ATLANTA, Georgia (AFP) A Pakistan-born US citizen was sentenced Monday to 17 years in prison for supporting terror groups by sending videos of US landmarks abroad and plotting violent jihad in Europe. Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 23, refused to stand when judge William Duffey, a former US attorney, asked him several times to stand for sentencing. Duffey had allowed to Sadequee 44 minutes in court to explain to the judge why a harsh sentence should not be imposed. But Sadequee instead used the time to explain his religious beliefs and that he would not be judged by one man. Ill say this, our Gods are very different, Duffey said to Sadequee. This is a day of reckoning for you, Mr Sadequee. This is to deter you and to deter others from this conduct. Sadequee was found guilty in August by a federal jury of supporting terror groups by sending videos of US landmarks abroad and plotting violent jihad in Europe. He was convicted on four counts of providing material support to terrorism, which could have brought up to 60 years in prison. During the trial, prosecutors said Sadequee and his co-conspirators developed relationships over the Internet and maintained contact online, along with other supporters of violent jihad in the United States, Canada, Britain, Pakistan, Bosnia and beyond. The young man, prosecutors said, travelled to Canada to meet other militants, including members of the Toronto 18 Al-Qaeda-inspired group, and to Bangladesh, where he sent an email in 2001 when he was only 15 seeking to join the Taliban to fight US and coalition forces in Afghanistan. Among the contacts to whom Sadequee sent his videos of potential targets in Washington - including the US Capitol, the World Bank and a fuel tank farm - was Aabid Hussein Khan, a facilitator for the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad. Sadequees convicted co-conspirator Syed Haris Ahmed was to be sentenced later Monday.