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May 3, 2006
Sami Al-Arian's Dance With The Left Comes To An End
Topics: Terrorism"Master manipulator" Sami Al-Arian's dance with the American Left and it's media - all who supported him, has finally ended, and when Judge James Moody, who according to the St. Petersburg Times, "shocked the courtroom when he ignored the recommendation of prosecutors and defense attorneys for a lower sentence," and slapped al-Arian with the maximum - it was evident that Sami al-Arian's luck had run out, and this time for good.
(...) Moody also didn't hesitate to tell al-Arian what he thought of him. Referring to al-Arian's claim that he was raising money only for Palestinian Islamic Jihad's "charity for widows and orphans," the judge declared: "Your only connection to orphans and widows is that you create them."(...) his (Al-Arian's) respect for democracy and trial by jury rings rather false to those whose ears are still ringing with his calls for "Death to America" and "Death to Israel," and such statements as this one documented by Steven Emerson in American Jihad: "Let us damn America. Let us damn Israel, let us damn their allies until death. Why do we stop?" Does he simply quarrel with current American policy but actually hold to democratic principles? Not likely. Emerson also quotes him as saying:
Muhammad is our leader. The Koran is our constitution. Jihad is our path. Victory to Islam. Death to Israel. Revolution! Revolution! Until victory! Rolling, rolling to Jerusalem.(...) Many on the American Left have been all too eager to be manipulated. On August 22, 2002, Phil Donahue featured al-Arian as a guest on his short-lived talk show, and apologized for asking him about his genocidal statements: "So, one more time, sir, and I know that you're probably getting tired of these same questions - death to Israel did not mean you wanted to kill Jews, do I understand your position?"
(...) Al-Arian agreed and suggested that his statement was comparable to Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death!" Donahue ate it up, stating: "The law of innocent until proven guilty doesn't seem to exist for Professor Sami al-Arian...You are swimming upstream, professor, and this must be quite a shock to you. I know that your life has been threatened. I assume you have security."Catch the rest of today's Frontpage piece by Robert Spencer, who closes by adding a wish for long-coming wake-up call: "The fact that Moody gave al-Arian the maximum sentence is a positive indication that perhaps henceforth Americans, Left and Right, will not be so easily fooled by the likes of Sami al-Arian, and will move resolutely to resist their efforts to foster the goals of the worldwide Islamic jihad on American soil.
Any bets on the "not be so easily fooled" part bcoming reality?
Posted by Richard at May 3, 2006 3:37 AM
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