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RIVERSIDE'S TERROR RALLY
October 18, 2006 -- IN the uproar over Monday's outrageously soft sentence
for terror-aiding lawyer Lynne Stewart, Riverside Church seems to be
distancing itself from the despicable rally it hosted in her support Sunday.
Stewart was convicted by a jury of her peers. The uncontested facts were
that she had smuggled messages from convicted terrorist Omar Abdel Rahman
("the blind sheik") to his followers in the Islamic world. Those messages
directed his followers in the terror group Gama'a Islamiyya to end their
cease-fire with the Egyptian government and begin killing Rahman's enemies.
Rahman, allegedly a mastermind in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was
convicted of conspiracy to blow up the Lincoln and Holland tunnels as well
as the United Nations.
Why, in the name of God, would any church host a rally in support of a woman
who admitted she had spread a message of hate and death?
Well, in her testimony at trial, Stewart said: "To rid ourselves of the
entrenched, voracious type of capitalism that is in this country that
perpetuates sexism and racism, I don't think that can come nonviolently."
This seems to be what Riverside Church wishes to support.
The church's Web site announced its rally in the following way: "In a case
that has echoes of . . . Sacco/Vanzetti and the Rosenbergs, attorney Lynne
Stewart will be sentenced on Oct. 16."
I left three messages for the church's senior minister, James Alexander
Forbes, Jr. When I mentioned why I was calling, the secretary got off the
line and returned to tell me, "He wasn't there" at the rally. More: "He does
not want to talk about it." When I called again, I was told that he'd be
busy all day.
They finally sent me a statement from a PR firm - all gobbledygook about
support for the free exchange of ideas. But this wasn't a free exchange of
ideas. It was a rally in support. There was a sign saying, "We love you,
Lynne, and everything that you stand for."
Plus, I'd mentioned the Web site in my first call - and the site then went
offline for much of the day. Will the Rosen- berg/Sacco-Vanzetti references
remain?
They were comical. After all, radicals generally paint those cases as false
convictions - whereas Stewart has (reluctantly) admitted the facts of her
guilt. (In fact, serious scholars no longer pretend the the Rosenbergs were
innocent, and recent research shows that Sacco and Vanzetti's lawyer was
certain of their guilt, too.)
The left in this country is determined to glorify those who hate America no
matter what. If that means "rallying" at a church "in support" of a
convicted terrorist accessory, then they will.
And these nuts often have pull in high places. Remember, in his final months
in the White House, President Bill Clinton issued pardons to several
terrorists. Some went to Puerto Rican killers from the '70s, in a bid to buy
Hispanic support for Hillary's Senate campaign. Others went '60s radicals
Susan Rosenberg and Linda Sue Evans of the Weather Underground. And the
judge who gave Stewart her soft sentence, praising her good works, was a
Clinton appointee, too.
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