[ April 23, 2024 ]
A man named Michael Wolfe was given fifteen years in prison followed by fifteen years of probation last Tuesday for smashing lights, cameras and windows at the Islamic Society of Central Florida Masjid Al-Munin Mosque, and leaving bacon by its front door.
These kinds of attacks on mosques are stupid and never justified. But the prosecution of this case only underscores the fact that when it comes to jihad attacks, authorities have lost all sense of proportion.
Eight people were recently murdered in a jihad attack in New York City. There are more dead all the time: over 32,000 lethal jihad attacks worldwide since 9/11. And the Islamic Society of Central Florida Masjid Al-Munin Mosque is playing the victim, with help from authorities, over … bacon.
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Wolfe should certainly be made to pay for the broken windows and cameras, and any other actual damage he caused. But if Wolfe had broken windows and cameras at a church, would he have gotten fifteen years in prison and fifteen years probation?
An imam in central Florida, Muhammad Musri, explained the reasoning for the stiff sentence: “The intent is to really deter similar kinds of hate crime. Our schools, our churches, our theatres, it’s a red line. It’s heartbreaking. The hate must stop.”
So the State Attorney’s Office wanted to make an example of Wolfe. Musri implies that this sort of thing happens all the time, but in light of the numerous fake anti-Muslim hate crimes, all claims about mosque attacks and the like have to be regarded with skepticism. Moreover, one would think that in light of the steady stream of jihad attacks, the State Attorney’s Office would punish Wolfe for the vandalism but laugh off a few strips of bacon at the door of the mosque, and tell the mosque leaders to direct their attention to more important matters — such as making sure there are no jihad terror sympathizers and plotters from their communities.
That’s what the sentencing of Michael Wolfe is all about: shoring up the sagging narrative that the racist, “Islamophobic,” “far-right” bigots are threatening Muslims on a large scale, and that Muslims are more victims than victimizers.
A few strips of bacon and some broken windows and cameras next to 32,000 jihad attacks is a sad exercise in moral equivalence, but it’s all the State Attorney’s Office had to work with, and so they ran with it. Yet while the State Attorney’s Office devoted its manpower and resources to tracking down and punishing the perpetrator of this bacon hate crime, let’s step back for a moment and consider the larger picture.
How many Muslims are dead in the U.S. as a result of “far-right,” “Islamophobic” attacks? Why, none. None at all.
Are “far-right,” “Islamophobic” leaders in the U.S. calling for the destruction of the state and its replacement with an authoritarian system that denies equality of rights to women and others? Why, no. No they aren’t.
One wonders if the leaders of the Islamic Society of Central Florida Masjid Al-Munin Mosque were able to keep a straight face when they told the police about the bacon. Did they shed tears at the horror of it all? Did they plead for protection from porcine persecution? Did they fulminate about what an inhospitable place the United States is for Muslims, and long for the green fields of human rights bastions such as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq?
Did they demand the full force of law enforcement power be directed against the real threat — not jihad terror, but “Islamophobia”?
Consider this: if Muslims in the U.S. really want to make sure that no more bacon is left at mosques, they can accomplish that very easily by working against jihadis in their own community. They can do everything they can to make sure no more jihad attacks happen, instead of constantly whining and playing the victim, and claiming that counter-terror efforts are unjustly singling them out.
If Muslims in the United States and elsewhere stood up resolutely against jihad terror, acknowledged its roots in Islamic texts and teachings, honestly worked to root out that understanding of Islam from its community and cooperated energetically with police against jihadis? No more non-Muslims would be so frustrated by the Muslim community’s duplicity and the government’s supine reaction to terror, and they would no longer do rude things like leave bacon at mosques.
