Posted on 12/21/2012 10:32:07 PM PST by george76
Nearly 23 years after Rashad Khalifa was stabbed and beaten to death, the man accused of doing it has been convicted of premeditated, first-degree murder. A Pima County jury returned the guilty verdict against Glen Francis, 52, after three hours of deliberations.
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Attorneys for both sides agreed Khalifa, 54, was likely killed because of his religious teachings. After studying the Quran for years, he found a mathematical code and came to believe two verses were satanic. In his English translation of the Quran, he removed those verses. He also taught that people should follow the word of God and not that of human beings...
McGinley told jurors the evidence showed Francis moved to Tucson under an assumed name with the express desire to kill Khalifa. He rented an apartment, got a job and a driver's license so he could easily join Khalifa's congregation and get to know the layout of the mosque and Khalifa's schedule.
Mahmoud Abib, a friend of Khalifa's, was the first person to realize Francis might have had something to do with Khalifa's death, McGinley reminded jurors.
Abib recalled how Francis wanted to know more about the Quran but would argue about what it says, McGinley said. Francis also knew how to pray distinct prayers and seemed more interested in the layout of the mosque than the lectures.
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and so this is what jihadists do to would-be reformers
To bad he stopped at one Imam.
To bad he stopped at one Imam.
The Imam that he killed could very well have been “Islam’s Martin Luther”....
But that same person has been killed over and over through history through the Islamic world...
Look at Baha’ism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_Faith
Of course the only place a temple for this religion that was founded in Persia can exist is in Israel!
POI:
There are Baha'i "temples" all over the world. There is one approximately 200 yards from my home.
I am in agreement that Baha'i has been severely persecuted by the followers of Muhammad.
I meant their “Vatican” per se, but yes, they have been persecuted along with all of the rest of the world’s religions that aren’t Islam by Islam, heck even some Islamic sects have been persecuted by Islam...
True. Look at the Druze sect in the ME.
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