Did you catch the news reports about Saturday’s arraignment of the 9-11 terrorists? This first step in the military tribunal, held in Guantanamo Bay, sounds like it was a real circus:
The court hearing for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants should have taken a couple of hours at most. Instead it lasted almost 13 hours, including meal and prayer breaks, as the men appeared to make a concerted effort to stall Saturday’s hearing.
They knelt in prayer, ignored the judge, wouldn’t listen to Arabic translations over their head sets and one even insisted on having the more than 20 pages detailing the charges against them read aloud, rather than deferred for later in their case as the judge wanted, which added more than two hours to the proceedings.
[Source: Fox News]
Contributing to the sideshow atmosphere was attorney Cheryl Bormann, counsel for defendant Walid bin Attash, who chose to attend the proceedings dressed in a hijab – apparently at her client’s insistence.
Borman, who’s not a Muslim, says she was acting out of respect for her client’s religious beliefs. Does she think the defendants have any respect for her, or the legal system she represents? If so, they have an unusual way of showing it:
… Mohammed cast off his earphones providing Arabic translations of the proceeding and refused to answer Army Col. James Pohl’s questions or acknowledge he understood them. All five men refused to participate in the hearing; two passed around a copy of The Economist magazine and leafed through the articles.
Bin Attash was confined to a restraint chair when he came into court on Saturday, released only after he promised to behave.
(And) Ramzi Binalshibh began praying alongside his defense table, followed by Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, in the middle of the hearing…
These barbarians have no respect for us, because we, with our ridiculous embrace of cultural diversity, no longer defend Western civilization and our long-held traditions of life, liberty – and the rule of law. We’ve lost confidence in the very foundational beliefs that made America great. We no longer have any self-respect.
Does Ms. Borman, costumed in her hijab, realize that by showing “respect” for her client she’s really only earning disdain – and accommodating evil in the process?
Islam has no tolerance for multiculturalism. Pretending otherwise is insanity. A reality that was on full display last Saturday in Guantanamo Bay.
Related:
Final insult of Qaeda clowns ~ 9/11 plotter & henchmen raise a ruckus at Gitmo. Story by Josh Margolin at the New York Post
