Police Find And Detonate Explosive Device At Trump Supporter’s Home After He Threatened Muslims

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Police Find And Detonate Explosive Device At Trump Supporters Home After He Threatened Muslims

BY JUSTIN SALHANI MAR 26, 2016 12:34 PM

CREDIT: AP PHOTO/EVAN VUCCI

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Washington on March 21, 2016.

William Celli, a 55-year-old man from California, will spend 90 days in jail after being caught in possession of an explosive device and threatening to kill Muslims. Celli took a plea deal that places him on probation for a further three years and bans him from operating an active Facebook profile.

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Celli was arrested on Dec. 20, 2015 after yelling Im going to kill you all outside the Islamic Society of West Contra Costa County in Richmond, California. Police later found and detonated an explosive device at Cellis residence after receiving tips that he was constructing homemade explosives.

Celli had taken to social media in the past to express his admiration of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump. Donald trumps on again Im happy leaders okay but this guys a great point man Ill follow this MAN to the end of the world, Celli wrote on Facebook in October.

Despite political rhetoric demonizing Muslims worldwide, radical rightwing activists are a greater threat to Americans than jihadists, according to recent studies.

Some people took to social media to decry the sentence as too lenient. Nonetheless, American-Muslim groups welcomed the development.

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We welcome the jail time handed out in this case and are appreciative of the cooperation and support from law enforcement and the district attorneys office shown to the local Muslim community, the Council on American-Islamic Relations SFBA Executive Director Zahra Billoo said in a statement. At a time when attacks on mosques and Muslim individuals are at an all-time high, this will send a message that such actions will have consequences.

Cellis sentence is lenient, though, in comparison with that of the Duka brothers. Three brothers from this family of Albanian Muslim immigrants are currently serving life sentences (two of the brothers were sentenced to life sentences plus 30 years) for allegedly planning an attack on Fort Dix. The brothers were sentenced despite being caught on tape multiple times denying any intent to undertake such an attack. They were arrested while illegally buying firearms.

Celli isnt the first American to get a relatively lenient sentence for threatening Muslims, either. Robert Rankin Doggart, a former candidate for Congress, said he was plotting the annihilation of a Muslim community in New York but was let go on a guilty plea.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/03/26/3763714/california-man-90-days-2/

One word. Terrorist

Edited March 26, 2016 by Janelle2002

[Ban Hammer 13,621]

so it wasn't an old lawnmower.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

so it wasn't an old lawnmower.

Sorry Charlie doesn't appear that way.

[ExPatty 502]

Not a real trump supporter

[Transborderwife 4,666]

so it wasn't an old lawnmower.

??

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Not a real trump supporter

Of course he wasn't. Because we know Trump would never incite violence against Muslims or anyone else

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Isn't this guy a terrorist?

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Isn't this guy a terrorist?

Of course not. He's a passionate patriot.

[ExPatty 502]

Of course not. He's a passionate patriot.

Wrong. He fits the definition perfectly well: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/terrorism Hence his conviction.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Wrong. He fits the definition perfectly well: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/terrorism Hence his conviction.

I forgot. Can't even be sarcastic here without using the proper font.