"What do we do when a juror refuses to vote?” (AM)

That, as the Dallas Morning News reports, was the note the judge in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism-funding trial in Texas received from the jury on October 3. And that was over a week ago — the jury has now been deliberating for almost a month — since September 19. This is an extraordinarily important case, focused on the Hamas support network in the United States, that the mainstream press has ignored. There is obviously real reason for concern that it will end in a mistrial. The law is delicate in this area. Jury deliberations are close to sacrosanct, and…

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Two plead guilty in federal machine gun, mine case

So here is an update to the Palestinian, Mousa M. Abuelawi and his procurement of M-16’s and bombs.

Abdikarin “Ice” Warsame, 28, pleaded guilty of possession of a machine gun and conspiracy. Charley M. “Chuck” Hunt Jr., 45, pleaded guilty of possession of a machine gun and of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

The case revolves around Abuelawi, 22, of Creve Coeur.

The other defendants are Sumad, 23, of Florissant; Mohamed Judeh, 21, of Maryland Heights; Darnell T. Thornton, 25, and Hussein Ali Nure, 29, both of Jennings; and Otha L. Baker, 21, who had no address listed.

The story quotes one of the defendants as saying that the gun deals were for a street gang turf war and to “make a few extra bucks.”

Again, the St. Louis Post-Dhimmispatch refuses to identify Abuelawi as a Palestinian immigrant. If he was a white christian named O’connell from Northern Ireland we’d have a whole history about him with his face on every television in the country.

Material (C4) to make bombs is stolen

I know it’s been a while but I couldn’t let this story get by because if it is determined to have been stolen by muslims, it will probably be erased by the St. Louis Post-Dhimmispatch when one of the higher up dhimmis finds out about it.

Officials are still trying to determine how much dynamite, C-4 and other explosives were taken and exactly who was responsible.

Mike Schmitz of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said investigators believe more than one person was involved in the theft, but it is too early to know the intent of the thieves, including whether terrorism could be involved.

The theft, discovered by the FBI on Tuesday, happened sometime in the past 10 days.

You can read about it here until they pull it.

WWII Soldier’s Autobiography

Bob McCarty Writes is running this Memorial Day weekend a series from his father’s autobiography “Some Events in One Life: Mine!” Bob’s dad was a WWII veteran who served in Europe and his stories give us an appreciation of what so many brave young men and women and their families, past and present have sacrificed to protect the freedoms and liberties of our country and its people.

Read more here.

Mr. Saud, Tear Down This Wall

Sorry, but I shamelessly ripped this from Maverick News Media

Amid the carping and crocodile tear like caterwauling over the
Israeli wall which is designed to stop mass murderers, we note the
purely religious arrogance and utter intolerance, in complete disregard
of all international norms practiced by the replacement theology, race
superior (just ask any Pakistani) arabs of the Najd, the Al Saud.

Saudis arrest Christian for entering Mecca

Saudi
officials have arrested a man in Mecca for being a Christian, saying
that the city, which Muslims consider to be holy, is off-limits to
non-Muslims.

Nirosh Kamanda, a Sri Lankan Christian, was
detained by the Saudi Expatriates Monitoring Committee last week after
he started to sell goods outside Mecca’s Great Mosque.

After
running his fingerprints through a new security system, Saudi police
discovered that he was a Christian who had arrived in the country six
months earlier to take a job as a truck driver in the city of Dammam.
Kamanda had subsequently left his place of work and moved to Mecca.

"The
Grand Mosque and the holy city are forbidden to non-Muslims," Col.
Suhail Matrafi, head of the department of Expatriates Affairs in Mecca,
told the Saudi daily Arab News. "The new fingerprints system is very helpful and will help us a lot to discover the identity of a lot of criminals," he said.

Just BEGGING for it.

BEGGING.

 

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25% of young muslims find homicide bombing acceptable

Most have probably heard about this by now.

One in four younger U.S. Muslims said in a Pew Research Center poll that homicide bombings to defend their religion are acceptable at least in some circumstances.

The St. Louis Post-Dhimmispatch has chosen to use the Washington Post article titled “U.S. Muslims oppose extremism, poll says“

78 percent of U.S. Muslims polled said the use of suicide bombings against civilian targets to defend Islam is never justified. But 5 percent said it is justified “rarely,” 7 percent said “sometimes,” and 1 percent said “often”

So, of the 2,350,000 muslims in the U.S., 305,500 of them feel that homicide bombing civilian shopping malls and movie theaters is justifiable.

I saw this the other day and have been too busy to keep up with the blog so, please check out the story at Bob McCarty Writes

Bullmoose America

It looks like more and more people are finally getting fed up with politicians (both left and right) selling out America. St. Louis Radio host Jamie Allman has started a movement based on the common sense bullmoose wisdom of Theodore Roosevelt.

