Tarek Mehanna, who was arrested at his home Wednesday morning, is a teacher of middle-schoolers in Massashusetts.
Mehanna teaches science and religion.
Tarek Mehanna of Sudbury, Massachusetts, is seen in this image from a video footage taken in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 11. (Reuters)
The 27-year-old Mr. Mehanna taught science and religion to middle-schoolers at Alhuda Academy in the Boston area.
Israel National News reported:
The arrest of a Massachusetts teacher of religion in a Muslim school for planning mass murders at malls and targeting American soldiers overseas has caused shock throughout the US. The suspect, an Egyptian-American named Tarek Mehanna, was arraigned in court Wednesday.
He was arrested and charged last year for lying about his ties with Daniel Maldonado, a Muslim convert who wanted to join al-Qaeda in Somalia. Prosecutors said that Mehanna also intended to kill, maim or kidnap two senior executives in the White House, both of whom no longer are in office. No other details of the targets were released except that they never were in any danger.
One of his co-conspirators is an American now living in Syria…
Muslim leaders and the Muslim man-on-the-street have expressed fears of a backlash and have argued that Muslim terrorists are a minority and are not a product of Islam. Mainstream Muslims feel threatened. “Being a Muslim in America today is not easy,” Dallas businessman Hadi Jawad, told the Dallas Morning News. “We feel under siege. There is open season on our faith. Muslims are painted with a broad brush.”
He added that there is a good side to the backlash. “It might rest on the Muslim community to reach out … to show that we are just as average and just as mundane as everyone else,” Jawad said. “We have the same aspirations, to get a good education, to take care of the poor and needy. The same issues that everyone else has, we have.”
October 23rd, 2009 | 5:16 am | #1
Any word yet if he is a Tea Partier or a returning Iraq war vet…? Those damn goat wingers.
Janet and Nancy warned us about these sort of guys…oh wait, no they didn’t .
October 23rd, 2009 | 5:31 am | #2
“The arrest of a Massachusetts teacher of religion in a Muslim school for planning mass murders at malls and targeting American soldiers overseas has caused shock throughout the US.”
“Shock”? Really? Who here is shocked that yet another Muslim is under arrest for plotting to kill Americans pigdog infidels? Seriously, raise your hand.
Has there ever been a nation in the history of the civilized word so hell-bent on its own self-destruction?
-Cnation
October 23rd, 2009 | 6:14 am | #3
I used to admire the egyptian culture, but now not so much. What an ugly and soul-scarred people.
October 23rd, 2009 | 6:30 am | #4
B-b-but the religious right!
October 23rd, 2009 | 6:44 am | #5
We should be surprised by this>
Chris Matthews said the religious right is just like the Taliban. I guess he really meant that all religious people are evil.
Do these nutjobs (the left) ever think that they are going to alienate some of their supporters. Not all Democrat voters believe in spaceships.
October 23rd, 2009 | 6:45 am | #6
Well, Jawad, you and your co-religionists can start dropping the dime a hell of a lot sooner.
Or at all, come to think of it.
October 23rd, 2009 | 6:45 am | #7
I’ll bet this religion teacher voted for Obama.
October 23rd, 2009 | 6:52 am | #8
Did he teach all religions or just one?
October 23rd, 2009 | 7:36 am | #9
Muhammad of the Koran was a murderer and a pedophile. Islam is a cancer upon this earth. But that’s just me.
October 23rd, 2009 | 7:47 am | #10
The Boston Herald article (linked at the new Keep America Safe site) suggests that this guy was rejected by Al Qaeda. He also lived with his parents. His father even chewed him out in court after he threw a tantrum.
October 23rd, 2009 | 8:10 am | #11
Well, at least he practices what he preaches.
October 23rd, 2009 | 8:53 am | #12
Tarek Mehanna is obviously a Methodist.
You know how radical those christianistas are…
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October 23rd, 2009 | 10:49 am | #13
If they are just as mundane as everyone else, then why when the percentage of Muslims goes up anywhere in the world, they behave like raving lunatics calling for Sharia Law and an overthrow of the lands they live in, without fail.
October 23rd, 2009 | 11:14 am | #14
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shocked?? they have the nerve to print shocked?? when they know darn well there are hundreds of Tarek’s teaching in schools all across this nation, and not only in Muslim schools.. gah!!
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October 23rd, 2009 | 1:39 pm | #15
What else did you expect?
Now all you evil christians out there don’t go pointing out that this was a arab (Islamist), it will prove your a raaaaacist. Ask the propaganda media and or the Obamabots (sorry same thing)?
October 23rd, 2009 | 2:17 pm | #16
He did not teach religion, but the will of Satan, the words of a false prophet–and by the looks of things, the ‘establishment’ which will end up becoming the empire of the Antichrist.
October 23rd, 2009 | 5:51 pm | #17
“Muslim leaders and the Muslim man-on-the-street have expressed fears of a backlash and have argued that Muslim terrorists are a minority and are not a product of Islam.”
They have a very large small minority and they all belong to the religion of peace.
October 23rd, 2009 | 6:03 pm | #18
“Do these nutjobs (the left) ever think that they are going to alienate some of their supporters. Not all Democrat voters believe in spaceships.”
Unfortunately many districts would vote for a lug wrench if it ran on a democratic ticket.
October 24th, 2009 | 2:35 pm | #19
Interesting who they picked for a comment:
Hadi Jawad is riding the far left wing of liberals and enjoying their support. He even went to Crawford to protest Bush with Cindy.
Check out the various links and you will see that he is a Pakistan citizen enjoying our Republic and for several years…all of it’s freedoms.
I wonder if his green card is still current?
Papa Ray
Central Texas
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