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Alton Nolen allegedly beheaded a co-worker after being fired from his job where he had recently tried to convert people to Islam
A woman has been beheaded in an Oklahoma food processing plant by a sacked employee who had allegedly tried to convert his colleagues to Islam.
Alton Nolen, 30, walked into the Vaughan Foods plant plant in Moore Oklahoma and decapitated Colleen Hufford, 54, with a knife and then attacked a second women, Traci Johnson, 43.
Initially it was thought the attacks were a purely personal grievance triggered by Nolen's dismissal.
But the FBI were called in because of the nature of the crime and following reports that Nolen, who has several criminal convictions, was a convert to Islam and had sought to persuade other workers to follow his lead.
After conducting interviews with Nolen's co-workers, information was obtained that he recently started trying to convert several employees to the Muslim religion," said the police spokesman.
The incident comes after a series of beheadings of western captives by jihadists in Syria and Algeria, posing in online videos, but US officials have not confirmed any link to the Oklahoma case.
But the incident could trigger renewed fears that jihadist "lone wolves" could be willing to act on western soil.
At the same time members of the Islamic community in Oklahoma fear there could be a backlash.
Saad Saad Mohammad, a spokesman for the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, said the mosque was enhancing security to pretect the muslim community from any retaliation.
He told the NewsOK.com website: "“They have this ISIS thing on their minds and now this guy has brought it to America.”
Alton Nolen allegedly beheaded a co-worker after being fired from his job where he had recently tried to convert people to Islam
A woman has been beheaded in an Oklahoma food processing plant by a sacked employee who had allegedly tried to convert his colleagues to Islam.
Alton Nolen, 30, walked into the Vaughan Foods plant plant in Moore Oklahoma and decapitated Colleen Hufford, 54, with a knife and then attacked a second women, Traci Johnson, 43.
Initially it was thought the attacks were a purely personal grievance triggered by Nolen's dismissal.
But the FBI were called in because of the nature of the crime and following reports that Nolen, who has several criminal convictions, was a convert to Islam and had sought to persuade other workers to follow his lead.
After conducting interviews with Nolen's co-workers, information was obtained that he recently started trying to convert several employees to the Muslim religion," said the police spokesman.
The incident comes after a series of beheadings of western captives by jihadists in Syria and Algeria, posing in online videos, but US officials have not confirmed any link to the Oklahoma case.
But the incident could trigger renewed fears that jihadist "lone wolves" could be willing to act on western soil.
At the same time members of the Islamic community in Oklahoma fear there could be a backlash.
Saad Saad Mohammad, a spokesman for the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, said the mosque was enhancing security to pretect the muslim community from any retaliation.
He told the NewsOK.com website: "“They have this ISIS thing on their minds and now this guy has brought it to America.”