After more than a week of criminal investigation following a shooting outside the Islamic Center of Rhode Island (ICRI), in Providence, RI, Providence police Maj. David Lapatin was reticent to declare the incident a hate crime, stating “To say the mosque was targeted would be premature.”
Nevertheless, the “hate crime” narrative was how WPRI (here; here) and the rest of the local Rhode Island media uncritically framed the story—including The Providence Journal (here; here), The Boston Globe Rhode Island section, and The Patch. Nationally, CNN, and even internationally, the UK Guardian and UK Daily Mail, echoed this same narrative in their obsessive coverage of a presumed “Islamophobic shooting.”
That dubious narrative was fanned, immediately, by the ICRI’s resident “spiritual leader,” Imam Abdul Latif Sackor, in concert with the propagandized “assessment” by Hamas-linked CAIR , the Council on American Islamic Relations “a specially designated terrorist organization, and an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case,” repeated in local RI media accounts (here; here).
I have just obtained the official Providence Police incident report (2023-00094602) on this case, and it is not consistent with the ubiquitous, uncritical “hate crime shooting” press narrative.
We learn that Dean Scott (aka “Mustafa”) Ramos was struck in the buttocks by one of four to five rounds fired at him while he was setting up tables of merchandise to sell outside the ICRI, Friday, November 17, 2023. Surveillance video footage from the mosque’s security cameras captured the shooter firing several rounds at Ramos. Three days later, Monday, November 20, 2023, Ramos, who had recovered from his superficial wounding, told a detective during a phone follow-up interview, “he was feeling better and confirmed that he had been shot one time.” Reiterating the ICRI/CAIR/ media narrative, Ramos insisted, “he still believed he was targeted due to his religion [Islam] and the [Muslim] clothing he was wearing.”
Returning, critically, to what must be the investigation of the key suspect in the shooting (per the surveillance video, other forensic evidence on scene, etc.), on p. 7 of the incident report, we see that a search warrant was executed, and items “belonging to Nasir Dupont DOB 2003,” were “photographed and seized.” Notably, Nasir is a Muslim name of Arabic origin derived from the Arabic word “nasir,” which means “to help, to aid, to defend.” Moreover, from publicly available records Nasir Dupont is a recidivist criminal, with a history that includes illegal gun possession, and narcotics (for example, fentanyl)-related crimes, who is currently imprisoned (records, here; here, here; here).
Dean Scott (aka “Mustaffa” ) Ramos, also has a serious criminal record having served 5-years (commuted from a 20-year sentence) for illegal manufacture and distribution of schedule I/II controlled, potentially addictive substances (examples of schedule I include, Heroin and Ecstasy; examples of schedule II include Fentanyl and OxyContin).
Given that the shooting victim Mustafa Ramos is a Muslim, and the suspected shooter, Nasir Dupont is also most likely a Muslim, while their criminal records include serious drug felony (both), and firearms (shooting suspect Nasir Dupont) convictions, the media chorus rush to judge the ICRI shooting incident an “Islamophobic hate crime”—egged on by the ICRI, CAIR, and Ramos—does not withstand, honest, objective scrutiny of the available evidence.
Indeed, more than a year later it is still not designated a hate crime, None of the local Rhode Island reporters who rushed to validate a CAIR-promoted “Islamophobic hate crime shooting” story, have exhibited any curiosity about why this shooting, 14-months later, has not been classified as a hate crime. Nor is there any indication these same “investigative reporters” have ever bothered to review the basic police incident report, and conduct the logical public criminal records follow-up investigation described herein.
Worse still, last February, 2024, a Rhode Island House resolution on “Islamophobia” was passed riveting on this manufactured, factitious “Islamophobic shooting,” introduced by Representatives Ajello, Ackerman, Tanzi, Sanchez, Felix, Potter, Cruz, Boylan, Blazejewski, and Shekarchi. The resolution, which relied upon the gullible, shoddy local reporting of this incident, even repeating the Providence Journal’s description of Mustafa Ramos as “a jovial man with a giant smile,” included this language:
“WHEREAS, Closer to home, Mustafa Ramos, ‘a jovial man with a giant smile,’ was setting up a table before prayers outside the Islamic Center in Providence, when he was shot by a man who had waited nearly half an hour to attack. It is believed that Mr. Ramos was a target based solely on his faith… RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to the Islamic Center of Rhode Island and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Mustafa Ramos c/o the Islamic Center in Providence, and Hisham Awartani c/o Brown University.”
Finally, there is added insult to the irony of this willfully deficient journalism, and misguided political pandering.
As I have documented, meticulously, since the 11/17/23 factitious “Islamophobic shooting” incident outside the ICRI mosque, inside, ICRI sermons have promoted hateful jihadism (just 2-days after the New Orleans, 1/1/25 vehicular jihad carnage), and virulent Islamic “religious” Antisemitism (here; here), and Christianophobia.
