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Indiana Mosque Arson Probed As Hate Crime
The Daily Advance ^ | 7/8/2005

Posted on 07/09/2005 2:14:30 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Someone tried to set fire to a mosque early Saturday and the FBI was investigating it as a hate crime, officials said.

No one was inside the Islamic Center of Bloomington when the fire occured at about 2 a.m. and the damage was confined to the kitchen area, said Nathan Ainsle, president of the Islamic Center.

A burned Quran was found outside, he said.

Someone threw a rock through a window, then poured a flammable liquid into the building and ignited it, the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations said.

The timing of the fire, so soon after Thursday's bombing in London that killed at least 49 people, was suspicious, said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the council. Hooper said his group had been receiving hate e-mail and phone calls since Thursday.

FBI Special Agent Wendy Osborne said agents and members of a Joint Terrorism Task Force were investigating it as a hate crime.

"The FBI takes hate crimes and acts of violence very seriously," she said.

The mosque had not received any threats, and Ainsle said its 200-plus members generally have a good relationship with the community, home of Indiana University's main campus.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: arson; cair; hatecrime; islamiccenter; mosque
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1 posted on 07/09/2005 2:14:31 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

Fake hate crime...


2 posted on 07/09/2005 2:15:27 PM PDT by TomServo ("Hey, it's helmet day at NASA!")
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

... and that's what the British said in 1776.


3 posted on 07/09/2005 2:16:23 PM PDT by A.B.Normal (Craziness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result, ask a Liberal.)
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To: TomServo
A burned Koran found conveniently outside, and CAIR already reporting it.....sounds fake to me.
4 posted on 07/09/2005 2:18:08 PM PDT by xJones
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
"No one was inside the Islamic Center of Bloomington when the fire occured at about 2 a.m. and the damage was confined to the kitchen area..."

Lucky break!

Allah be praised!

Had it spread to the bomb rooms in the basement, damage would have been significant, indeed.

5 posted on 07/09/2005 2:18:45 PM PDT by MarineDad (Whenever mosques and JDAM's meet, civilization benefits.)
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To: TomServo

That's my guess. Southern Indiana good old boys know how to torch a building. This is a sympathy ply by the towel heads.


6 posted on 07/09/2005 2:19:58 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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I mean c'mon. If you're gonna make a statement, ya gonna make it in Bloomington?

No offense to the residents meant...

7 posted on 07/09/2005 2:21:54 PM PDT by TomServo ("Hey, it's helmet day at NASA!")
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

Thats to bad.


8 posted on 07/09/2005 2:23:07 PM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: xJones

Wouldn't be the first time, now would it.


9 posted on 07/09/2005 2:24:44 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
islamism is a hate crime.

'nuff said.

FMCDH(BITS)

10 posted on 07/09/2005 2:31:38 PM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: xJones
A burned Koran found conveniently outside, and CAIR already reporting it.....sounds fake to me.

That koran is what triggered my bs detector, too. A burned koran doesn't have the same impact to us that it does to muslims. If there had been a trip to a pigpen involved it would be a different story.

11 posted on 07/09/2005 2:34:10 PM PDT by magslinger (Gun control laws are like OSHA for criminals-Thomas Sowell)
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

Oh puhleeze! How about just a crime committed.


12 posted on 07/09/2005 2:37:41 PM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: xJones

> ...sounds fake to me.

Where is the burnt Koran? If "Nathan Ainsle, president of the Islamic Center" can't produce it, by the time the FBI is done with him, he (or whoever) could be looking at several felony charges.


13 posted on 07/09/2005 2:41:19 PM PDT by cloud8
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
Maybe we should have a thunderdome. Let the crazies fight it out with idiots. LOL.
14 posted on 07/09/2005 2:49:06 PM PDT by Fishing-guy
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To: magslinger

I agree with you. A non-Muslim American would have left a pig's head as a calling card, not a Koran


15 posted on 07/09/2005 2:51:34 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The only difference between Charles Manson and Mohammad is that Manson killed fewer people)
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To: TomServo
I mean c'mon. If you're gonna make a statement, ya gonna make it in Bloomington?

I, uh, don't know how to say this without offending our wonderful Indiana Freepers, but I can't think of anywhere in Indiana to make a statement besides, "Start your motors!" in Indianopolis.

16 posted on 07/09/2005 3:03:53 PM PDT by xJones (I intend to live forever - so far, so good.)
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To: xJones

LOL!! ;-)


17 posted on 07/09/2005 3:04:27 PM PDT by TomServo ("Hey, it's helmet day at NASA!")
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To: SauronOfMordor
A non-Muslim American would have left a pig's head as a calling card, not a Koran

Hmmm...What a very interesting idea.....eh? :)

18 posted on 07/09/2005 3:05:28 PM PDT by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

I never even knew Bloomington had a mosque. Numerous Christian churches have been burned in Indiana and a guy and his stripper girl friend were convicted. Yet, these were not considered hate crimes - what double standard.


19 posted on 07/09/2005 3:10:00 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

If they find some guy who did it is it wrong to take up a defense collection?


20 posted on 07/09/2005 3:35:09 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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