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Florida man could get life in prison for mosque bacon attack

Feb 27, 2016 7:18 am By Robert Spencer

There is no excuse for what Michael Wolfe did. He is guilty of being hateful and stupid, and committing armed burglary and criminal mischief. He should be sentenced accordingly. In Portland, Mohamed Mohamud attempted to commit jihad mass murder at a Christmas Tree lighting ceremony. He got thirty years in prison, and his lawyers are claiming that sentence was draconian and should be reduced. Michael Wolfe should get life in prison for bacon while Mohamed Mohamud gets thirty years for attempted mass murder? This indicates yet again that Muslims in the U.S. are rapidly becoming a protected class, of whom authorities are particularly solicitous. Michael Wolfe deserves punishment. The punishment should fit the crime.

Michael Wolfe

“Mosque bacon attack could get Titusville suspect life in prison,” by J.D. Gallop, Florida Today, February 25, 2016:

An attack on a mosque using raw bacon and a machete could potentially garner a Brevard County man up to life in prison as a result of a recently added hate crime enhancement, authorities say.

An attack on a mosque using raw bacon and a machete could potentially garner a Brevard County man up to life in prison as a result of a recently added hate crime enhancement, authorities say.

Michael Wolfe, 35, was charged with armed burglary of a structure and criminal mischief of a place of worship in connection with the New Year’s Eve break-in and desecration of the Islamic Society of Central Florida Masjid Al-Munin Mosque in Titusville.

Police said the convicted felon acted alone, broke into the empty mosque with a machete at night, slashing at windows and other property before leaving behind a slab of raw bacon in and around the front door. A surveillance video shows Wolfe, dressed in camouflage pants and carrying a backpack as he stepped into the carport at the mosque.

The attack – one of a several acts of vandalism reported at Islamic centers across the country – drew national attention from advocacy groups like the [Hamas-linked — Ed.] Council on American-Islamic Relations. The incident left many in fear at the small, 50-member congregation.

Wolfe remains held at the Brevard County Jail Complex without bond and is awaiting trial.

“Our charging decisions confirm how seriously we take crimes of this nature. When further investigation shows a crime is clearly hate motivated, it will not be tolerated,” said State Attorney Phil Archer, who could not comment directly on the case.

The state attorney’s office reviewed the case and brought formal charges against Wolf earlier this month. Both charges now carry hate crime enhancements, which means the potential sanctions in the event of a conviction are increased. In the case of the armed burglary charge, Wolfe could now face up to life in prison if found guilty of the charge, although the case and any sentencing still hinges on whether a plea deal is reached, Wolfe’s prior record and the discretion of the judge.

Imam Muhammad Mursi, who oversees a network of mosques in Central Florida. lauded the state attorney’s office’s effort to pursue the case as a hate crime. “We have been hoping for that to happen. It was clearly a hate crime,” Mursi said. “Obviously, we were lucky that no one was there that night. He had a a machete, someone could have been killed.”

“Right now we are trying to recover and reassure people,” Mursi said….

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Comments

  1. Dave says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 7:45 am

    If hate is a crime then Islam should be in jail. Islam is conspiring to conquer my country, destroy my civilization, and to kill me if I don’t submit.

    • Michael Hoppe says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 9:08 am

      Charge him with the crimes he committed. If there is a hate crime enhancement, add some to the sentence if found guilty. Life in prison is ridiculous.

      • Mark Swan says

        Feb 28, 2016 at 5:59 am

        The solution was in the playpen…not in the state pen…

        But I am betting His Barber was a Muslim!

      • William Lansdowne says

        Feb 28, 2016 at 9:46 am

        https://youtu.be/BQx3_BiaW38

        Please follow my link to a youtube video on the differences in islam and Christianity

    • Elizabeth says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 1:57 pm

      Shall we bring up all the work place killing that have occurred in the not too far distance past?

    • Champ ✿ says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 3:45 pm

      Bravo, Dave!

    • Gayla says

      Feb 29, 2016 at 1:27 am

      WE the People need to get behind this man and support him, with a petition, it is the least we can do to support him!!

  2. Michael V. Wilson says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 7:49 am

    “Islam is a totalitarian ideology masquerading as a false religion.”

