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June 15, 2017

Tennessee: Robert Doggart Sentenced to 20 Years over Plot to Massacre Muslims
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In Tennessee, Christian minister Robert Doggart has been sentenced to 20
years in prison over his plot to massacre Muslims at a New York mosque.
Doggart was also a 2014 congressional candidate. In 2015, FBI agents
discovered Doggart was stockpiling weapons and plotting to travel to
upstate New York to kill Muslims using explosives, an M-4 assault rifle
and a machete. According to a federal investigation, Doggart saw himself
as a religious "warrior" and wanted to kill Muslims to show his
commitment to his Christian god. Doggart was not charged with terrorism,
and at his sentencing Wednesday, Judge Curtis Collier told him, "You are
not a monster. … In many respects, you lived a life of honor."


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