Yeah, no shit, huh?
From Eye on the World:
Faisal Shahzad
(NY Post) Faisal Shahzad had one last moment in the spotlight yesterday before being shipped off to a lifetime behind bars for his attempt to explode a car bomb in Times Square last May.
Not surprisingly, he took full advantage of his soapbox and captive audience.
"Brace yourselves," he warned, "because the war with Muslims has just begun. [Wrong. That war began some 1400 years ago - ed.] Consider me the first droplet of the flood that will follow. The defeat of the US is imminent and will happen in [the] near future."
First droplet?
Sorry, Faisal, but that war started on Sept. 11, 2001.
And most New Yorkers get it.
Still, Shahzad now will have a long time to pursue his perverse fantasies of America's demise.
While he rots away in prison.
"We are proud terrorists, and we will keep on terrorizing you," the Pakistani-born immigrant told Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum. "If I'm given 1,000 lives, I will sacrifice them all for the life of Allah."
Dream on, buddy. Better off dropping the visions of glory and start considering how truly tedious life on the slow boat to martyrdom is going to be.
Shahzad claimed that, in rigging a car with explosives in the heart of the theater district -- after receiving training and money from the Pakistani Taliban -- he was acting in accordance with the Koran, which "gives us the right to defend, and that's what I'm doing."
At one point, the judge cut him off to note that he had sworn allegiance to the US last year when he became a citizen.
"I did swear, but I did not mean it," he replied.
To say that Shahzad is a PR nightmare for those who seek to advance the notion of moderate Islam is an understatement.
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