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Atlanta courthouse shooting suspect Nichols converts to Islam
Ramblings' Journal ^ | 5.9.05 | Michael King

Posted on 05/09/2005 4:46:42 PM PDT by mhking

According to broadcast reports this evening, Brian Nichols, the suspect in the Fulton County Courthouse shootings in Atlanta on March 11, has had a jailhouse conversion to Islam.

Nichols, who was indicted last Thursday on 54 charges, including four counts each of murder and felony murder, has requested -- and received -- permission to talk to a local Imam. Nichols will be allowed to pray in accordance to the tenants of Islam as well.

The indictment includes 18 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, 7 counts of kidnapping, and five counts of hijacking a motor vehicle.

As you'll remember, Nichols was being readied for a rape trial when he overpowered and severely injured his guard, entered the courtroom and shot to death Judge Rowland Barnes and the court stenographer. Nichols subsequently escaped the courthouse, killing a Fulton County Sherrif's deputy, and later killing a US Customs agent before his capture in Gwinnett County.

Fulton County DA Paul Howard has stated that he plans on requesting the death penalty in Nichols' case.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: briannichols; convert; religionofpeace; thejihaddrivenlife
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To: vezke
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck...

Shoots like a duck...

21 posted on 05/09/2005 4:56:34 PM PDT by mhking ("Today, we're gonna do things the RIGHT way...")
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To: mhking

Nice Catch!


22 posted on 05/09/2005 4:56:41 PM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: mhking

Why is this not surprising?

I expect one of these days Michael Jackson will also convert to Islam.


23 posted on 05/09/2005 4:57:06 PM PDT by CarolinaGOP (I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds. - Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: mhking

This should be of no surprise. Islam is the religion of evil.


24 posted on 05/09/2005 4:58:57 PM PDT by Lucky2 (Yankees all the way in 2005!)
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To: Peach
Hopefully it's just for survival in prison,

Bingo! Lots of followers of the moon god his accursed pedophile "prophet" (May He Burn Forever In Hell Between 2 Pigs) in prison, due to prison-conversion.

Heck I might do that if I had to go to prison. Beats the heck out of worrying about dropping thr soap.

25 posted on 05/09/2005 4:59:05 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women (HJ Simpson))
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To: mhking
Well, isn't that special!
26 posted on 05/09/2005 5:00:24 PM PDT by white trash redneck (Everything I needed to know about Islam I learned on 9-11-01.)
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To: mhking
Well, he couldn't very well say he was going to Disney. I guess this was the next best thing. Wouldn't it be a kicker if the judge said at sentencing, "OK, since you've converted, the punishment under Islamic law is ..."
27 posted on 05/09/2005 5:00:27 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (The murder of Terri Schindler Schiavo - NOT IN OUR NAME)
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To: mhking

It's remarkable how easily violent felons make a transition to Islam, isn't it?


28 posted on 05/09/2005 5:00:46 PM PDT by montag813
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To: mhking
Patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel. Islam is the last refuge of a villain!
29 posted on 05/09/2005 5:01:17 PM PDT by JAWs
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To: mhking

It was to be expected. Not surprising at all. He and Calypso Louis farrakhan were made for each opther and the religion of hate.


30 posted on 05/09/2005 5:02:40 PM PDT by sgtbono2002
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To: TADSLOS

Heh heh heh!


31 posted on 05/09/2005 5:03:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Fintan

That's the best photo of Malcolm X I've seen. Yep, I read his autobiography years ago.


32 posted on 05/09/2005 5:03:35 PM PDT by dennisw (2ยข plain)
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To: mhking

Can't say I'm surprised.


33 posted on 05/09/2005 5:03:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Peach
Hopefully it's just for survival in prison, and not because he's lost what little Christianity he seemed to display.

That, or he's hoping the ACLU, NAACP, Nation of Islam, etc will come running to his side. He might well be a wannabe martyr.

34 posted on 05/09/2005 5:03:50 PM PDT by KJC1
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To: Peach
Virginia has what is called a rocket docket. That is where they tried the DC sniper.

That trial came and went in no time flat. Convictions too!

35 posted on 05/09/2005 5:04:02 PM PDT by OldFriend (MAJOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH.....INSPIRATIONAL)
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To: mhking

Hmmm...Peace of religion ?


36 posted on 05/09/2005 5:04:12 PM PDT by iso
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To: Peach
Oh, before he's put to death some nutty legislator will pass a law that we can't give anyone who is converted to Islam the death penalty. Just watch...

Shhh!

37 posted on 05/09/2005 5:04:34 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: montag813

Wow, a murdering rapist converts to TROP. There's a shocker for ya, yessirreee.......


38 posted on 05/09/2005 5:05:05 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (My dad, a WWII veteran always said that America's best ally was...Britain. He was right.)
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To: EveningStar

LOL. We don't want to give them any idea...


39 posted on 05/09/2005 5:05:51 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever killed or captured.)
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To: mhking

Hmmm... you'd think he converted BEFORE the shootings.


40 posted on 05/09/2005 5:05:55 PM PDT by ambrose ("They killed the Giggler, man. THEY KILLED THE GIGGLER!")
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