{"id":22059,"date":"2016-04-03T13:54:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T20:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=22059"},"modified":"2016-04-03T13:54:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T20:54:56","slug":"mosque-shooter-asks-forgiveness-muslim-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=22059","title":{"rendered":"Mosque Shooter Asks Forgiveness From Muslim Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The man who fired shots into a Meriden mosque last November appears before members to apologize.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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MERIDEN<\/strong> \u2014 Ted A. Hakey Jr. feared his Muslim neighbors. So much so that in a drunken state on a November night in 2015, he picked up one of his guns and fired several shots at the mosque next to his home.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Saturday afternoon, Hakey faced his fears \u2014 members of Baitul Aman “House of Peace” Mosque \u2014 and apologized for the fear and pain he brought to them.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I was drinking that night more than I probably should have been,” he told more than 50 members and guests who attended a symposium titled “True Islam and the Extremists” at the mosque.<\/span><\/p>\n

“As a neighbor, I did have fears, but fear is always when you don’t know something. The unknown is what you are always afraid of. I wish I had come knocked on your door, and if I spent five minutes with you, it would have made all the difference in the world. And I didn’t do that.<\/span><\/p>\n