By Joe Marusak | The Charlotte Observer
(WBTV) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (The Charlotte Observer) – Local Muslims are on alert after the Islamic Center of Charlotte received its most disturbing threat in memory — an email that said “every mosque from here to Bahrain will turn to dust,’ center spokesman Jibril Hough said.
“You have no Islamic rights in this country, you’re children and women are ours,” the email began.
“No mayor, no city, county, state police, fbi, cia, or the military can stop me,” the e-mailer wrote, according to a copy of the email provided to The Charlotte Observer and other news outlets by Hough on Friday.
“I am Satan chosen son, and All religious teachings god or even Allah will be no more,” according to the email, whose writer also said “my power supersede the president of the United States.”
Hough said he spoke with an assistant special agent in the Charlotte office of the FBI, but the agent told him the letter doesn’t rise to the level of a threat against which the FBI could charge and arrest someone.
On Saturday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington, D.C., called on local, state and federal law enforcement to investigate the email. The council is the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization.
An FBI spokeswoman hasn’t replied to a request for comment by The Charlotte Observer on Friday. The Observer on Friday sent a note to the address listed on the threatening email but did not receive a response.
‘DEFINITELY A THREAT’
Hough said he supports everyone’s First Amendment rights, but he feels law enforcement could at least visit the man who sent the email and ask why he sent it to the center, he said.
