Leader of an Illinois militia group who wrote anti-Muslim manifesto is convicted of hate crime charges in 2017 bombing of Minnesota mosque Michael Hari was convicted by a jury Wednesday on several civil rights and hate crime charges stemming from the 2017 bombing of Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center Prosecutors said Hari, who is the leader of the White Rabbit militia group, instructed two accomplices to throw a pipe bomb inside the center Hari was found guilty of using explosives, damaging property because of its religious character and obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs The 49-year-old faces mandatory sentence of 35 years in prison, authorities said