Posted on 02/17/2015 12:26:43 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
A possible hate crime is under investigation after a fire was set at a Central Florida church, where vandals also spray-painted "Allahu Akbar."
The incident happened around 3 a.m. Monday at the New Shiloh Christian Church in Melbourne. About 1,500 members attend the church.
Melbourne police said officers and firefighters discovered the blaze after a fire alarm sounded. Arson was the expected cause, police said.
Fire sprinklers helped contain the flames to a storage unit connected to the 125,000-square-foot building.
The words "Allahu Akbar" were spray-painted on the storage unit. "Allahu Akbar" is an Arabic phrase typically translated as "God is great" and is a common expression used in various contexts.
A swastika was also scrawled on church property.
"To find something like that in 2015 is unbelievable. It's just disheartening," said New Shiloh Christian Church Bishop Jacquelyn Gordon.
Damage to the church property was estimated to be about $5,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at clickorlando.com ...
They are already here...
With Obama’s blessing
Sounds kind of fishy.
Random graffiti.
99% this is fake.
Real muslims would just hang around and shoot the firemen who arrived.
“To find something like that in 2015 is unbelievable...”
Obama has been POTUS since 2008. Believe it.
If it is in English, I doubt they are real Muslims; more like black Muslims, like “Reverend” Farrakhan. This is because real Muslims are required to learn written Arabic, and a lot of Muslims hold that the Koran cannot be written in any other language than Arabic.
‘Worship the Lord, celebrate diversity, practice equality.’......is the caption on their website....
.....looks like an Obama type church......
It’s in my county, but I’ve never heard of it.
” Churchplace Violence”
Dan Rather set the fire and wrote that Shiite...
Brian Williams saved the puppy inside and single handedly extinguished the flames...
I thought the same thing. But the fire seems a little much. If it were only graffiti, I would definitely think it was a hoax, but arson is pretty serious.
I doubt it was Vandals. This sounds like the work of Visigoths.
At least they're learning how to spell that in school.
Did they take all the handles?
That's certainly informative.
The only reason it might be a hate crime is it appears to be a black church.
They should have saved the swastika for a synagogue. These people are ignorant.
” is a common expression used in various contexts.”
Usually right before detonating a suicide vest or crashing planes into buildings.
Also lazy and stupid : )
1 Tim 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; ...
Hmmm... something not quite right there.
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