The Case of Tarek Mehanna

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Tarek Mehanna (Family Photo)

Tarek Mehanna (Family Photo)

The Justice Department has prosecuted many homegrown terror cases in the decade since 9/11. Authorities can convincingly argue they’ve stopped some would-be terrorists before they got a chance to hurt anyone. And that could be the situation with accused terrorist Tarek Mehanna. But Mehanna is a puzzling figure. He’s a 29-year-old American of Egyptian descent who grew up in a spacious suburban home outside of Boston. He has a PhD in pharmacy and was a diehard Nirvana fan as a teenager. He taught at a local mosque and supporters say he’s being targeted for his unpopular views. Prosecutors say Mehanna was the type of person who contemplated killing Americans at a local mall. Michael May of latitudenews.com spoke with Mehanna’s family and friends to try to answer the question: who is Tarek Mehanna?

Read more here at latitudenews.com.


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  • Anonymous

    The guy is Muslims so he MUST be guilty, ask anyone in the “JUdeo-Christian Civilization” that feels so tremendously threatened by us “Muzlems”.

    Raymond Ibrahim has written an entire book which is a translation ot the Al-Qaeda Manifesto, he goes around the nation making presentations to the public, to the military, to the FBI and to other “Security” agencies; he is lauded as an “expert on terrorism, Islam and Mulsims”…all being the same of course.

    Raymoind Ibrahim is a Christian who hates Islam and Muslims but couches his hate in a very civilized, intellectual manner, so he is veerybody’s hero.

    Tarek Mehanna is naive enough to believe his “free speech” will not get him into trouble but he has obviously forgotten that “Free Speech” belongs to those in power, not to the target du jour, the Muslims.

    This is  not the first time the Federal prosecutors have successfully dreamed up a “strong case” against a Muslim and won, nor, sadly, will it be the last.

    Muslims had better wake up and get involved in the politics of this country or, we will all feel the jackboots of the authorities on our collective necks.