    • JawsV says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 8:55 am

      No, it’s masquerading as a true religion.

      • mortimer says

        Feb 27, 2016 at 9:17 am

        Islam is a totalitarian ideology whispered by an evil spirit masquerading as a deity to a pirate masquerading as a prophet.

        Islam is a series of masquerades within a hall of mirrors.

        • Marie Zacharias says

          Feb 27, 2016 at 2:51 pm

          Well spoken.

        • Robert Half says

          Feb 28, 2016 at 2:08 am

          Pity the Muslims don’t know about St. Paul’s citation about satan coming as an angel of light. Mohammed didn’t know about holy water or any other Sacrament the Catholic Church produces in order to defend ourselves from the demonic. So he fell prey to believing that St. Gabriel was a tortuous agent from Allah, when it was the devil himself coming as “an angel of light” to convict him to begin the “religion” which would be the punishing rod and staff of God when we go astray. See Isaiah 10 for clarity, and replace “unjust laws” with “Roe v. Wade” and see why western society is being overrun by Islam. Pray the Rosary, because that’s what saved western civilization for the past 1400 years.

      • Marie Zacharias says

        Feb 27, 2016 at 2:50 pm

        It is not a true religion. You march to the tune of mad man who has imposed hate and all the crimes possible on everyone who believes in a true God…Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

        Never a true religion. You’ve been duped all your life and you will one day find that and “there will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth”.

  3. No Fear says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 8:13 am

    Commit burglary and do some time. A life sentence?

    Will muslims who commit fake hate crimes be under threat of life imprisonment?

  4. Jerry in Minneapolis says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 8:27 am

    It wasn’t a “hate” crime. It was workplace violence. Idiots.

  5. JawsV says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 8:29 am

    “He had a a machete, someone could have been killed.” – Muslim in above article

    Oh, really? You mean like how Muslims have mass-murdered over 3,000 Americans? You mean like that?

    • Jerry in Minneapolis says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 8:48 am

      Yes, “someone could have been killed.”

      He probably doesn’t mean that as it sounds. I think what he means is, when you offend us like that someone could get killed–wink wink.

    • Shmooviyet says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 1:40 pm

      Definitely not the same way “someone could have been killed” in the Ohio restaurant, where the wanna-be inquired into the owner’s national origin, then returned armed for a SLASHING-PEOPLE spree.

      Nothing “hateful” to see there.

      • Theresa says

        Feb 28, 2016 at 8:21 am

        He had a machete with him to slash all the Muslims who were praying in the middle of the night? Some people sure stretch the lengths of believability.

  6. ECAW says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 8:31 am

    “When further investigation shows a crime is clearly hate motivated, it will not be tolerated”

    Orwell eat your heart out. When a criminal’s motivation can be used to multiply the same act by x, and those who are in power at any one time can decide what is hateful and whether it should be tolerated or not then the rule of law is compromised and tyranny is not very far away.

    • Mo says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 1:00 pm

      @ ECAW

      “Orwell eat your heart out. When a criminal’s motivation can be used to multiply the same act by x, and those who are in power at any one time can decide what is hateful and whether it should be tolerated or not then the rule of law is compromised and tyranny is not very far away.”

      Absolutely right. That’s why I do not support the very idea of “hate crimes. No one beats, rapes, robs, or murders someone because they love them. All this does is create a special class of victims.

  7. Panmelia says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 8:33 am

    I hope people in America pay for him to hire a brilliant lawyer who gets him off any major charges. Maybe his frustration at seeing blinkered politicians constantly excuse and suck up to members of a disgusting religion sparked him off. If so, I know exactly how he feels.

    These ‘hate crime’ laws remind me of Orwell’s “1984” and are designed to stifle free thought and free speech.

    • Marie Zacharias says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 2:54 pm

      It is not a true religion. You march to the tune of mad man who has imposed hate and all the crimes possible on everyone who believes in a true God…Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

      Never a true religion. You’ve been duped all your life and you will one day find that and “there will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth”.

  8. bruce lorraine says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 8:40 am

    Well next time anyone has the bright idea to use bacon in an
    attack(attack?oh come on) on a mosque they should use a grenade launcher instead.

