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Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Muslim group targeted by terror plot calls for suspects to face full weight of law

  • Muslims of America: ‘Our nation [festers] with Islamophobia’
  • Four accused of plot against Islamberg in upstate New York

A Muslim group has called for full prosecutions against the four people accused of plotting an attack on their rural enclave in upstate New York.

The arrests of three Rochester-area men and a 16-year-old who had access to homemade explosives and firearms sent shockwaves through the community of Islamberg, The Muslims of America said in a prepared statement. The small community has been dogged by allegations on rightwing websites that it is a terrorist training camp, and it was the target of a similar plot in 2015.

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from Islam | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2MquzwB

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