Usa: un ebreo responsabile dell'incendio alla moschea di Orlando
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Un ebreo della Florida , di 32 anni , è stato arrestato con l'accusa di aver provocato l' incendio alla moschea di Orlando nel 15 anniversario dell'attentato dell'11 settembre . Rischia 30 anni di carcere.
L'indagine ha evidenziato l'esistenza di post anti-Islam sui social media
Schreiber ha scritto : "se l'America vuole davvero la pace, la sicurezza e la felicità , dovrebbe considerare tutte le manifestazioni dell' Islam come radicale. ... TUTTO L'Islam è RADICALE,TERRORISTA e CRIMANALS (sic) e tutti coloro che vi fanno parte devono essere riconosciuti colpevoli di WAR CRIM (sic) fino a quando la legge e l'ordine non saranno ripristinati in questo bellissimo paese libero ".
Wilfredo Amr Ruiz, un portavoce del Council on American-Islamic Relations Florida, ha dichiarato: " Schreiber ovviamente non conosce l'impegno della nostra comunità con i cugini ebrei, non solo in Florida, ma in tutta la nazione."
Omar Saleh, un avvocato del CAIR, ha precisato : "Il 12 giugno ho sottolineato che le azioni di Mateen non parlano in nome dell'Islam, così le azioni del signor Schreiber non parlano a nome della sua religione ".
Mateen è stato ucciso dalla polizia dopo aver aperto il fuoco nella discoteca Pulse il 12 giugo . I morti furono 49 i feriti
Un ebreo della Florida , di 32 anni , è stato arrestato con l'accusa di aver provocato l' incendio alla moschea di Orlando nel 15 anniversario dell'attentato dell'11 settembre . Rischia 30 anni di carcere.
L'indagine ha evidenziato l'esistenza di post anti-Islam sui social media
Schreiber ha scritto : "se l'America vuole davvero la pace, la sicurezza e la felicità , dovrebbe considerare tutte le manifestazioni dell' Islam come radicale. ... TUTTO L'Islam è RADICALE,TERRORISTA e CRIMANALS (sic) e tutti coloro che vi fanno parte devono essere riconosciuti colpevoli di WAR CRIM (sic) fino a quando la legge e l'ordine non saranno ripristinati in questo bellissimo paese libero ".
Wilfredo Amr Ruiz, un portavoce del Council on American-Islamic Relations Florida, ha dichiarato: " Schreiber ovviamente non conosce l'impegno della nostra comunità con i cugini ebrei, non solo in Florida, ma in tutta la nazione."
Omar Saleh, un avvocato del CAIR, ha precisato : "Il 12 giugno ho sottolineato che le azioni di Mateen non parlano in nome dell'Islam, così le azioni del signor Schreiber non parlano a nome della sua religione ".
Mateen è stato ucciso dalla polizia dopo aver aperto il fuoco nella discoteca Pulse il 12 giugo . I morti furono 49 i feriti
A 32-year-old Florida man has been arrested and
is facing a charge of arson and hate crime in a fire that heavily
damaged a mosque that Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen attended, authorities announced Wednesday.
Joseph
Michael Schreiber was arrested without incident Wednesday afternoon and
was being interrogated by investigators looking into the fire set late
Sunday at the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, said Maj. David Thompson of the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office.
Thompson
told a news conference that Schreiber was taken into custody on a
street in Fort Pierce by authorities acting on tips from members of the
community and aided by surveillance video taken from the mosque and
elsewhere.
He
said the arson charge, coupled with a hate crime enhancement under
Florida law, carries a sentence of up to 30 years in prison. Thompson
said detectives were still questioning Schreiber on Wednesday evening,
and he didn't say if Schreiber had a lawyer.
The
fire was set late Sunday on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terror
attacks. The blaze also coincided with the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha.
No one was injured in the blaze, which burned a 10-by-10-foot hole in
the roof at the back of the mosque's main building and blackened its
eaves with soot.
Thompson
said a search warrant was executed at Schreiber's home, where
investigators reported finding evidence linked to the arson, as well as
anti-Islamic social media posts.
A
July post placed on Facebook by Schreiber, who is Jewish, stated that,
"IF AMERICA truly wants peace and safety and pursuit of happiness they
should consider all forms of ISLAM as radical. ... ALL ISLAM IS RADICAL,
and should be considered TERRORIST AND CRIMANALS (sic) and all hoo
(sic) participate in such activity should be found guilty of WAR CRIM
(sic) until law and order is restored in this beautiful free country."
Wilfredo
Amr Ruiz, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations
Florida, said Schreiber "obviously doesn't know about the efforts our
community is engaged in with our cousins, the Jews, not only in Florida
but throughout the nation."
Omar Saleh, an attorney for CAIR, described both Schreiber and Mateen as "degenerates" and "punks."
"Just
like on June 12, when I was stressing that Mateen's actions do not
speak on behalf of Islam, I know that whatever religion Mr. Schreiber
is, his actions do not speak on behalf of his religion," Saleh said.
Mateen
was killed by police after opening fire at the Pulse nightclub on June
12 in a rampage that left 49 victims dead and 53 wounded. He professed allegiance to the Islamic State group. His father is among roughly 100 people who attend the mosque.
Schreiber
was previously sentenced twice to state prison for theft, according to
records from the Florida Department of Corrections. The records show he
served his first sentence from March 2008 to July 2009 and his second
from June 2010 to August 2014.
A
weekend surveillance video from the mosque showed a man on a motorcycle
approaching the building with a bottle of liquid and some papers, then
leaving when there was a flash and shaking his hand as though he may
have burned it, Thompson said. The first 911 calls were made about 45
minutes later after the fire had spread to the attic. It took about
four-and-a-half hours for firefighters to extinguish the blaze.
No one had claimed responsibility for the attack, authorities said.
The
FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
joined the investigation into the fire. Sheriff's officials had
released the video and asked for the public's help in identifying the
arsonist.
Rabbi
Bruce Benson, a chaplain with the Port St. Lucie Police Department, was
outside Schreiber's home Wednesday night. He said Schreiber attended
his synagogue for about a month last spring to study the Torah, but left
little impression, and no indication that he might act violently in the
future.
Benson
said Schreiber's father showed up at his office Wednesday afternoon
after his son was arrested, even though he wasn't a member of his
synagogue.
"I
guess he didn't know where else to go," Benson said, adding that
Schreiber's parents are "shocked, just like any of us would be if it
were our child."
Benson said his reform synagogue, Temple Beth El Israel, has tried unsuccessfully in the past to reach out to the mosque.
"We
would welcome the opportunity," Benson said. "They're a community
feeling under attack. If we could all talk a bit, maybe things like this
wouldn't have to happen."
The
fire was part of an escalating series of threats and violence
perpetuated against the mosque and its members, Ruiz said. He said the
mosque began receiving threatening phone calls shortly after the Pulse
massacre. And in July, he said, a member was punched in the face as he
arrived for morning prayers.
Sunday's fire has left the mosque's members "saddened and scared," said assistant imam Hamaad Rahman.
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