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Crooks and Liars wonders why this story has not received national attention.
On May 10th, a middle-aged man carried a can of gasoline and a pipe bomb into the Jacksonville Islamic Center of Northeast Florida during evening prayers and detonated it. Fortunately, there were no injuries to people, though the bomb did damage property.
The surveillance video above gives a fairly decent picture of this man, who is clearly white, middle-aged, and on a mission.
The local news is all over it, of course. WOKV.com reports the FBI investigating it as a hate crime and possible domestic terrorism.
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Anti-Muslim sentiments in Florida have been bubbling to the surface, particularly after Republican Dan Fanelli’s campaign commercial was aired asking if a man appearing to be from the Middle East “looked like a terrorist.” According to Yahoo News, there were two other ads with even more pointed messages against Muslims
A few thoughts…
- While this story played locally in Jacksonville, there’s been nothing from the big boys. Why? Has everyone become so blase about hate crimes, that they are no longer worthy of media attention?
- Anti-Muslim hate speech by hate-mongers is going to eventually get innocent people killed while doing nothing to make anyone safer.
- As has been abundantly clear since 9/11, radical Islamic terrorism hurts Muslims more than it does anyone else. Aside from the tens of thousands Iraqis and Afghans killed in the two wars, millions of others are subjected to scorn and abuse by individuals in need of an excuse to exercise their bigoted ways.
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