One of the men, Michael B. Hari, 47, described in an April 2017 Chicago Tribune article how he drafted a $10 billion plan to build a wall along the border with Mexico, citing President Donald Trumpâs call for such a wall. Hari drew up the proposal after launching a security company, Crisis Resolution Security Services, the newspaper said.
Seems like the perfect Trump nominee for national securityâŚ
The Islamic Center primarily serves Somalis in the Minneapolis area and houses a mosque and religious school for children. Minnesota is home to the largest Somali community outside of east Africa, with an estimated 57,000 people, according to the most recent census estimates.
When I lived in Minneapolis I felt bad for the Somali population. They were always easy to pick out in July, theyâre the oneâs wearing wool sweaters when itâs 80 degrees F. Not to mention the other issues adjusting to living in a foreign country, and their children being recruited for the war in Syria.
Hari also filed a federal lawsuit just last month in central Illinois, naming the U.S. secretaries of agriculture and health and human services as defendants. It accuses their departments of violating his constitutional rights by doing the food-safety certification work that his firm, Equicert, does.
âThe People of the United States have rejected the Marxist doctrine that the government shall own the means of production,â he wrote, according to the court document. He requested a court order barring federal officials from interfering with his business.
Oh man, this guy is going to try to represent himself.
Maybe one of the Bundys will represent him?
I can hear it now: âYes we did this to try to scare the Muslims into leaving the country. Yes, the idea was to create terror. No, judge, it wasnât terrorism, it was Trumpism.â
Ya. That will work.
Muslimâs overwhelmingly came to the US by air. How fâing tall was his wall going to be?
It wasnât clear from the complaint why the men may have targeted a mosque so far from Illinois.
Minneapolis has a large and cohesive east African population (the largest in the region, I think (1)(2)). I wouldnât be surprised if thereâs a specific racial animus here, as well as the obvious religious hatred.
âAn affidavit says the men broke a window to the imamâs office and threw a pipe bomb containing black powder into the mosque. The pipe bomb exploded, causing a fire that was extinguished by sprinklers.â
"A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy, and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. âHear that?â you say. âThatâs dynamite, baby!â " â Jack Handy
It wasnât clear from the complaint why the men may have targeted a mosque so far from Illinois.
You hit the nail on the head. These thugs probably thought that theyâd get double Gold Stars on their hoods for their victims being both Muslim and Black. This really is how ignorant racist Trump-supporting thugs think.
What happens in Minneapolis stays in Minneapolis?
I question the necessity or utility of the deliberate use of the adjective âruralâ in the headline and story. Would âurbanâ have been used were they big city dwellers?
I can just see the tweet tomorrow morning. âThe DOJ is out of control. Session charged three good white men with bombing a Muslim Mosque. Instead of charges they deserve a Medal of Freedom for MAGA.â
No, the word âChicagoâ (e.g.) would have been used. The purpose of the headline is to inform, and nobody knows where the hell Clarence, IL is.
âCrisis Resolution Security Servicesâ? I believe thatâs a wholly owned subsidiary of Sobchak Security.
âMinnesota Gov. Mark Dayton called the bombing an act of terrorism when he and other officials visited the mosque the day after the explosion.â
yeah, but were they CHARGED with terrorism or were they given the white guy pass? The article doesnât state what the actual charges are. SighâŚ
Not that tall, theyâre going to put antiaircraft guns along the whole thing!
âThe West Wasnât Won With A Registered Bofors 40mm Gun!â
The answer to the question, âWhy Minnesota?â, is pretty simple: Keith Ellison. His national prominence probably inspired them to head north to possibly damage his mosque and/or harm Keith himself. At the very least they would âmake a statementâ directed at him.
I know of two free health clinics in Alabama offered by Muslim doctors. There are more. I wish these places got more press.
So this guy is no randomly riled up Rust Belt dweller. Heâs organized and dangerous, offering large sums of money to two young accomplices. Heâs motivated to maim or kill or scare the Somali communityâthe very definition of terrorismâby his AmeriNazi ideology: intolerance against Muslims/Blacks/immigrants; against women; and, obsessed with making money, antagonistic in general toward âthe governmentâ and government programs that benefit us all.
Christian extremist?