Posted on 08/25/2021 5:41:06 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The leader of the militia group convicted in the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque wants to be recognized as a transgender woman and receive a lower sentence because of it, according to court documents.
Shannon Elkins, the public defender for Emily Claire Hari, 50, a biological male who identifies as a woman, is asking for a federal judge to grant Hari the minimum sentence because gender dysphoria and online anti-Muslim content allegedly fueled an "inner conflict" in Hari leading up to the attack.
Prosecutors said Hari, formerly known as Michael Hari, and two men used a sledgehammer to break the mosque's window of the imam's office and threw a 20-pound black powder pipe bomb, as well as a plastic container of diesel fuel and gasoline, inside the Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center.
It was the stress of this double life, the public defender argued, that drove Hari to attack the Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, on Aug. 5, 2017, and that her client holds no ill will toward the Islamic faith.
Elkins described Hari as a misunderstood "pacifist" who has lived peacefully in Anabaptist communities throughout the world with other cultures.
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Mental illness.
50 shades of stink with this case.
The bearded lady! It used to be you had to go to a circus to see one.
I thought it was a Babylon Bee article when I saw the headline.
Rainbow crusader.
He should call himself Mata Hari.
C’mon, man! My kids come up with better excuses...
My dog comes up with better excuses.
THAT’S A HAIRY HARI.
sounds like a smart dude, because everyone knows this trans garbage works on liberals - and that will result in a reduced sentence in a women's prison, no less.
Surprised nobody picked up on the fact that when it is someone they don’t agree with/ not on the Team, the media has no problem saying “ a biological male who identifies as…”. They have no problem calling that violence when it is done to one of their own.
“Well, sometimes I get the menstrural cramps real hard.”
liberal dilemma: having to choose between transwomen and Muslims
how do you rank social justice???
watch your pronouns!
it’s “myntal illness”
I’d be willing to bet that 80% of this ‘militia’ group were FBI or their paid instigators.
Do some research. Not likely in this case.
You know something the rest here don’t know then spill it.
Cut her nuts off. Shouldn’t feel a thing.
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