Busted!

A prominent Islamic scholar was convicted Tuesday of 10 counts alleging he encouraged followers in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks to join the Taliban and fight the United States.

Jurors reached their verdict in their seventh day of deliberations in the trial of Ali al-Timimi.

The 41-year-old defendant showed no reaction to the verdict. He faces a mandatory maximum sentence of life in prison, federal prosecutors said.

Prosecutors have said al-Timimi, a U.S. citizen born in Washington, was a respected scholar who enjoyed “rock star” status among his followers and that he used that influence to guide them into holy war against the United States.

Al-Timimi’s lawyers have said he only counseled young Muslims after Sept. 11 that they might be wise to leave the United States because it would become difficult to practice their faith in this country.

It only has become more difficult for the followers of terrorism to practice their religion of death in the US.

Al Timimi will be spending the rest of his life behind bars.