The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said a new report stating that the gunman who opened fire in Yellowstone National Park last year had plans for “pro white nationalist violence” shows the ongoing dangers of white supremacist ideologies.
The gunman, Samson Lucas Bariah Fussner, reportedly stated that he “refuse[s] to fraternize with race-traitors that support non-whites or Jews.”
According to court documents filed in federal court Friday, the shooter was an active member of the Vanguard News Network, “a website and forum dedicated to white supremacist and antisemitic viewpoints.” Fussner was killed by park rangers after opening fire at the Canyon Lodge dining facility.
“This new information once again shows the dangers posed by white supremacist ideologies,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. “Bigotry in all its forms must be repudiated by our nation’s leaders and by ordinary Americans.”
Last year, CAIR condemned hate propaganda by a white supremacist group in Wyoming.
Washington, D.C., based CAIR and the American Muslim community stand in solidarity with all those challenging antisemitism, systemic anti-Black racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, white supremacy, and all other forms of bigotry.
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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@cair.com; CAIR Director of Government Affairs Department Robert S. McCaw, 202-716-6242, rmccaw@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Manager Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, iallison@cair.com