{"id":12074,"date":"2011-03-04T22:33:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T03:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12074"},"modified":"2011-03-04T22:33:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T03:33:51","slug":"the-ultimate-stupid-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-ultimate-stupid-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"The ultimate stupid defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/CTVNews\/TopStories\/20110304\/Abdelhaleem-toronto-18-sentence-110304\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shareef Abdelhaleem, the final member of the Toronto 18 to be sentenced for his crimes, has been handed a life sentence with no chance of parole for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Abdelhaleem, 35, was sentenced Friday just before noon for his role in a homegrown terror plot to detonate bombs at the Toronto offices of CSIS, the Toronto Stock Exchange and an Ontario military base. He was found guilty last year of participating in a terrorist group and intending to cause an explosion.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of his sentence, Shareef delivered a 23-minute rambling speech, in which he claimed he never intended to harm anyone. He also said that Canadians have been silent on the blatant injustice of his case.<\/p>\n<p>He asked the judge to sentence him as if he were a &#8220;white Catholic and not a Muslim.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shareef has no idea what he is asking for: a white Catholic who threatened to blow up CSIS and the Toronto Stock Exchange would merit a lynch mob outside the courtroom with guest appearances from Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens to egg them on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Shareef Abdelhaleem, the final member of the Toronto 18 to be sentenced for his crimes, has been handed a life sentence with no chance of parole for 10 years. Abdelhaleem, 35, was sentenced Friday just before noon for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-ultimate-stupid-defence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[305],"tags":[1423,2265,1551],"class_list":["post-12074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism","tag-shareef-abdelhaleem","tag-terrorism","tag-toronto-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}