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CRIME 05/27/2017 04:27 am ET | Updated 45 minutes ago2 Men Killed On Portland Train After Trying To Stop Anti-Muslim Rant, Police SayPolice arrested a 35-year-old man following the stabbing deaths.By Lee Moran , Andy CampbellTwo men have been killed after trying to stop a man abusing two women on a train because they appeared to be Muslim, say police in Portland, Oregon.Police arrested Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, of North Portland, following the stabbing deaths on a MAX train at the Hollywood Transit Station at 4:30 p.m. Friday. They charged him with offenses including two counts of aggravated murder over the incident, which occurred hours before the start of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.Witnesses said at least one of the women the suspect targeted was wearing a hijab, and it appeared the abuse was religiously and racially motivated. “He said, ‘Get off the bus, and get out of the country because you don’t pay taxes here,’” Evelin Hernandez, a passenger on the train, told KATU-TV.He’s always been spouting anti-establishment stuff but he’s a nice person I just can’t imagine.”Mary Christian, the suspect’s motherThree men intervened amid the suspect’s “ranting and raving,” Portland police spokesman Pete Simpson said during a news conference. “They were attacked viciously by the suspect.”The suspect’s mother, Mary Christian, told HuffPost early Saturday that she had no idea that her son might have been involved.“It’s scary,” she said. “I can’t imagine he would do anything like this, unless he was on drugs or something. He’s been in prison, he’s always been spouting anti-establishment stuff but he’s a nice person I just can’t imagine.”Police said one of the men who intervened died on the train. The other died later in hospital, while the third man was treated for non-life threatening injuries.Officers detained Christian soon after he got off the train, police said. They were unable to interview the women, however, as they’d already left the area.

Police booked Jeremy Joseph Christian, of North Portland, early Saturday.Police booked Christian into the Multnomah County Jail early Saturday. Along with the aggravated murder charges, he faces two counts of intimidation in the second degree, one of attempted murder and one count of being a felon in possession of a restricted weapon.Christian has previously been convicted for felony robbery, kidnapping and possession of weapons. He will be arraigned in Multnomah County Court on Monday, where he may face additional charges, authorities say.He’s also had ties to white supremacy in the area, according to authorities. On April 29, police confiscated a baseball bat from him at a “March for Free Speech” rally, after which he screamed racial epithets and gave the Nazi salute throughout the day, the Portland Mercury reports.The Willamette Week identified him as being the man in the American flag in the below video: Mike Bivins @itsmikebivinsMan engaging in hate speech and giving the Nazi salute at the end of the

#Portland free speech march12:21 PM - 29 Apr 2017 · Portland, OR 25 25 Retweets 32 32 likes


Police said they were familiar with him but they did not see him as a threat to public safety, adding that he suffered from mental illness. His mother told HuffPost Saturday that she didn’t believe he was mentally ill.The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued a statement in response to the attack Friday calling on President Donald Trump to speak out against anti-Muslim incidents, which it said had increased more than 50 percent in the U.S. from 2015 to 2016.“President Trump must speak out personally against the rising tide of Islamophobia and other forms of bigotry and racism in our nation that he has provoked through his numerous statements, policies and appointments that have negatively impacted minority communities,” said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad. “Only a strong statement from the nation’s leader will send a message to bigots that such acts of violence targeting racial, ethnic or religious minorities are unacceptable.”Trump’s administration may be moving in the opposite direction on white nationalism, however. Muslim advocacy groups and a program that works to rehabilitate neo-Nazis may lose funding if Trump narrows the focus of the Countering Violent Extremism grant program to Islamic extremism. As it stood under the Obama administration, groups dedicated to help combat Islamophobia and other hate group at home shared millions in funding, alongside groups that deterred recruitment by Islamic terrorist groups.TriMet, the transit provider in the Portland region, confirmed there would be delays following the incident and issued messages of condolences over the deaths: [Twitter posts][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]

[/FONT]Police said the Oregon State Medical Examiner would conduct autopsies on the two men on Saturday morning. They will release the names of the three victims soon after, they added.This article has been updated throughout.
 
Serinity said:
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the killer should be killed.

