Pennsylvania: Muslim inmate threatened to kill witness, government not charging him

Three Muslims in North Carolina were just sentenced for plotting to behead a witness. Why not this one? via Government defends recording Armstrong County man’s jail conversation | TribLIVE.

The government on Monday denied using an inmate to target Muslim inmates and record them speaking with their attorneys.

“There were no recordings made (or any other gathering or reporting) of any attorney-conversations ever,” said U.S. Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Tamara Collier.

Assistant U.S. Attorney James Kitchen, one of the attorneys prosecuting Emerson Begolly, 24, of Redbank, Armstrong County, said in a court document filed on Friday in Pittsburgh that the informant began working as a porter in the visiting area of Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown, where attorneys meet with inmates, but only after he recorded Begolly threatening to kill a witness.

Begolly pleaded guilty Aug. 9, 2011, to soliciting terrorist acts on a pro-jihad website and to carrying a firearm during a scuffle with federal agents who arrested him in January 2011.

He was scheduled to be sentenced May 29. Assistant Federal Public Defender Marketa Sims filed a motion May 9 asking for a delay in the hearing, in part so that she could investigate whether the government used the inmate to record privileged conversations.

U.S. District Judge Maurice Cohill on Monday granted Sims’ motion and rescheduled Begolly’s sentencing hearing for July 10.

Bruce Antkowiak, a former federal prosecutor who is a St. Vincent College law professor, said it is unlikely that another inmate would be in a position to overhear or record a conversation between an attorney and inmate.

“That’s a big deal — if you actually were listening in through any devices to attorney-client conversations,” Antkowiak said.

Kitchen said in court documents the government does not object to delaying the hearing but denies any wrongdoing. The informant reached out to prosecutors because he was seeking a deal with the government and offered up several pieces of information that included Begolly’s threats, he said.

Before that Oct. 12 meeting, “neither undersigned counsel nor any member of the prosecution team involved in this case against the defendant Emerson Begolly was aware of the existence of the confidential informant, nor what information he/she might provide,” Kitchen said.

The government does not plan to charge Begolly with making the threat, but it may offer it at his sentencing as evidence that he shows no remorse for what he did, Kitchen said.

 Previous posts on the Penn State jihadist here.

Salafi group building mosques in Philly and Jersey (video)

Three in Philly, at least one in Camden, one in Asbury Park, and others in New Jersey, North Carolina, Baltimore, Maryland and more.

Start listening at 5:15 via The Salafi Marakiz in the United Kingdom & America – YouTube.

Germany has banned three Salafi movements who want to implement sharia law. What Muslim group doesn’t want that?

As Robert Spencer posted recently, Mosques are the battleground of the war between Islam and the West. We haven’t had a chance to watch the video but if you have time check it out.

If you live in one of the affected areas, contact your elected officials.

Penn: Muslim Group Calls for ‘Litigation Jihad’ to Spread Sharia in US

via Muslim Group Calls for ‘Litigation Jihad’ By Ryan Mauro

The website of the Sankore Institute of Islamic-African Studies International (SIIASI), based in Pittsburgh, P.A., calls on Muslims to engage in “litigation jihad” as a means of moving the U.S. towards Sharia law. The anti-American group had its offices raided by the FBI in 2006.

“The United States has long held Muslim political prisoners within its federal, state and now privatized penal colonies. It is by waging a litigation jihad [sic] in the US penal system that some redress can be made in the international community as well. It is for this reason that Muslim inmate legal actions in the US courts constitute the front line of defense of Islam,” SIIASI says.

The objective of the “litigation jihad” is bigger than freeing Muslims from jail. It continues:

“Every successful Muslim litigation passed in the U.S. courts, is a standardization and recognition of the Islamic shari’a….but more importantly it is a perfecting and refining of the United States constitution.”

The organization states that the jihad should lead an “internationally recognized SOCIAL CONTRACT between the United States and its Muslim national minorities; which is consistent with the shari’a, but does not challenge the sovereignty of the United States.”

Keep reading at Radical Islam.

