Month: November 2009

Somalia: “Extremists Execute Young Convert in Somalia”

— Compass Daily News: “Christian accused of trying to convert Muslim teenager found shot on Mogadishu street.”
— “extremists controlling part of the Somali capital of Mogadishu this month executed a young Christian they accused of trying to convert a 15-year-old Muslim to Christianity.”
— “Members of the extremist group al Shabaab had taken 23-year-old Mumin Abdikarim Yusuf into custody on Oct. 28 after the 15-year-old boy reported him to the militants, an area source told Compass. Yusuf’s body was found on Nov. 14 on an empty residential street in Mogadishu, with sources saying the convert from Islam was shot to death, probably some hours before dawn.”

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UK: Afghan Christian Convert from Islam Granted Asylum in UK

Evening Chronicle reports: Teen who feared for life can stay in UK — Afghan practicing Christian Zaman Mohammadi
— “As reported in the Chronicle, Zaman Mohammadi, 18, who came to the North East two years ago as an asylum seeker, has a home in Wallsend and studies English at Newcastle College. But in August immigration officials told him he must leave the country and return to his native Afghanistan.”
— “As a practicing Christian, the teenager feared for his life if forced to go back to Afghanistan. At an immigration tribunal at the Royal Quays, in North Shields, immigration Judge Lawrence Sacks ruled that Zaman should be allowed to stay. And the Home Office has now accepted Judge Sacks’ decision.”
— “Zaman has been granted refugee status and is allowed to stay until 2014.”

Canada: Nazi Wanted for Attempted Murder in Bombing – in Calgary

— Calgary Sun report:
— “Kyle Robert McKee is wanted for attempted murder in connection to two bomb blasts over the weekend.”
— “City police are seeking the public’s assistance in nabbing two men, one of them a known Neo-Nazi, wanted for attempted murder, in connection to bomb blasts over the weekend.”
— “The bombs exploded in a large parking lot located between two apartment complexes in the 5300 block of Rundlehorn Dr. N.E. last Saturday morning, after a resident in one of the apartments found the devices and threw them out of his balcony.”

Canada - Calgary: Kyle Robert McKee is wanted for attempted murder in connection to two bomb blasts over the weekend. (Photo courtesy of the CALGARY POLICE SERVICE)
Canada - Calgary: Kyle Robert McKee is wanted for attempted murder in connection to two bomb blasts over the weekend. (Photo courtesy of the CALGARY POLICE SERVICE)

Germany: Algerian Man Arrested in Nazi Defacement of Synagogue in Dresden

— The Local reports: “Police locate synagogue vandal suspect in Dresden”
—- “Dresden police announced on Monday that they have found a suspect in the defacement of a synagogue that took place two days ahead of the 71st anniversary of the Nazi Kristallnacht pogrom this month.”
—- “The 39-year-old Algerian man is accused of daubing swastikas and anti-Jewish statements along several metres of a wall outside the synagogue on November 7, the Saxony state office of criminal investigation said.”

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Tennessee: Nazi White Supremacist Sentenced to 14 Years in Mosque Firebomb, Nazi Swatiska Vandalism

Tennessee man sentenced to 14 years in mosque firebomb

— AP: Nashville, Tennessee: “A federal judge is sentencing a man who firebombed a mosque in central Tennessee to 14 years in prison.  Senior U.S. District Court Judge Robert L. Echols sentenced 23-year-old Michael Corey Golden on Monday. Golden and two other men pleaded guilty earlier to burning the Islamic Center of Columbia last year. The city is about 40 miles south of Nashville.”

— ” Court documents showed the men painted swastikas and racial slogans on the center, then threw two homemade Molotov cocktails into it. Prosecutors say Eric Ian Baker and Jonathan Edward Stone will be sentenced in December.”

— September 22, 2009: Man enters plea in Islamic Center arson

— November 3, 2008: White Supremacists Plead Guilty to Firebombing Tennessee Mosque
— ADL: “On November 3, 2008, Jonathan Edward Stone, 19, and Michael Corey Golden, 23, pleaded guilty to civil rights charges in federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, for firebombing the Islamic Center of Columbia in February.”
— “Stone and Golden each pleaded guilty to one count of use of fire to damage religious property and one count of destruction of religious property.”
— “During the plea hearing Golden and Stone admitted to constructing Molotov cocktails, breaking into the Islamic Center, igniting the devices and using them to destroy the mosque.  The men further admitted that they had committed these actions due to the religious component of the building.”
— “A third defendant charged in the case, Eric Ian Baker, 32, has not yet entered a plea.”
— “Authorities claim the three men went to the Islamic Center, where Baker allegedly spray-painted swastikas and the words “White Power” on the walls, while Golden and Stone broke in and ignited the Molotov cocktails. ‘”

— Summer 2008: ADL – “Three men, all believed to be members of the white supremacist group Aryan Alliance, face federal charges in connection with the pre-dawn arson of a Tennessee mosque.”
— “At least two of the three men are followers of Christian Identity, a virulently racist and anti-Semitic perversion of Christianity that’s often espoused by hate groups. Stone told officials that his role in the fire got him ‘two stripes’ from Baker, his Christian Identity sponsor. He said Christian Identity members earn stripes ‘for committing acts of violence against enemies,’ according to the affidavit.”

— PDF of Affidavit

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