Five mosques in the US have received intimidating messages, including a bomb threat and one saying “death is waiting for you and your kind”, prompting calls for increasing security at Muslim facilities.
A mosque in lexington, Kentucky, stepped up security following a bomb threat it received this weekend. The bomb threat against lexington’s Masjid Bilal was received through the mail on Saturday from Sheffield, England, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said in a Facebook post.
The letter contained a green index card wrapped in a blank sheet of paper with the words, “An explosive device will be placed at your mosque very soon!” written on it.
The Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has called on leaders of local mosques to improve their security measures after four mosques were threatened.
One mosque received a message threatening “death for you and your kind” from a self-declared “Muslim slayer”, Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell was quoted as saying by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Three other mosques received identical emails threatening widespread attacks against American Muslims on March 15, Mitchell said.
The Greenview Madani Center, a mosque in lawrenceville, recently received a mailed handwritten letter from a ‘Muslim slayer’ with the message, “Death is waiting for you and your kind,” along with a crudely drawn picture of a decapitated person. The mosque alerted local law enforcement about the letter.