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Jihad Jane’s jihad proved by US court
Published: 19 March, 2010, 06:35
Edited: 20 March, 2010, 02:44
TAGS: Military, Europe, Terrorism, Law, USA
An American woman known as “Jihad Jane” has pleaded not guilty to charges of plotting to kill a Swedish cartoonist who made drawings of the Prophet Muhammed.
Colleen LaRose has been held since October, accused of conspiring with terrorism suspects abroad to kill the cartoonist.
But Younus Abdullah Muhammad, of the RevolutionMuslim.com website, thinks it's a made-up case to obscure public scrutiny of the U.S. military occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“We think there is a strong possibility and probability that you will see what has become a routine process by which a person is radicalized by, if you will, an agent provocateur, and pushed off into engaging in radical acts,” Muhammad told RT. “We have to look at the way the world is functioning right now, and security terrorist agencies like the JTTF in New York City have got to produce terror threats in order to maintain federal, state and its own inflated budget.”
“What we see is a strategic utilization of this case to cover discussion Americans should be having about the occupation and ongoing war in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries,” he added.
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If the woman did it, she did it. There's no excuse for using the threat of death to choke another person's right to freedom of expression. That's worse than the worst censorship practiced by the most repressive regimes. More so, it is designed to so intimidate the populace that even the average person becomes afraid that something they say or do will result in an attempt on their life. I remember getting the comment "weren't you afraid to do that?" after I read The Satanic Verses --- and it wasn't because Rushdie's writing is so bad. What needs to have attention brought to in this case is how lonely, naive women are now being taken advantage of and lured into radical Islam by men acting pretty much the way pimps do. If anyone is taking advantage of this women it is radical Islam, who love nothing more than the notion of a blonde, blue-eyed western poster girl promoting their cause.