    • Jerry in Minneapolis says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 8:56 am

      How long before simply eating bacon is a crime? I’m thinking not too long.

  9. Tommo says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 9:13 am

    Wolife is being made an example of to deter others from attacking mosques. Muslims do far worse to synagogues and strangely are never caught despite evidence on camera. Is there a petition for Michael Wolfe or anyone remotely interested in his human rights?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 1:43 pm

      You are exactly right–he *is* being made an example of, in total violation of his legal rights.

      Meanwhile, we see headlines like this in the West:

      “Jews Attacked by Muslim Man at Synagogue in Melbourne”

      “Muslim Rioters Attack Synagogue in Paris”

      “Muslim Protesters Attempt to Storm Swiss Synagogue”

      “Australia: Muslim tries to strangle Jewish Rabbi outside synagogue”

      “Muslim arrested after attack on New Jersey Synagogue”

      “Stab the Jew: knife-wielding Muslims attack Jewish man outside French Synagogue”

      I’m sure I could find as many attacks on churches, as well.

      • Marie Zacharias says

        Feb 27, 2016 at 3:01 pm

        You bet you can. Thousands have been torched during services and they’ve killed people attending. Check online and you will find proof of the attacks on believers all over the world. I believe this may begin to happen here in the US & Canada. With the liberal government protection of islamic invasions, none of us will be spared…I believe. God help us.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 28, 2016 at 12:10 am

          All true, Marie. We all know about the terrible Muslim attacks on churches and Christians in Dar-al-Islam, and it has already started here in the West:

          “Christians and Churches Attacked in the West”

          http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4966/christians-churches-attacked

          And Muslims whine about someone tossing bacon around,

  10. خَليفة says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 9:20 am

    Mohammed should be posthumously convicted of hate crimes and crimes against humanity. We have lots of testimony to this in Koran and hadiths.

    Mohammed, by the overwhelming testimony of your companions, you have been proven to be a false prophet, liar, murderer, rapist, child molester and countless other crimes.

    ———-

    I’m sure this guy has associates with similar attitudes, they will learn and adapt in how they choose to combat Islam. At some point the general kafir population will feel the need to strike back, just as Muslims feel the need for mass killings of kuffar. When that point comes, the kafirs will prevail as we kafirs are far more ingenious than Muslims, and once the real threat is recognized we won’t hold back.

    I neither encourage or condone violence and or vandalism,
    But can think of a multitude of creative alternatives – If you want to “pork” Muslims ( literally expose them to pork ) all you need do is over eat some pork, walk in some public place where Muslims are present and then throw up and feign illness – we kafirs can do taqiyya too. you could attend an Islamic event where the general public has been invited and barf there, ( as long as you have no history/evidence of hate being involved you could get away with it, if Muslims over react, then you can claim they are intolerant and victimizing you for something beyond your control )

    • LR says

      Feb 28, 2016 at 6:13 am

      خَليفة,

      OMG, that posting is so ridiculously funny…

      • خَليفة says

        Feb 28, 2016 at 11:01 am

        I accept that as a compliment. 🙂

  11. Jay Boo says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 9:37 am

    HATE CRIME?
    “….It was clearly a hate crime,” Mursi said

    Ask Muslims if they consider the attack in Boston to be a Muslim supremacist hate crime.
    They might admit to terrorism, and try to rationalize the Boston bombers feelings of grievance but never admit that the attack was a Qur’an endorsed hate crime.

  12. Angemon says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 9:37 am

    An attack on a mosque using raw bacon and a machete could potentially garner a Brevard County man up to life in prison as a result of a recently added hate crime enhancement, authorities say.

    This is why hate-crime laws are bad. But since they exist, how about you start applying them equally? When a muslim attempts to kill a non-muslim quoting from the quran, that should be treated as a hate-crime. When an imam in a mosque reads passages such as “Guide us [muslims] to the straight path –
    The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked [Your] anger[Jews] or of those who are astray[Christians]
    “, that should be a hate crime.

    “Our charging decisions confirm how seriously we take crimes of this nature. When further investigation shows a crime is clearly hate motivated, it will not be tolerated,” said State Attorney Phil Archer, who could not comment directly on the case.