Pennsylvania: Woman marries Muslim, has to rescue kidnapped son from Egypt

Courageous rescue but an idiot for marrying an Egyptian Muslim and then after not seeing him for ten years agreeing to take her kid to Egypt in the middle of a U.S. backed Islamic uprising.  via Courageous Mom Rescues Abducted Son in Egypt | Parenting – Yahoo! Shine.

Khalil Mohamed “Niko” Atteya,12, must have been terrified when a woman in a burka grabbed his arm as he stepped off a school bus in Alexandria, Egypt and hauled him toward a motorized cart—until he saw her bright blue eyes through the slit in the dark fabric. “My first reaction was…[wondering] if that was my mom or not, and then I saw her eyes,” Niko told Fox News. “I thought, ‘Thank God. I’m going to finally get out of here. I’m going to be free.’”

As opposed to living under Islamic sharia.

It’s a parent’s worst nightmare. In August 2011, Kalliope “Kalli” Atteya of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, agreed to travel to Egypt with her ex-husband, Mohamed, and only child, Niko. A few days later, her son was gone.

A parent’s worst nightmare is their daughter marrying a foreign Muslim and bearing his children.

Mohammed had abandoned the family in 2000, only three months after Niko was born. “Basically he married me for a visa,” Kalli told Fox. They divorced in 2005.

In late July 2011, at the height of the Egyptian revolution, Mohamed demanded she and Niko travel to Egypt to visit his aging mother. Though Kalli was reluctant to bring her son to an unstable country, she told Fox, “[Mohammed] kept pushing and pushing until I finally relented. I didn’t want his mother to die without seeing her grandson.” She asked her sister, Maria Panagos, to accompany them for emotional support.

Shortly after they arrived in Egypt, Kalli said Mohamed kept trying to separate Niko from her and Panagos for a “man talk.” On their second day, he began asking for his son’s passport. The next day, the group took a hired car from Port Said to Cairo. En route, Mohamed told the driver to pull over claiming car trouble. “Mohamed threw me off to the side and ran to the car,” she told Fox. “I remember seeing [Panagos] dragging behind the car as my son pounded on the windows. It was so unreal to me. At that very moment, I knew this was all preplanned.” Kalli and her sister were abandoned on the side of the baking highway and Niko was gone.

Army Labeled Evangelical Christianity and Catholicism as Religious Extremism

via Army Labeled Evangelicals as Religious Extremists | FOX News & Commentary: Todd Starnes.

A U.S. Army training instructor listed Evangelical Christianity and Catholicism as examples of religious extremism along with Al Qaeda and Hamas during a briefing with an Army Reserve unit based in Pennsylvania, Fox News has learned.

The incident occurred during an Army Reserve Equal Opportunity training brief on extremism. Topping the list is Evangelical Christianity. Other organizations listed included Catholicism, Al Qaeda, Hamas, the Ku Klux Klan, Sunni Muslims, and Nation of Islam.

The military also listed “Islamophobia” as a form of religious extremism.

Huh?

Army spokesman George Wright told Fox News that this was an “isolated incident not condoned by the Dept. of the Army.”

“This slide was not produced by the Army and certainly does not reflect our policy or doctrine,” he said. “It was produced by an individual without anyone in the chain of command’s knowledge or permission.”

Wright said after the complaint was lodged, the presenter deleted the slide, and apologized.

“We consider the matter closed,” he said.

The incident was made public by a soldier who attended the briefing. He asked for copies of the presentation and sent them to the Chaplain Alliance.

So why aren’t AP, Salon, Wired, Mother Jones and hosts of other so-called journalists investigating, FOIA’ing, and exposing the blatant hatred rampant in the U.S. military? Because they only do that on behalf of Muslims. That’s why.

They’ll be no investigation, no purging of documents, no changing of the language, no outreach, no Congressional hearings, no politicians pandering or crying in front of a panel. The matter is closed. Why? Because they only do that for Muslims. That’s why.

It fits with the Army’s war-gaming against tea partiers and DHS repeatedly portraying whites as terrorists (see links below) and quite simply aligns with the takeover happening in the U.S.

