Tag: Usaamah Rahim

The Supreme Court was unequivocal. And that’s striking. Because today you don’t know how these things will go. And his defense team pulled out every card. They played the race card and everything else they could play. But in this instance, justice prevailed. Not only did Daoud Wright target me for a brutal, cruel and…

“Usaamah Rahim and two other men were accused of participating in a plot to behead conservative blogger Pamela Geller, who angered Muslims by organizing a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, in 2015.”

“You read in your papers, or news or radio, and you think, ‘oh, that can’t really happen! How can people do this?’ But then to be sitting there, it’s like ‘oh my god, this is real.’ “

David Wright admitted sharing Islamic State propaganda online and discussing an attack against Geller. But he insisted he didn’t actually support the terror group and that his conversations about violence were just “trash talk” fueled by a desperate desire for attention.

Rovinski said the three men hoped “that by going forth with the beheading against Pamela Geller, that we would then gain martyrdom through our death. We had pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State.”

Jurors heard phone calls between the three men, who were laughing wildly about beheadings. Rahim was heard in a conversation with Wright in 2015 saying, “I just made a wonderful purchase,” referring to a knife he had just bought.

This is wrong. More sharia censorship. More scrubbing of jihad incitement. The jury must see what motivated these devout Muslims to plot to behead me.