"Death to Jews" - just a saying

You've got to read this one.

From Little Green Footballs

A defense expert for Fawaz Damra says the indicted imam did not try to incite violence in the early 1990s when he screamed at fund-raisers to destroy Jews. Instead, Damra simply wanted to support the resistance to Israel’s occupation of land claimed by Palestinians, the expert said.

Scott Alexander’s testimony provided the first hint Monday of Damra’s defense to charges of lying on his immigration forms because of his past ties to terrorism. Damra is to go on trial next week in a case that appears to focus on several tapes made of his speeches. If convicted, the leader of the Islamic Center of Greater Cleveland could face a maximum of five years in prison and deportation.

Federal prosecutors James Moroney and Cherie Krigsman say the videos that captured Damra’s words show he was a radical Islamic militant who sought donors for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad before he obtained citizenship in April 1994.

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