Six predominately black Southern churches burn within a week; arson suspected in at least three

The Washington Post ^ | June 29, 2015 | Lindsey Bevar

[knarf]

In the week after nine people were shot dead at Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina, six churches with predominately black congregations in five Southern states have burned. Three of the fires are being investigated as arson.
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[PghBaldy]

They need these to make a pattern. Dylann Storm Roof (sic?) ws one instance. They need more, either real or manufactured, white on black racist attacks.

[RipSawyer]

They don’t REALLY need the 1960s back because in the 1960s they could not pretend that the Republicans were the white racists. Everyone back then KNEW that it was the Democrats who ran the KKK and they could not fantasize that George Wallace was a Republican.

[Tennessee Conservative]

I’m just south of Knoxville and we are finally getting some much needed rain this week. I have been watering the garden for a long time. I have also seen plenty of hay fires.

[1010RD]

Pastors often burn their own churches. It generates insurance money for a money losing church. That their being investigated for arson tells us nothing about the perp(s).

[xzins]

I think liberals have done this in the past...maybe two decades ago.

[a fool in paradise]

Bill Clinton’s talking point of the late 1990s returns???

Recall tha Mr. Clinton had the FBI investigating a non-story of a “rash” of “racist” black church fires in the late 90s. This was the same time period when nearly 2 dozen Islamists were learning to fly airplanes in preparation of the 9-11 attacks.

[ought-six]

Their insurance was about to be cancelled so they got in their total loss before the policy expired.

[DaveA37]

“Pastors often burn their own churches.”....

While I understand your stated reason for these fires as a possibility, you DO HAVE PROOF that this is what is the REAL reason or is it just “hear say”?

[1010RD]

Just one possibility. Black churches burn all the time here in Chicago and nobody says anything about racism being the cause. This is a narrative being pushed to harm the GOP and conservatives in 2016. If ‘southern’ support is racist, then...

[deport]

1995-1996 had a lot of church fires.

• 1995 January 13 Johnson Grove Baptist Church, Bells, Tennessee
• 1995 January 13 Macedonia Baptist Church, Denmark, Tennessee
• 1995 January 31 Mount Calvary Baptist Church, Hardeman County, Tennessee
• 1995 June 21 Outside of Manning, South Carolina, four men affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan worked together to burn down Macedonia Baptist Church and Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, both majority black churches. Arrests made. In 1998, Grand Dragon Horace King and four other Klansmen to pay $37.8 million for their roles in a conspiracy to burn Macedonia Baptist Church.^[3][4]
• 1995 August 15 St. John Baptist Church, Lexington County, South Carolina. Arrest made.
• 1995 October 31 Mount Pisgah Baptist Church, Raeford, North Carolina
• 1995 December 22 Mount Zion Baptist Church, Boligee, Alabama
• 1995 December 30 Salem Baptist Church, Gibson County, Tennessee
• 1996 January 6 Ohovah African Methodist Episcopal Church, Orrum, North Carolina. Arrest made.
• 1996 January 8 Inner City Church, Knoxville, Tennessee
• 1996 January 11 Little Zion Baptist Church and Mount Zoar Baptist Church, Green County, Alabama
• 1996 February 1 Cypress Grove Baptist Church, St. Paul's Free Baptist Church, and Thomas Chapel Benevolent Society, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• 1996 February 1 Sweet Home Baptist Church, Baker, Louisiana
• 1996 February 21 Glorious Church of God in Christ, Richmond, Virginia
• 1996 February 28 New Liberty Baptist Church, Tyler, Alabama. Arrest made.
• 1996 March 5 St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, Hatley, Mississippi
• 1996 March 20 New Mount Zion Baptist Church, Ruleville, Mississippi
• 1996 March 27 Gay's Hill Baptist Church, Millen, Georgia
• 1996 March 30 El Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, Satartia, Mississippi. Arrest made.
• 1996 April 11 St. Charles Baptist Church, Paincourtville, Louisiana
• 1996 April 13 Rosemary Baptist Church, Barnwell, South Carolina
• 1996 April 26 Effingham Baptist Church, Effingham, South Carolina
• 1996 May 14 Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Tigrett, Tennessee
• 1996 May 23 Mount Tabor Baptist Church, Cerro Gordo, North Carolina
• 1996 May 24 Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Lumberton, North Carolina
• 1996 June 3 Rising Star Baptist Church, Greensboro, Alabama
• 1996 June 7 Matthews Murkland Presbyterian Church sanctuary, Charlotte, North Carolina. Arrest made.
• 1996 June 9 New Light House of Prayer and The Church of the Living God, Greenville, Texas
• 1996 June 12 Evangelist Temple, Marianna, Florida
• 1996 June 13 First Missionary Baptist Church, Enid, Oklahoma. Arrest made.
• 1996 June 17 Hills Chapel Baptist Church, Rocky Point, North Carolina
• 1996 June 17 Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church and Central Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Kossuth, Mississippi
• 1996 June 20 Immanuel Christian Fellowship, Portland, Oregon
• 1996 June 24 New Birth Temple Church, Shreveport, Louisiana

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

If I remember correctly, Clinton claimed to remember church burnings in Arkansas. A quick look at that time period showed almost no church arsons in Arkansas at that time.

[Mamzelle]

Churches and barns are just boxes if air—pyromaniacs live them. Especially if they are rural, away from people mist if the time.

[matt04]

Many older churches don’t have “modern” fire alarm systems either so fires can burn for much longer before being dected. I know of one are son church fire where they build had pull stations and a few smoke alarms but it was not monitored by a alarm company. The fire was only reported Wien it was blowing out e 1st and 2nd floor windows.

[1010RD]

Plus, these churches are just “predominately black congregations” therefore it cannot be racism.

[montag813]

In other news, the Reichstag was set on fire by "enemies of the state"...

[SoCalTransplant]

And by “churches” they mean “civil rights, disenfranchisement and democrat party recruiting centers”.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[. . .six churches with predominately black congregations in five Southern states have burned. Three of the fires are being investigated as arson.]

Three out of six may have been arson, pending completion of investigations. If any of the three are arson was it racially motivated, insurance fraud, or based on some old grudge?

[Brad from Tennessee]

FANNING IMAGINARY FLAMES: A LOOK BACK AT THE GREAT CHURCH FIRE PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN

Fifteen summers ago, America's news media informed us that black churches throughout the South were being torched by white racists. The purported wave of arsons dominated the airwaves and generated thousands of newspaper articles. Pundits, politicians and preachers decried the terrorism and the hate it represented.

In fact, it never happened.

Here is the little-known story of how an obscure radical group teamed up with a leftist national church organization, an unprincipled President and a legion of compliant news outlets to create a media firestorm — one based entirely on lies. . .

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/06/fanning_imaginary_flames_a_look_back_at_the_great_church_fire_propaganda_campaign.html

[kiryandil]

It’s probably because they won’t conduct gay marriages...

[uncitizen]

And obama says “wtf do we have to do to get this race war raging?”