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This is so enraging! Tarek Mehanna’s speech at this final sentencing hearing should be made into a pamphlet and distributed widely! He committed no act of violence or terrorism — unlike the U.S. military, as Mehanna pointed out in his speech! The USA might be the most racist, Islamophobic nation on the entire planet.

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Mehanna was sentenced today in federal court to 17 1/2 years in prison, after delivering a defiant speech in court proclaiming his love of Islam and his anger at the United States.

 … Supporters attending the hearing cheered and applauded, shouting, “We love you, Tarek!” as he was led out of the courtroom.

 … Mehanna’s attorneys, who had asked for a sentence of no more than 6 1/2 years, argued he had a First Amendment right to oppose US wars abroad, and emphasized that he never actually engaged in violence.

 … Holding up a picture of an Iraqi girl who was raped by American soldiers, Mehanna said, “How can someone not be angry when they hear something like that?”

Describing himself as a “very proud Muslim,” Mehanna said he had learned that throughout history there had been a struggle between the oppressed and the oppressor. He said he had sided with the oppressed, calling the suffering of Muslims caused by the United States no different than colonial Americans suffering at the hands of the English.

Clashing with a prosecutor who objected to one of his statements, Mehanna shouted, “You’re a liar. … Sit down!” “I wasn’t tried before a jury of my peers because, with the mentality of America today, I don’t have any peers,” Mehanna said. “In your eyes, I am a terrorist. … But history will repeat itself, and America will change,” he said, comparing himself with Paul Revere and Nelson Mandela.”

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