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While the west and media
always portraying muslim as terrorist, the west and media in itself have
nurtured the real terrorist amongst supposedly civilian people. These are the
real terrorists which pose the real threat... most likely either Christian
Terrorist or Jewish Terrorist....
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 11:17 PM
Subject: Two Masjids Burned in One Week
Thursday, December 09, 2004
Two U.S. Mosques Burned in
One Week
CAIR calls on feds to rule out
possibility of hate crimes
(WASHINGTON,
D.C., 12/9/04) - A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group
today called on federal authorities to help rule out the possibility that fires
this week at mosques in Massachusetts and Arizona were anti-Muslim hate crimes.
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says that
Muslim communities in Arizona and Massachusetts need to be reassured that they
are not being targeted.
A fire last night heavily damaged the Al-Baqi
Islamic Center in Springfield, Mass. Arson investigators have not yet determined
the cause of the fire, but did say that the blaze was not sparked by electrical
problems.
SEE: "Mosque Burns; Cause Probed"
http://www.masslive.com/hampfrank/republican
/index.ssf?/base/news-6/110258195857981.xml
Yesterday,
CAIR's Arizona office held a news conference to call for an FBI investigation of
a fire that destroyed a Phoenix-area mosque. The blaze broke out early Tuesday
morning in the Al Sadiq Mosque in Glendale, Ariz. After initially saying the
fire was of "suspicious origins," local investigators now say the cause is
"undetermined."
SEE: "Muslims Seek FBI Aid in Fire Investigation"
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1209wvmosque09.html
In a letter
to the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, CAIR Legal Director
Arsalan Iftikhar wrote: "Given the recent pattern of incidents targeting Islamic
institutions in the United States, and the Muslim community's concerns about the
rising tide of Islamophobic rhetoric in our society, I would respectfully
request that the Department of Justice
assist in ruling out the possibility
that these most recent incidents were bias-motivated hate
crimes."
Iftikhar also noted that in late November, CAIR called on the
FBI to assist in the investigation of a fire at a Virginia gas station that may
have been motivated by anti-Muslim or anti-Arab bias. Racist graffiti such as
"F*** Arab go home" was left in the vicinity of the Sikh-owned station. (Since
the 9/11 terror attacks, a number of Sikh men who wear turbans have been
targeted because they were mistaken for Muslims.)
Other incidents
targeting American Islamic institutions have taken place recently nationwide. In
Fargo, N.D., vandals smeared feces on a mosque. In the neighboring state of
Minnesota, two Islamic centers were also vandalized.
In Texas, firebombs
were thrown at an El Paso mosque. Also in Texas, a man was arrested for
threatening an El Paso Islamic center, an arson suspect was arrested at the
scene of a fire at a Muslim business in San Antonio and vandals scrawled racist
graffiti on the interior of a Lubbock mosque. A home-made bomb exploded in the
mailbox of a Houston Islamic center.
In Washington, D.C., a Muslim prayer
area at American University was vandalized. Earlier this year in Florida,
vandals wrote "Kill all Muslims" inside the Islamic Community Center in the
Tampa suburb of Lutz. The FBI is
also investigating vandalism and
threatening messages targeting the Islamic Community of Southwest Florida in
Charlotte Harbor. In Missouri, vandals painted a Nazi swastika and the word
"die" on an addition under construction at the Islamic Foundation of Greater St.
Louis. Three Miami Islamic centers were vandalized.
In August of last
year, investigators determined that a blaze at the
Islamic Center of
Savannah in Savannah, Ga., was an act of arson. In 2003,
a Florida man was
sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison for
plotting to attack
some 50 Islamic institutions in that state. Similar
incidents have occurred
in a number of other states, particularly since the
9/11 terror
attacks.
As early as 1994, a nearly completed mosque in Yuba City,
Calif., burned to
the ground in what was ruled an arson attack. In 1995,
arson destroyed a
Springfield, Ill., Islamic center. In 1996, a suspect was
charged for
involvement in an arson attack on a Greenville, S.C., mosque. In
1999, an
arson attack severely damaged a Minneapolis, Minn., mosque. Also in
1999, a
would-be terrorist was arrested after fleeing from the area of a
mosque
near Denver, Colo. The suspect's car was found to contain loaded
weapons
and bomb-making materials.
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