[knarf]

This just showed up in my wife's FB page and I have never heard of any of this
Have I been asleep or was it kept quiet or what ?

[skr]

Democrat operatives working hard to get their voting base ready for 2016

[iowamark]

Churches and synagogues are under attack from various sides today. I would have good fire alarms, security system, and cameras in place in every one. I am surprised that insurance companies have not so insisted.

[Darteaus94025]

Is this their return fire?

[cva66snipe]

The first fire came late June 21 when, police said, someone set fire to some hay bales just outside the College Hill Seventh Day Adventist in Knoxville, Tenn. The church sustained minor damage. Its van was also burned

The Knoxville area is having an abnormally dry spring and summer. We are in the first stage of drought. Yes if hay bales were left there {I'm assuming for decoration or landscaping} they would likely go up from a cigarette or if green hay spontaneous combustion.

A few miles north of Knoxville a few years ago a motel burned due to mulch they think. When I was growing up in the 1960's I remember several church fires in Knoxville within about a year. All white churches.

I also remember a scandal over a church fire in Knoxville. It was a church Reggie White was a co=pastor of. Reggie was a good man perhaps who trusted others too much. But this is an interesting read. I remember the scandal. Church's pastor sentenced for drugs, funds gone

Also churches are vulnerable to arsonist from Kooks who have some mental disorder and churches are easy lower risk targets. Most of them burn though due to undetected issues in the churches wiring or HVAC system etc. They can burn quite a while inside and not be detected. Gas leaks especially in rural churches happen as well.

[Netz]

The current sitting President of the United States is nearly 100% responsible for setting Race relations back 50 years. His policies, interference, outspoken defense of thugs, critiques of his own Police forces, bias, prejudging and general radical agenda have inflamed race relations. Up until 2008, things “seemed” to be reaching some kind of normalcy but the POTUS has caused infection and insurrection and that will be one of his many policy failures displayed at his Presidential Library some day.

[Veggie Todd]

Charlie Manson is smiling.

[zipper]

Back when Clinton was president there were a rash of dozens of supposedly deliberate black church burnings. USA Today did an extensive analysis and long article about it; their conclusion was it was not a white or Republican conspiracy at all. But it definitely was mentioned in a lot of Democrat fundraising emails, and got a lot of air time on the networks.

Of course now this couldn’t happen. USA Today is far too far left to publish an honest assessment.

[monocle]

Bill Clinton’s Fantasy #3
“I have vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child.”
President Clinton
June 8 1996 - national radio address

[Gaffer]

And Bill Clinton remembers as a teenager all those black churches being burned in Arkansas. Oh wait........

It’s hard to say what tickles the MSM’s fancy anymore as far as news goes. This article is the first I’ve seen or heard from here in Georgia......

[Species8472]

NFPA stats show 1800 fires a year in "religious" institutions.

That's almost 5 a day.

15% are suspicious.

Nothing to see here.

Move along.........

[Salman]

Here we go again.

Just like 1996.

[Joe Boucher]

A black friend of min e in rural Georgia posted about this on her facebook page.
She is terrified that this is a widespread thing.
I think it is democrats trying to make it look like pubbies being racist.

[Sherman Logan]

Sad about the headline.

Predominately isn’t even a word.

They meant, of course, predominantly.

Headlines are written by editors. Apparently they don’t edit themselves.

[Dr. Ursus]

Three words- Black church maintenance!

[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.

[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.

[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