“You may never know unless he decides to talk, we may never know a true motive on this”, said Robert Elder, who heads the Houston Field Division of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
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Gary Nathaniel Moore is being held on $100,000 bond and is due in court tomorrow morning.
Initial reports of the fire hinted at underlying Islamaphobia as a motivator behind the arson and the Council on American-Islamic Relations asked police to investigate the fire-starter’s intentions.
While indicating that a motive for the alleged arson was unknown, an ATF official declared that “there’s no evidence that it was a hate crime”.
Moore said he had seen no smoke and only heard about the fire, which destroyed the interior of the small shopping mall mosque, from a friend, but investigators identified him from surveillance video.
They’re confident it wasn’t a hate crime-but authorities in Houston still have plenty of questions after making an arrest in the Christmas Day fire that heavily damaged a mosque.
A search conducted of Moore’s home uncovered a backpack and clothing seemingly matching those worn by the man captured on the surveillance footage, the Houston Chronicle reported. “Investigators also recovered a lighter fluid bottle which matched one recovered at the scene”, The Daily Caller explained.
“This is a place of worship, we’re not going to stop worshipping just because a fire breaks out”, said M.J. Khan of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston.
A Houston man charged in the suspected arson of a mosque on Christmas Day claims he is a devout attendee.
“We would very much welcome those people to come to the mosque and find peace and tranquility in their lives”, said M.J. Khan.
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Anti-Muslim sentiment has been on the rise in the United States, stoked by recent ISIL-related attacks in France and California and anti-Muslim statements by Republican presidential hopefuls.
