This section deals exclusively with showing how ignoring proper security measures can lead to horribly violent attacks on an institution.

  A history of recent shootings and attacks on Churches, Synagogues and other Jewish institutions:

CHURCH SHOOTINGS

• March 8th 2009 - Terry J. Sedlacek guns down a pastor mid-sermon and then stabbed two churchgoers in Illinois

• July 27th 2008 - Jim D. Adkisson, 58 opened fire during a children's play at church, shooting eight people with a 12-gauge shotgun, in Knoxville TN

• November 23rd, 2008 - A gunman invaded a small church in Clifton, N.J., during services on Sunday and killed his estranged wife and critically wounded two other people with shots to the head

• August 12th, 2007 - A lone gunman opens fire in a Missouri church, killing a pastor and two others

• May 20, 2007: A standoff between police and a suspect in the shootings of three people in a Moscow, Idaho, Presbyterian Church ended with three dead, including one police officer.  

• May 21, 2006 -Louisiana. Four were killed by a man at Jesus Christ Church.

• Feb. 26, 2006 -Michigan. Two people were killed at Zion Hope Missionary Baptist Church by a man who reportedly went to the church looking for his girlfriend. He later killed himself.

• April 9, 2005 -A 27-year-old airman died after being shot at a church in College Park, Ga., where he had once worked as a security guard.

• March 12, 2005 -A man walked into the services of the Living Church of God in Milwaukee and open fired immediately, killing seven people.

• Oct. 5, 2003 -A woman opened fire in Turner Monumental AME church in Kirkwood, east of Atlanta, killing the pastor and two others.

• Sept. 16, 1999 -Seven young people were killed when a man opened fire during a prayer service for teen-agers at the Wedgewood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas

SYNAGOGUE and other Jewish Institution attacks in the USA

June 2009 - A lone gunman said to have links to white supremacist groups opened fire  inside the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot himself.

May 2009 -  A plot to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx was foiled by the FBI. The inert "bombs" (that were supplied to the terrorists by and FBI informant) were prepared and left to explode at two major Jewish facilites in New York City.

May 2009 - A Jewish Wesleyan University student was shot to death at a book store. Wesleyan officials said that police told them that the suspected shooter, Stephen P. Morgan, targeted Wesleyan students and Jews in his journals.

Anti-semetic incedents in the USA during the Gaza War, January 2009-  In Chicago, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the North Side temple in Chicago. The glass doors at Lincolnwood Jewish Congregation were shattered by a brick and "Free Palestine" and "Death to Israel" were spray painted on the building. At a Jewish preschool in Camarillo, California, swastikas and anti-Semitic messages written in black marker on its sidewalk and walls. In Irvine, California posters were pasted at Beth Jacob orthodox congregation. One poster proclaimed, "Gaza -- The New Shoah" and a second read, "Hamas Recognises Israeli Genocide." Similar posters were found on the same day at the nearby reform congregation Shir Ha-Ma'alot

January 2009 -  A Massachusetts white supremacist killing spree began on January 21, 2009. Keith Luke murdered two people and raped and severely wounded a third. The Brockton police say that the spree was a planned, racially motivated killing attack directed at non-whites and Jews that would have continued if they had not apprehended Luke.  The killing spree took place the day after the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Luke, arrested after a car chase, told police officers that he acted because he was "fighting extinction" of the white race. He said that he had enough ammunition to "kill 'nonwhite people' such as African Americans, Hispanics and Jewish people." According to the police report, Luke said that he planned to go to a synagogue in order to "kill as many Jews as possible during bingo night." According to police investigators, Luke read White supremacist web sites and told the police that "people on these sites spoke the truth about the demise of the white race. " He also spoke of the "Zionist occupation" of Palestine. According to the police, the synagogue Keith had planned to attack was Temple Beth Emunah.

July 2006 - Six women were shot - one fatally - at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle by a man who told a witness he was upset about "what was going on in Israel."

2003 - Valley Beth Shalom Synagogue, in California.  On Yom Ha'atzmaut 2003, a Molotov cocktail was thrown through one of the synagogue's stained-glass windows.

