WHITE HOT HATE

Published: June 12, 2024, 5:33 p.m.

In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the\nUnited States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one Kansas town\u2019s growing Somali community. They decided that complaining about their new neighbors and threatening them directly wasn\u2019t enough.

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The men plotted to bomb a mosque, aiming to kill hundreds and inspire other attacks against Muslims in America. But they\xa0would wait until after the Presidential Election so that their actions wouldn\u2019t\xa0hurt Donald\nTrump\u2019s chances of winning.
\nAn FBI informant\xa0befriended the three men,\nacting as law enforcement\u2019s eyes and ears for eight months. His secretly taped conversations\xa0with the militia were pivotal in obstructing their plans and\nwere a linchpin in the resulting trial and convictions for conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction.
\nWhite Hot Hate, written by Dick Lehr,\xa0tells the riveting true story of an averted case of domestic terrorism in one of the most remote towns in the U.S., not far\nfrom the infamous town where Capote\u2019s\xa0In Cold Blood\xa0was set. In the gripping details of this\nfoiled scheme, the chilling, immediate threat of domestic terrorism\u2014and racist anxiety in America\u2014 is writ large.