A round-up of ‘rush to judgment,’ ‘kangaroo court’ negative media coverage of the Tariq Mehanna case, from a leftist editorial written for a Baltimore newspaper:
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The Smoking Gun has scanned the first few pages of the affidavit of a Boston FBI agent testifying against Tareq Mehanna. If true, it’s not a pretty picture…
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Yet another Muslim in the US has been brought up on unrelated charges after having refused to become an FBI informant – this time in Boston (Here’s another instance I blogged about recently from the LA area). The accused’s name is Tariq Mehanna, who was an active community member in the Boston area and points immediately west (Worcester, Lowell, etc). From the Boston Globe: “He created a blog called Iskandrani, a name tied to his Egyptian ancestry, and was considered a leader to teenagers at the Worcester Islamic Center. He went under the name Abu Sabaya, which he translated as “Father of Children.”"
Also, his blog postings have been cited in the media as damning. Here’s a link to his blog, and a post about Aafia Siddiqui, his writings about which were cited in the Globe article. He has also claimed Abdullah Azzam and Sayyid Qutb are inspirational figures to him, according to the Globe. I’m disgusted with the Globe for referring to the Siddiqui case, since you can find US Muslims all over the web from across the political spectrum who are troubled by what happened to her (Muslim Matters, Muslimah Media Watch, my blog, Umar, etc, etc.) I admit I have not read his post about Sr. Aafia, so I dont know if there is anything there that is substantially unusual relative to what anybody else is saying.
The Globe reporter buried the key information about the informant offer deep in the story: