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I was on Fox and Friends to discuss Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi, nee John Walker Lindh, a United States citizen and Muslim convert who was captured as an enemy combatant during the United States' 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. The "American Taliban" is serving a 20-year prison sentence for war crimes in the service of the Afghanistan's Taliban. He is a traitor of the highest order. He was captured during the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi, a violent Taliban prison uprising during which Central Intelligence Agency officer and great American hero Johnny "Mike" Spann was killed.
Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi, nee John Phillip Walker Lindh, is a traitor and should have faced a firing squad for his treason. He joined the jihad and actively engaged in the killing of US soldiers. He attended a lecture by Osama Bin Laden. Instead of rotting in a well-earned grave, al-Irlandi and other jihadists are suing the US government trial over high-risk Muslim terrorists congregating together for "group prayer." He should receive no further concessions.
His religion is what got him into prison.
Even those who believe that he misunderstands the supposedly true peaceful teachings of
Islam have to grant that he wouldn't have been fighting against American troops
in Afghanistan if it weren't for his Muslim beliefs. He is not going to be
associating with people who believe in peaceful, moderate Islam, but with
convicted, violent Muslim felons. This will only reinforce the beliefs that led
him to try to kill Americans in the first place.
Here again we see the same Islamic pattern -- Islamic supremacists always try to push the idea that wherever Islamic law and American law conflict, it is American law that must give way. But this is especially absurd in prison, where security considerations must be paramount, and where people are being deprived of certain rights as punishment for their crimes.
Here again we see the same Islamic pattern -- Islamic supremacists always try to push the idea that wherever Islamic law and American law conflict, it is American law that must give way. But this is especially absurd in prison, where security considerations must be paramount, and where people are being deprived of certain rights as punishment for their crimes.
This is war, and security considerations must be
paramount. He wants to meet with people who are violent felons. He should be
given no special accommodation.
Imams from his school of Islamic jurisprudence have said that he doesn't
have to pray in a group. So this whole thing is about trying to push for
concessions, not about religious freedom at all.
Peaceful religious practice in American is a derivative of our right to the pursuit of our own happiness, which itself is a right made possible only in a context of respect for the rights of others. Lindh does not share such respect. He made that clear when he turned his weapon on his own countrymen in the mountains of Afghanistan.
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