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.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.
I never knew that about Virginia.
We traveled through Virginia a month ago and saw a LOT of gun racks. Justice is served swiftly and surely in that state, it seems.
"he's hoping the ACLU, NAACP, Nation of Islam, etc will come running to his side"
That would be my guess.... not to say a savage murderer may not suddenly "get religion" when faced with what he's done, but I suspect this has a lot to do with his upcoming trial.... he'll now be the persecuted martyr of Muslim manhood.
(insert tacky Ashley Smith comment here, grin foolishly, duck, and run like hell!)
There are no other reports of this yet...other than this story.
Boy am I relieved. I thought we were going to have to execute him, but as I recall all those people he killed were not Muslim, so he committed no crime.
Grandmother Guard wasn't it ?
Who cares? I mean, are we supposed to care? The guy is still a rat.
Behead him then.
How is this a conversion?
Basketball?....I don't know...
FMCDH(BITS)
"The Jihad Driven Life"
Not sure if it still applies, but at one time the Jackson family either were or claimed to be Mormons. My mom, who is a practicing Mormon, can hardly tolerate anything negative about Michael Jackson.
Oh hell no...
I do believe I detect a pattern here.
Mass murderer with racist motives = Islamic Convert.
Yep. that's the pattern.
Birds of a feather.
It's the religion du jour.
I saw it on the news this afternoon at 6:00
Not mormons but Jehovahs Witnesses.
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