New Dearborn mosque receives online threats

Police are investigating threats made against a Dearborn mosque after it was announced online that a building which was previously a Baptist church would now be turned into the New Islamic Institute of America.

Police are investigating threats made against a Dearborn mosque after it was announced online that a building which was previously a Baptist church would now be turned into the New Islamic Institute of America.

After the announcement of the change made by Imam Sayid Hassan Qazwini via Facebook, a woman commented a series of threats toward the new mosque.

“I live right there, I seen them working on it, I should blow it up,” said one of the posts made by the woman, who has since been identified as a 26-year-old mother who lives nearby.

The woman’s threats didn’t stop there; she went on to post two more serious threats toward the mosque.