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Tariq Mehanna: January 4, 2011

Reading through the IA comments on Shehata, I’m quite surprised that people are still debating my guilt/innocence of the govt’s allegations against me. I’ve been sitting here for 15 months now in solitary confinement, reading through all of the “evidence” the government has regarding me, and I have yet to receive a single shred of it regarding any so-called plot to do anything to anyone at any time. I haven’t even been told exactly what/where/to whom I planned anything. I don’t even know until now exactly what I did that constitutes terrorism under American Law. So, the debate of my guilt or innocence – after 15 months without any evidence of a “plot” put forth even to my attorneys – should be buried and dead.

What it seems I am guilty of, and what this case is really about, is sympathizing with oppressed Muslims and those who are defending them worldwide. This entire case is about my loyalties – my wala & bara’, and that is why I was arrested, and that is why I’m being put on trial. Simple as that. Even former CIA agents who were interviewed about me stated to the media that my case is unprecedented in that I’m being prosecuted for my ideas, rather than anything I did. What I’ve been told is that the government is using me as a test case to see how far they can go with terrorism statutes – how far they can push the envelope. So, we’ll see how things turn out, and Allah is with the believers.

The second thing I wanted to say is in regards to the assertion that I have somehow “led people to destruction, shattered families, and brought harm to Muslims east and west.” The first thing that went through my mind when reading this line was that I could think of no better way to describe the US government that MM is so loyal to, but I snapped back to reality and the fact that only in the Twilight Zone would they ever use such language against the colonizers of their minds. It’s like Malcolm X said:

“No matter how fearless a dog is, you catch him out on the street, stamp your foot: he’ll run, because you’re only threatening him. His master has never trained him how to defend himself. But that same dog, if you walk through the master’s gate, will growl and bite. Why will he growl and bite over there and not growl and bite over here? Over there, he’s growling and biting for the defense of his master and the benefit of his master. But when his own interests are threatened, he has no growl.”

And history repeats itself before our eyes, unfortunately, Malcolm X’s analogy applies 100% to the Muslim house slaves of today.

Aside from my utter confusion as to who I’ve led to “destruction,” what family I’ve “shattered,” or which Muslims in the east or west I’ve brought “harm” to, I can tell you that my own family never speaks to me on the phone in prison without reiterating how proud they are of my stance, and that they would rather have me in jail because of my principles than have me “free” because of my betrayal of them. Clear enough, I think.”

-Tariq Mehanna
4th Jan 2011

Here is the original article that is being referenced in the letter and the comment.
Here is the relevant thread referenced in the letter.

Omar Mahmoud Mohammed Othman: August 2009 (An Address to the Muslims)

15 Aug

All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all the Worlds. And may the blessings and peace be upon the unlettered Prophet. And to proceed…

As-Salamu ‘Alaykum Wa Rahmat Allahi Wa Barakatuh,

I begin my words by praising Allah, the Most High, for His great favours and His grand, sweeping bounties, because, by Allah, He has been generous to me with many gifts and bounties, which I’m unable to enumerate, nor am I able to extend (suitable) praise for it nor to fulfil my gratitude towards them. The greatest of them was that which I was afflicted with in His path from imprisonment, confinement and harm, then I was given in these six years bounties and gifts the likes of which, had I spent all of my life outside of the prison, I would not have attained them, so the gift of prison then the many gifts within it, took place through His praise, His virtue and His choosing.

In the first three years, I completed the memorization of the Book of Allah, the Most High, along with lengthy contemplations about it, which helped me in writing a number of books, the most beautiful of them, in my opinion, was the book: “Fann al-Qira’ah” (”The Art of Reading”), which is a book in which I hoped to narrate my experience with the great endeavour of reading, so that the person may reach through it, to what which I labelled: “Al-Qira’ah al-Jadaliyyah” (”Forensic Reading”), in which I mentioned many of the dreams, advice and conclusions, so that the reader may reach to the exaltation of Allah, the Great, and His glorification. And I wanted to make the reading of religious material a scientific (style) of reading, just as I wanted to make reading – any reading – to be a religious-based reading through its correct meaning. In other words, that the ‘Ubudiyyah (servitude of worship) would be completed for Allah, the Most High. I hope from Allah, the Most High, that He will make its distribution easy, because I believe that nothing has been written like it before on this topic.

And while inside, I also wrote the book: “Limatha Intasarna? ” (”Why Were We Victorious?”) I clarified in this book the meaning of victory from the Book of Allah, the Most High, and I discussed the status of the Jihadi movements; specifically and its effects on the world in general. And in it, I came to the certain conclusion that we are living in a victory, because the grid line for the Ummah (nation) of Islam is on the rise and the line of Kufr (disbelief) is descending and falling. And within this book there are many hypothetical debates with the defeatist side within the Islamic ranks.

From the first day of my first imprisonment – three years – I recorded my thoughts and my dreams and likewise that which I saw with my eyes and that which I remembered from the stances (of men) in a manner such as “Sayd al-Khatir” (”Capturing Ideas”), which I named “Shatharat Min al-Fikr Wal-Hayyat” (‘Fragments From The Ideology and Life’), with which I filled three notebooks.

From that which kept me busy for a long while was the understanding of “Al-’Aql” (i.e. the Intellect). And it is from the matters, which have specific ties to the Qur’an, as it was not mentioned in the Qur’an as an independent entity, rather it was mentioned as a possessive action: ﴾…Ya’qilun (those with intellect)﴿.
So I wrote a paper, which I called “Al-Farqu Bayn al-’Aql ash-Shi’ri Wa’l-’Aql al-Jihadi ” (”The Difference Between the Poetic Intellect and the Jihadi Intellect”). And that was through following what He, the Most High, said in Surat Ash-Shu’ara’:

﴾ وَالشُّعَرَاء يَتَّبِعُهُمُ الْغَاوُونَ﴿

﴾ As for the poets, the erring follow them.﴿

And in those days I recorded some memories, which I did not complete, and I named it: “Wa Fi Balmarsh Kanat Lana Ayyam” (”And In Belmarsh We Experienced Days”). And the last of what I wrote there was “Al-’Arba’un al-Jiyad li-Ahl al-Tawhid Wa’l-Jihad ” (”The Forty Steeds For the People of Tawhid and Jihad “) and it is the only one, which Allah, the Most High, decreed to be released to the brothers. Read the rest of this entry »