This is good to see. Wright should have been given life in prison. He will get out before his 28-year sentence is up. His jihadi beliefs won’t be weakened, but strengthened while he is incarcerated, thanks to a prison system that allows him to meet with and pray with other Muslim inmates, and treats 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; the sentence he received is consistent with a justice system that does not recognize the danger that he and others like him present.
“US Supreme Court refuses to review Everett man’s terrorism-related convictions,” by John R. Ellement, Boston Globe, March 4, 2020 (thanks to the Geller Report):
The US Supreme Court won’t hear David Daoud Wright’s challenge to the terrorism-related convictions stemming from his leadership of two men who plotted to kill Boston police officers in 2015 and political commentator Pamela Geller, whom terror group ISIS had targeted for death.
The justices did not issue a written explanation for their refusal and instead the clerk of the nation’s highest court sent a terse letter to Wright’s attorneys and the lower federal courts in Boston. The appeal request is called a writ of certiorari.
“The Court today entered the following order in the above-entitled case: The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied,” the letter from the US Supreme Court reads. It is dated Monday.
Wright, of Everett, was convicted of leading the small group that included his uncle, Usaamah Rahim, 26, who was shot and killed when he confronted Boston police officers and FBI special agents with a knife in Roslindale in June 2015. Rahim, authorities said, was planning to board a bus and randomly attack victims.
Wright took the stand in his own defense during his trial in US District Court in Boston and said he was only engaging in an “ISIS role-play fantasy” because he was obese and had no social life. He was convicted on five charges, and sentenced to 28 years behind bars. Four of his five convictions were later upheld by the First Circuit Court of Appeals….
Steven Edelman says
I am happy to respond to this because I worked as a psychologist at a maximum custody prison in North Carolina. There was a large contingent of Muslim prisoners there. One troubling incident that happened involve a caucasian prisoner who has about to be discharged after finishing his sentence. He had been a Christian before converting to Islam. He contacted me, a Jew, to ask whether I thought that his former Christian acquaintances at home would accept him back. I assured him that the would, but was concerned about the consequences of his conversion to Islam. I know that as he departed the prison he dropped his Koran in the trash.
Geof Barrington says
In my opinion muslums prisoners should be put in muslum only prisons . It’s wrong that infidel prisoners should be exposed to conversion in this way
Dude says
The poor dear was obese – of course he wanted to kill someone, anyone, especially the trim and fit Geller.
gravenimage says
Dude, I have never seen that overweight people are more violent than those at a healthy body weight. This is about Islam, not about being fat.
Dude says
But that is what the poor dear said. Can we not take him at his word, under oath? Can we not take any muslim’s word for anything? Hell no.
Consider the source. Consider the goal. They’re fighting to get into sensuous paradise quickest, their highest concept of the ultimate existence. All dickheads. All pathetic jerk-offs. Only such losers could chase such a meaningless goal. DUH
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
OT: French president Macron on Islam
In the republic, it is not acceptable to refuse to shake hands with a woman because she is a woman. In the republic, we cannot accept that someone refuses to be cared for by someone because she is a woman. In the republic, it is not acceptable to drop out of school for reasons of religion or belief. In the republic, one cannot demand virginity certificates to get married. In the republic, we must never accept that the laws of religion can be superior to the laws of the Republic.
And now that I have said all this, this isn’t a question of stigmatizing any religion. And what we have to do is not, as I have sometimes heard from some people, a program against Islam. That would be a profound mistake. There are millions of fellow citizens, French citizens, who live according to the laws of the republic and who want to live as French citizens. What we must fight is the separatism I have just mentioned and all the practices I just mentioned with great calm, with great determination, and with great respect .
The risk is that the whole society will say “the problem is our Muslim fellow citizens,” which would be a huge mistake. But this Islamist separatism</b is incompatible with freedom and equality, incompatible with the the indivisibility of the republic and the necessary unity of the nation.
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In a paraphrase, Macron’s speech is a cloud with a dark lining.
