The Pakistani man who was arrested just two days before the start of the Republican National Convention in 2004 and accused of developing a terrorist plot that would have attacked the subway system of New York has been convicted. But just remember, he was set up and he would have been selling cars at an used car lot if that damn FBI informant didn’t trap him by showing him pictures of the abuse at Abu Ghraib (did those same pictures come from the front pages of the New York Times?).

The jurors rejected his defense that a paid police informer had entrapped him by stoking his rage with images of Muslims abused at the hands of Americans.

The defense in the case argued that Mr. Siraj had been entrapped by the paid informer, Osama Eldawoody, a 50-year-old Egyptian-born nuclear engineer who, Mr. Siraj’s lawyers contended, sought to draw their client into the plot for the money. Evidence showed he was paid about $100,000 over two years and nine months — $25,000 during the 13 months he worked as an informer and the rest in relocation and living expenses over the 20 months between the arrests and the trial.

Mr. Siraj’s lead lawyer, Martin R. Stolar, had sought to portray his client as a hapless dullard ripe for manipulation [ed. aren't most jihadis easily manipulated rather than actually believing Allah wants them to slaughter innocent men, women and children?]. He said Mr. Eldawoody, posing as a father figure and religious guide, had cajoled and inflamed the younger man, in part by showing him images of abuses, some of them at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Mr. Stolar said the government had manufactured the crime, noting that the informer had told Mr. Siraj and another man that he was part of a terrorist group that did not exist and that he would supply the explosives, though there never was a bomb.

Strange, but the New York Times article on the conviction really gives only Siraj’s side, or that of his lawyer. Perhaps it’s just me, and frankly it usually is, but if a man approached me on the street and showed me images of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison and then wanted to recruit me into what I believed was his tangled web of jihad, I’d turn the guy in and go on my way. Siraj though did not go his own way but rather was engaged by the plot and wanted to bomb the NYC subway.

That’s not entrapment, though five of the jurors in the case considered this at least partial entrapment. It’s just stupidity and a belief that because of the actions by a few, granted those actions have been cast so loudly by opponents to the war and the United States including the very publication that wrote such a one-sided article on the outcome of the trial, that means innocent civilians in New York should be killed. That’s what Allah wants.

Maybe Siraj just has a small penis and thought jihad was his only way out, though that apparently can be fixed now. In that regards, we should offer people like Siraj a way out of jihad and just give them an extra large penis so they won’t kill in the name of Allah. You see, all Allah really seems to want is men with large penises so they can have fun and not be mocked at the giant orgy awaiting in the afterlife.

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