Texas Resident Indicted For Threatening to Blow Up Tennessee Mosque

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Texas Resident Indicted For Threatening to Blow Up Tennessee Mosque


A Texas resident has been indicted on federal charges of threatening to bomb a mosque in Tennessee days before the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

The Murfreesboro mosque has attracted national attention after a campaign by anti-Muslim activists to stop the construction of a new place of worship for the Muslim community. Construction is done on the new center, but a court battle over the project is ongoing.

Yesterday, the Justice Department announced that they would be charging 24-year-old Javier Alan Correa with “obstructing by threat of force the free exercise of religious beliefs” and “using an instrument of interstate commerce to communicate a threat,” according to the Tennessean. Correa allegedly called the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro and, after cursing Muslims, said he was going to bomb the building on September 11.

The bomb threat was just one event in a tumultuous two years for the Muslim community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. At around the same time as the bigoted campaign against an Islamic center in lower Manhattan kicked into full gear, the mosque in Murfreesboro became the target of an organized anti-Muslim campaign. ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/989821/texas_resident_indicted_for_threatening_to_blow_up_tennessee_mosque/

[Erose999]

1. I really wish they'd send RW domestic terrorists to GITMO. I mean if we have to have a GITMO we may

as well send a few of the McVeigh wannabees there.