{"id":5710,"date":"2011-08-28T00:04:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T07:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5710"},"modified":"2011-08-28T00:04:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T07:04:38","slug":"republican-terrorist-arrested-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/28\/republican-terrorist-arrested-in-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Terrorist Arrested in Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I saw on television that family foundations of the super rich are financing the Republican meme of hatred toward Muslims to the tune of $42 million.  Sadly their violent rhetoric has not fallen on deaf ears, as we have seen example after example of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, showing their \u201clove\u201d through violence.  Ever here in progressive Oregon, we are not immune.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"28cody_crawford\"A 24-year-old Oregon man — who told police that he was a "Christian warrior"<\/strong> — has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly firebombing a mosque last November.<\/p>\n

Cody Crawford faces 10 to 30 years if convicted of firebombing the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center, which is about 200 feet from his house. Although his DNA has been connected to the crime scene, Crawford has maintained that he’s "100 percent innocent."<\/p>\n

In an unrelated incident, Crawford had ranted to police about Muslims, according to court documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

"You look like Obama<\/strong>," he said to a McMinnville officer in December. "You are a Muslim like him. Jihad goes both ways. Christians can jihad too.<\/strong>"<\/p>\n

The documents reveal that Crawford also told authorities that "only Christians could understand him, that he was a Christian warrior that they were persecuting<\/strong>."… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here\u2019s video coverage.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Of course, Republican hatemongers will say, \u201cWho us?\u201d  They will try to say this is our fault, falsely claim equivalence, or even accuse us of a \u201cblood-libel\u201d against them, as Bullseye Barbie did.<\/font><\/p>\n

The saddest part of this is that I doubt that the mainstream Republican leadership actually shares in this bigotry.  But they are even more vile than those who do, because they have welcomed, supported and defended those  who do, and they have even helped spread the hatred to use it for political advantage.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I saw on television that family foundations of the super rich are financing the Republican meme of hatred toward Muslims to the tune of $42 million.  Sadly their violent rhetoric has not fallen on deaf ears, as we have seen example after example of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, showing their \u201clove\u201d through violence.  Ever here […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}