{"id":1228,"date":"2016-08-28T22:28:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T02:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2020-03-15T03:36:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T07:36:38","slug":"an-oklahoma-man-mailed-a-terrorizing-anthrax-package-to-his-mosque-later-admitted-his-imam-instructed-him-to-do-so-in-an-elaborate-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/2016\/08\/28\/an-oklahoma-man-mailed-a-terrorizing-anthrax-package-to-his-mosque-later-admitted-his-imam-instructed-him-to-do-so-in-an-elaborate-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"An Oklahoma man mailed a terrorizing anthrax package to his Mosque, and later admitted his Imam instructed him to do so in an elaborate hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"justin-bouma\"<\/p>\n

The following is summarized from this Oklahoman article<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

An Oklahoma man was charged with a felony on Wednesday for sending a threatening letter to his mosque that contained a white powder meant to be mistaken for being anthrax, and he was also charged for spray painting anti-Islamic messages on a Halal Grocery Store that was adjacent to the Mosque, then later when questioned by authorities he admitted that the Imam of the Mosque told him to do it.<\/p>\n

Justin William Bouma, 32, was charged with a felony count of a crime of \u201cterrorist hoax,\u201d and he was also charged with misdemeanor counts for painting the graffiti.<\/p>\n

Bouma has been an attendee of the mosque in the past, and he became a suspect when authorities discovered him sending threatening emails to other mosque members.<\/p>\n

The graffiti he painted referred to Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), saying \u201cCAIR not welcome,\u201d as well as mentioning ISIS.<\/p>\n

\"mosque-graffiti\"<\/p>\n

The Imam of the Oklahoma City mosque, Imad Enchassi<\/a>, called the FBI after opening the package.\u00a0 After the power was tested, it was determined that it was laundry detergent that Bouma placed in the envelope.<\/p>\n

Bouma admitted to police on August 18 that he sent the letter to the Mosque and that he painted the anti-Muslim graffiti on the grocery, and he also said that the Imam told him to do it, the affidavit states.<\/p>\n

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The following is from CAIR\u2019s PR campaign<\/a> about the attacks where the Imam Imad Enchassi details how he was supposedly victimized:\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSaad Mohammed, director of Islamic news and information for the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Mohammed is chairman of the board for CAIR-Oklahoma.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI was personally targeted, I think because I\u2019m the chairman of CAIR and I\u2019m the director of news and information for the Islamic Society so who better to target,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cOne statement said \u2018Saad is not welcome here.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Another statement said \u201cCAIR not welcome here,\u201d and the vandals also wrote messages directed at the Islamic Society.\u00a0 The vandalism also mentioned the terrorist group ISIS.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mohammed said he was not concerned that vandals targeted him by name in one of their messages.<\/strong>\u00a0 He said he takes precautions on a regular basis when he is out in the community so he has no special concerns now.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Muslim leader said he was pleased with the response from the society\u2019s youth group and the Interfaith Alliance.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe response was outstanding,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cWe will continue educating people and pushing forward and try to bridge this gap of hate.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following is summarized from this Oklahoman article: An Oklahoma man was charged with a felony on Wednesday for sending a threatening letter to his mosque that contained a white powder meant to be mistaken for being anthrax, and he was also charged for spray painting anti-Islamic messages on a Halal Grocery Store that was … Continue reading “An Oklahoma man mailed a terrorizing anthrax package to his Mosque, and later admitted his Imam instructed him to do so in an elaborate hoax”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4618,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/4618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}