The quote below is from the piece entitled “(I think you’re) Talkin’ Bout’ My Generation” refering to Roger Daltry’s statement that instead of having a global warming Rock Concert, the west should burn off the f***ing oil it can, and force a solution. To be clear, the words below are not Daltry’s.

Our two parties are slaves to Oil Company contributions. Their first act of prostitution took place when they let automakers violate anti-trust laws and buy up and subsequently close the Trolley System in order to speed the demand for automobiles.
Subsequent daring acts of figuring out ways to power engines with something other than SHIT WE DIG OUT OF THE GROUND were met with disdain and bald faced ignorance.

These have been my sentiments as well. Either use up all of the oil or, use something else and leave those bastards in the sand. They can go back to herding sheep and camels since they seem to have no other talents or motivations other than that and killing innocent people.

I just came across someone that I shall call friend, who is starting an alternative fuel source company called Pure American Energy. I don’t know anything about it and I intend to never advertise on this site, but I firmly believe that it will be the private sector and private citizens, and not the politicians who will win the day.

Sincerely,

St. Louis Muslim:”We’re going to war.”

Of special note, the 2 articles below contain no references, positive or negative, to possible terrorist activities. Also, the fact that Abuelawi is a Palestinian immigrant has been removed from the article. I originally posted on this story back in February here.

8 indicted in weapon conspiracy
Eight men have been indicted on charges that they were involved in two conspiracies to buy and sell fully automatic weapons, a Claymore anti-personnel mine and other explosives, the U.S. Attorney’s office said today.

One of the men, Mousa M. Abuelawi, 22, of Creve Coeur, was arrested Dec. 29 and charged with three counts of illegal possession or distribution of a machine gun and conspiracy to violate machine gun statutes.

Thaer Abde Sumad, 23, of Florissant, Jennings residents Abdikarin Warsame, 28, Charley M. Hunt Jr., 45, Darnell T. Thornton, 25, and Hussein Ali Nure, 29, Mohamed Judeh, 20, of Maryland Heights and Otha L. Baker, 20, were the other men charged. No residence is listed for Baker in court documents.

Seven more accused of gun scheme

ST. LOUIS — Seven more people have been charged in a case involving the buying, selling or hiding of automatic weapons, an anti-personnel mine and other explosives.

The charges, unsealed in a federal indictment Tuesday, say it was a crime for profit but do not specify who the ultimate customers would have been. One of the newly accused men told a Post-Dispatch reporter in an interview three months ago that it had been part of a plan to sell weapons to local street gangs.

The first person implicated in the case, Mousa M. Abuelawi, 22, was originally arrested Dec. 29 and charged with three counts of illegal possession or distribution of a machine gun, and conspiracy to violate machine-gun statutes. He has since moved to Creve Coeur from St. Charles.

The superseding indictment in U.S. District Court in St. Louis names Abuelawi and seven others on charges including machine-gun violations, conspiracy, lying to the FBI and other firearms charges.
The other defendants are Thaer Abde Sumad, 23, of Florissant; Mohamed Judeh, 20, of Maryland Heights; Abdikarin Warsame, 28, Charley M. Hunt Jr., 45, Darnell T. Thornton, 25, and Hussein Ali Nure, 29, all of Jennings; and Otha L. Baker, 20, who had no address listed in court documents.

The charges carry a penalty of five to 10 years in prison.

The indictment says that on Nov. 21, Abuelawi bought an M-16 rifle and a Claymore mine from a government informer, then sent pictures of the M-16 to others with his cell phone, looking for a buyer.

Abuelawi and the informer then met at the gas station in the 5700 block of West Florissant Avenue where Abuelawi worked, the indictment says. Judeh discussed the gun with Abuelawi, and Sumad kept it inside the gas station before police recovered it, the indictment says.

Sumad, one of Abuelawi’s co-workers, also kept the Claymore in the gas station before Abuelawi told him to give it to Warsame, the indictment says.

Warsame then sold the Claymore to Thornton for $500 and got $50 in return, the indictment says. Thornton allegedly sold it at a gas station in the 5000 block of Goodfellow Boulevard for $850 to others not named in the indictment.

Sumad and Judeh have been charged with lying to the FBI about the M-16.

Sumad was also charged with conspiracy, transfer and possession of machine guns, and receipt and possession of unregistered firearms.

In the original documents charging Abuelawi, Sumad is quoted in a meeting with Abuelawi and a government informer as saying that “he wants to buy as many explosives as possible because, ‘we’re going to war.’”

In an interview with a reporter in February, Sumad said he didn’t remember the comment and suggested it might have been a joke.

