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The Left and the Islamists
Commentary Magazine ^ | December 2004 | Joshua Kurlantzick

Posted on 11/30/2004 2:47:23 PM PST by quidnunc

The Manhattan attorney Lynne Stewart has been wedded to activist causes since the 1960’s, defending a long train of leftists who have had run-ins with the law. A grandmotherly woman with a wide, jowly pink face and graying hair in a bowl cut, she has represented antiwar demonstrators, aging yippies, and Black Panthers. In one well known display of her skills, she convinced a jury in the late 1980’s that Larry Davis, a drug dealer who had wounded six policemen in a shootout, was himself the victim of corruption and racism, and won his acquittal.

When Stewart arrived at a federal prison hospital in Minnesota in May 2000, however, she met a client from a very different milieu. In the visiting room, Stewart sat down across from Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the infamous blind Egyptian cleric imprisoned for life in 1995 for inciting the 1993 World Trade Center attack and plotting to blow up the FBI’s office in Manhattan as well as the United Nations and the Holland and Lincoln tunnels.

Though roughly the same age as Stewart, Abdel Rahman seems to have missed out on many of the famously tolerant ideals associated with her generation of activists. He has called for the slaughter of Jews, and for women to have little public role in society. Yet, with Sheik Omar, Stewart allegedly took a step beyond mere legal advice. Videotapes reportedly show that Stewart loudly spoke nonsense words while her client, under the din, instructed a man traveling with Stewart and posing as a translator to execute a new terrorist plot. For this, Stewart has been charged with providing material support for terrorism, since the dangerous sheik is forbidden from contacting his followers.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: answer; hamas; israel; lynnestewart; napalminthemorning; redjihad; religionofpeace; wot

1 posted on 11/30/2004 2:47:23 PM PST by quidnunc
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To: quidnunc

The left has been in bed with the Islamists. Their Communists and Nazis bretherens did that too.


2 posted on 11/30/2004 2:48:09 PM PST by Ptarmigan (Proud rabbit hater and killer)
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To: quidnunc

Ha! A liberal scumbag if there ever was one.

I hope she gets disbarred and serves time.


3 posted on 11/30/2004 2:52:41 PM PST by wvobiwan (Touchdown! Suckers walk...)
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To: quidnunc

Stuff like this makes me wonder whether a good dose of Senator McCarthy isn't just what we need.

dung.


4 posted on 11/30/2004 4:11:50 PM PST by Moose Dung (Soiling the Shoes of the Lunatic Left)
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To: quidnunc
Prophet of Doom : Islam's Terrorist Dogma in Muhammad's Own Words

CLICK ON ABOVE IMAGE


The CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS AND THE REMAKING OF WORLD ORDER

CLICK ON ABOVE IMAGE




5 posted on 11/30/2004 4:11:53 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
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To: quidnunc

This is an excellent read in its entirety. Thanks for posting. It’s a chilling example of the all too close relationships between those who hate liberty with major potential problems down the road.


6 posted on 11/30/2004 4:19:03 PM PST by usurper (Correct spelling is overrated)
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To: quidnunc

The left and Islamists? One need look no further than NPR to see it. They run commentary all the time if favor of Islamists.


7 posted on 11/30/2004 5:03:11 PM PST by sasportas
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To: wvobiwan

There was a great article about her in the August edition of the National Review.


8 posted on 11/30/2004 5:23:44 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: quidnunc

She's married to a black panther.


9 posted on 11/30/2004 5:26:59 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: quidnunc

Demon seed.

10 posted on 11/30/2004 9:00:35 PM PST by Outraged (specter (n.) - 1. A ghostly apparition; a phantom.)
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To: quidnunc

The people talked about in this article are the same leftists that tell us there is no way that Saddam and Osama could possibly have worked together.


11 posted on 12/10/2004 3:41:46 AM PST by jalisco555 ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." W. B. Yeats)
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