Remembering History: The 1983 Muslim Terrorist Bombing in Portland, Oregon

It was this attack that triggered things spiraling out of control between government officials in Oregon and the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's followers. What was left out of Netflix's Wild Wild County is Stephen P. Paster, a Jewish convert to Islam and a member of Jamaat ul-Fuqra was convicted of the bombing. That the show runners would leave such a fact out (he was actually convicted in court) is highly misleading.

Strangely enough,  I could find no pictures of Stephen Paul Paster on the internet. After serving four years on a twenty year sentence (Paster was injured in the bombing), he went to Pakistan and apparently never came back (he is allegedly still working with Jamaal ul-Fuqra in bomb making). The group is still active in the United States.

Both the Rajneeshees and Jamaal ul-Fuqra were (and in the latter are) heavily armed. We also were not paying attention in 1983.

The Oregonian:

Three small bombs went off inside Portland's 127-room Hotel Rajneesh in the early hours of Friday, July 29, 1983. The first one exploded at 1:22 a.m. and blew a hole in the bathroom wall of Room 405. The second and third bombs, under the room's beds, ignited a little more than an hour later. 

Stephen P. Paster, who lost some of his fingers from the initial blast and later was linked to a Muslim fundamentalis?enitentiary.

Authorities never firmly established a motive for the attack.

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