Sumad said then that the purchases were intended to supply St. Louis street gangs in a turf war to “make a few extra bucks,” but that he didn’t handle the weapons and was not involved in the negotiations.

Abuelawi also bought a Heckler & Koch MP5 fully automatic submachine gun and an M-16 from the informer on Dec. 27 at a gas station in the 6000 block of West Florissant Avenue, again sending out photos to prospective buyers, the indictment says.

He sold the MP5 to Baker and others, the indictment says. Baker left the station and tried to use the MP5, then returned it to Abuelawi the same day, the indictment says.

Abuelawi and Warsame then brought the two guns to the 9700 block of Medford Drive in St. Louis County where Warsame, Hunt and Nure agreed to store them.

Hunt and Nure are convicted felons and are barred from possessing any guns, the indictment says.

Abuelawi also discussed buying grenades from the informer, court documents show.

Mob and police torture Catholic man accused of blasphemy

Here are a couple of stories describing non-muslims life under Sharia law. I hate to think of the penalty for not being a “person-of-the-book.”

by Qaiser Felix
Without any evidence angry Muslims torture Sattar Masih, 28, for allegedly blaspheming against Muhammad. Police moves in but only to arrest him. He was supposed to get married the following day.

Kotri (AsiaNews) – A mob of Muslims tortured a Catholic man on April 13 in Kotri, Sindh province, accusing him of writing blasphemous words against Muhammad. When the Police intervened, it arrested the tortured man. In prison he was tortured again in order to get him to “confess.” According to the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA), Sattar Masih, a 28-year-old Catholic man, was arrested by police despite the lack of evidence, put in jail and tortured to get his confession. He was supposed to get married the following day.

Instead, Maulana Mohammad Umer, imam at a local mosque, filed a complaint against Mr Masih under Section 295–A and 295–C (commonly known as the blasphemy law) of the Pakistan Penal Code. Penalties include the death sentence for anyone who offends Islam’s prophet and sacred texts.

The Police also arrested Sattar Masih’s 60-year-old uncle, Mushtaq Masih, and his son, who was later released. Mushtaq Masih, who is employed as a sweeper by the municipal administration, is still in the lock up in the same police station for investigation but was suspended from his job because of his arrest under suspicion of blasphemy.

In piecing together the events that led to the arrest of the two Masih, APMA found that it all started when a group of Muslim men came to Sattar Masih’s house with a piece of paper that had Masih’s picture on it and blasphemous words written against Muhammad in the Urdu language. Although Sattar Masih rejected the allegations, his accusers did not believe him but still they went away.

Later that day Imam Mulana Umer announced during Friday prayers that the mosque had found a sacrilegious paper against the prophet Muhammad in the donation box. The imam then showed the paper to worshippers with Sattar Masih’s photo and address.

Many Muslim worshippers were enraged and marched on Sattar Masih’s house, stormed it and tried to kill him. But before they could act the Kotri police intervened and took Sattar into custody. In jail he was charged with blasphemy and tortured.

APMA chairman Shahbaz Bhatti slammed the police for acting without evidence and before conducting a full investigation into the affair.

“How could any sensible person write those words against the prophet and then leave name and photo, when he knows that punishment of such an act is death,” Mr Bhatti told AsiaNews.

In reality, “Christians and other religious minorities are being subjected to false accusations under the blasphemy law,” he explained. “Often they are murdered in extra judicial killings or languish in prison for years. Victims’ families are forced out of their homes as a result of threats, harassment and a sense of insecurity.” The situation is such that “religious extremists take the law in their own hands and don’t even wait for the courts’ decisions.”

Turkey: Four street evangelists jailed

I lifted this straight out of Dhimmi Watch for April 30, 2007.

Even as hundreds of thousands demonstrate in favor of secular government in Turkey, the Turkish government again demonstrates that it is not interested in according all religious groups equality of rights.

“Turkey: Four Street Evangelists Jailed,” from Compass Direct:

ISTANBUL, April 27 (Compass Direct News) – Police jailed four Christian street evangelists in Istanbul for “missionary activity” this week, even as government officials openly defended the right of all religious groups to carry out evangelistic work in Turkey.

Officials released U.S. citizen David Byle this evening, more than 48 hours after he was arrested along with a Korean and two Turkish Christians, his wife said.

Christian sources maintained that Turkey plans to deport the Korean believer, though further details remain unknown.

The four men were detained Wednesday afternoon (April 25) while sharing their Christian faith with passersby at a park in Istanbul’s Taksim district.

Speaking earlier to Compass from his detention cell at the new foreigners branch of the Turkish security police in Kumkapi, Byle said that an official police report charged the evangelists with missionary activity, disturbing the peace and insulting Islam.