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Florida Man Arrested After Allegedly Threatening to Decapitate Rabbi’s Son Outside of Synagogue
Algemeiner ^ | March 13, 2015

Posted on 03/13/2015 5:36:13 AM PDT by SJackson

A Florida man was arrested on Sunday for stalking a rabbi’s son in front of a local synagogue and threatening to cut his head off, the Miami Herald reported.

Miami Beach police said David Weberman and a friend were walking outside the Ohev Shalom temple on Saturday night when Diego Chaar, 24, looked at Weberman and shouted in Arabic “Allahu Akbar.” After Weberman ignored the comment, the suspect allegedly yelled, “Heads will be cut off.”

Weberman called 911 from his cell phone and police responded, according to the arrest affidavit. Police questioned Chaar and wrote up a report, but then released him.

According to the police report, Chaar then returned to the synagogue shortly before 10 pm, walked past Weberman again and said “Allahu Akbar” before walking away. The victim dialed the police again, and on Sunday, the authorities found Chaar and arrested him.

Police said Chaar admitted to threatening Weberman. Miami Beach Detective Vivian Thayer explained, “He agreed to go to the station and speak.”

When he returned to the scene of the incident late Tuesday afternoon, Chaar denied threatening to cut off anyone’s head, Florida’s 7News reported. He told the news station, “Oh, I did not say that” and only admitted to saying “Allahu Akbar.”

Chaar told 7News he converted to Islam a few years ago while serving time in prison for drug trafficking. He believes he has the “responsibility” to convert others.

“I want to take them to paradise. I don’t want them to burn in hell for the rest of eternity,” he said. “I feel like that they’re worshiping right now is nothing, it’s fake. It don’t exist, in my opinion.”

Weberman’s father, Rabbi Pinchas Weberman, has been head rabbi of Ohev Shalom Congregation for over 54 years, and is a chaplain for Miami Beach Police and Miami-Dade Police. Chaar is facing misdemeanor assault and stalking charges, but the rabbi wants the case to be investigated as a hate crime.

“I never like to over-exaggerate, and I don’t like to minimize, so what I do is, I report this to law enforcement agencies, those that I feel are responsible for it and those that I feel will take a professional approach to it and handle it,” he said.

Police believe Chaar has an “affinity for marijuana and occasionally cocaine,” the Miami Herald reported. Records from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement show he was arrested nine times between 2006 and 2013, all for drug related charges, and in every case the charges were dropped. According to an old NBC 6 report, a man also named Diego Chaar claimed three years ago that someone had threatened his life.

Hate crimes against Jewish Miami Beach residents have been piling up since the fall. A homeless man was caught in September drawing a swastika and the letters “KKK” on a temporary sign at Temple Emanu-el. That week someone spray-painted the same symbols on a Publix Supermarket in Surfside.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arabic; chaar; diegochaar; diegochar; threats

1 posted on 03/13/2015 5:36:13 AM PDT by SJackson
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Prison convert obligated to convert others. We need more Imans in prison.

2 posted on 03/13/2015 5:36:55 AM PDT by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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To: SJackson

It means “peace”.


3 posted on 03/13/2015 5:38:47 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: SJackson

A little jihad here, a little jihad there, nothing to worry about.


4 posted on 03/13/2015 5:52:53 AM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: SJackson
shouted in Arabic “Allahu Akbar.”

Given the actions that accompany such a declaration, I think Mr. Weberman would have been justified to unconceal his carry and shoot the bastard.

5 posted on 03/13/2015 5:58:20 AM PDT by tbpiper
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To: AppyPappy
walking outside the Ohev Shalom temple on Saturday night when Diego Chaar, 24, looked at Weberman and shouted in Arabic

SUUUUUUUUUUURE, that's his real name...

6 posted on 03/13/2015 6:02:36 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Old Sarge
SUUUUUUUUUUURE, that's his real name...

His pre-"reversion" name, possibly.

