Trump's 'Fine People' on Trial for Terror
Three men went on trial last week in Kansas for plotting to bomb a Muslim apartment building. They’re not the kinds of accused terrorists Trump likes to tweet about, though.
DEAN OBEIDALLAH
03.26.18 5:19 AM ET
A major terrorism trial began last week in a Kansas federal court involving religious extremists who wanted to kill hundreds of people on U.S. soil using machine guns and explosives in the hopes of starting, in essence, a holy war.
If you are wondering why Donald Trump hasn’t tweeted even once about this, the answer is simple: These accused terrorists are white Christians. Add to that, they are Trump fans.
The defendants in this case, Patrick Stein, Gavin Wright, and Curtis Allen, were charged in the fall of 2016 after an eight month FBI investigation with plotting a massive terrorist attack on U.S. soil. These three man called themselves “The Crusaders,” as in Christian crusaders. And just like their namesake, these men were waging a holy war versus Muslims. However, this war wasn’t going take place in the Holy Land, but against Somali Muslim immigrants living in Garden City, Kansas.
As federal prosecutor Risa Berkower argued in her opening statement on Thursday, the three “wanted to send the message Muslims are not welcomed here—not in Garden City, not in Kansas, not in America.” And to this end they came up with a bone chilling plan.
These three white supremacists plotted with military precision a terrorist attack against the local Muslim American community that would slaughter everyone there, including the children, in the hopes it would “wake people up” and inspire others to take up arms and slaughter Muslims living in our country.
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