Letters threatening genocide, praising Trump sent to California mosques

A report titled &#039;Confronting Fear,&#039; about Islamophobia in the US released by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) — (Image credit: Saul Loeb/Getty Images)

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reports that photocopies of a handwritten letter threatening genocide against Muslims and praising President-elect Donald Trump were sent to at least three California mosques. "You are evil. You worship the devil. But your day of reckoning has arrived," reads a copy of the note released by CAIR.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.