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, there is *nothing* French about Islam.
keith says
There is not a trace of humanity in Islam.
Clive Delmonte says
Right on, Pig Farmer.
Wellington says
If common sense, wisdom and proper knowledge prevailed, which they certainly do not in this Age of Nonsense in which we live (and, off hand, I do forget just how many genders we are told exist, but being old-fashion my answer will to the end of my days always be two), prisoners in American jails should no more have access to the Koran than they should to Mein Kampf.
Freedom to the general public should be expansive as possible, including of course the right to read Mein Kampf and the Koran (N.B., two very similar works in sundry ways), but freedom to criminals can and should be contained without any concern that this infringes their constitutional freedoms. Just as an imprisoned felon should not have the right to vote (though Bernie Sanders and, let’s face it, virtually all who support the Democratic Party think this should be a right), neither should such a person have the right to virtually all reading material. As examples, a Bible, yes,; a Koran or Mein Kampf, no.
I still remember when I took the bar review course (long time ago) before I took the bar exam and the person teaching criminal law said you’re very likely to come across a few multiple-choice questions regarding prisoners’ rights. Well, he went on, here’s what to remember, a prisoner has the right to shut up and the right to be incarcerated. Good advice then. Should still be operative to this very day but, sadly, it isn’t.
No Koran to any prisoner in an American jail. This is my position and I’m sticking to it.
Michael Chernick says
I agree that prisoners need restraint of their errant ways, and if possible, give them a lift upward if there is any potential. But the most terrible and unconstitutional laws in our various states are for lower political entities to interfere with a Citizen’s attempt to vote in a federal election which is his only way to address petty provincial injustices. It’s like a bullying sibling threatening a weaker one not “to tell dad or I’ll punch you again”. Suppressing the vote is a vicious tactic bigots like Matt Bevin of Kentucky use to gain and retain power for themselves or their co conspirators. When the Bush family manipulated the Florida voting in 2000, it allowed them to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, bcz the intuitive Black voters would have installed Gore, a lesser idiot in the White House, not as likely to have dismantled an Iraqi government that would not have allowed ISIS to spawn.
wpm says
There was no voting suppression in Florida in 2000 presidential election no evidence was ever uncovered of it.The United States invaded Afghanistan after 911 to hunt terrorist down in 2001.ISIS was formed in Syria .under Obama,s watch he called them the JV team nothing to worry about in his eyes about 10 years after the 2000 presidential election.From your post would you want people in prison to have the right to vote?If you are in prison you are a ward of the state you lose the right to vote ,travel,associate with some people , do what you want to ,do what the state tells you to do for the good of society and yourself for reform before you can be released safely into the outside world.
Michael Chernick says
Dear WPN. I admire your passion but will only address the 2000 election because I have apparently studied it far more deeply than you unless you can prove otherwise. It is useless to argue with somebody who thinks his opinion is a fact when the PUBLIC RECORD proves otherwise (Wikipedia and our federal government websites will provide you with all data). You may be extremely biased toward Black people as was the Bush campaign, or some other factor may be at play. Please enlighten me if you can. I don’t think the Bushes hate black people, but they are condescending and exploitive and they wanted the Presidency more than they wanted an honest result. There was one particular OFFICIAL federal investigation which overrides all others and it was done so carefully that it concluded in about June of 2001, too late to do anything about the election since Gore waived and dismissed his right to protest in congress. The investigation was lead by the Chair / President of the USCCR (United States Civil Rights Commission) Mary Frances Berry, a highly regarded and world famous academic with an impeccable personal reputation as well, who is now a long tenured Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Just one finding of UNCCR was that names of felons in 2 or 3 states, Georgia, and Texas where George Bush was governor, printed out the names of close to 10,000 felons. Many of those names were similar to names of ordinary and innocent civilians in Florida. Yes, there are more than 10 John Smiths… Then those felons names were used to match up against Florida voters who were told that they could not vote until they filled out lengthy forms and submitted them by such and such date to prove that they were not the disqualified persons on the list. The number of illicitly disqualified voters far exceeded the number of votes given to Bushes meager majority win. The statistics were verified by a forensic mathematician, Allan….whose full name you will find if you care to do the research. He also provided a mathematical formula which predicted Trump’s win against all polls calling for Clinton to win. I am a political independent and will venture to say that you are a full bore partisan.
