By Debbie Schlussel

Longtime readers know I’ve been following the case of Naveed Haq, the Muslim who murdered one woman and injured five others as he attacked the Seattle Jewish Community Center.  He went there with the intent to murder as many Jews as possible, and miraculously only got one.  But it was one too many.

Islamic Terrorist Naveed Haq Convicted / Guilty

This afternoon, Haq was finally found guilty by a jury and convicted.

I say, “finally,” because this was Islamic terrorist Haq’s second trial.  As I noted on this site last year, Haq’s first jury was one of these absurd O. J. Simpson-style juries, and it ended in a mistrial.  Some jurors bought Haq’s attorney’s phony-baloney mental illness/insanity defense. I call it the “Halal Twinkie Defense.” (Maybe I should trademark it.  Remember I coined it, the next time you see the likes of Malkin, Vannity, Geller, etc. pilfering it.) We see it in many cases where Muslims attacks Jews, Christians, and other Americans based on their Muslim beliefs, then claim insanity.

But not this time.  We will have more and more of these as we continue to allow more and more Muslims into the country and watch those already here breed more and more Naveed Haqs in our midst.  It won’t end with Nidal Malik Hasan and his Fort Hood Islamic terrorist attack.

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Prosecutors contended Haq came to the Belltown center intent of killing Jewish people. . . .

Haq faced a mandatory sentence of life without the possibility of parole if convicted of aggravated murder. But continued confinement was all but certain, as a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity meant Haq would be sent to a mental institution.

The facts of the case against Haq had been largely agreed from the beginning, with jurors left to decide whether Haq was insane at the time of the killings and if his actions showed a premeditated design to kill.

During trial, the King County Superior Court jury heard from Haq’s five surviving victims and was shown video of the initial moments of the attack.

According to police reports, Haq forced his was into the federation building by holding a gun to the back of a 14-year-old girl. Once inside, Haq proceeded to shoot six women working there, slaying Pam Waechter after chasing the injured woman into a stairwell and shooting her in the head.

Speaking with a 911 dispatcher before giving himself up to police the day of the shooting, Haq demanded that the United States military leave Iraq and complained that Muslims in the Middle East were “getting pushed around” by Israel and asked to be connected with CNN. Described by his attorneys as a non-practicing Muslim and baptized Christian, Haq was later heard on recorded calls from King County jail describing the woman he killed as an “Israeli collaborator” deserving death.

Haq’s attorneys had argued throughout the trial that, as a result of his mental condition, he believed his actions might end the Iraq War and Israel’s war in Lebanon, which was underway at the time of the shooting.

In addition to the aggravated murder charge, Haq was charged with five counts of attempted murder, unlawful imprisonment and malicious harassment, Washington’s hate crime law.

No one with a “mind that is whole” would believe such a thing, his attorney said in closing arguments.

No, actually, there are more than a billion people with “minds that are whole” that believe exactly that. They’re very sane. And very serious in pursuing what they believe is the just response to these false beliefs.

That’s the problem. And not just in this case, but many others in the past . . . and many more to come.

Watch for the same kind of “halal twinkie defense” in the trial of Fort Hood Massacre Islamic terrorist, Nidal Malik Hasan.

More from a previous post:

Victims testified that Haq, of Pakistani descent, made anti-Semitic statements before and during the slayings. Victim Dayna Klein, who was held hostage by Haq after he shot her, testified that he spoke about Jews needing to get out of Lebanon and Iraq.

On a 911 recording played for the jury, Haq was heard saying, “I want these Jews to get out.” The 911 operator told him that Klein, who was pregnant, needed an ambulance. “I don’t care,” the gunman said calmly. ” … just want to make a point … all the media’s being controlled by Jews. I’m sick and tired of it … Patch me in to CNN.”

Victim Christina Rexroad testified tearfully about her near-deadly encounter with Haq that afternoon. She said heard “popping” noises and walked down the hallway and saw Haq, who had forced his way into the locked building about two minutes earlier.

“He turned and looked at me. He had a gun in his hand. He shot me,” said Rexroad, her voice quivering.

Prosecution witnesses also testified that Haq conducted a computer search prior to the shootings to find his intended target.
According to the testimony of a Seattle police computer-forensic specialist, Haq sat down at his laptop the day before the shooting and began entering Internet search terms. He began by Googling the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group, and soon landed on the Seattle Jewish organization, eventually creating a map and directions for the 227-mile trip from his parents’ home in Pasco.

The next time you hear about a man shooting up Jewish, Christian, and other non-Muslim targets in America, just ask yourself: Was his “Twinkie Halal?”

You know what that means.