Posted on 05/21/2011 5:32:26 PM PDT by george76
A Saudi linguist convicted of sexually assaulting a housekeeper and keeping her a virtual slave for four years won a 20-year reduction in his prison sentence Friday, and his defence attorneys hope it means he'll be released from prison soon.
District Judge J. Mark Hannen sentenced Homaidan al-Turki to between eight years and life in prison during a hearing Friday in Centennial. Hannen cited al-Turki's good behaviour in prison in cutting the sentence from its original 28 years to life.
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Al-Turki insists he is innocent and a victim of anti-Muslim sentiment. His case has angered Saudi authorities — several of whom attended Friday's hearing — and prompted the U.S. State Department to send Colorado Attorney General John Suthers to Saudi Arabia to meet with King Abdullah, Crown Prince Sultan and al-Turki's family after al-Turki's 2006 conviction.
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Al-Turki brought his wife, five children and an Indonesian housekeeper to Colorado in 1995, and he studied at the University of Colorado. He was a well-known member of Denver's Muslim community, contributing money to the Colorado Muslim Society and an Islamic elementary school in Aurora, said Sheikh Abu-Omar Almubarac, a society co-founder. Almubarac and others said al-Turki also helped individuals, including financial support to Muslims making pilgrimages to Mecca known as hajj.
According to court documents, al-Turki first came under investigation when authorities examined whether his operation of a business violated terms of his student visa. Al-Turki owned Al-Basheer Publications & Translations, which distributed Islamic works in English.
After interviewing the housekeeper, prosecutors brought the assault and slavery charges against al-Turki.
Al-Turki's company holds the copyright to "The Lives of the Prophets," a CD set of Islamic sermons that tell stories about Muslim prophets recorded by the U.S.-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
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Not in the end when it really counts. If it weren’t for crooked politicians, hell would have room for the lesser offenses and I’d have to clean up my act!
Give him a burkaed wife of his choice and let him go for crying out loud!
That cheap slut of a housekeeper probably showed her face after showing her love to him anyway! /great big gobs of sarcasm intended
I am sure pressure was put by the Obama Administration a trade for more oil by Summer of 2012.
Our justice system is subject to political decisions and Saudi money. It would be a shame if prison justice had to substitute for official justice.
Slavery has now been made legally excusable in the United States. In Colorado. And so has rape.
The is what our Forefathers fought for? So a foreign system of justice that can be bought is laid on this land? For a man who broadcasts Al Awlaki’s hate in English?
Saudis get the best justice Islamic money can buy, here, as well as at home.
But the price of gas is dropping......
Arnold comes to mind.
Ping with a grr
Are you ready for Radical Islam Law to be an intricate part of our United States Justice and Court system?
In some towns in America, it has already happened! Islam is already CHANGING the way YOU live here in the United States of America! It goes much, much deeper than building a mosque near Ground Zero! You see, there are many things that your Muslim friends will NOT tell you.
There is a fundamental contradiction between being a devout Muslim and respecting the U.S. Constitution and its guarantees of various freedoms. All true Muslims believe Sharia Law is God’s law, and, per verse 5:48 of the Qur’an, it is their duty to impose the Qur’an and to rule over us! The bottom line: Instituting worldwide Sharia Law is a “religious duty!”
Our U.S. Constitution, thought-out by our Founding Forefathers, is very much an open, and sometimes secretive, attack by the radical forces of Islam! A resurgent Islam is threatening us not only abroad, but INSIDE the borders of America. Sharia, the fundamentalist Islamic law, is responsible for much of the world’s totalitarianism. Sharia relies on the Qur’an, Hadith, and other Islamic texts to punish offenders, too often with sentences that remind people of the barbaric 7th Century.
To understand jihadists, it is necessary to comprehend the verses that jihadists use to justify their war against us. Qur’an 5:51 calls on Muslims not to take Jews and Christians as allies because then they “will belong to them.” Verse 9:5 states that Muslims “... may kill the idol worshipers,” while verse 5:60 refers to Jews and Christians as “pigs and monkeys.”
Barack Obama is a friend of Sharia Law!
http://ignoble-experiment.blogspot.com/2011/04/islam-to-take-over-us-court-system.html
The al-Turki Family are heavy weights in Saudi. I think part of the royal family. I believe that one of that name was the equivalent of our SecDef for Saudi back in 1970’s.
The resentencing occurred in late February. Among other crimes, He was convicted for unlawful sexual contact with force. I believe his conviction was a class 4 felony for a sexual crime making him eligible for indeterminate incarceration. As of 2009, of the approximately 1600 inmates sentenced since the enactment of the Colorado Sex Offender Lifetime Supervision Act since 1998 – only 20 have been paroled. He will have performed a Houdini Act to get out of jail with only half of his minimum sentence served.
The desires of Al Turki’s backers would be thwarted if he were to be killed by another prisoner.
Just pathetic.
I am not sure this is correct.
Under Islamic law you need four eyewitnesses to prove the crime of adultery by a woman.
At least that's what the Koran says. I have no idea how Islamic theologians and mullahs may have "interpreted" it since.
Mohammed put this provision in to protect women against phony accusations of adultery, which carried the death penalty. Of course, if really implemented it would make conviction for adultery very nearly impossible.
They probably put him up in the warden's suite with room service
Our dependence on foreign energy is going to cost our freedom unless radical corrective actions are taken soon.
Yes, sometimes better left unsaid. But, doggone it, so hard to refrain. Guess I am drawn to corny, coarse humor, without the will to change.
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