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.
"It was a dangerous device, and had anybody been around it they could have been seriously injured or killed," says Special Agent James Casey. "We want to sort of emphasize the seriousness of the thing and not let people believe that this was just a match and a little bit of gasoline that was spread around."
Casey says surveillance video from the Islamic Center shows the arsonist carrying gasoline and the pipe bomb. When the explosive went off, parts of it were found 100 feet away on 9A....
FOX News: Nothing
CNN: Nothing
MSNBC: Nothing
CBS News: Nothing.
CrooksAndLiars
did a great job on their article. It's worth reading.
I'm appalled that this is the first I've read about this act of domestic terrorism. It's clear that the perpetrator of this crime intended to do harm to others based on their religious affiliation. Why is it that all of the major media outlets have ignored such an important story?
It is that it doesn't fit with their pre-conceived narratives about what a terrorist looks like? Who commits terrorism?
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Muslims are the scapegoats of choice these days for distracting people from how badly we are being screwed over by wealthy and corporate interests. The last thing the corporate media want is to run stories that might make people sympathetic towards Muslims.
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