Muslim who cut girlfriend’s throat gets life, threatened jihad on jurors

The would-be beheader said how he wasn’t bound by American laws, but only recognized the Shariah (Islamic), the law of Islam.

Grendel Report via Arkansas Observer, Sentence Is Life for Muslim Who Cuts
Girlfriend’s Throat:

hat tip Creeping Sharia

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A Little Rock man who once served prison time for
threatening President George W. Bush’s daughters was sentenced to life
in prison on Thursday for cutting his girlfriend’s throat after jurors
saw letters he’d written describing himself as an “American Taliban” and
calling for death to America.

Gregory Houston Holt’s Islamic faith was
not an issue at his two-day trial until the jury convicted him on all
charges – aggravated residential burglary and first-degree domestic battery –
for the May 2009 attack on Connie Taylor. The only indication visible to the
jury of Holt’s beliefs was a large crescent moon and star on the back of his
left hand.

The proceedings before Circuit Judge Marion
Humphrey also revealed that Holt, 34, has been feuding with Abdulhakim
Mujahid Muhammad, the Tennessee man charged with capital murder over
the slaying of a soldier at a Little Rock recruiting center. The dispute
purportedly was over which man is the better Muslim.

And Holt claimed that Randeep Mann, the
Pope County doctor accused of bombing the chairman of the state Medical Board,
had consulted with him about medical evidence in Holt’s case.

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Only after jurors had delivered their guilty
verdict did they learn why Holt had been shackled and accompanied by armed
deputies: a letter he wrote to jailers in April promising a potentially
deadly “jihad” inside the courtroom should “the verdict in my trial go
south.”

But Holt had little reaction to the guilty
verdict, delivered after 40 minutes of deliberation. At sentencing, deputy
prosecutor Will Jones showed jurors eight letters Holt had written from
jail. In the letters, Holt occasionally praised Osama bin Laden, dreamed of
dying a martyr in a jihad, and wrote poetry imagining Little Rock police
detective Damon Whitener being decapitated by the Taliban. Holt also wrote how
he wasn’t bound by American laws, but only recognized the Shariah law of
Islam.