Posted on 02/05/2011 9:22:56 AM PST by NormsRevenge
SANTA ANA – Eleven students were charged Friday with conspiring to disrupt a speech last year by the Israeli ambassador to the United States at UC Irvine.
The incident occurred Feb. 8, 2010, when Ambassador Michael Oren was the featured speaker on campus at a meeting co-sponsored by several organizations. Eleven Muslim students were arrested in the incident.
"This case is being filed because there was an organized attempt to squelch the speaker, who was invited to speak to a group at UCI," District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said in a statement. "These defendants meant to stop this speech and stop anyone else from hearing his ideas, and they did so by disrupting a lawful meeting. This is a clear violation of the law and failing to bring charges against this conduct would amount to a failure to uphold the Constitution."
Each defendant is charged with one misdemeanor count of conspiracy to disturb a meeting and one misdemeanor count of the disturbance of a meeting, according to a news release from the District Attorney's Office. If convicted, each faces a sentence that could include probation with community service or fines or up to six months in jail.
.. scheduled to be arraigned on the charges March 11.
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"We don't think they deserve to be charged," said Mohy Abdelgany, 50, of Irvine, Abdelgany's father. "They simply stood, made a very short statement and left the room peacefully.
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The younger Abdelgany, who was president of the Muslim Student Union at UCI, is accused of meeting with other members of the group in the days before Oren's speech to plan to disrupt it, prosecutors said. He is accused of sending an email to the group's message board saying "we will be staging a University of Chicago Style disruption of the Ambassador's speech."
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Why are we allowing people like this to infest our educational system?
Send them where they would be happiest.
Oh, wait, never mind.. we don’t even do that for illegals.
They ought to go overthrow their own country and not drag us down with them here if they are so serious about change.
I’ve had enough of these Koranimals. We don’t need to deport corpses.
Nationals of foreign imports?
The defendants are: Mohamed Mohy-Eldeen Abdelgany, 23; Khalid Gahgat Akari, 19; Aslam Abbasi Akhtar, 23; Joseph Tamim Haider, 23; Taher Mutaz Herzallah, 21; Hakim Nasreddine Kebir, 20; Shaheen Waleed Nassar, 21; Mohammad Uns Qureashi, 19; Ali Mohammad Sayeed, 23; Osama Ahmen Shabaik, 22; and Asaad Mohamedidris Traina, 19.
Islam is a vile, corrupt, depraved,perverted, seditious gutter ‘religion’ created out of thin air by a child molester. It needs to be wiped off the face of the earth along with its supporters.
And now they will be simply charged, pay a very reasonable fine, and leave the court peacefully.
"They simply stood, made a very short statement and left the room peacefully.
Punks! Kick them out of UCI and the USA!
Well said. My sentiments exactly.
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