via Sudbury man convicted on terrorism charges receives award – Framingham, MA – The MetroWest Daily News. h/t Atlas Shrugs
BOSTON — Former Sudbury resident Tarek
Mehanna was granted the 36th annual Sacco & Vanzetti Social Justice
Award Sunday from the Community Church of Boston for his struggle as a
seeker of justice.
Read their About page – it doesn’t sound like a church per se. But the jihad-wannabe joins other Islamic terror winners 2005 Lynne Stewart and2006 winner, cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal among others.
Following discussions on America’s history
of oppressed people, Mehanna’s father, mother, brother and
sister-in-law accepted the award on his behalf.
Mehanna is serving a 17-1/2 –year sentence
at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind. He was
convicted in 2011 on various terrorism-related charges after federal
prosecutors said he traveled to Yemen to seek training in a terrorist
camp in order to fight U.S. soldiers in Iraq and translated texts for
terror groups.
The crowd of about 60 people at the Sunday
morning service listened to a recording of Mehanna’s sentencing
statement, in which he maintained his innocence, saying that although he
advocates for Muslim’s right to self defense, he did not conspire to
kill Americans.
Mehanna’s father, Ahmed Mehanna, said he
wrote a three-page letter to US District Judge George A. O’Toole, who
handed down the sentence in Mehanna’s case.
“The judge was from the get go … had the mind to convict him,” Ahmed said.
Members of the Tarek Mehanna Support
Committee rallied on behalf of Mehanna, who they said is a “political
prisoner and target of FBI persecution.”
Congressional Director Linda Jenkins
called the evidence against Mehanna “laughable” and suggested the real
reason for his arrest was that he was a politically outspoken Muslim who
refused to collude with the FBI.
Ahmed said Mehanna’s prison sentence is “a very sad situation” for the family, but “truth will prevail.”
Their point would be better made if they said Mehanna was
convicted of doing the same thing Obama did in Libya and now Syria –
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