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The 鈥淎merican psyche鈥� was damaged when an armed arsonist set fire to a Toledo mosque, much like the impact of Monday鈥檚 bombings in Boston, a federal judge said in sentencing an Indiana man to 20 years in prison.

Randolph Linn, 52, of St. Joe, Ind., was also ordered to pay restitution of more than $1.4 million. He in December to setting fire to the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo last September. He told the court he was inspired by media accounts, specificially those on Fox News, suggesting Muslims were threatening Americans and controlling parts of the federal government.

鈥淲hat is common in both the Boston Marathon bombing and in this situation is that there was damage to our American psyche in some way,鈥澛� U.S. District Judge Jack Zouhary told Linn, the reported.

鈥淲hat you did also was an assault 鈥� as was the Boston Marathon bombing 鈥� an assault on what I call the American spirit, on our unique and founding principles of freedom, tolerance, and respect,鈥� the judge said.

Those thoughts were echoed by Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

鈥淗ate crimes like this seek to damage more than buildings; they take aim at our American way of life,鈥� Dettelbach said in a statement. 鈥淏ut today鈥檚 20-year prison sentence and the coming together of this community to support our Muslim neighbors show that our freedoms are stronger and more resilient than this man鈥檚 hatred.鈥�

Cherrefe Kadri, president of the Islamic Center, said the crime was senseless. 鈥淲e don鈥檛 feel anger as much as we feel hurt that someone hated us that much 鈥� someone who鈥檚 never met us, someone who knows nothing about us,鈥� Kadri said, the Toledo newspaper reported.

Linn offered an apology, saying he had been drinking heavily at the time and hadn鈥檛 listened to his now ex-wife鈥檚 warnings about his alcohol use.

鈥淚 messed up her life,鈥� Linn said. 鈥淚 messed up my own life. Thank God I didn鈥檛 hurt anybody at the mosque. 鈥� I鈥檓 sorry for everything I done. I hope someday I can be forgiven.鈥�

Linn鈥檚 ex-wife, Karen Sechler, attended the hearing with a friend, saying later she 鈥渨anted to see for myself. I wanted to see justice served.鈥� The Toledo newspaper reported that Sechler, who was married to Linn for 23 years and divorced him after his arrest, said he got what he deserved.

鈥淚 didn鈥檛 believe a word of (what he said in court),鈥� she said. 鈥淗e鈥檚 not remorseful.鈥� She added that she had not foreseen what he did at the mosque. 鈥淲hen Randy would be drinking, whatever political was going on, he would rant and rave about it, and then the next day, when he was sober, you鈥檇 never hear about it again.鈥�

On the day of the arson, Linn drove from his home in northeast Indiana to Ohio, stopping to fill three gasoline cans near the Islamic Center in Perrysburg, Ohio. The 3,000-member mosque is a 70,000-square-foot landmark, visible for miles.

Court documents say Linn entered the mosque carrying a handgun, moments after worshipers had left. He then went back to his car, returned with a gas can and poured gasoline on a second-floor prayer rug, igniting it as he fled. His actions were caught on surveillance camera photos that were publicly distributed, leading to his arrest a few days later.