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Tennessee man planned Delaware County Muslim attack
May 20, 2015 12:02 am
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Julia Reischel in The Watershed Post reports that Robert R. Doggart, a 63-year-old who was a candidate for U.S. Congress in Tennessee last year, was arrested April 10, just before arriving in Delaware County to surveil Muslims in Islamberg, in the Town of Hancock. Doggart's plan was to kill as many Muslim residents of the town as possible. “You cannot imagine the level of disruption Mr. Doggart’s threat has caused the families of Islamberg,” said Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, a lawyer for Islamberg, during a May 18 press conference in Binghamton. “One of the things that is extremely alarming is that some of the threat has come from so many miles away, and there is much that we are unaware of,” said Tahirah H. Clark, another Islamberg lawyer and resident. “To explain the level of alarm that the community is facing right now — it’s pretty bad.” The town is the headquarters of The Muslims of America, an American religious organization. Doggart pled guilty to one of the charges, and is under house arrest in Tennessee awaiting sentencing. There are about 200 Muslim adults and children in Islamberg, most of them African-American Sunni Muslims. Read the full story in The Watershed Post.
From The Muslims of America website.[/caption]Julia Reischel in The Watershed Post reports that Robert R. Doggart, a 63-year-old who was a candidate for U.S. Congress in Tennessee last year, was arrested April 10, just before arriving in Delaware County to surveil Muslims in Islamberg, in the Town of Hancock. Doggart's plan was to kill as many Muslim residents of the town as possible. “You cannot imagine the level of disruption Mr. Doggart’s threat has caused the families of Islamberg,” said Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, a lawyer for Islamberg, during a May 18 press conference in Binghamton. “One of the things that is extremely alarming is that some of the threat has come from so many miles away, and there is much that we are unaware of,” said Tahirah H. Clark, another Islamberg lawyer and resident. “To explain the level of alarm that the community is facing right now — it’s pretty bad.” The town is the headquarters of The Muslims of America, an American religious organization. Doggart pled guilty to one of the charges, and is under house arrest in Tennessee awaiting sentencing. There are about 200 Muslim adults and children in Islamberg, most of them African-American Sunni Muslims. Read the full story in The Watershed Post.