Tennessee man sentenced over plot to attack Muslim community

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

A former Congressional candidate from Tennessee has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for plotting to burn down a mosque, a school and a cafeteria in upstate New York, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.

Robert Doggart, 65, was sentenced on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Chattanooga, where he was convicted in February of trying to recruit people to commit arson and violate civil rights.

Doggart was arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in April 2015 after saying in wiretapped telephone calls that he planned to recruit a militia and travel to Islamberg, a rural town that is home to a small Muslim community in Hancock, New York, about 130 miles (209 km) northwest of New York City.

While there, he intended to "carry out an armed attack" that included burning down a mosque or "blowing it up with a Molotov cocktail or other explosive device," the statement said.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tennessee-muslim-crime-idUSKBN1962R7

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U.S. | Thu Jun 15, 2017 | 3:57pm EDT
By Tim Ghianni | NASHVILLE, TENN.

[benpollard]

1. A GoFundMe site will soon be set up to help with his appeal...

... or maybe Trump will just issue a pardon and call him an American hero. Gotta keep those Muslim terrorists out of 'Merica.

[luvMIdog]

2. well just looky looky Christian ministers that plot to kill people are not called terrorists!!!!!

I can't tell you how many ways this is WRONG WRONG WRONG. Yep when an old white man does it the judge tells him " You are not a monster" - FUCK HIM & FUCK THAT SHIT. Stick his old white ass in GITMO


excerpt:

In Tennessee, Christian minister Robert Doggart has been sentenced to 20 years in prison over his plot to massacre Muslims at a New York mosque. Doggart was also a 2014 congressional candidate. In 2015, FBI agents discovered Doggart was stockpiling weapons and plotting to travel to upstate New York to kill Muslims using explosives, an M-4 assault rifle and a machete. According to a federal investigation, Doggart saw himself as a religious "warrior" and wanted to kill Muslims to show his commitment to his Christian god. Doggart was not charged with terrorism, and at his sentencing Wednesday, Judge Curtis Collier told him, "You are not a monster. … In many respects, you lived a life of honor."


https://www.democracynow.org/2017/6/15/headlines/tennessee_robert_doggart_sentenced_to_20_years_over_plot_to_massacre_muslims

[snooper2]

3. Enjoy Prison Asshole!

[ehrnst]

4. Ordained Christian minister in the Christian National Church.

So much for the old rusty saw, "Well Christian extremists aren't running around trying to kill large numbers of people in the name of their religion, like ISIS is..."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tennessee-muslim-crime-idUSKBN1962R7

[flibbitygiblets]

5. Going out on a limb here...Republican?

[hatrack]

7. No, actually he ran as an independent, per Ballotpedia

https://ballotpedia.org/Robert_Doggart

[Judi Lynn]

6. So glad they arrested him in 2015, or he might never have been charged.

[hatrack]

8. Doesn't look so menacing with leg irons on, does he?

Have fun rebuilding your life when you get out at age 84, you fuckstick.