    Really? You were at the mosque, weren’t you? Did you examine the local quran or attended a sermon? Or are hate-crimes committed by muslims given a free pass?

    Imam Muhammad Mursi, who oversees a network of mosques in Central Florida. lauded the state attorney’s office’s effort to pursue the case as a hate crime. “We have been hoping for that to happen.

    I bet you were – despite all your alarmism and cry-wolf, “hate-crimes” against muslims are exceedingly rare. Hate-crimes against Jews, on the other hand… Especially committed by muslims…

    It was clearly a hate crime,” Mursi said. “Obviously, we were lucky that no one was there that night. He had a a machete, someone could have been killed.”

    No, jackass, I bet the perp waited until night BECAUSE he figured there would be no one there. If he wanted to kill someone, he would have gone there in broad daylight with a firearm. You know, like the San Bernardino shooters. Or he’d drop a bomb nearby. You know, like the Tsaernev brothers. Or he’d do like that jihadi who invaded a restaurant owned by an Israeli Christian and started hacking at the patrons with a machete. See the difference? Petty vandalism and waste of bacon versus tens of victims?

  13. knea says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 9:43 am

    LOL! I agree 🙂

  14. Ralph Statum says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 10:34 am

    The Democrat Party has a strong affinity for all Muslims – including Muslim terrorists. Here are 20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Islam and Mohammed

    #1 “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”
    #2 “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer”
    #3 “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country.”
    #4 “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”
    #5 “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”
    #6 “Islam has always been part of America”
    #7 “we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities”
    #8 “These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”
    #9 “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”
    #10 “I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam.”
    #11 “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.”
    #12 “So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed”
    #13 “In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.”
    #14 “Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”
    #15 “Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality”
    #16 “The Holy Koran tells us, ‘O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.’”
    #17 “I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.”
    #18 “We’ve seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.”
    #19 “That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”
    #20 “I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.”

    And we wonder why he thought he was Campaigning in 57 States.
    There you have it, our Muslim Community Organizer has Spoken.

  15. atheist kufar says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 10:48 am

    Never submit never serender

  16. Jack HOLAN says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 11:54 am

    This weird looking person is everything Robert said he is and has done plus I certainly wouldn’t want any association with him. All this said the Criminal Code and it’s Application must have become the laughing stock of the civilized World and how it’s done in the remaining 165 Countries. LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR BACON MACHETE BREAKING & ENTERING PLUS HATE CRIME. THE PROSECUTOR SAYING HE MAY HAVE CONFRONTED SOMEONE AND USED THE MACHETE IS IN THE OUTTER LIMITS. Lee Harvey Oswald may have forgotten his rifle at home and lost his chance with Kennedy. It’s the same logic, surprised he isn’t embarrassed to say it. Life for this while the President knowingly let’s in Cartel Members, Catch and release orders for people of unknown background coming across the border, release of terrorists in custody to countries that Zs High School student can probably figure out that they’ll be released and backed on the battlefield fighting us, Release of drug distributors Obama claimed were minor users of soft drugs AND the best or worst one even the ISLAMIC RADICALIZED JIHADISTS WHO INTENDED TO KILL AND FAILED OR CONSPIRED TO TO MURDER AS TERRORISTS PLUS HAMAS MEMBERS OF CAIR DID NOT GET LIFE. S I, what the Hell is going on? Is this Obama’s first introduction to Sharia? This Act was not subjective however someonelses motive can many times be subjective. What is sad however almost every complaint by CAIR of Hate crime is asunder to be so. Cappelletti hill cleared by the FBI DOJ & local PD is still being claimed as Islamophia by CAIR & not retract by Obama from his original statement. On the other hand the knockout game in NYC the victims were all Jews but the NYPD would not call it a hate crime and a Rabbi from NY murdered in Miami on Shabbat the Miami PD immediately said it was robbery and wouldn’t budge to consider a hate crime for for the Rabbi garbed man. Being Shabbat there is an excellent chance he wasn’t carrying money.