In the final analysis, that’s essentially all this was: a rude act, along with some minor vandalism. Imagine if the law enforcement officials who spent time and resources on this crime had instead been diverted to other duties, such as trying to stop the next jihad attack. Then maybe no more blood would be spilled, and no more bacon would be deployed.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His new book is Confessions of an Islamophobe. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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40 Comments
6 years ago
This happened in America? Florida? Did anyone see the illegal immigrant get off on murder / manslaughter in California for killing a beautiful American woman? And this guy gets 15 years for breaking windows and leaving some bacon at a mosque?
Folks, we’ve got a problem.
6 years ago
Reply to
RuckusTom
He chose the wrong place. Had it been a synagogue, and he had smashed windows, cameras and painted swastikas .. his sentence would have been two days, time served … Thrown in jail, over the weekend .. two days .. judge’s sentence? Time served.
6 years ago
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6 years ago
Reply to
RuckusTom
he entered muslim land without permission, and left bacon which is forbidden by islam. it’s just an exemplary sentence for all of you islamophobes. Islam belongs in USA now. Jerusalem will be jewish but the West, Europe, USA are becoming islamic. Islam will dominate
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
Sure is going that way. I believe there will be a tipping point in U.S.(unlike in EU)where non-Muslims are going to say “remember NYC” and you Islamos had better git-a runnin’.
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
And I will dirt-nap every f’k=ing one of you reprobate MUJI sand-jockies ! And collaborators.
6 years ago
Reply to
RuckusTom
No mention in the report if Mr. Wolfe had an extensive criminal record……if so…..that would have been a determining factor for a stiff sentence…….hmmm……If not……..well…..the message is clear…..it’s Shariah…..
6 years ago
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6 years ago
Reply to
RuckusTom
Yes…I say violation of the 8th amendment. Short version….the punishment does not fit the crime. And these woooonderfooool lawyers and wanna be judges who have never read or understand the Constitution, sit there and crow they are Constitutional law professors. Yeah right.
6 years ago
A far more brutal hate crime where one of the guilty perps gets no jail time:
6 years ago
Muslim judge?
6 years ago
There are killers who have gotten 8 years or less for killing someone. This is obviously political and he is a political prisoner as far as I am concerned.
6 years ago
Reply to
Jim
What about Kate Steinle’s killer who did not even get manslaughter – only illegal possession of a weapon?
6 years ago
did the authorities ever find out who did $10K plus vandalism to a Jewish cemetery?
6 years ago
If Islamophobia is the Hatred of mudscum/mudslime, Than I am an Islamophobe.
6 years ago
Burn the Mosques—all of them.
They are like cancer cells propagating throughout our society.
Then we have this HUGE Big tumor known as marxism eating away our guts: ripping away our culture.
People—-We are dying from Terminal cancer.
6 years ago
His attorney should have employed the tactics of the Left. Show photos of Pulse victims. Show every YouTube video that may have traumatized this man into his vandalism / meat offering crime. This isn’t a miscarriage of justice. This is a forced abortion of justice.
6 years ago
Surely when he appeals against this sentence he can have it reduced on appeal ? One year sounds like more than enough
6 years ago
I would like to know the name of the judge that handed down this draconian punishment for what was at worst vandalism and in my opinion nothing more than littering. I would like to know more about this judge and what sort of sentences he/she normally hands down for similar crimes.
6 years ago
Reply to
InfidelCrusader
It was a muzlum judge that should have recused himself. A convert.
6 years ago
Reply to
Omar Kahlid
If that is the case then it almost guarantees this sentence will be thrown out on appeal. Unfortunately this guy will be behind bars while his appeal works its way through the system, which could take a while.
6 years ago
Reply to
Omar Kahlid
I’m amazed the public defender didn’t object to this judge adjudicating the case. In CA, a defendant used to have the right of one peremptory challenge to any judge sitting on his case. A challenge that needed no grounds.
6 years ago
I wonder how many years he would have received had he left the whole hog……..?
6 years ago
As Muhammad Musri said, “The
intent is to really deter similar kinds of hate crime. Our schools, our
churches, our theatres, it’s a red line. It’s heartbreaking. The hate
must stop.”