Links to key documents–
Dean Scott (aka “Mustafa” ) Ramos controlled substance imprisonment
Links to Nasir Dupont criminal records:
This article has been cross-posted with the author’s permission from AndrewBostom.org.
somehistory says
It was a drug deal gone wrong (in the brain of the shooter) or he didn’t get his allotment on time to quell his burning need.
Or, alternatively, it was a set–up for the fake ‘phobia’ claims and the shooter didn’t *think*…hard to do that on drugs that sully the mind…hard to do that on islam which sullies and evil’s the mind….he’d suffer any prison time for such a shooting in the *victim’s* derriere.
For once, it seems maybe the police are using their minds.
Rob Porter says
And this is what any Western society gets when allowing in Muslims to settle in numbers, namely, violent liars and deceivers.
Read what Danish prison psychologist, Nicolai Sennels, found when dealing with Muslim prisoners who disproportionately inhabit Denmark’s prisons. His observation ‘on Muslims and crime’, includes “the assertion that inbreeding over several centuries has damaged the Muslim gene pool and that Muslims are raised to exert aggressive behaviour.” On top of this Islam does not have a moral code – such as the Ten Commandments – so lies and deceit ,’taqiyya’, is deeply inbred.
So why would any sane European, British, American, Canadian or Australian allow in such people? Canada’s utterly hopeless clown ‘leader’, Justin Trudeau, not long ago proposed taking into Canada 500,000 Palestinians from Gaza. Already the thousands he allowed in are creating havoc in cities. The reality is that no sane government – like that Hungary – allows in Muslims
Billy says
Deceitful Democrats ally with Islam’s Muslims against America. Plus, Muslims will fight other Muslims(eg. Muslim hypocrites) for any disagreements. Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL RELIGION UNDER WESTERN LAWS(Quran 2:216; 4:95; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,29,41,49, 21:921; 88,111,123;21:92; 49:15 and more). More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Criminal Enterprise of continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran. Fundamentally, Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist Criminal Organization with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah.
The FRUIT of Islam is incessant WAR, terrorism, discrimination, malice, and violence against all Non-Muslims; this FACT must be taught and broadcast to the general public to prohibit Islam, its Mosques, and its Schools. Also, Islam is an Antichrist System terrorizing Israel, Christians, and Non-Muslims. Plus, there is NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW in Islam or in Islamic Law(Quran 98:6-7; 9:29 and more). In Sahih Bukhari(V6,B60,N80), Abu Huraira narrates, “‘You(Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised for mankind.’ means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them[Non-Muslims] with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam[see Quran 3:110].” See also Quran 3:22,151; 69:30-32; 98:6.
Non-Muslims CANNOT have peace with Islam and its Muslims because Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a continuous, Muslim war against unbelievers where Non-Muslims are CRIMINALS under Islam when Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” HENCE, NON-MUSLIMS MUST MAKE ISLAM, ITS MOSQUES, ITS SCHOOLS, ITS ORGANIZATIONS, ETC. ILLEGAL UNDER THE LAW. Similarly, Islam and its many Organizations must be identified and publicly declared to be MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS for their funding, teaching, and support of terrorism, violence, and discrimination against Non-Muslims(eg. Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
Western Muslims seek to ensure Islam’s legitimacy against Non-Muslim societies, to impose Islamic Law in Western Legal Systems, and to advance Islam’s totalitarian goals to conquer the West. Consequently, Islam promotes a limitless, terroristic, Muslim war against unbelievers when Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with THEIR MONEY AND THEIR LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Raymond Bullock says
RI used to be a fair-minded place to live when I grew up there 1940’s to 1960’s. I moved out in 2013 because: 1) High taxes. 2) One party political rule. 3) No one seems to report news honestly. There is a decidedly left-wing agenda in virtually all its media. This attitude has infiltrated every shred of the culture, and it started in the 1990’s when they shoehorned sex education as a mandatory class in the school system. I went to the hearings, and I protested against the liberal agenda. Thanks for your input but we know better than parents how to teach your kids! There was no opt out. It led to letting boys hit on girls in the classroom to teach girls to protect themselves? It allowed the boys to sexually harass the girls which encouraged boys to learn such behaviors in school. Instead of sticking up for a culture of honor, nobility of spirit and the dignity of women, it became a battle ground for these children in and out of school. It went from respect for authority to gaming the system to see what yet could get away with. I am glad I moved to a red state. People are more community minded here. I can’t imagine what’s going to happen when Sharia law is passed.
libertyORdeath says
You know how to make sure there’s never a “far-right” mosque shooting again?
Get rid of all the mosques.
gravenimage says
Rhode Island: ‘Islamophobic Mosque Shooting’ or a Violent Dispute Between Muslims?
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*Still* no one arrested. Are the police trying?