{"id":20822,"date":"2012-12-31T02:30:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T05:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=20822"},"modified":"2012-12-31T02:43:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T05:43:35","slug":"marine-vet-set-fire-in-ohio-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/marine-vet-set-fire-in-ohio-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Vet Set Fire in Ohio Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the story seems more attributable to alcohol than religion, a veteran US Marine has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2012\/12\/20\/marine-vet-burns-mosque-to-avenge-soldiers.html\">admitted to setting fire to a Toledo mosque <\/a>in response to attacks on the US military in Afghanistan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Randy Linn pleaded guilty to hate crime charges, saying he&#8217;d become enraged after seeing images of wounded soldiers in the news.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;Every day you turn on the TV, you see Muslims trying to kill <!--more-->Americans,&#8221; said Linn, a truck driver from St. Joe.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by a federal judge whether he thought all Muslims are terrorists, he answered: &#8220;I&#8217;d say most of them are.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A sprinkler system extinguished the fire.\u00a0 Notably, U.S. District Judge Jack Zouhary called the mosque a &#8220;symbol of peace&#8221; and said Linn was<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>no better than the terrorists or extremists [he] sought to punish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The arson resulted in a plea deal that netted the 52-year-old Linn 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the story seems more attributable to alcohol than religion, a veteran US Marine has admitted to setting fire to a Toledo mosque in response to attacks on the US military in Afghanistan: Randy Linn pleaded guilty to hate crime charges, saying he&#8217;d become enraged after seeing images of wounded soldiers in the news. \u00a0 &#8220;Every day you turn on [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58,44,3776,149,2,804,3775,10,171,3774],"class_list":["post-20822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-islam","tag-jack-zouhary","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-mosque","tag-randy-linn","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-toledo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}