The hate will NOT stop as long as muslims desecrate temples and churches and kill for their religion.
6 years ago
“Fifteen Years for Bacon Hate Crime” and freedom for muslim rapists. After Trump has finished his 2 terms, the next president will declare us to be the United States of Islam.
6 years ago
and freedom for muslim rapists. This is a travesty. It’s unacceptable. We must protest at this judge’s chambers – now! The punishment must fit the crime, yet this man, who lost it the way many of us feel, did not physically hurt anybody. He didn’t threaten anyone’s life. He didn’t rape any children. He didn’t shoot anyone. The judge gave him sharia law, not the law of America. He should be freed immediately.
6 years ago
Fifteen years! He should have worn a mask and bombed the mosque.
6 years ago
Free him NOW!
6 years ago
‘Hate Crime’ a fake law, created to give government the bizarre and unprecedented right to regulate what citizens ‘think’. It unconstitutionally severely increases existing punishment for existing crimes when the government ‘thinks’ you had a ‘thought’ of racial bias while committing any crime.
It also increases power, unconstitutional rights, privileges and protections heaped on democrat leaders, black communities, and other minorities.
This heinous fake law is used almost 99% of the time to subjugate white citizens. We see that even when criminals of color admit their crime was based on the victim being white, and in the rare instance a police officer dares charge them with a hate crime, the lawyers and judges have it dismissed.
The most shocking thing about the use of Hate Crime as an added punishment, is that it’s been a racist club against whites for so long, with little resistance from it’s victims. It’s undeniable proof that the majority turn a blind eye to Washington’s ruthless crime syndicate.
6 years ago
Reply to
iprazhm
Our criminal justice (njustice) system has been totally perverted by blacks, “Hispanics,” and now Muslims.15 years in prison for an act of minor vandalism -broken windows and the “hate crime” of leaving slabs of bacon at a Mosque- jury nullification for O.J. Simpson and the 5-times deported illegal alien who shot and killed Kate Steinle and myriads of other cases of racial and politicized injustice. In 20-30 years, for sure, if not sooner, European-style hate speech laws will be enacted and imposed and criticizing and telling the truth about Islam well be a felony. How many whites will be sentenced to 5 or 10 or 15 year sin prison for simply telling the truth about Islam and Muslim terrorism.
6 years ago
This sentence for the hate crime of leaving bacon at the mosque isn’t just to
deter anyone thinking of attacking other mosques. It’s to deter any American
from using pork in any way against a Muslim – even in self defense.
In other words, if you’re physically fighting with a Muslim – who may have
attempted to sexually assault your underage daughter – and you use lard or
bacon or whatever on him – it could be construed as hate-crime motivation.
Any woman defending herself from a Muslim man who is assaulting her better
not use pork in any way – if she doesn’t want a hate-crime motivation to work
against her.
If it’s any consolation – remember that there is no hate-crime motivation under
current law against the use of brass knuckles in self defense. No matter how
bloodied your Muslim attacker may wind up.
6 years ago
At least they know who they cannot criticize … Michael Wolfe is not only a vandal… but he’s likely to be a martyr.
Had Wolfe attacked a Church, he would have gotten a fine and community service. But he dared to vandalize a building belonging to one of the Left’s favorite hate ideologies – and that’s a bridge too far.
6 years ago
On top of the obvious … this will encourage Muslims to commit hate crimes, discrimination, vandalism, humiliation, and other vile acts … knowing their ‘team’ controls the courts.
6 years ago
And I thought Pamela Bondi was fair & above destructive political correctness. Boy was I fooled!
6 years ago
When I read about the young man in England who was sent to prison for leaving a bacon sandwich at a mosque, I was appalled. (He subsequently died in jail.) I feared the same kind of injustice may come to our country, but never dreamed it would happen so quickly. From my perspective, it appears the biggest “hate crime” here is being perpetrated against a U.S. citizen by a deranged and corrupt justice system.
6 years ago
A taste of islamic injustices to come.
