Posted on 08/31/2006 8:53:25 AM PDT by quidnunc
The story that developed in July was just too good to pass up: a Jordanian-born restaurant owner in Xenia, Ohio had been the apparent victim of repeated attempts to burn down his store. The day after the third attack, when a Molotov cocktail had been thrown through the front window of his business, yet another explosion rocked the store – the second attack in 24 hours – sending the owner and his son to the hospital with burns over 80-90 percent of their bodies. An employee in an adjoining store was also taken to the hospital for injuries.
Just hours before the blast, the store owner had been interviewed by a local TV station vowing that he would never give in to pressure to close the store (video of the interview can be seen here).
Into this situation jumped the Cincinnati-area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) – the self-proclaimed Muslim “civil rights” organization suggesting that anti-Muslim hatred was at work. An item posted on July 14th on the national CAIR website screamed the headline, “Blast at Arab-American Restaurant ‘Suspicious’ .”
Karen Dabdoub, the local CAIR spokeswoman, was quoted in the local media saying,
“Anytime an attack like this happens, the perception in the Arab and Muslim community is that it is ethnically or religiously motivated. Especially in the absence of perpetrators being caught by law enforcement, that’s the fear. Until that (motivation) is discovered, people speculate, rightly or wrongly.”
The problem with CAIR’s narrative of anti-Muslim hatred in small-town America was that it wasn’t true. Arson investigators have determined that the final blast that severely injured the store owner, Musa Shteiwi, and his son, Essa, was set by the pair themselves. In a performance worthy of a Darwin Award, the Shteiwis were standing in a pool of gasoline that they intended to use as an accelerant in setting their store ablaze later that night when Musa Shteiwi took a break and lit up a cigarette, igniting the gasoline prematurely and causing the blast that inflicted their injuries.
But there’s more: prosecutors claim that Shteiwi had hired a former employee, Joshua Hunter, to commit the previous attacks against his store that CAIR had insisted were hate crimes committed by non-Muslim members of the Xenia community. Hunter has been jailed and charged with arson, and similar charges against Musa and Essa Shteiwi are pending until after they have recovered from their injuries.
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Darwin candiate bump
"Jihad Lightning"
Using the race card is one of the trojan horses Islam uses in its quest for conquest of the west.
They know their are tons of white guilt liberals who will become their useful idiots.
LOL...
Lemme guess. He didn't read the Surgeon General's warning on his Camels.
Yep. they used the media against Israel in the recent war. They use it in Iraq as they know the media will demand no casualties of any kind. They use our own tools against us exceedingly well as we are full of people who cannot stomach the fact that war is very tough and very violent and people die. Of course, they also deny that we are in fact in the middle of a World War started by radical Islamists who wish to see us all dead.
How come I'm not surprised. How come these Moos are so addicted to cigarettes? Don't they know smoking can kill you-KABOOM!!!!
Why am I not surprised at all? I wonder how many other 'manufactured jihadi-scumbag' stories are out there and were accepted as Whitey's racism etc? Probably, at least some...
*snort*
I still always chuckle when I see your screen name!
I'm still laughing. Lol, in addition to arson, he should be charged with a hate crime for trying to kill a protected class (in this case himself). That should appease the CAIR folks.
Life's tough.
It's even tougher when you're stupid.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Maybe next time he will invite the local CAIR chapter over first........they can have a real sandmaggot roast.
Muslims. Ya gotta love them. Jesus said so. However, they were equipped with their own part of the planet and need to be smacked back there for another millenium or two.
Smoking can be bad for your health, especially standing in gasoline. BWAHAHAHA!!!!!
I love that one!
I thought it fit the story.
Do you mean the one he smokes or, the one he humps?
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