman says

        Jun 10, 2020 at 5:06 pm

        +1

      • Michael Copeland says

        Jun 10, 2020 at 10:46 pm

        “I ain’t no terrorist”, said Usman Khan. In prison for a terrorist offence, he said that he wanted to be rehabilitated, and joined a “Learning Together” program.
        He killed two of his mentors at Fishmongers’ Hall.

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 10, 2020 at 10:49 pm

          Grimly true, Michael. It would likely be the same here.

      • Steve says

        Jun 11, 2020 at 1:22 pm

        Mmmmm…how about you do some f’ing research as to how this has worked in the past. While you’re at it, why not do some more research on how many have said “they want to change or they’ve changed” only to double down on the same shi* they started out to do in the past? This is not a game, these are not innocent pawns being used, they’re lunatics, hell bent on destroying anything and everything not in line with their 11th bullshi* ways…wake the flock up mortimer, you sound like a total idiot~

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 10, 2020 at 10:46 pm

      Mortimer wrote:

      Rovinski’s convictions about jihad changed after facing lengthy time in prison.
      …………………..

      With all respect, Mortimer, what makes you think this Jihadist has *really* rejected Islam? He just figured out that cooperating with authorities would make his time shorter and easier. Besides wanting to behead Ms. Geller, he also wanted to behead other Americans and kill police–and he wanted to do it for ISIS.

      I can find *nothing* indicating he has abandoned Islam.

      More:

      If more jihadists were offered the chance to leave imprisonment sooner by studying counterjihad deprogramming materials, I think many would take the offer and soon few in prisons would be Muslims.
      …………………..

      True–but only because they would have fooled the credulous Infidels into letting them all out.

      More:

      They would be deprogrammed right out of the cult … voluntarily. Once a Muslim sees that the Koran is of human origin, he cannot be a Muslim anymore.
      …………………..

      What makes you think that someone intent on *beheading* his victims is really just driven by reason? This seems damned unlikely to me, I’m afraid.

      • James Lincoln says

        Jun 11, 2020 at 8:23 am

        gravenimage,

        To your point, the criminal justice system cannot even “deprogram” common criminals from becoming repeat criminals.

        Recidivism rate among common criminals is horrific.

        I truly wish that mortimer were correct regarding his theories on “deprogramming muslims out of islam”, I have just never seen him provide any factual, evidence-based sources for his statements.

        mortimer’s knowledge of islam is encyclopedic, so I continued to be puzzled by his position on this issue…

        • David says

          Jun 11, 2020 at 6:11 pm

          Why not ask the Chinese how their reprogramming efforts are getting on with the Uyghur.

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 11, 2020 at 8:56 pm

          Agreed, James.

    • STEVE says

      Jun 11, 2020 at 1:21 pm

      Mmmmm…how about you do some f’ing research as to how this has worked in the past. While you’re at it, why not do some more research on how many have said “they want to change or they’ve changed” only to double down on the same shi* they started out to do in the past? This is not a game, these are not innocent pawns being used, they’re lunatics, hell bent on destroying anything and everything not in line with their 11th bullshi* ways…wake the flock up mortimer, you sound like a total idiot~

    • David says

      Jun 11, 2020 at 6:08 pm

      This is wishful thinking, right? You can’t be serious! Any lie to get out of prison.

  6. DHazard says

    Jun 10, 2020 at 4:32 pm

    So does he love the U.S. Justice System or hate it?

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 10, 2020 at 10:47 pm

      Oh, he hates it, because it is not Shari’ah.

      But he’s good with manipulating it if he can.

      • James Lincoln says

        Jun 11, 2020 at 8:25 am

        Correct, gravenimage.

        Very perceptive, as usual…

  7. b.a. freeman says

    Jun 10, 2020 at 5:04 pm

    “…Rovinski pleaded guilty … and later denounced his allegiance [to ISIS] and cooperated with federal investigators.”
    —
    and the court will probably believe him. sadly, virtually nobody in the national government understands the structure or beliefs of islam, so they think that rovinski’s “cooperation” proves his “repentance.” i’m willing to bet that his “cooperation” was just telling the prosecutors what his co-conspirators *DID*, rather than any future operations in the terror pipeline of which he had knowledge. the judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and juries all think that islam is “just another stupid religion,” and is therefore safe.

  8. James Lincoln says

    Jun 10, 2020 at 6:52 pm

    I believe that Nicholas Rovinski is being held in the Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, Connecticut.

    He could be safely held in solitary at ADX Florence – far removed from other COVID-19 patients.

    I suggest a transfer to that facility…

  9. gravenimage says

    Jun 10, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    Muslim in Connecticut prison who plotted to behead Pamela Geller asks for “compassionate release”
    …………..

    What’s more compassionate than plotting to behead a peaceful person?

    It is one thing to release non-violent prisoners to serve their time at home during Covid-19; it is something *totally different* to release a plotter of first degree murder. I hope the prison board tells him to go pound sand.

    • James Lincoln says

      Jun 11, 2020 at 8:51 am

      Connecticut is a “blue state”, gravenimage – but you knew that already.

      In today’s climate, anything could happen – anarchy currently rules in leftist territory…

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 11, 2020 at 8:58 pm

        I *hope* things are not so far gone, James.

  10. Mark says

    Jun 11, 2020 at 4:04 am

    A inbred backward brainwashed Islamic filth wants compassionate relief when islam does not even know what compassion is let him rot if he worried about the coronavirus do what his fellow backward brainwashed inbreds Muslims do drink camel piss mixed with milk it goes down a treat say the mighty ALLAH.it keep them safe see videos of the backward brainwashed Islamic rats doing it.

  11. ana says

    Jun 11, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    Release that piece of garbage to Iraq, I’m sure he’ll get great health care there.

  12. OLD GUY says

    Jun 11, 2020 at 8:58 pm

    There’s no compassion in islam so why should we give this criminal terrorist any? He is not a petty thief he is someone who planed to murder another human. Serve out his term and deport him.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 11, 2020 at 9:10 pm

      We are compassionate–that doesn’t mean we have to be stupid. There would actually be nothing compassionate in releasing a dangerous thug like this.

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