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Muslim extremism and hatred is epitomized in the murderous Oregon cult case. The whole episode with the poisoning showed the extreme nature of some of the people there posing as “pious religionists.”

One Antelope resident observed: “At first, they were seen not as a threat. Then they started buying property. They moved enough people in to get a majority on the town council . . . changed the name of Antelope to Rajneesh. Main Street turned into Bhagwan Boulevard. The commune’s growing influence took over the town’s local council and adopted its own policies, igniting fury in the Antelope residents.”

The madness of the Rajneesh community culminated in 1984 when the cult hatched a plan to win the November 1984 town council elections. They wanted to eliminate Antelope residents’ troubling dissent.

Their tactics included busing in thousands homeless people from New York City, Phoenix, and San Diego to register to vote to insure a Rajneesh majority. (As practiced in Minnesot?) Antelope County authorities sniffed out the plan and refused to register the vagrants.

Then came a vicious bioterror attack that scarred the city.
The commune put salmonella in the salad bars of 10 restaurants in an effort strike sickness and fear among the residents. A total of 700 people became sick from the restaurant stint, causing the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to come in to stop the damage. The cult’s salmonella plot was the largest bioterror attack in the United States.

The restaurant plot was a test run for the real plan of poisoning the city’s water supply, but the group never carried it out. ‘They put salmonella in the salad bars of 10 [local] restaurants; 700 people got sick. Then the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] got involved and they backed off [from the poison water plan],’ says Wild Wild Country co-director Maclain Way.

The election came and went, without a single Rajneeshee making it onto the commission.