I'm curious what we're missing. Either things are crazy imbalanced against muslims or the "turned out to be inert" bomb turned out to not even vaguely be a bomb.

A California man charged with possessing an explosive device and threatening to kill Muslims will spend 90 days in jail and serve three years probation after accepting a plea deal.

KRON reports 55-year-old William Celli, an admirer of Republican front-runner Donald Trump, pleaded guilty last week to a charge that he attempted to violate the free exercise of civil rights. In exchange for his guilty plea, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office has dropped a charge of making criminal threats as a hate crime.

Celli, a self-employed plumber, made a series of xenophobic, Islamophobic and pro-Trump Facebook posts in the months leading up to his arrest.

So you've got a racist nutbag shouting he's gonna kill people as they leave the mosque. You get a tip that he's building bombs and you show up. Turns out the self-employed plumber has a lot of pipe lying around and... probably oughtta bomb-squad that shit just to be safe but as it turns out it's just pipe.

I mean... hate crime for sure. "violating the free exercise of civil rights" seems weak but I reckon that if they could have made the "bomb" thing stick, it woulda stuck. DEFINITELY would have made a lot more news had it been a muslim man threatening Pentecostals but I'm not entirely certain we're dealing with Carlos the Jackal reborn here.