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Megan Flanagan

Anti-Muslim Incidents Spike After San Bernardino Shooting, Advocacy Groups Say | TIME - 0 views

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  • severed pig’s head was left outside a mosque in Philadelphia
  • Islamic center in Florida was defaced
  • Sikh temple in California was vandalized by someone who mistook it for a mosque and left graffiti that included a profane reference to the Islamic State group.
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  • spike in anti-Muslim incidents across the United States in recent weeks that can be linked to last week’s mass shooting in California and the inflammatory rhetoric of Donald Trump
  • created an atmosphere ripe for these types of stereotypes and incidents,”
  • “I have never seen such fear and apprehension in the Muslim community, even after 9/11.”
  • racked more than three dozen incidents since the Nov. 13 terror attacks in Paris that left 130 dead.
  • spike began with the Paris attacks and has intensified with what happened in San Bernardino and now with what Donald Trump is proposing
  • pace of the incidents appears to have picked up since the Dec. 2 shooting in San Bernardino that killed 14 people and injured 21 others.
  • Rick Santorum who questioned whether the U.S. Constitution protected Islam
  • “After 9/11 there were hate crimes on the edges of society, but now it’s in the mainstream with the leading Republican presidential candidate saying Muslims are not wanted in America.”
  • police have stepped up patrols around houses of worship after a severed pig’s head was left outside the Al Aqsa Islamic Society
  • Florida man was arrested after authorities said he vandalized the Islamic Center
  • someone claiming to be a former Marine left a threatening voicemail message on the mosque’s answering machine on Saturday
  • man said he “killed a lot of Muslims” and, using expletives, said he would decapitate Muslims.
  • I kill Muslims,” before punching him in his left eye.
katyshannon

Threat that closed down L.A. schools appears to be a hoax, congressman says - LA Times - 0 views

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  • crudely written email threat to members of the Los Angeles Board of Education prompted officials to close all 900 schools in the nation’s second-largest school system Tuesday, sending parents from San Pedro to Pacoima scrambling to find day care — while New York law enforcement dismissed a nearly identical threat from the same sender as an obvious hoax
  • The unprecedented districtwide shutdown reflected the tense atmosphere over possible terrorist attacks less than two weeks after two Islamic radicals opened fire at a workplace party in San Bernardino, killing 14.
  • L.A. Unified School District Supt. Ramon Cortines said he made the decision to order the school closures because he couldn’t take a chance with the system’s 640,000 students.By evening, school officials said they had inspected all campuses and that the FBI had discredited the threat.
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  • L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and Police Chief Charlie Beck defended the decision to close the schools, saying investigators did not know at the time whether the threat was legitimate.
  • He said the email included all Los Angeles Unified schools and mentioned explosive devices, “assault rifles and machine pistols.”
  • The district called and texted parents early Tuesday morning to alert them that schools would be closed — the first systemwide closure since the Northridge earthquake in 1994.
  • Although the school district could technically be subject to a loss of $29 million in per-pupil funding for closing campuses, state Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said that he is certain the district would not be docked those funds.
  • Alan Glasband, a substitute teacher at San Pedro High School, said he and several other instructors had not received notifications. He said he heard about the bomb threat through a text from a friend.Another friend, he said, had driven from his home in Norwalk to Orville Wright Middle School near Los Angeles International Airport before he heard the news.
  • By midday, elected officials briefed by law enforcement said the threat did not appear to be credible.Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Los Angeles), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs committee, said the email lacked “the feel of the way the jihadists usually write.”
  • Sherman said the roughly 350-word message did not capitalize Allah in one instance, nor did it cite a Koranic verse. He said the elements of the threatened attack also seemed unlikely, such as the claim that it would involve 32 people with nerve gas.“There isn’t a person on the street who couldn’t have written this,” with a basic level of knowledge of Islam, Sherman said. “Everybody in Nebraska could have written this.”
  • Still, he added, the person did have a knowledge of Southern California, and the threat could not be immediately discredited.
  • The FBI is working to determine where the email originated and who wrote it. Officials said it was routed through Germany but probably came from somewhere closer.
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