It is welcome news when perpetrators of evil are brought to justice.  The civilized world will delight in the fact that in the last month, two Islamist terrorists, one repentant, the other defiant, have been prosecuted and convicted for their infamous deeds in courts, one in The Hague and the other in Britain. The avowed and now repentant terrorist, Ahmad al-Mahdi, made history on August 22, 2016 for a number of reasons.  He was the first jihadist to appear before an international court.  He was the first defendant to plead guilty at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, and he will be sentenced to a prison term of between nine and eleven years.   In a momentous event for history, Mahdi was the first person to be tried on a "war crimes" charge, the main charge, for attacking historic and cultural monuments.  At the Nuremberg war crimes trials, no charge of cultural destruction had been brought against the Nazis.  However, after...(Read Full Article)