Atlanta courthouse shooting suspect Nichols converts to Islam

[kskiska]

So much for "The Purpose-Driven Life" and Ashley Whatshername's Christian witnessing.

According to broadcast reports this evening, Brian Nichols, the suspect in the Fulton County Courthouse shootings in Atlanta on March 11, has had a jailhouse conversion to Islam.

Nichols, who was indicted last Thursday on 54 charges, including four counts each of murder and felony murder, has requested -- and received -- permission to talk to a local Imam. Nichols will be allowed to pray in accordance to the tenants of Islam as well.

The indictment includes 18 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, 7 counts of kidnapping, and five counts of hijacking a motor vehicle.

As you'll remember, Nichols was being readied for a rape trial when he overpowered and severely injured his guard, entered the courtroom and shot to death Judge Rowland Barnes and the court stenographer. Nichols subsequently escaped the courthouse, killing a Fulton County Sherrif's deputy, and later killing a US Customs agent before his capture in Gwinnett County.

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[billbuckhead]

1. Religion seems to be the refuge for many murderers these days

[jaysunb]

2. Well

If you've ever been to jail, you know how long the lines for Bible Study and prayer meetings are.....those are Christian affairs,of course, so I guess it's not worthy of any particular mention. :evilfrown:

Seems like more Religious bashing to me, with Islam as the latest target.

[CatWoman]

8. All of the guys I knew at home who went to jail

came back professing to be Muslims.

That is, until you waved a pork chop at them.

:hi:

[jaysunb]

11. HaHa !

u r correct about those kind of jailhouse conversions. In the joint,NO ONE fucks with Muslims. Naturally, everybody wants to be with that team. Those that didn't come in that way, usually backslide as soon as they hit the door-- or, as you correctly state--when the pork chops hit the pan! :evilgrin:

:hi: back at cha ...hope you're well.

[CatholicEdHead]

3. Isn't this the same guy who surrendered after that woman read that book?

It was also some "Christian", "born-again" book, wasn't it?

Don't they have a very low opinion of Islam anyways?

[FreedomAngel82]

4. Interesting

Did he really change or did something happen and they're blaming the Islam religion?? So what happened to him changing from being a faithful one to Islamic?

[ConsAreLiars]

5. It might just be an adaptive move

Gangs in prison, as well as outside, often operate behind such a facade.

Might be the result of temporal lobe epilepsy.

Might just be intended to stop the drooling crazies from writing and trying to make him their poster child.

[LostinVA]

6. AW, leave Ashley Smith alone

She kept her head and came out of the whole thing unscathed, AND helped the guy turn himself in. Yeah, she's a redneck who took a hard turn and is now suddenly trying to walk the straight and narrow. I don't agree with her particular straight and narrow, but she done good.

[mopaul]

7. all paths lead to god for murderers?

hell, he ought to be a branch davidiot

[sundancekid]

9. you make the PERFECT point: "so much for ... and ... Christian witnessing"

may he find his true peace and may he have the character to make amends, and the irony of NOT following those born-again precepts BUT finding his own God is certainly not lost on me.

[geomon666]

10. His lawyer must be freakin on him.

'No you idiot. You're supposed to become a Born Again Christian so all the fundies can chant and scream outside of the courthouse and you can be released early. Now you'll be lucky not to get another 50 years attached to your sentence.'

[jaysunb]

12. My thoughts exactly !

Maybe he really is a mental case. ??

I was thinking about a defense for him, and figured he could use the dead judges liberal ( read rational) past rulings to claim, "Jesus told him to do it." Hey ! maybe he coulda got out in a few years and be the black Charles Colson. :evilgrin:

But now, they're crankin ol sparky up for sure.....

[spindoctor]

13. I'm not sure that there is a BAC-gang in the county jail.

Muslim is a safer short-term solution for this guy.