2002 - Leo V. Felton and Erica Chase, a boyfriend/girlfriend team, were convicted of plotting to blow up landmarks associated with Jews and African-Americans. They planned to blow up the museum with a fertilizer bomb, as was used in the Oklahoma City bombing. Felton wanted to rid the United States of those he called "mud people", Asians, blacks, Latinos and Jews. A member of the White Order of Thule, which advocated violence as a way to advance a white power agenda, Felton was also part African American. Chase was a member of the World Church of the Creator, a white power hate group.
Targets included the United States Holocaust Museum, the New England Holocaust Memorial; well-known Jews including Steven Spielberg; and black leaders including Rev. Jesse Jackson

October 13th, 2000 - Temple Beth El is a synagogue in Syracuse, New York.
The Temple building was destroyed in an arson attack on October 13, 2000. Palestinian-American Ramsi Uthman was convicted in the attack.  Uthman, who was born in Venezuela to Palestinian parents, is a naturalized U.S. citizen. Ahed Shehadeh was convicted of aiding and abetting the arson.  According to Shehadeh's testimony, after Uthman set fire to the Temple, he yelled "I did this for you, God!"

2000 - In the 2000 New York terror attack, a group of Palestinian-American men attacked Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale in New York City with Molotov cocktails on the eve of Yom Kippur in 2000. Mazin Assi, one of the attackers, was convicted of attempted arson, weapons charges and hate crimes, and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Assi said he threw the firebombs at "the fucking rich Jews in Riverdale" because, he alleged, they send money to Israel for "killing people."

August 1999 -  White supremacist Buford O. Furrow, Jr. walked into the lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills and opened fire with a semiautomatic weapon, unloading 70 shots into the complex. The gunfire wounded five people: three children, a teenage counselor, and an office worker. Shortly thereafter, Furrow murdered a mail carrier, fled the state, and finally surrendered to authorities.

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White Supremacy and Islamic Extremism

Another terrorist attack on American soil, a national outbreak of disease; this is all it would take for a few of the White Power organizations to try and take hold of a segment of power within the United States. During the time of the Holocaust, an event that both of these groups say never happened, they were strong allies in seeking to destroy America and World Jewry. This is why it is very likely that they will continue to enhance their relationship with one another. To the Jewish community here in the U.S. it should be a definite concern, especially in the South where White power groups have their stronghold. Here in our southern towns where the people that make up the demographic of the community separate themselves into racially segregated society, there has also emerged a large presence of the Islamic Community. To differentiate, most Muslims are not part of their extremist counterparts, but unfortunately extremists are cultivated here in our own backyards. White Supremacists and Islamic Extremists have and will continue to ally with one another if they see it will benefit their organizations.

For years we in America have brushed under the rug the threat we face from terrorists here at home, white supremacists. Some people mistake the white supremacists with the Christian Right. As racists they can not be considered part of the Christian Right. The Christian Right prides itself in love of Israel and people of all nations of the world. White Supremacist use religion as one avenue to coerce people into joining their ranks who would not usually look their way. These groups distort the Bible into racial rhetoric and unfortunately some people buy into it.

Now that we are clear on who the White Supremacists are not, let’s see who they are.

There are countless organizations that boast this kind of ideology. Some of the most well known are Aryan Nations, Ku Klux Klan, the Hammerskins and countless more groups exist. They always morph into splinter groups changing part or all of their organizations name, but their ideology persists. They want to eliminate all non-whites and create a land free of what most consider minority races. The frightening and disturbing thing about these organizations is that they are lying in wait for some large catastrophe to happen here in the United States. At that time they can try to muster the support for a revolution. In order for a “revolution” they would need something extremely big to happen, a terrorist attack from foreigners or something else considered absolutely horrendous, it would have to take place in states that have a large presence of white supremacists.

People who belong to these organizations have in the past and are still working themselves into politics, they are doctors and lawyers and pillars of their own communities. All it takes for something like this to happen is the idea of most Americans to believe it will never happen, this is what will get us in trouble. We must all learn from the past.