  17. Tiredofstupid says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 12:11 pm

    #4 “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”
    OOOh OOOh PICK ME I know the answer—Isalm has brought us sex slavery, slavery, genocide, rape, theft on a grand scale, those nifty castles in Europe built to defend us from muslim slave raids and war, economic warfare, intolerance, disease, incestuous coupling between 1st cousins, a birth defect rate 10 times higher than any other tribal, religious, or national group, lowest I.Q. average of any tribal…the lowest literacy rate of any tribal…FGM, acid attacks on women, “honor” killings and so much more—we’re just blessed to have them among us….

    • Mark Swan says

      Feb 28, 2016 at 5:10 am

      Yep

  18. Ciudadano says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 12:19 pm

    “We have been hoping for that to happen … someone could have been killed.”

    These words full of rancor from the Iman are telling. Forgiveness and mercy seem not to be traits of Islam, the religion of peace.

  19. Harry says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 12:21 pm

    Muslims, the untouchables. What is happening to the western world?
    Muslims commit the worst sort of crimes and get their knuckles rapped. Natural born citizens, just have to say Boo to a Muslim and they get life in prison.
    Our worst enemy are our own, so called, leaders.
    It is time for Westerners to find out, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON.

  20. Robert Half says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 12:25 pm

    2 Muslim kids went into my Catholic Church and defecated in the nave. Laughed in the face of the janitor and went away unpunished. A clear hate crime. The police? Please.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 28, 2016 at 12:15 am

      Yours is not the only such church, Robert:

      “Interfaith outreach in Italy: Muslims loot church, urinate and defecate on altar”

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/07/interfaith-outreach-in-italy-muslims-loot-church-urinate-and-defecate-on-altar

      • Robert Half says

        Feb 28, 2016 at 2:03 am

        Yeah, but that’s Italy where hundreds of thousands of Muslims are pouring over the borders and putting pressure on European governments for handouts and welfare. Too stupid to realize they are going to bankrupt Europe’s social welfare structures which are maxed out already, it won’t be long before their nature and character of attacking each other over sectarian supremacy turns Europe into a Middle Eastern chaotic third-world state.

        Here in America, it is only just getting started since Obama’s “Fundamental Change” agenda duped all the idiot liberals into wanting to do away with America. Hopefully Trump will turn this around, but chances are Hillary is going to win over him, since people these days are too ignorant about history to even care about anything beyond a headline in the local newspaper.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Feb 28, 2016 at 6:52 am

      May I ask whether you are in the UK, continental Europe, or the USA? Or another country?

      It’s important that you say where this is happening.

      If it happened in the USA it is very significant. It shows a ramping up in the level of aggression at ‘street level’, person-to-person.

  21. Dan Jones says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 12:32 pm

    Followers of the pedophile mo-ham-is-mad can attack Americans in Deerborn and nothing happens, but reverse it with bacon and its life in prison?? Really??

    More End Time News At:
    http://www.shininginthedark.com/?page_id=6088

  22. Jake says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 1:03 pm

    If he burned the place down, he would be facing a lesser charge.

  23. gravenimage says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 1:30 pm

    Florida man could get life in prison for mosque bacon attack
    ………………………

    *Life in prison* for breaking and entering and vandalism?

    There are plenty of *murderers* who don’t get life in prison. Madness.

    • ed says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 2:32 pm

      Madness? It’s Sharia.
      I’m surprised that barak hussein is not asking for the death penalty.

    • Bezelel says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 3:44 pm

      Breaking and entering, vandalism, maybe criminal trespassing, anything more is pandering to muslims. In reality all he was doing was playing with his food.

  24. MKG says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 1:38 pm

    France, Germany, England, Scandinavia, United States. This is coming to a point for me personally where I don’t blame the muslims as much for all this. I mean, if you can take over the world, why not do it? The Ones I hold primarily responsible for this mess are the libtards in office and the morons who put them there. There comes a time when a country no longer looks after it’s people, and those same people have no option but to look after themselves. This leads to anarchy, civil war, then a new order for better or for worse. These are interesting times we live in.

    • Mark Swan says

      Feb 28, 2016 at 5:19 am

      More intersting than We can imagine I am sure…is yet to come.

  25. Al says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 1:42 pm

    The harshest punishment this man should receive is a fine of about $2,500, max, and some community service. Prison time is ludicrous.