• Big Sis’ Latest Terrorists: More White Americans
• War On Terror’s New Targets: Veterans, Tea Partiers, Anti-Fed Activists
• DHS portrays white Americans as terrorists, again (video)

Florida: Store owner, son arrested – food stamp fraud spreads in AZ, PA too

Muslim and Arab criminals are feasting on Obama’s food stamp programs. via Store owner arrested for using food stamps to stock shelves | WashingtonExaminer.com.

Bassam Abu Diab

A convenience store owner in Daytona Beach, Fla.was arrested Monday for running a food stamp scam, using tax dollars to stock his shelves.

Bassam Abu Diab and his son Matthew were buying food stamp cards for 20 to 40 cents on the dollar and using them to shop at Walmart and Save-A-Lot stores for items they sold in their convenience store, police said, according the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

An undercover agent sold EBT cards to Abu Diab, which he used to purchase items at other stores and then paid the agent less than half the value of the cards. Federal, state and local officers raided the Abu Diabs’ 4M Food Mart after a 3-month investigation.

“This guy is running a business on the taxpayers back,” said Daytona Beach Police Chief Michael Chitwood, according to local tv station WFTV Channel 9. “It’s a fraud. He’s unscrupulous and clearly he didn’t learn from the last time we hit the store.”

Detectives said Abu Diab’s register had $88,000 in EBT card transactions, according to WFTV.

This is the second time Abu Diab has faced the same charges, according to WFTV. The Daytona Beach News-Journal said he was accused of running a pawn shop without a license in December.

Taxpayers aren’t just subsidizing of millions of “Americans” who don’t want to work or can’t find work but they are also getting robbed of hundreds of millions as criminals – often immigrant Muslims and Arabs – exploit government largess.

More in Pennsylvania via Refugee Resettlement Watch: (if you think the posts here are worrisome, check out that site)

Two Brentwood men who ran separate small grocery stores in the South Hills were indicted Wednesday for wire fraud and food stamp fraud, documents filed today in U.S. District Court show.

Samson Dweh, 30, ran Mariama African Store in Carrick, according to the indictment naming him.

U.S. releases Muslim who planted bomb on ’82 Pan Am flight killing boy

A good week for jihadists in the U.S. First, news that the U.S. government refuses to deport a Syrian terrorist linked to the 9/11 attacks, now this via ’82 Pan Am bomber who killed boy freed – The Japan Times.

NEW YORK – Mohammed Rashed, who placed a bomb that damaged a Pan Am jet over the Pacific in 1982, killing a Japanese high schooler, was released from federal prison Wednesday, a U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman said.

“He was released early this morning,” Chris Burke said, adding that Rashed, 63, was being held at a facility in Pennsylvania.

Rashed’s release was in exchange for information on other terrorist plots under an agreement that will also deport him to a country of his choice, AP said. It has not been disclosed which country he wants to go to.

In the 1982 incident, Rashed got off the Pan Am flight at Narita airport after planting a time bomb under a seat of the plane. The flight was on its way to Honolulu that Aug. 11 when the device exploded, killing Toru Ozawa, 16, under whose seat the bomb had been planted. Ozawa was setting off on a vacation with his family. Fifteen other passengers were also wounded, including Ozawa’s parent, but the pilots managed to land the plane.

Rashed, a Jordanian-born Palestinian, fled to Iraq and remained at large for several years before being captured in 1988 in Greece, where he was tried and handed a 15-year prison sentence. He was released in 1996 after serving eight years, and was extradited to the United States from Egypt two years later.

What is “a Jordanian-born Palestinian”?

In May 2006, Rashed was sentenced to another seven years in jail as part of plea deal in the United States.

He is linked to Abu Ibrahim, who is on the FBI watch list of most-wanted terrorists and is believed to be living in Lebanon, according to media reports.

More: US To Release Terrorist Who Planted Airline Bomb From Federal Prison

The August 11, 1982, bombing of Pan Am 830 was set in motion when Rashed, wife Christine Pinter and their son traveled to Tokyo with fraudulent identification documents. Rashed tucked the bomb beneath window seat 47K, pulled the pin, engaged the timer and got off in Japan. Toru Ozawa, a 16-year-old vacationing with his family, occupied the same seat on the next leg.