7 posted on 03/13/2015 6:40:20 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Just Friends" - http://youtu.be/rznoQbzlO2s [Warning: NSFW])
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To: SJackson

There is a Jewish Second Amendment organization. They need to recruit more. The Democrats are moving in the direction of Europe by allowing Jews to be oppressed by Muslims here. So the Jews really have no hope of being protected by the government. But they have every hope in the world if they want to protect themselves.


8 posted on 03/13/2015 6:59:05 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: SJackson
"...shouted in Arabic “Allahu Akbar.” After Weberman ignored the comment..."

Big mistake ignoring that comment. NEVER do that.

9 posted on 03/13/2015 7:01:20 AM PDT by moovova
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To: SJackson
"Chaar told 7News he converted to Islam a few years ago while serving time in prison for drug trafficking. He believes he has the “responsibility” to convert others." (From the article)


Diego Chaar per local10.com

The same old pattern emerges - yet again!

10 posted on 03/13/2015 7:33:39 AM PDT by drpix
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To: AppyPappy
It means “peace”.

No, piece, as in "here, have a piece, the heads are fresh"

11 posted on 03/13/2015 3:16:25 PM PDT by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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To: drpix

I recall numerous threads on prison converts eight or ten years ago. But I guess the best they’ve put out so far was a shoe bomber, so the controversy died down. Placing all of us at risk.


12 posted on 03/13/2015 3:17:38 PM PDT by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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To: tbpiper

Probably not, though that would be largely a function of Mr. Akbar’s body language, verbally he meets the standard. If you’re correct, a jury would decide that based on the word of the Rabbi and the deceased Mr. Akbar. In many parts of the country, I’d include Florida, screaming that you’re going to cut ones head or their son’s head off accompanied by a common terrorist chant uttered while cutting off heads could be perceived by much of the population as a threat.


13 posted on 03/13/2015 3:20:56 PM PDT by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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To: SJackson

Just a random ‘Florida Man’, folks really.


14 posted on 03/13/2015 3:22:33 PM PDT by uncitizen (Mark Levin: "Jeb Bush? No way Jose!")
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Fortunately that’s our choice most places. Interestingly of the 8 states with over 3% Jewish population, New York, New Jersey, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Florida, only Florida is shall issue, so you have to be politically connected.


15 posted on 03/13/2015 3:27:36 PM PDT by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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To: SJackson

“I want to take them to paradise. I don’t want them to burn in hell for the rest of eternity,” he said.

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Is he sure that comes from Islam, because I’ve seen the same excuse many times here on FR.


16 posted on 03/13/2015 3:30:35 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: SJackson

Hate crimes against Jewish Miami Beach residents have been piling up since the fall. A homeless man was caught in September drawing a swastika and the letters “KKK” on a temporary sign at Temple Emanu-el. That week someone spray-painted the same symbols on a Publix Supermarket in Surfside.

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They call that piling up? Forget it Jake, it’s Miami.


17 posted on 03/13/2015 3:32:06 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: SJackson
Since the 2003 Jihadi "shoe-bomber," the media has become better and quicker at burying that sort of stuff down the memory-hole before the people notice the pattern.

Here's a few quickly found instances of subsequent prison converts committing/planning Jihadi attacks on western "infidels:"

Probe fans fears of prison terror plots {against LA National Guard} - 8/22/2005

Little Rock Shooting Suspect Joins Growing List of Muslim Converts Accused of Targeting U.S. - 6/2/2009

Oklahoma Beheading: Have Our Prisons Become Jihad Factories? - 9/26/2014

With a little more time, many others could be found. If you include Europe the list grows even more - starting with one of the attackers in the recent Paris attack kosher supermarket and magazine attack AND the Canadian capital attack.

And here's the chilling recent estimates of the problem:

one-in-three-blacks-inmates-converts-to-islam-in-prison/

u-s-prisons-churning-out-thousands-of-radicalized-inmates


18 posted on 03/13/2015 4:22:02 PM PDT by drpix
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