Allahu alam
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there might not be a death penalty in oregon, and even if there is they might still sentence him to life in prison instead. honestly, i would prefer that. have him suffer in prison for decades and then die a dishonorable death rather than have him die and get it over with (Or so he thinks, thinking he'll just die, or even go to heaven, when in fact he's going to hell)
 
Wowza I don't live to far from there too I always thought organians are chill here they arnt to racist here but problem is there's so many lesbians and gays they legit have somthing called the naked bike race where people completely naked nothing on at all no underwear even ride bikes through the streets
 
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there might not be a death penalty in oregon, and even if there is they might still sentence him to life in prison instead. honestly, i would prefer that. have him suffer in prison for decades and then die a dishonorable death rather than have him die and get it over with (Or so he thinks, thinking he'll just die, or even go to heaven, when in fact he's going to hell)
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If he dies he goes straight to allah and gets tormented in his grave have you even read for torment in hell fire and bro just say may allah forgive him and guide him
 
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U.S.Portland attack: Calls mount for Donald Trump to address fatal stabbing of 'brave men' who tried to protect Muslim teenager on train

Rachael Revesz,The Independent 7 hours ago

Social media users are tweeting names of victims as 'President won't': APPressure is mounting on Donald Trump to address the fatal stabbing of several men who tried to protect a Muslim teenager from being subject to a racist rant on a train.53-year-old Ricky Best and 23-year-old Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche were killed after they tried to stop Jeremy Christian from hurling abuse at two women, one of whom was wearing a hijab.A third passenger, 21-year-old Micah David-Cole Fletcher, was wounded.Ted Wheeler, the Portland mayor, and the FBI have condemned the killings.The President has not mentioned the attack by Christian, a man who has been described as a white supremacist, yet Mr Trump has continued to actively use social media.Tweets since the attack include his “big results” from the trip to Europe, “fake news” and health care, and he has even praised the newly-elected Republican representative in Montana who allegedly assaulted a Guardian journalist at a campaign event.Veteran journalist Dan Rather made an appeal on Facebook for the President to name the “brave Americans” killed in the attack, and his post has been commented on and shared more than 340,000 times.

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POLITICS 05/29/2017 11:24 am ET | Updated 2 hours ago

Donald Trump Calls Portland Hate Attack ‘Unacceptable’

His tweet comes more than two days after the act of anti-Muslim violence that claimed two lives.

By Kate Abbey-Lambertz

President Donald Trump said on Twitter Monday that his prayers are with the victims of an attack in Portland, Oregon, more than two days after two men were killed standing up to a man spewing hateful verbal abuse at teenage girls. President Trump ✔ @POTUSThe violent attacks in Portland on Friday are unacceptable. The victims were standing up to hate and intolerance. Our prayers are w/ them.7:51 AM - 29 May 2017 6,202 6,202 Retweets 24,314 24,314 likesTrump’s tweet came from his official account, not the personal Twitter handle that he used throughout the weekend to tweet about his recent overseas trip, the “fake news media” and Republicans’ recent win in a Montana congressional race. He also did not specifically mention that the attack appeared to be an incident of anti-Muslim hate. The alleged killer, Jeremy Joseph Christian, had harassed the two girls, one who is black, and one who is Muslim and was wearing a hijab. Witnesses said the verbal attack appeared to be racially and religiously motivated. Christian allegedly stabbed Ricky John Best, 53, and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 23, to death after they intervened on the girls’ behalf. A third man who confronted Christian, 21-year-old Micah David-Cole Fletcher, survived the attack. The three men have been lauded as heroes for standing up for the women. Christian has been charged with two counts of aggravated murder and other offenses. On Friday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations called on Trump to condemn the attack and Islamophobia in general. “President Trump must speak out personally against the rising tide of Islamophobia and other forms of bigotry and racism in our nation that he has provoked through his numerous statements, policies and appointments that have negatively impacted minority communities,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement. “Only a strong statement from the nation’s leader will send a message to bigots that such acts of violence targeting racial, ethnic or religious minorities are unacceptable.”In a report released earlier this month, CAIR said the organization recorded over 2,200 “anti-Muslim bias incidents” in 2016, a 57 percent increase from the year before. This article has been updated with more background information about the incident and Trump’s tweets."I wish we would hear you say these names, or even just tweet them," Mr Rather said."They were brave Americans who died at the hands of someone who, when all the facts are collected, we may have every right to call a terrorist."He added: “This story may not neatly fit into a narrative you pushed on the campaign trail and that has followed you into the White House."They were not killed by an undocumented immigrant or a 'radical Islamic terrorist'. They were killed in an act of civic love, facing down a man allegedly spewing hate speech directed at two teenage girls, one of whom was wearing a hijab."The silence from the President mirrors his reaction to the fatal shooting in a mosque in Quebec, when a white student burst inside a place of worship in February and gunned down six Muslims. Mr Trump expressed his condolences to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but did not make a public statement or tweet about it.Many people on social media shared the frustrations of Mr Rather."Call me crazy but had a Muslim killed two white Christians in Portland I suspect our president would have said something," commented writer Peter Beinart.Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, a grassroots campaign to end gun violence, added: "Donald Trump has yet to mention Portland heroes, a 23-year-old and a Vet, who gave their lives to protect Muslim women from an extremist."Best was an army veteran and father of four, and Namkai-Meche was a recent economics graduate.Mr Fletcher was revealed to have won a poetry competition in 2013 for his poem about fighting anti-Muslim prejudice after 9/11.Muslim communities and others joined forces to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to support the victims’ families.Christian had posted islamophobic, anti-Semitic and white supremacist views on Facebook, and was convicted of robbery and kidnapping in 2002.Last month he appeared at a free speech rally in Portland, threatening people who filmed him, shouting and making a Nazi salute.Police left him alone once he had handed over his baseball bat.
 