The bomb exploded as the plane crossed the Pacific Ocean, filling the rear passenger cabin with smoke, screams and blood. Passenger Tom Stanton, seated several rows away while returning home from a business trip, said it sounded like a shotgun blast and smelled of gun powder. Amid the pandemonium, the flight crew ushered rear passengers to the front, but Stanton tried to stay behind to help others who appeared in shock. He thought fireworks had perhaps gone off, but didn’t suspect a bomb.

“Going through my mind — terrorism, whatever — you never thought of that,” he said.

Ozawa was killed as he cried out for his parents, and more than a dozen others were injured. The pilot managed to land the plane despite a gaping hole in the cabin floor and bulge in its exterior.

“The sad thing about this is Toru Ozawa is dead. He’d be a man with a family, and it was heartbreaking,” said Dan Bent, then Hawaii’s U.S. Attorney. “He was killed right in the presence of his family. He was eviscerated by this bomb.”

A piece of gold-plated nickel located inside Ozawa’s body helped link that explosion to others by Ibrahim. Another big break came after a 15 May defector FBI betrayed Rashed to the FBI.

Rashed flew back to Baghdad after the bombing, and though at large for years, was arrested in Athens in 1988 with a phony Syrian passport. The Greek government refused to extradite Rashed and insisted on prosecuting him, a decision that rankled U.S. officials who feared he’d escape justice under that country’s legal system.

“It was disappointing and it put some serious strain on the bilateral relations with the Greeks, as we told them it would,” said L. Paul Bremer, then the ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism. “Basically, it was a political decision. They gave it no real legal cover as I recall. They simply said we’re not going to turn him over to you, but we’ll figure out how to try him.”

Wherever Rashed goes, he may not be done talking: He told AP in the letter that he planned to “write all in two or three books.” And Australian media reports say Rashed has been interviewed in prison about the 1982 bombing of the Israeli consulate in Sydney.

Roy Hawk, the Pan Am 830 pilot, said he’s never forgotten the carnage inside the plane. He was dismayed to learn of Rashed’s pending release.

“To tell you the truth, I never figured he’d be released,” Hawk said. “I just figured he’d be in prison the rest of his life, and that was it.”

Hawk probably never figured a man born to a Muslim father with a Muslim name and strong allegiance to the Islamic world would be president of the United States either.

Flight 93 memorial to terrorists looking for volunteers

via Pa. 9/11 memorial looking for volunteers to participate in a tree planting day  – NY Daily News.

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — The Flight 93 National Memorial at Shanksville, Pa., where a plane crashed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks is seeking volunteers for a tree planting day April 27.

The Daily American of Somerset reports that volunteers, ages 14 and older, must register at the National Park Service website. No walk-ups will be accepted.

Authorities expect to plant 15,000 seedlings on 23 acres.

Volunteers will be supervised by a professional forester, and are advised to prepare for cold, wet and muddy conditions.

The memorial is about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. It marks where a hijacked United Airlines jet crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. Investigators believe the hijackers planned to crash the plane in Washington, D.C., but were thwarted by passengers and crew members. Everyone aboard died.

Why no walk-ups? Why no mention that the hijackers were Muslim terrorists? Why no mention of the other sites attacked on 9/11 or the nearly 3,000 killed? Because that’s how it will be rewritten in the history books. Awash of details.

The memorial is travesty in itself, also hijacked and in the design of a giant Islamic crescent that points to mecca with markers for the Islamic terrorists.

For our previous posts on the media blackout on the second hijacking of Flight 93 see below:

The Flight 93 Memorial mosque (must see videos)

More videos at link above.

Fact checking resources:

“Proof of Betrayal” page lists some basic claims about the design and shows how to check them, with links to original sources.

Crescent of Betrayal Dishonoring the Heroes of Flight 93

Want to see something ugly?

