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US mosque gutted in fire in suspected arson attack
The Hindu Business Line ^ | August 7, 2012

Posted on 08/07/2012 9:31:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

A day after the tragic shooting incident at a Gurudwara, a mosque in the US was burned to the ground for the second time in little more than a month in a suspected arson attack.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said the Islamic Centre of Joplin in Missouri was gutted down to the ground yesterday. The centre was vacant at the time of the fire and no individuals sustained any injuries.

The FBI, in conjunction with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department, and the Missouri Department of Fire Safety are currently investigating and providing significant resources to determine the cause of the fire.

“We are currently in the preliminary stages of this investigation and are awaiting a determination as to the cause of this fire. If this fire is determined to be deliberate in nature, it will be investigated to the fullest extent possible,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Michael Kaste.

“Any act of violence to a house of worship is taken very seriously by law enforcement and threatens the very core of the safety and security that our communities enjoy,” he said.

Following the incident, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called for stepped-up police protection at Muslim institutions and other houses of worship nationwide.

Recently, a $15,000 reward was announced by the FBI and the ATF for information leading to the arrest and indictment of the person or persons responsible for the fire at this same centre on July 4.

Yesterday, CAIR had offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever may have caused yesterday’s fire.


TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; Islam
KEYWORDS: arson; cair; crime; islam
Are CAIR or the Middle Eastern sheiks going to pony up that money for added security and police? Because I don't want to pay for it.
1 posted on 08/07/2012 9:31:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Looking for an “outcry” for matches and lighters to be banned in ...4, 3, 2, 1.


2 posted on 08/07/2012 9:34:19 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The NRA did not create James "The Joker" Holmes. Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood did.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I didn’t see anything in the article that actually said it was arson, though it was implied.


3 posted on 08/07/2012 9:39:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Looking for an “outcry” for matches and lighters to be banned in ...4, 3, 2, 1.”

Cynic. Is there a fund for helping rebuild that I can ignore?


4 posted on 08/07/2012 9:40:06 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Racism is not dead...it is on life support - kept alive by politicians..." - Thomas Sowell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Things are heating up fast. As times get more desperate people are looking for someone to blame and more of these kinds of things are going to happen. I just wish the reporting was balanced. A mosque getting torched will have the left in a craze but they constantly neglect the constant persecution that is happening against whites and christians in our country these days. In Dearborn,MI muslims verbally and physically assaulted a group of christian protesters, the homosexuals are assaulting anyone who doesn’t agree with them. They want civil war and its sadly coming.


5 posted on 08/07/2012 9:41:03 PM PDT by eak3
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Yeah, it’s coming....and Muslims, homosexuals, Socialists, radical blacks, etc., are going to learn the meaning of the word “minority” in ways they never, ever, ever dreamed.


6 posted on 08/07/2012 9:49:57 PM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Which Catholic or Christian Church in Joplin Missouri will not be burned in a revenge attack? Isn’t that there mode of operation?


7 posted on 08/07/2012 10:12:55 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: RightOnline; eak3

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts


8 posted on 08/07/2012 10:16:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It must have been the worlds fastest rebuild for it to burn down TWICE in one month....


9 posted on 08/07/2012 10:28:53 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I know of two tall buildings in New York City that burned and collapsed killing thousands of people. They weren’t churches but none the less the people who committed the crime are of the same group of people who worship in the mosque mentioned in this story. Payback is a bitch.


10 posted on 08/07/2012 10:49:30 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let’s say it was arson. That doesn’t mean that some bitter clinger set it. I believe it is more likely that a member of the mosque set it.


11 posted on 08/07/2012 11:21:27 PM PDT by matt04
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To: matt04

Insurance fraud? Drone attack?


12 posted on 08/07/2012 11:37:17 PM PDT by tdscpa
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And still no suspects arrested in the burning of Sara Palin’s church in Wasilla two years ago.............


13 posted on 08/08/2012 12:33:17 AM PDT by Species8472 (Stupid is supposed to hurt)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Boo frigggin’ HOO HOO.

Let them all burn.

Foolish 7th century backwards cult needs to be eliminated.

People need to fight back against this evil cult any way that they can. It is not going to moderate, ever... just get worse and our grandkids will live in slavery to the believers of an epileptic pedophile, brigand and murderer who demands that people get on their knees to him, his evil god and his beliefs 5 times per day or die.

Islam has already destroyed two modern nations in our lifetime... Egypt and Iran. Many more are to come.


14 posted on 08/08/2012 1:29:50 AM PDT by Bon mots ("When seconds count, the police are just minutes away...")
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Nah, it will be easier continue the banning of Christians and Jews in the US. All hail the coming caliphate!!! /multiple sarcasms...


15 posted on 08/08/2012 4:27:52 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: Molon Labbie

They hate the West.
Why are they here ?


16 posted on 08/08/2012 4:33:08 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (I didn't post this. Someone else did.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Well, obviously they lack the military prowess and capability to take us down afar, so they infiltrate and create revolutionaries in the ghettos of the US.

I personally think every mosque is a training camp...


17 posted on 08/08/2012 5:09:36 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“a mosque in the US was burned to the ground for the second time in little more than a month in a suspected arson attack”

Why don’t I feel sad?


18 posted on 08/08/2012 5:40:55 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

“Why are they here”?

http://www.pointofview.net/site/News2?news_iv_ctrl=1201&id=12159

‘Muslim Mafia’ Reveals Plans of Radical Islam Through CAIR, Other Groups, to Take Over ‘North America’ — ‘If It Takes 100 Years

Chris Gaubatz infiltrated the national headquarters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), as an intern named David Marshall pretending to be a devoted convert to Islam. He saved thousands of pages of CAIR documents from the shredder — documents that, according to authors P. David Gaubatz — Chris’ father — and Paul Sperry show CAIR to be part of the Muslim Brotherhood-controlled “Muslim Mafia” that seeks to turn the U.S. into an Islamic nation ruled by Shariah law rather than the Constitution.


19 posted on 08/10/2012 5:14:18 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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