TALI-RAT VIEWS BIN LADEN AS 'FALSE PROPHET'

New York Post ^ | 7/22/02 | BRAD HUNTER

[kattracks]

July 22, 2002 -- The lawyer for American Taliban John Walker Lindh says his client views terror master Osama bin Laden as a "false prophet" whose twisted interpretation of the Koran is an affront to Islam.

San Francisco lawyer James Brosnahan, who negotiated the Californian's plea deal, has unveiled a different portrait of the young man who has become a byword for treason.

[kattracks]

Barbra Streisand!

[KeyWest]

Whats the difference between lawyers and pond scum?

There is hope that in 1 billion years pond scum will evolve into something ethical.

[ASA Vet]

Your insult is truely over the line. Just the idea of comparing pond scum to lawyers is totally wrong. You're lucky you can't be taken to court for this injustice. Please do the only decent thing possible and tell pond scum you're sorry.

[Far Right Of Left]

OBL- an affront to Islam
JWL- an affront to Americans

[Catspaw]

This is BARF ALERT! worthy.

Funny that Jihad Johnny's lawyer didn't add Mullah Omar to the list. Islamic clerics disparaged the guy because he didn't have the years (12, I believe) of Koranic education one is supposed to have.

And isn't it nice that the plea bargain for JJ included permission to go to Saudi Arabia for his hajj?

[IoCaster]

"And isn't it nice that the plea bargain for JJ included permission to go to Saudi Arabia for his hajj?"

WTF?!?

Somehow I missed reading about this little detail. Where was that posted? Do you have a link?

[Catspaw]

I'll dig around for it when I get to work. I saw it yesterday or the day before, tucked in at the end of a story on JJ and my reaction was the same as yours.

[Catspaw]

Here it is, from the Washington Post.  I know I've seen it elsewhere.

 

When it became clear that Lindh might be freed from prison someday, he raised an important issue: He wanted the ability to travel so that he could make his hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, required of all Muslims at least once during their lifetime. Brosnahan said he would check, and prosecutors agreed to a travel clause.

[Savage Beast]

"his client views terror master Osama bin Laden as a 'false prophet' whose twisted interpretation of the Koran is an affront to Islam."

"You do not attack civilians based on the Koran. You don't commit suicide based on the Koran"

The world await the fatwas!

Where are the fatwas against bin Laden for serving as a "false prophet"?

Where are the fatwas against bin Laden for his "twisted interpretation of the Koran" and his "affront to Islam"?

Where are the fatwas against those who "attack civilians based on the Koran" and "commit suicide based on the Koran"?

The silence of the Muslim world indicates that bin Laden's interpretation of the Koran is correct and that murder/suicide attacks on innocent people are indeed quite Islamic--regardless of what Johnny's views may be.

Does Johnny therefore repudiate Islam and become an apostate? Other Muslims will murder him, of course, if he does. He seems to have gotten himself into a pickle, but then such is the fate of those who embrace Islam.

[Savage Beast]

Do you mean to tell me that it only takes 12 years of indoctrination to get the average person to believe this baloney?

[Catspaw]

Yup, 12 years trapped in one of those Saudi-sponsored Wahabbi schools, where one learns the Koran by rote.

[EaglesUpForever]

Mohammed Atta also changed his mind at the last minute, but "you don't hail a cab when you're in the middle of slashing a flight attendant's throat." Let's just forgive and forget...

[B.Bumbleberry]

Please, please gentlemen. Remember there are some among you who are lawyers. Don't condemn the whole barrell because of the bad apples.

[ASA Vet]

Consel your leg was being pulled.
I was referred to by my ex's attorney as a "Barbarian."
I didn't get upset, merely started referring to myself as "Barbarian Bob."

[Free the USA]

Index Bump

[IoCaster]

Thanks for the link. I"m not sure if that means he can get a weekend furlough from prison to go to Mecca. It seems to me that he will be allowed to leave the country after he's served his time. Is that the way you interpreted it?

[Donna Lee Nardo]

I agree! I also demand a hefty apology to all pond scum everywhere! Remember, as Al Pacino said in the Devil's Advocate movie: the legal profession "is the new priesthood."

[Catspaw]

I thought it'd be after he served his time. He could be denied a US passport because of his felony convictions.