Posted on 10/27/2019 8:12:54 PM PDT by robowombat
SOMALI Congressmuslim Ilhan Omar is distraught that ISIS leader is dead thanks to Trump and the U.S. military
OCTOBER 27, 2019 BY BARENAKEDISLAM
After all, back in 2016, when she was a State representative in Minnesota, she wrote to the judge requesting compassion and leniency in the sentencing of several Somali Muslims in Minnesota convicted of recruiting for the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.
“More men and boys from a Somali American community in Minneapolis have joined – or attempted to join – a foreign terrorist organization over the last 12 years than any other jurisdiction in the country,” Fox News reported Saturday, citing data from the FBI.
FOX9 News Rep. Omar asked Judge Davis for “compassion” and a “restorative approach to justice,” concluding that “this ruling can set a precedent and has the potential to be a landmark case in addressing extremism.”
The defense has pushed Judge Davis for lighter sentences, saying the young, immigrant men were caught between two worlds – the United States and pride in their Somali heritage. The defense argued the young men were lured by propaganda on the internet that suggested that a “true Muslim” should be in Syria saving other Muslims who are being killed and trying to restore the Caliphate.
Prosecutors argued:
“The defendants attempt to draw a parallel between ISIS propaganda and the recruiting efforts of the United States Army. The comparison is odious and insulting. More than that, the comparison is really only pointing out that ISIS and the US Army use the same communications mediums to deliver their respective messages. Both use video games and both use glossy magazines.
This parallelism in delivery methods proves nothing. People send birthday cards through the mail; other people send anthrax through the mail. This does not make criminals of people who send birthday cards through the mail. And of course, defendants’ parallelism ignores the fact that the message being sent via glossy magazines and video games by ISIS depicts war crimes, up to and including murder on an industrial scale. The US Army’s message is, to put it mildly, different.”
The 9 defendants were facing a wide range of sentences. The 3 men who were convicted of trying to join ISIS could get between 30 or 40 years in prison. Four others who pled guilty are facing a recommended sentence of 15 years in prison. The U.S. Attorney’s Office is suggesting about 4 years in prison for the two men who cooperated with prosecutors.
Mohamed Abdihamid Farah: Prosecution requested 30 years in prison and lifetime of supervised release.
Abdirahman Yasin Daud: Prosecution requested 30 years in prison, lifetime of supervised release.
Guled Omar: Prosecutors requested 40 years in prison. Defense requested 15 years.
Hanad Mustafe Musse: Prosecution requested 15 years imprisonment, and lifetime of supervised release. Defense requested 72 months.
Adnan Abdihamid Farah: Prosecution requested 15 years imprisonment and lifetime of supervised release.
Hamza Naj Ahmed: Prosecution requested 15 years of imprisonment and lifetime of supervised release. Defense requested half-way house, also has motion to seal sentencing report.
Zacharia Yusuf Abdurahman: Prosecution requested 15 years prison and lifetime of supervised release.
Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame: A cooperating defendant, prosecutors recommended 54 months in prison.
Abdullahi Mohamed Yusuf: A cooperating defendant, prosecutors recommended 42 months in prison.
Ilhan Omar’s letter to Judge Davis:
Honorable Judge Davis,
As you undoubtedly deliberate with great caution the sentencing of nine recently convicted Somali-American men, I bring to your attention the ramifications of sentencing young men who made a consequential mistake to decades in federal prison. Incarcerating 20-year-old men for 30 or 40 years is essentially a life sentence. Society will have no expectations of the to be 50 or 60-year-old released prisoners; it will view them with distrust and revulsion. Such punitive measures not only lack efficacy, they inevitably create an environment in which extremism can flourish, aligning with the presupposition of terrorist recruitment: “Americans do not accept you and continue to trivialize your value. Instead of being a nobody, be a martyr.”
The best deterrent to fanaticism is a system of compassion. We must alter our attitude and approach; if we truly want to affect change, we should refocus our efforts on inclusion and rehabilitation. A long-term prison sentence for one who chose violence to combat direct marginalization is a statement that our justice system misunderstands the guilty. A restorative approach to justice assesses the lure of criminality and addresses it.
The desire to commit violence is not inherent to people — it is the consequences of systematic alienation (blame America); people seek violent solutions when the process established for enacting change is inaccessible to them. Fueled by disaffection turned to malice, if the guilty were willing to kill and be killed fighting perceived injustice, imagine the consequence of them hearing, “I believe you can be rehabilitated. I want you to become part of my community, and together we will thrive.” We use this form of distributive justice for patients with chemical dependencies; treatment and societal reintegration. The most effective penance is making these men ambassadors of reform. (HAH!)
The restorative approach provides a long-term solution – though the self-declared Islamic State may soon suffer defeat, their radical approach to change-making will continue as it has throughout history – by criminalizing the undergirding construct rather than its predisposed victims. Therein, this ruling can set a precedent and has the potential to be a landmark case in addressing extremism.
Thank you for your careful attention,
Ilhan Omar State Representative-Elect – MN 60B
And she is why Trump didn’t inform the DemocRats of the plans to take out Isis..
Obama dumped 10K Somali Muzzie pukes on us in Hermitage, TN. He knew where he dumped them as it was on the east side of
Andrew Jackson’s home/estate.
“Congressmuslim Ilhan Omar is distraught that ISIS leader is dead”
Probably. But this article doesn’t provide any info on what she’s said about it.
Obama dumped 10K Somali Muzzie pukes on us in Hermitage, TN. He knew where he dumped them as it was on the east side of
Andrew Jackson’s home/estate.
Good call.
I wouldn’t have put it past Pelosi or Schiff to tip off the enemy.
A failed mission and loss of American life would help their impeachment cause.
And they are very desperate to impeach.
Good point!
“...saying the young, immigrant men were caught between two worlds – the United States and pride in their Somali heritage.”
Horse crap. Send them ALL back to Somalia.
Omar too.
he dumped a bunch in Maine too
How can you have pride in a country that is ruled by criminal gangs and who’s leading industry is piracy?
Get the heck out of the USA, and go to Somalia.
Problem solved.
wish a republican would come out and say “The reason why this was kept secret was because of the terrorist sympathizers embedded in our own government who would have tipped him off that we were coming to annihilate the monster!”
LOL Excellent! One can only imagine how fuming mad ilhan would be to see that poster
“The best deterrent to fanaticism is a system of compassion”.
Those that cooperated only got 4 years.
What is there to be proud of. Even other Africans acknowledge Somalia is a sh!thole.
The 4 year prison sentence for those two men is likely a life sentence.
There too many Muslims in jail.
so what sentences did the judge give?
Did she leave Somalia because it is paradise?
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