Update: Jihad Watch has a good post on this and questions, as do many now, about the type of crosses painted on the wall and conflicting stories reported to the press.
That is the phrase painted on the Somali mosque in Nashville. According to the Tennessean today, a possible “hate crime” was committed. (Go visit the Tennessean and note the obviously staged photo that the Tennessean has offered for sale!)
I’m curious, does anyone know if a “hate crime” charge was brought against the Ft. Hood shooter in addition to his murder charges? Or closer to Nashville, was that recruiting station murder of a soldier classified as a hate crime?
Maybe a frustrated local resident vandalized the mosque, but I’m always suspicious of things like this—did some other immigrant write this (the Somalis in Nashville have severely antagonized other African groups in Nashville for a number of years), or possibly someone on the political far left who wants to stir up trouble—remember crisis begets change (Saul Alinsky). And, afterall, we know there are Chicago-style community organizers among Nashville’s open borders advocates.
State, local and federal officials are investigating vandalism discovered early Wednesday at the Al-Farooq Mosque on Fourth Avenue South as a possible hate crime.
The words “Muslim go home” and several crosses were spray-painted in red on the exterior of the building, and an expletive and hate-speech filled note was left at the youth center, according to a board member of the mosque. Salaad Nur said the note contained the message that Islam is the enemy and that the religion is trying to destroy the United States and Israel. Members of the mosque planned to meet last night with law enforcement to discuss the crime.
“It was an unexpected thing,” Nur said. “It kind of shook us.”
Metro Police Sgt. Brooks Harris of the Specialized Investigations Division said his department will investigate because of the obvious sign that the vandalism could be classified as a hate crime. He said he notified the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation as well as the FBI, to see if federal laws were violated and look for potential similarities with vandalism late last year at a mosque site in Murfreesboro.
We have told you about this Somali community previously. The leaders of the Nashville Somalis got in trouble with the feds back in 2007 . After it was learned that federal grant fraud had been committed with the Somali Center, the Imam fled to Kenya before he could be questioned about the possible missuse of the taxpayers’ money.
Hey, Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence, why did you pick Frederick, MD to highlight as a “racist city” and not Nashville? Looks like Nashville might need your services! See the brouhaha being created in Lewiston, ME, where another large population of Somalis has established itself. The Hate Violence gang wants to use that city as a model for multicultural understanding! Why don’t they pick Nashville—maybe because it will be too difficult a task? The inter-immigrant group warfare is well-established and the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence would have to unravel that problem before they could get to their hoped-for agenda—showing that white Americans are racists.
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The US State Department has admitted over 80,000 Somali refugees to the US (this linked post continues to be one of the most widely read posts we have ever written) in the last 25 years and then last year had to suspend family reunification because widespread immigration fraud was revealed through DNA testing. That specific program has not yet been reopened (that we know of), but will be soon.
Nevertheless, thousands of Somali Muslims continue to be resettled as I write this. We recently learned that we will be taking 6000 Somalis this year from one camp in Uganda and as many as 11,000-13,000 total from around the world.
As for Nashville, we have written dozens of posts on the city, you can find all of our references to Nashville archived here.