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ISLAM


Anti-Shariah rallies this weekend worry Muslim leaders
By ANDREW SELSKY Published June 09, 2017 Associated Press
EUGENE, Ore. – Inside a mosque in the college town of Eugene, a half-dozen men prostrated themselves on a carpet while another man led the midday prayers. Over their melodic recitation came a tapping sound as a locksmith installed higher-grade locks on the front door.


The worshippers at the Eugene Islamic Center are worried about their security. A man recently appeared outside the mosque and threatened to kill Muslims.


Barely two weeks later, an assailant stabbed two men to death and wounded a third on a commuter train in Portland, 110 miles (180 kilometers) to the north. The victims were trying to protect two teenage girls, one of whom was wearing a hijab, as the man shouted anti-Islamic slurs.


Looking ahead, Muslim leaders and others are concerned about anti-Shariah, or Islamic law, marches planned for Saturday in Seattle and about two-dozen other U.S. cities, saying the marches are really anti-Muslim. They consider the incidents in Portland and Eugene, and other recent anti-Muslim crimes in America, part of an alarming trend that came to the forefront in last year's presidential election with far-right activists portraying Islam — and all Muslims — as a threat.


"Our Muslim community is feeling a tremendous amount of stress and pressure," said former Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, who plans to attend a counter-rally Saturday. "It's important for local leaders to express solidarity and make clear we stand against bigotry, against racism and with our Muslim neighbors in the state and beyond."


The group organizing the rallies, ACT for America, has chapters around the country and says it is focused on fighting terrorism and promoting national security. It says it condemns bias against religious groups and is "proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with peaceful Western Muslims as well as peaceful Muslims worldwide."


Yet many Muslims and others say the group promotes a distorted and prejudiced view of Islam.


ACT for America activists portray Shariah as largely incompatible with American democracy and often warn of a stealth effort to replace U.S. law with Islamic law. Muslims call the claims ludicrous and say Islamic law plays a role similar to Jewish law, as a guide to religious life rooted in the Quran.


Aneelah Afzali, who heads a Seattle-area group that works against discrimination and hate crimes, said she will be putting up an "ask a Muslim booth" near Seattle's anti-Shariah rally, "so people can ask questions directly about Islam, and we can counter conspiracy theories, accusations and lies that come from that hate rally."


She said she has noticed increased hostility toward Muslims, evidenced by the destruction of a granite sign in front of the mosque she attends in Everett, Washington, by someone apparently wielding a sledgehammer. A temporary sign was destroyed a few weeks later.


"What was so beautiful was the outpouring of community support," she said, explaining that many community and business leaders showed up for a ceremony and left their handprints in the concrete base that holds the new sign.


Two far-right groups, the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters, are to provide security at some of the rallies, apparently the first simultaneous anti-Shariah rallies in the U.S. Members of a third group also confirmed they'll attend, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups.


"With the recruitment of anti-government groups and the Proud Boys, the potential for violence increases," the center said.


The marches come amid a rise in reports of anti-Muslim incidents in the U.S., including arson attacks and vandalism at mosques, harassment of women wearing Muslim head-coverings and bullying of Muslim schoolchildren.


"Things happen so fast, it's so hard to keep up," said Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the Council on Islamic-American Relations.


Muslim leaders hear echoes of the views of groups like ACT for America in President Donald Trump's temporary ban on entry into the U.S. from six Muslim-majority countries — a measure currently blocked by federal courts — and in his claims of dangers posed by immigrants and Muslim refugees. Trump has said his policies are critical for protecting national security.


Those who attend the Eugene Islamic Center, in an off-white building in a lower-income neighborhood, are still coming to grips with the May 10 threat from a man who was arrested the next day while carrying a knife.


Mosque member Drew Williams said the man claimed to have killed Muslims while serving in the military in Iraq and told witnesses, "I have no problem killing you." The man was charged with intimidation, menacing and harassment.


"Many people are worried and saddened and very shocked, but we still hope to be able to practice and to be part of the Eugene community," Williams said as the locksmith worked next to him.


Besides installing stronger locks, the mosque is raising funds to erect a fence around the building and possibly hire a security guard for Friday prayers, when the number of worshippers peaks.


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AP Religion Writer Rachel Zoll in New York contributed to this report.
 

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