Bakersfield mosque attack investigated as hate crime

[cali]

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

(10-09) 17:56 PDT Bakersfield, Calif. (AP) --


Kern County Sheriff's deputies are investigating a mosque attack as a possible hate crime.


Authorities say Saturday's incident left windows broken, cars smashed and worshippers frightened.


Witnesses reported that two men entered the women's section of the mosque early Saturday morning. When the women called for help, the suspects left, allegedly yelling slurs such as "Arab terrorists" and "terrorists go home" as they ran out.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/10/09/state/n175602D37.DTL&tsp=1

Disgusting and chilling. Sure looks like a hate crime to me.
Later that night, witnesses said about 10 people returned to the mosque. They allegedly smashed the windows and damaged the cars that remained in the parking lot.

[ET Awful]

1. Sorry to say, this doesn't surprise me at all in Bakersfield.

I lived there for a while, nasty, backwards, racist, redneck kind of place.

Several times while there, I was handed "white power" literature or found it on my doorstep.

Hell the little nazi girl band "Prussian Blue" came from there.

I'm so glad I got out long ago.