ACT for America

[Excerpt:  "As per the agreement and assurances that Headley would continue cooperating with investigators, federal prosecutors, as authorized by the Attorney General, asked the court for a lesser sentence for the accused."]

(RTTNews) -  David Coleman Headley, a Pakistan-born US citizen charged with criminal conspiracy in connection with 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and a planned attack on a Danish newspaper that never took place, pleaded guilty to the charges pressed against him during a hearing at the Federal Court in Chicago on Thursday.

In his appearance before U.S. District Judge Harry D. Leinenweber in Chicago Thursday afternoon, Headley changed his plea to guilty from his earlier not guilty plea, in line with an agreement reached with federal prosecutors. Headley’s guilty plea is in exchange for avoiding the death penalty and a promise not to be extradited to India, Pakistan or Denmark.

As per the agreement and assurances that Headley would continue cooperating with investigators, federal prosecutors, as authorized by the Attorney General, asked the court for a lesser sentence for the accused. The Judge, however, refused to provide any guarantees and said Headley could still be jailed for life despite the request.

Headley on Thursday pleaded guilty to all 12 counts that were brought against him in December and January in a separate indictment. He also admitted making several surveillance trips to India ahead of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and plotting an attack on a Danish newspaper that published cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.

[Excerpt:  "Whitmore said department records show that Baca attended two CAIR fundraisers in recent years."]

Nor is that all that can be said about CAIR. See more here.

But just try telling it to the blinkered dhimmi who is the sheriff of Los Angeles.

[Excerpt:  "Islamic apologists in academia and the media keep trying to dismiss the radicalization trend, but they're whistling past the graveyard. A new Duke University study claims that "only" 139 Muslim Americans have been involved in terrorism since 9/11 (including 41, or 30%, in 2009 alone).

But the report, which got a big splash in the media, is laughably incomplete. It omits some of the feds' most celebrated terrorist convictions. It also excludes any U.S. Muslims convicted of financing terror. And these are just the homegrown terrorists who got caught. How many others are out there?

New Mexico-born Awlaki has 4,800 Facebook friends. He has thousands of followers in America. At mosques and Islamic bookstores across the country, they buy his sermons extolling jihad and "martyrdom." They're even sold as CD box sets."]

[Excerpt:  "The extraordinary double standard at work between the West and the Muslim world is one of the most troubling elements in the ongoing clash of cultures.

We are not operating on a level playing field and not only are our opponents not seeking to level the field; they are feverishly working to slant it ever more sharply in their favor."]

Because the West is reluctant to admit it is even engaged in such a war, it is unable or unwilling to effectively prosecute many of the battles that arise. 

Taken singly, skirmishes like the one reported recently in the Associated Press – about the disparity of the sides’ reaction to religious proselytizing – don’t amount to much. But taken together, they seem to me to paint an alarming portrait.