CHICAGO (AP) - Three Islamic charities and an alleged fund-raiser for the Palestinian militant group Hamas were ordered Wednesday to pay $156 million to the parents of an American teenager shot and killed by terrorists on Israel's West Bank. A federal jury deliberated for one day before awarding $52 million in damages to the parents of David Boim, shot down at a bus stop outside Jerusalem eight years ago. U.S. Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys then tripled the damages. The judge found the defendants liable for damages in the case last month. How can you not love this judge? If these charities are in the U.S. then this judge might have single-handedly shut down Hamas funding in the U.S.
| The attorney for the defense refused to present a case and sat silent "like a potted plant" on the grounds that this case was prejudiced against Islam. |