Every place where the terrorists are memorialized in the crescent design, they are placed in the symbolic Islamic heavens (the crescent and star parts of the design). Every place where the 40 heroes are memorialized, they are depicted as symbolically damned, cast out of the symbolic Islamic heavens. One example is in the Tower of Voices, where an Islamic shaped crescent soars in the sky above forty symbolic souls that literally dangle below:

Forty symbolic souls, never to rest in peace, gonging for eternity in their symbolic damnation, strung like fish as they hang down from the symbolic Islamic heavens projected in the sky above. Is the Memorial Project trying to start a riot? (Click pic for larger image.)

Much more at Crescent of Betrayal and Error Theory.

Wharton School caves to Muslims, cancels invite to Indian pol, invites Islamic bigots

via Atlas Shrugs.

More on the Wharton cancellation of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, from Seema:

Namaste everyone,
I am very disappointed after getting the news that Wharton has indeed canceled its invitation to Shri Narendra Modi. What a PR blunder! Not sure what kind of a ‘business school’ Wharton management is trying to run when it chooses to invite Islamic bigots like Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi (who have nothing to do with Economics) over a World renowned economic visionary and leader like Mr. Narendra Modi (an innocent man who has been exonerated of all allegations by the Supreme Court of India) to an ‘economic forum’. Please read http://www.mediacrooks.com/2013/01/sujata-patil-vs-cowards_17.html to know more about real Sharia peddling face of Hinduphobic Javed Akhtar.

Irony is that a supposed ‘business school’ has ‘chickened out’ under pressure from Leftist and Muslim bigots, and canceled invitation to Mr. Narendra Modi under whose prominent leadership the economic fortunes of Gujarat and security of Gujarat’s citizens have turned around such that every commoner irrespective of religion is prospering and multinational companies like Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda, Tata, Peugeot, Reliance, etc. are jumping head over heels to do business in his State.

Due to Mr. Narendra Modi’s various Civil and Human Rights related governance initiatives there has not been even a single riot since 2002, whereas Muslim-Hindu riots were a daily occurrence before Mr. Modi took charge in 2001. 2002 Gujarat riots happened after a Muslim terrorist mob roasted alive 59 Hindu devotees including women and children, who were returning from the Hindu holy city of Ayodhya, by locking them in a train compartment and lighting it on fire using gallons of petrol in Godhra city. After receiving Godhra terrorist attack news, Mr. Modi appealed for calm and peace through various National and Local news media right away and deployed Armed security forces to maintain law and order. Mr. Modi’s appeal for peace in 2002 can be viewed on the Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIRMR8zW0iI Four times elected Chief Minister Mr. Modi is hailed to be the next Prime Minister of India and has been praised as a Powerful Global Leader by the heads of many countries including Japan, China, European Union, etal. He has been delivering amazing all round inclusive development work and peaceful minimum government maximum governance in his Indian State of Gujarat for the past 12 years. His government has come back to power again recently in Dec 2012 with a thumping majority, especially in most Muslim dominated constituencies. Contrary to the lies peddled by Muslims and Leftist lobbyists in the US, a special investigation team appointed by the Supreme Court of India has found no evidence of commission or omission against Shri Narendra Modi, and has exonerated him of all allegations in 2002 Gujarat riots case.

Can we trust the quality and ethics of supposed ‘leaders’ that such schools produce who can easily give into prejudicial pressure, who disregard jurisprudence of other democratic nations, and who cannot even a stand for basic civil liberties such as Free Speech? This violation of Free Speech Rights is solely Wharton’s students’ loss and their snub to an economic visionary like Mr. Modi is the US economy’s loss. Unfortunately a very very bad precedent has been set by short-sighted dimwit management at Wharton. Clearly they can’t take the heat. Shame on them.

Must say that students and management of Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) at Delhi University in India turned out to be much wiser, liberal, and rational than the ones at Wharton in the US. Management at SRCC did not deprive its students of free flow of ideas and knowledge by not caving into Muslim and Leftist bullying and misinformation campaign. They let Mr. Modi deliver an inspirational and mesmerizing keynote on SRCC campus in Feb 2013 despite intolerant protests by lies peddling Communist bigots. Mr. Modi’s legendary keynote at SRCC was watched Live and hailed by millions of Indians on TV and the Internet.

