[NormsRevenge]

(Lea Reed/For The Sun)

A burned copy of the Quran lies among the ashes of the mosque at the United Islamic Youth Organization Cemetery in Adelanto, which burned to the ground early Friday.

[DoughtyOne]

I'm still up in the air on this one. Hatered or common sense?

[DogBarkTree]

"Muslims are an integral part of America and we will be united against hate."
Yeah right, you lay down with camels you wake up with fleas.

[SunStar]

Laura Bosley, an FBI spokeswoman, said the agency has not determined whether the fire that leveled the mosque at the United Islamic Youth Organization and Cemetery is a hate crime.

Actually, I think it was a love crime. Morons.

[CzarNicky]

Work accident?

[jocon307]

Thanks goodness Bill Clinton isn't still president. Or we'd get to hear him tell of how he remembers Mosques getting burned in Alabama during his youth.

[Longbow1969]

Well, I can safely say that I won't be losing any sleep over this.

"Also lost were about 1,000 books, including copies of the Quran."

Oh dear, I sure hope the firefighters didn't "mishandle" the ashes.

Longbow

[Cvengr]

Looks like the only hatemongers at present are the Muslims. Fire Dept repeatedly refused to declare this to be a case of arson, but instead repeatedly left the door open until investigation shall justly identify the cause of the fire. No hate towards the Islamic community from the publis officials.

Maybe it was caused by Muslim extremists seeking to justify other irrational hateful behavior they are premeditating.

[aynrandfreak]

I'm an American and a convert

I think the converts can tend to be more radicalized, and we already know that hate crimes can be faked be minority groups to gain sympathy too.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Act of God?

[NorseWood]

Maybe it was struck by a lightning bolt

[NormsRevenge]

Adelanto mosque fire investigated as possible arson or hate crime

The Associated Press

http://www.bakersfield.com/state_wire/story/5574545p-5545767c.html

ADELANTO, Calif. (AP) - Investigators probing a fire that gutted the United Islamic Youth Organization mosque believe it was possibly an arson or hate crime, authorities said.

"We can't rule that out until we look at everything," said San Bernardino County Fire Department spokeswoman Tracey Martinez. She added that federal investigators had been called to the scene.

The fire occurred early Friday in this high desert city, which is the site of the only cemetery in Southern California built exclusively for Muslims.

The fire was considered suspicious because the 1,500-square-foot mosque did not have electricity or gas service, which ruled out those causes.

A truck driver reported the blaze about 4:24 a.m. Friday and firefighters arrived in 20 minutes to find the mosque in flames, Martinez said. Only two walls remained standing and Korans and prayer rugs were destroyed in the fire, said Seyed Mousavi, a mosque board member.

"The only thing we're afraid of is that someone who doesn't like Muslims found out this is the only Islamic cemetery in the U.S.," Mousavi said.

The mosque served as a spiritual center for visitors to the cemetery of 600 graves, which all face toward Mecca.

"The significance of that cemetery is great to Muslims in Southern California, and if this is arson, that's a big insult to our community," said Mustafa Kuko, director of the Islamic Center of Riverside. "The Muslim looks at the mosque as a home. They don't have all the clues yet, but it's like someone has burned down one of our homes."

A spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Southern California called for the FBI to investigate the blaze as a possible hate crime.

"We pray that the perpetrators, whatever their motive, are caught and brought to justice," said communications director Sabiha Khan.

[TheForceOfOne]

Send them all back, its not worth the trouble to weed out the good from the bad when just a couple bad ones can create so much destruction in today's world. They bitch and complain yet know things as some did prior to 9/11 and said nothing to stop it or help us. Then they danced in the street as it happened.

[Random Nonsense]

Whilst we are following this case, here is additional reading from Frontpage. :)

CAIR's Hate Crimes Nonsense, by Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha.

[rogue yam]

My guess is that it was an inside job, seeking either to guilt-trip decent Americans, or to pull some sort of financial scam. We'll see, but that's my guess.

[paul51]

I'm an American and a convert, and I would like to think that my American brothers and sisters believe in the rights of all people to freely worship.'

I'd like to know if you think it's a two way street.

[Gritty]

Some of the items lost in the fire are priceless, such as a black velvet cloth with the 99 names of Allah sewn on in gold

Priceless? Aw, c'mon! I'd wager most old Elvis-On-Velvet paintings are worth more. They put the 99 names of Allah on just about everything.

[CyberAnt]

Maybe somebody set it on purpose to make us look bad.

Don't forget these people burned their own library with 400 copies of the Koran while they were blaming us for flushing one down the toilet.

[Ramonan]

Probably done by an Islamofascist:
GITMO QURAN "MISHANDLING"
He also said they found 15 cases of detainees mishandling their own Qurans. "These included using a Quran as a pillow, ripping pages out of the Quran, attempting to flush a Quran down the toilet and urinating on the Quran," Hood's report said. It offered no possible explanation for the detainees' motives.