    • Marie Anders says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 10:02 pm

      You are exactly right! If this had been anything but a Mosque, he would have scarcely made the damn news! Muslims want special treatment. They want to rule over everyone who does not follow their beliefs.

      • Mark Swan says

        Feb 28, 2016 at 5:21 am

        Absolutely… Al and Marie Anders.

  26. gerard says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 2:17 pm

    Hate crimes are a nonsense. Just deal with the event. The crime. Leave interior dispositions (hate?) to God. Those who make this hate crime legislation do not acknowledge God, that is why they go beyond their authority.

    • Mark Swan says

      Feb 28, 2016 at 5:23 am

      Good point gerald

    • LR says

      Feb 28, 2016 at 3:27 pm

      I agree. I have always found the legal premise regarding ‘hate crimes’, rather ridiculous.

      Legal punishments for one’s actions are what the law was about all those years I was growing up, or so I thought.

  27. Ed says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 2:30 pm

    The most he could be charged is trespassing and the cost clean up.

  28. Voytek Gagalka says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 2:42 pm

    Go ahead, make inflation of not only death penalty, but also life sentence for petty crimes! What effect it will have will be that nothing less than murder will be more “profitable” for criminals and vigilantes, so only top criminals and vigilantes will prosper and multiply like mushrooms, and whole justice system will completely collapse!

  29. ThisObamaNation says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 2:43 pm

    if he set the Mosque on fire while people were in it and cooked bacon over the flames of their roasting bodies, then I could see giving him a life sentence. This guys crime was just a garden variety burglary with a little a malicious vandalism thrown in for good measure. Black people and Muslims are rarely charged with hate crimes, either everybody should be charged with hate crimes or nobody should be charged with hates crimes. And hate crimes that involve graffiti, and other forms of defacing property should NEVER EVER carry a life sentence. There is thin line between graffiti, flag burnings, bacon tossing, and the freedom of expression guaranteed by our first amendment rights. How many flag burners, house squatters, rioters and looters from the Occupy Wall Street or Black Lives Matter crowd are facing a life sentence?

    • bernie says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 11:02 pm

      On youtube, there was a woman named Anne Bardhardt (spelling?) who made a couple of videos in which she criticized the Quran, while putting bacon strips on its pages, and tearing out and burning pages of it. Of course, under free speech laws in the U.S., she’s allowed to do this. There have been similar online videos of Quran desecration (and Bible desecration) as well. The main difference seems to be that this suspect did it to others’ property, rather than his own.

      What this guy did was definitely wrong, but it’s not like he murdered worshippers in the mosque, or caused severe vandalism to it. He should maybe get some jail time (no more than 2 years) oir have to pay around $2,500-$3,000, or a mix of fines and prison time. Life in prison is ridiculous, especially considering that a Muslim anywhere in the U.S. wouldn’t get life in prison for carrying out a similar crime to a synagogue, church, etc.

    • Mark Swan says

      Feb 28, 2016 at 5:27 am

      ONE PEOPLE…ONE LAW

  30. Chris says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 3:24 pm

    A reasonable punishment is 2 -3 weekends picking trash up off the highway. The sentencing judge should be censored or reviewed to see if these sort of sentences are a common problem for him/her.

  31. Champ ✿ says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 3:51 pm

    *Preposterous* that a “life sentence” is even on the table for what he did! …talk about overkill.

    • Mark Swan says

      Feb 28, 2016 at 4:01 pm

      Cruel and Unusual Punishment

  32. Ron says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 8:47 pm

    “Right now we are trying to recover…”

    Oh, the poor poor diddums!

    Could the MOD look at bombing the whole of Syria and Iraq with bacon? What devastation would ensue?

  33. Aura Cacia says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 9:35 pm

    The way I see it, it is B&E, vandalism, happens all the time. Guy has got a bit of a rap sheet….2 years.

  34. Champ ✿ says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 11:10 pm

    Yummy bacon! Great idea, Mickey! 😀

  35. gravenimage says

    Feb 28, 2016 at 12:56 am

    Here’s information from a criminal defense lawyer on NOLO:

    “Vandalism: Crimes and Penalties”

    http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federal/Vandalism.htm

    Under “Penalties for Vandalism” he mentions fines, restitution, probation, community service, and jail. This, under the latter category:

    “A jail sentence for vandalism can range from for a few days in jail to several years in prison, depending on the amount of damage done. If you have a previous conviction for vandalism, or have a criminal record for any other offenses, you may face increased jail penalties.”

