Of course Homaidan Al-Turki wanted to "serve his sentence" in Saudi Arabia, where raping your maid and keeping her as a slave is sanctioned under Islamic law. But Colorado Department of Corrections chief Tom Clements didn't submit .....
Homaidan Al-Turki, a convicted Saudi felon who was sentenced to 28 years in prison after being convicted by a Colorado jury for imprisoning his housekeeper and holding her as a sex slave, could soon be released from prison.
Homaidan al-Turki, a Saudi citizen whose 2006 case made headlines and triggered national outrage when he was arrested for imprisoning and sexually abusing his maid in the basement of his Aurora home, has asked to be repatriated to Saudi Arabia.
Mr. al-Turki was convicted in 2006 for reportedly holding his maid against her will, paying her slave wages, and sexually assaulting her over a period of several years.
During his trial, al-Turki argued that he was a victim of anti-Muslim bias.
“We are Muslim. We are different. The state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors. Attacking traditional Muslim behaviors is a focal point of the prosecution,” al-Turki said during testimony. (more here)
Dhimmi Colorado governer Hickenlooper was amenable to the outrageous Islamic supremacist request and came close to approving al-Turki's demand, save for the national uproar that arose when Hickenlooper's dhimmitude came to light.
And Colorado Department of Corrections chief Tom Clements was adamantly against it. If al-Turki had been allowed to return to Saudi Arabia, he would have escaped punishment for his crimes.
“Slavery, including sexual slavery, is sanctioned in Islamic law,” said Spencer. “Thus… what Homaidan al-Turki is accused of doing is not criminal activity in Saudi Arabia.”
“Sending [al-Turki] back [to Saudi Arabia] would be tantamount to freeing him, and to implicitly accepting the legitimacy of Islamic law and its precedence over American law,” Spencer added.
It is frightening that the grossly incompetent tool, Governor Hichenlooper, would today sign a gun control package fresh on the heels of this cold blooded murder.
"Tom Clements Murder: Link To Homaidan Al-Turki, Saudi National Clements Refused To Transfer, To Be Investigated" Huffington Post, March 20, 2013
Sarah Khonaizan, left, and her husband Homaidan Al-Turki, both Saudi citizens, arrive at the Arapahoe County courthouse in Centennial, Colo., in this May 12, 2006, file photo. The linguist, convicted of sexually assaulting a housekeeper and keeping her a virtual slave for four years in Colorado, has cleared initial administrative hurdles for a transfer to Saudi Arabia under a United States treaty. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)According to anonymous sources that spoke to Fox31, officials will look into the possibility that the recent denial to transfer Saudi national Homaidan al-Turki, who is serving out a prison sentence in Colorado, to Saudi Arabia is somehow linked to the shooting death of 58-year-old Colorado Department of Corrections chief Tom Clements, Tuesday night.
Al-Turki is currently serving time in Colorado's Limon Correctional Facility for a 2006 conviction that he repeatedly sexually assaulted a housekeeper whom he kept as a virtual slave in his home, prosecutors said during the trial. Al-Turki has said that his arrest and the case were politically motivated and has maintained his innocence since his trial.
Al-Turki's company sold "The Lives of the Prophets" CDs, a set of Islamic sermons recorded by U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki who was killed along with his 16-year-old son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki during a 2011 drone strike in Yemen.
Just last week Colorado prison officials denied a request from the Saudi Arabian government to release al-Turki and transfer him to Saudi Arabia to serve out the remainder of his sentence, CBS4 reported. Clements himself wrote a letter to al-Turki and made the decision to deny the transfer request because al-Turki had not undergone sex offender treatment, which Colorado law requires of convicted sex offenders.
Clements' letter reads:
Due to the nature of your crime and according to C.R.S. 18-1.3-1004 (3), each sex offender receiving an indeterminate sentence, shall be required as part of the sentence to undergo treatment to the extend appropriate pursuant to C.R.S. 15-11.7-105. Information provided indicates that you have been given multiple opportunities to be screened by the Sex Offender Treatment and Monitoring Program. To date you have declined those opportunities to be assessed for potential placement in treatment. You have reportedly declined based upon religious reasons/conflicts with your Islamic faith. I have reviewed information provided from our Chief of Behavioral Health which indicates that the treatment providers work with offenders to identify cultural/religious values and beliefs that support their change efforts, and work with religious leaders for advice in resolving identified concerns.After a thorough review and careful consideration of all information provided to me in this matter, I have decided not to support your request for transfer to Saudi Arabia at this time.
I would encourage you to reconsider your position regarding participation in required treatment. Should you change your mind, you should contact your case manager about initiating the process to be screened for the treatment program. Your successful participation in the Sex Offender Treatment and Monitoring Program would reflect positive progression and, although there can be no guarantees of future determinations, could result in your eventual parole or transfer to a Saudi Arabian prison.
Read Clements' entire letter to Al-Turki here.
More from the AP:
While Clements generally kept a low profile, his killing comes a week after he denied a request by a Saudi national, Homaidan al-Turki, to serve out the remainder of a Colorado prison sentence in Saudi Arabia. He cited al-Turki's refusal to undergo sex offender treatment in his denial.Al-Turki, a well-known member of Denver's Muslim community, was convicted in state court in 2006 of unlawful sexual contact by use of force, theft and extortion and sentenced to 28 years to life in prison. Prosecutors said al-Turki kept a housekeeper a virtual slave for four years in his home and sexually assaulted her. A judge reduced the sentence to eight years to life. Al-Turki insisted the case was politically motivated. He owned a company that some years ago sold CDs of sermons recorded by Anwar al-Awlaki, killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
Al-Turki's conviction angered Saudi officials and prompted the U.S. State Department to send Colorado Attorney General John Suthers to Saudi Arabia to meet with King Abdullah, Crown Prince Sultan and al-Turki's family.
After Clements' shooting, someone with the State Department called the Colorado Corrections Department.