Eisenhower, one of our greatest presidents, started the UNCCR in the 1950s to bolster the turning point in the long struggle for civil rights. He appointed people of great character who were sustained by JFK. As soon as the criminal creep acting as president, Richard Nixon, got into office he started picking away at the Commission and appointing partisans to replace those who left the commission, exactly the type of people who had no respect for political opponents. Likewise the Bush 43 administration bore pressure on Ms Berry, their friends taunted her. Hearings were held in congress to quash her findings to put a revised history on the books but UNCCR facts held firm. Berry was even kicked off the Commission and won her place back in court. I hope this helps people who you have mislead, and I hope even more so that you do not do this on purpose but rather as a result of some careless oversight(s). Very careless! As you know the Iraq war was executed stupidly, 5,000 American dead, tens of thousands of others, and you are paying part of the 2 trillion dollar debt, unless you are heavily invested in stock market profits from the defense industry at the cost of your fellow citizens. ISIS may have started in Syria, but it expanded into Iraq where the monster Saddam Hussain would have killed them quickly with his experienced and, funded and vicious army tactics. I agree much with your opinion about Obama. Let us find common ground accurately. Bless You.
Michael Chernick says
WPN. P.S. so you don’t get the wrong idea, I am a strong supporter of Robert Spencer, and Pamela Geller, heard them, met them, talked to them. Asia Bibi, the murdered Pakistani convert to Christianity, shows the character of the Islamic Jihadi. Very special attention to the jailing of Jihadis is needed. Right now enforcers of the Koran are running the ISIS prison camps internally, while we are feeding them they are still indoctrinating their children against us. Am afraid to venture too many solutions to that in great detail here, but sterilization for starters. Trump is intuitive and at least bringing attention to global issues, but his lack of nuance is what brings him down, alienating the Chadian people whose citizenry is unlike the Paks.
Wellington says
I’m with wpm here. The voter suppression stuff is baloney. And if you have a high opinion of Mary Frances Berry, who is a partisan hack, well, that in and of itself rather says it all.
BTW, the University of Pennsylvania, which I know well, is being suffocated by political correctness so you will not impress me by referencing a tenured liberal academic there.
Michael Chernick says
I reacted to WPM’s denial of any evidence of voter suppression which you share as baloney. So for the readers, and you, if truth is desirable, Mary Berry was only one of the commissioners. There were hundreds of witnesses, many Black. You must know Florida Blacks don’t impulsively speak out in a State still largely influenced, if not run by Crackers. The transmission of thousands of arrest records from Texas Governor George Bush to Florida Governor Jeb Bush is unprecedented and unfounded, and all on the record and in the report. I am glad Trump showed how stupid Jeb is in the 2016 debates, although he might use similar tactics. I am not against all tactics. Apparently Lincoln’s team used them. I just enjoy knowing the timing and mood behind and ahead of them for truth’s sake. We probably agree that young Lefties on campuses do not care for truth. So please don’t try to snow me by being like them.
James Lincoln says
Agree, Wellington.
No Korans.
May also add: isolation from other muslims, no visits from imams, no prayer rugs, etc., and counseling to show the fallacy of islam.
But I’m not sure that my additions would pass legal muster…
Linde Barrera says
Thank God for the current Supreme Court. And I am so glad that both Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are alive and well after both of these great humans had been the targets of murderers.
Goofy says
The beheading was not the idea of the devout Muslim defendant. Beheading is the command of Allah! This is a serious Islamophobia, and it amounts to attack on religious freedom. Please let us stop discussing individual cases of a behaviour which is prescribed in the Koran. We need a serious assessment of Islam, whether it is a religion in the first place and whether it’s commands are in total conflict with civilized society and the rule of law, including laws pertaining to human rights and war crimes.