The man behind a pair of 2013 arson attempts at a Planned Parenthood health center in Joplin, Missouri, has pleaded guilty, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta and Tammy Dickinson, the U.S. attorney of the Western District of Missouri, said Joplin resident Jedediah Stout, 32, also pleaded guilty to committing arson at the Islamic Society of Joplin mosque in 2012.

The plea led to one count related to damage to the mosque, two counts of arson at the Planned Parenthood clinic, and one count of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.

Stout told federal, state, and local investigators that he attacked the mosque because he didn’t “like Islam as a religion,” according to the Justice Department release. The fire destroyed the religious building and many of the donations made there during the Muslim holy period of Ramadan.

Stout during the recent court hearing admitted that he used the same kind of incendiary device in the mosque arson that he used during the arson attempts at Planned Parenthood in October 2013.

He admitted that he targeted the clinic because it provided reproductive health services, federal officials said. The facility in Joplin, which does not provide abortion care, is one of two associated with Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri.

The Justice Department said both instances of attempted arson at the Planned Parenthood were captured on surveillance cameras and featured Stout throwing items containing an accelerant onto the roof of the facility and igniting material attached to the accelerant. Authorities apprehended him shortly thereafter.

Gupta, who leads the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said in a statement Monday that the Justice Department would “continue to vigorously prosecute violence against reproductive health services providers and crimes motivated by religious animus.”

Statistics released by the National Abortion Federation noted a surge in violent acts against abortion providers nationwide over the past year.

Since 1977, the NAF report said, there have been 11 murders, 26 attempted murders, 42 bombings, 185 arsons, and other incidents of criminal behavior directed at abortion providers.

Stout remains in federal custody without bond. He is subject to a maximum sentence of 61 years in federal prison without parole under federal statutes.

The Justice Department said a sentencing hearing will be scheduled after the U.S. Probation Office completes a pre-sentence investigation. The department’s Civil Rights Division is prosecuting the case in collaboration with Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Kelleher of the Western District of Missouri.