One man was arrested and charged over the weekend for setting a Mosque on fire in Palm Springs, California.
Carl James Dial Jr., of Palm Desert, was arrested late Friday and booked for investigation of commission of a hate crime, arson, maliciously setting a fire and burglary, according to a Riverside County sheriff's statement and jail records.
Dial was being held in lieu of $150,000 bail.
Meanwhile, two mosques in Hawthorne, California were also vandalized yesterday.
A bomb squad was called, and the area around the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Baitus-Salaam Mosque was evacuated after the device was discovered around 6:30 a.m., police said in a statement. Investigators determined the device was a plastic replica of a hand grenade. The word “Jesus” was sprayed in white paint on the mosque’s fence.
Another man is currently wanted and at large in Minnesota after setting a Muslim-owned Somali restaurant on fire and spray-painting a Nazi symbol on it.
Around 2 a.m. Tuesday, firefighters responded to Juba restaurant in the 2000 block of S. Washington Street and put out the blaze within 20 minutes.
No one was hurt by the fire inside Juba Coffee House and Restaurant, and damage was estimated at $90,000. Authorities quickly determined that the fire’s origin was suspicious.
How were authorities able to quickly determine the fire was deliberate set?
The suspect, Matthew W. Gust, spray-painted a Nazi SS symbol on the front of the restaurant (pictured above).
Not surprisingly, the men charged in these attacks (so far) are all 20-something white bros.