No one knows why there have been so many attacks on mosques in Minnesota lately, or why so many of the vandals/attackers have a history of mental illness, such as Jackie Rahm Little:
Little has been subject previously to mental illness commitment orders in state court.
After voluntarily seeking treatment multiple times, court records show that Little allegedly threatened another patient and threw objects while hospitalized at Mayo Clinic in 2021.
Later that year — after he was provisionally released from treatment — prosecutors charged Little with arson for allegedly setting a fire underneath a car near a Minneapolis apartment building from which he was evicted.
Even Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), thinks someone may be egging on the mentally ill attackers.
It is an intriguing idea: the claim is that someone, probably a white supremacist, is manipulating mentally ill people into becoming martyrs in a war against the Muslims. Meanwhile, Muslims are also having mental health crises.
Serif Zorba stabbed an imam during prayers; he was a Muslim. He is either mentally ill or a very sincere Muslim.
Mohamad Bekheet is also a Muslim, and he defaced a sign outside an Islamic school, twice . . . with feces.
In fact, we now know that the man who set fire to the Oromo American Tawhid Islamic Center is a Muslim. And he, too, has some mental health issues.
“Charges: Man who torched St. Paul mosque planned to burn other houses of worship,” by Kyeland Jackson, Star Tribune, May 19, 2023:
Prosecutors have charged a 42-year-old man with arson two days after a fire inside a St. Paul mosque caused $250,000 in damages and marked the sixth time such houses of worship have been targeted this year.
Said Murekezi faces charges of second-degree arson, second-degree burglary and possession of methamphetamine in connection with a May 17 blaze at St. Paul’s Oromo American Tawhid Islamic Center. Prosecutors asked Murekezi’s bail to be set at $200,000 and say there was no evidence connecting the incident to a crime of bias.
“We welcome any arrest in this situation because our community [learned] from the previous incidents that we really need to act quickly to make sure that the suspect in this case is not going to other mosques,” said Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN).
According to the charges, the center has been used as mosque office space since 2021. Three weeks ago the building was vandalized by someone who broke one of the windows, and staff had not used the building since. A bus driver for a Head Start school, located next to the center, saw somebody throw something through one of the mosque windows a day before the fire.
Murekezi told ATF agents after his arrest that he broke into the building the day before to stay overnight and look for things to burn. He admitted to investigators that he started the mosque fire, adding that he ensured nobody was in the building and said that what he did was “fun.”
The arson was a form of protest for Murekezi, according to charging documents.
He identified as Muslim, and said he burned the building in protest for other Muslims and Americans who must sleep outside in the cold.
“He said that the building is not serving anyone, but the people need it,” the documents read. “Murekezi stated it was a good thing he was caught, because if he was not caught, he would ‘torch another one’ or ‘a church.’ “
According to interviews with Murekezi, his plans were specific. He said he intended to burn the Islamic Da’wah Center in St. Paul as well as an unknown mosque in Mankato, and admitted that he goes to those mosques often to rob money from their donation boxes.
Murekezi’s plans to “bring about change” went further. He told investigators that he hates terrorism but is becoming a terrorist….
It is mentally ill people who are attacking mosques. Not always, to be sure, but often enough to indicate that CAIR could come with something better than this upon which to base its fundraising.
Hussein said he and others met with members of Gov. Tim Walz’s staff on Thursday to request at least $7.5 million in emergency funding for mosques, synagogues and places of worship. Those funds could help secure at least 150 houses of worship with gear such as surveillance cameras and lighting.
Adding to the appearance of grift, Asad Zaman is getting into the act. Zaman was the principal of the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, where public money was misused to run an Islamic school.
But will even $7.5 million solve the problem? The attacks are not about Islamophobia or “hate.” They are about people who should be kept in custody instead of being bailed out by groups such as the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which in the past bailed out the George Floyd/Antifa rioters, a cause that CAIR embraced as its own.
somehistory says
“St. Paul mosque ” Two that don’t belong together.
Seems this guy is homeless and steals in order to survive. mozlums brag about their so-called “charities” and c.a.i.r. calls itself a “civil rights org.” So why don’t they give some help to this guy and others like him? Supposedly they help others…only mozlums, of course. Evidently, they won’t expend any moneys to help him and other homeless mozlums on meth.
But the local mozlums want the city to fund their security measures for their barracks. Greedy, greedy for their mammon.
tim gallagher says
The old “islamophobia” bullshit again. Muslims love to play the victim until they manage to grab power and then they set about treating all non-Muslims appallingly and make non-Muslims genuine victims of islamic viciousness. Any country where Muslims have grabbed power, non-Muslims are always treated as very inferior people.
maria says
Muslims are the worst criminal in the wworld. How long will they exist InEurope?
And I am happy i don´t longer live in Minnessotta, unfortunately the worst state of the US