Wharton, on the other hand, stands bare, naked, exposed, regressed, and alone!

Following is Wharton’s foolish cop out statement: here

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More:

Meanwhile according to an unscientific poll conducted by The Wall Street Journal revealed that more than 90 per cent of the over 4,000 respondents said that Wharton was “wrong” to revoke Modi’s invitation, while only 6.3 per cent of them have justified the decision.

Rival Muslim factions battle over & fight in Philly mosque

#TheirJihad…via Battle over West Philly mosque’s control goes to court – Philly.com.

THE FIGHT for control of the city’s oldest African-American mosque made its way into Common Pleas Court on Monday.

The trial to settle the long-running dispute at the Philadelphia Masjid in West Philadelphia began more than a year after the first request for an emergency injunction filed by the organization’s elected officials was dismissed.

An injunction was sought after what elected officials say was a hostile takeover by a rival group called the “concerned believers.” Fights broke out inside the mosque, on 47th Street near Wyalusing Avenue, during religious services. An imam and the board’s chairman were assaulted during the scuffle.

The rival group voted to remove the board members after accusing them of amending the bylaws to maintain their posts. The board argued that some of the votes had been cast by nonregistered members.

“The board was forcibly removed from this property,” attorney Vernon Chestnut told Common Pleas Judge Mark Bernstein. “The locks were changed. They could no longer function as a board of directors.”

But attorneys for the rival group, Sharif Street and Darwin Beauvais, argued that changes to the bylaws had not been properly entered and that members had not received adequate notice of those changes, which, they contend, infringed on their voting rights. They argued that there’s no evidence that Kalam id-din, who has served on the board since 2006, was re-elected.

“We believe there should have been an election in 2009,” said Beauvais. “We have seen that there may have been additional board members elected, but never, not once do we see that for the chair.”

 The mosque has a history of problems:

Turmoil over the mosque’s leadership has existed since the court helped settle a dispute after Ali, 72, was convicted of eight illegal moneymaking schemes in which he used the Islamic school as his headquarters.

The leadership of the mosque underwent a tumultuous period before and after the 2005 racketeering conviction of Ali and his wife, Faridah Ali. Ali is expected to complete an 87-month prison sentence in Texas next year.

Ali was overheard in a wiretap during a drug investigation telling a dealer to take money to an employee in former Mayor John Street’s office.

More than 50 defendants were convicted as a result of that wiretap, including 33 drug dealers, a city treasurer and other political officials.

Religion of peace ya’ll.

Much more on the Islamizaton of Philly in the archives.

Philadelphia: Muslims demand new ‘hate crime’ law for crimes in Islamic garb (video)

The City of Brotherly Love is anything but as sharia absurdities continues.  h/t halalboozeshack

Next they’ll want it to be a hate crime to look at a Muslim cross-eyed.

The bogus “hate crime” rhetoric has been pimped by black politicians partnering with black Muslims in Philadelphia since at least April 2012.

Here’s an idea. Ban full-face Islamic garb, period. No one else is allowed to wear a full-faced covering in banks, court rooms, etc. And although these crimes are anything but so-called hate crimes, ban hate crimes  as well. They are unnecessary and further segregate society into special classes of protected victims.

That said, earlier this week we shattered the facade these lawyers, politicians and imams are trying to sell to an unknowing audience with two posts on the Muslim Sister’s Role in Jihad:

1. Muslim Women’s Role to Encourage Loved Ones to go for Jihad
2. Raising Mujahid Children

The question here is not whether women’s participation in Jihâd these days is an obligation or not, but rather, how can Muslim women participate in this noble cause and prevent themselves from falling into the sin of abandoning Jihâd.

There are many ways a Muslim woman can participate in Jihâd, both by accompanying the Mujahideen to the battlefield, and by staying behind

Islam is a manual of hate crime, and it requires Muslim women to be active participants. If not, they are apostates which carries a serious penalty.