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| Threats against Muslims must stop after Orlando attack: US authorities |
| 2016-06-16 |
| [AlAhram] US authorities on Wednesday warned that threats against Muslims would not be tolerated, after alleged incidents in the wake of the Orlando gay club massacre, which was carried out by a Muslim gunman. Officials asked the public to help in the investigation of Sunday's carnage at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando -- the worst mass shooting in American history, which left 49 people dead and 53 others wounded. Gunman Omar Mateen was killed in a shootout with police. The city -- reeling from the mass shooting, the murder of a singer who competed on TV reality show "The Voice" and the death of a toddler in an alligator attack at a Disney resort hotel -- was bracing for the first club-related funeral later Wednesday. "Civil rights violations are a priority for the FBI," assistant special agent Ron Hopper told reporters. "We will investigate reported incidents against individuals based upon any class, any protected class, to include race, religion, and sexual orientation." US attorney Lee Bentley chimed in: "Making these threats is not only wrong, in most cases, making these threats is illegal. Stop it. Any threats like this detract from what we're doing in law enforcement." Members of the small Muslim community in Mateen's hometown of Fort Pierce say they have endured profanity-laced taunts in recent days -- and even death threats. "We're scared," Bedar Bakht, a taciturn Pakistani in his 50s who worships at the same mosque attended by Mateen, told AFP. "He appears to have been an angry, disturbed, unstable young man who became radicalized," said Obama, who was set to visit Orlando on Thursday to show solidarity with survivors and relatives of the dead. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #9 The FBI has done its best to end ITS threats to Muslims before attacks. ABC Evening news led with the story of a suspicious would-be ammo and body armor buyer they turned away weeks ago. The owner of a Florida gun store said he tried to alert the FBI to a "very suspicious" man later identified as Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen after Mateen tried to buy body armor and bulk ammunition from the store. Robert Abell, a co-owner of Lotus Gunworks in Jensen Beach, Florida, told ABC News today that a man entered the store five or six weeks ago and asked specific questions about high-end body armor. When employees said the store didn't carry the body armor he wanted, Abell said, the man made a phone call in a foreign language, hung up and then asked about ammunition in bulk. Abell added that they thought the man was "very suspicious," so they called the local FBI office in West Palm Beach and reported the incident. But they didn't have the man's name, since no sale was made, and the only surveillance footage they had was grainy. "We gave them information and everything that took place, and that was the end of the conversation," he said. There was a follow-up conversation with agents, Abell said, but the FBI never visited the store or investigated further. That was the end of it until he saw the news about the Orlando shooting that took place early Sunday morning and images of the man identified as the killer: Mateen, the man who Abell said was in the store. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-06-16 18:38 |
| #8 However, it's OK to demonize white Americans for those few who actually owned slaves over a 150 years ago. If you hold 'America' as damned for that, we can hold other communities to the same standard worthy of scorn, suspicion, and intolerance for the jihad against infidels. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-06-16 09:33 |
| #7 "We will investigate reported incidents against individuals based upon any class, any protected class, to include race, religion, and sexual orientation." This "protected class" crap has got to cease. But it won't, because designating particular groups of people-- Muslims being the latest addition-- as "protected", and therefore deserving of special favor by the government, is the primary means by which the Pander Party acquires and maintains political power in this country. "Members of the small Muslim community in Mateen's hometown of Fort Pierce say they have endured profanity-laced taunts in recent days -- and even death threats." Tough shit. You don't like people being angry with you? Then stop slaughtering innocent Americans who are guilty of nothing more than not being Muslim. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2016-06-16 08:52 |
| #6 "Muslims anticipate backlash after tomorrow's massacre of infidels" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-06-16 08:48 |
| #5 When you piss gays off ..... |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2016-06-16 08:12 |
| #4 Members of the small Muslim community in Mateen's hometown of Fort Pierce say they have endured profanity-laced taunts in recent days -- and even death threats. Toughen up Buttercups. If you were a Christian, it would be far worse. Or if you were Trump or a Trump supporter, it would be far worse. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-06-16 08:07 |
| #3 Well. I'm sure O & co feel, kinda, bad about gays, 3dc---less soldiers in their war on nuclear family. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-06-16 04:08 |
| #2 But apparently it's ok for Muslims to murder infidels and gays right? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-06-16 01:04 |
| #1 "Civil rights violations are a priority for the FBI," assistant special agent Ron Hopper told reporters. A prime example of mission creep. You're there to solve *crimes*, asshole. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2016-06-16 00:49 |