    This lawyer is clearly trying to cover all the bases–yet, he never even mentions *life in prison*–for good reason. This is the kind of sentence only handed down for murder–and then, usually murder of a particularly nasty kind. This is the sort of case where we typically see life sentences handed down in the United States:

    “Teen who raped and murdered his math teacher gets life in prison”

    http://nypost.com/2016/02/26/teen-who-raped-and-murdered-his-teacher-gets-life-in-prison/

    This is not the sort of sentence handed down *for vandalism*.

  36. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Feb 28, 2016 at 3:34 am

    So he attacked an empty building with a machete – not even a sledge hammer!

    Boy, he must’ve really “hated” that building, eh? Fine him for getting caught!

  37. scherado says

    Feb 28, 2016 at 5:24 am

    The first question is, what would be the potential prison time if he did not have the record of felonies, if multiple? The second is what would be the potential prison time if the idiotic “hate-crime” statute didn’t exist?

  38. javier gambra says

    Feb 28, 2016 at 5:47 am

    This means Sharia law is already active in the United States, no?

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 28, 2016 at 12:51 pm

      Yes,

    • LR says

      Feb 28, 2016 at 3:35 pm

      No. This doesn’t have to do with Sharia law. This has to do with news outlets getting people’s attention.

  39. nacho says

    Feb 28, 2016 at 6:02 am

    The key concept is “how seriously we take crimes of this nature”. I can consider very seriously a particular crime, say, hate crime against Jews or homosexuals, but that doesn’t mean it is in my hand to increase the inprisonment beyond the time law imposes. Just because I consider it “very sariously”? Who are you? So, it seems Sharia is looming.

  40. susan says

    Feb 28, 2016 at 7:39 am

    It wasn’t a hate crime. It was a welcome wagon picnic, Florida style. The guy should’ve left a Dearborn honey ham and a jar of mustard, lettuce and tomatoes.

  41. Brian Christopher says

    Feb 28, 2016 at 8:52 am

    This guy need to be sentenced for 30.days in Gitmo….and then promptly released by Barack Hussein Obama.

    • Mark Swan says

      Feb 28, 2016 at 4:23 pm

      Fair enough

  42. William Lansdowne says

    Feb 28, 2016 at 9:47 am

    https://youtu.be/BQx3_BiaW38

    Islam is not a peaceful religion.

  43. Carolyne says

    Feb 28, 2016 at 12:49 pm

    Would t be a “Hate crime” if I were just walking down the street with some groceries, among them a pound of bacon which happened to fall out in front of a mosque? I call it accidental free speech.

    If Obama or his clone Hillary Clinton, are permitted to name a new Supreme Court Justice, we can say goodbye to the First and Second Amendments. Our freedom to say what we wish will be outlawed and our guns confiscated.

    • Myxlplik says

      Feb 28, 2016 at 5:08 pm

      I wonder if it’s a hate crime to establish the Mosque in this neighborhood which is there for theological incitement of bigotry, violence, and spiritual supremacy over non-Muslims?

  44. Don says

    Feb 28, 2016 at 3:10 pm

    My fellow Infidels, I have read your comments and I was most impressed with your understanding of “so called Hate Crimes”, of which I heartily agree. Please consider the following: Ole Tom having recently been a victim of a “hate crime” by his Barber, attempted to offer a charitable gift of a well known food, in the USA , to those in need at the masque. Being a “Follower of the Book”, Tom sought to bring a new “Ecumenical” relationship with the Followers of Mohammed. Obviously if any of the recipients of Tom’s gift had been present, Tom would have had to divide his gift into many parts, hence the machete, so as to share the food equally with all present. Since no one was present to accept Tom gift, he left it on the Mosque door step. Tom, a Charitable Christian, is GUILTY OF NOTHING…

  45. Myxlplik says

    Feb 28, 2016 at 4:54 pm

    Next time I go to the market I’m putting bags of pork rinds in the halal section.

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