Posted on 08/17/2006 9:48:43 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
EL CAJON
A fire ripped through an Islamic center early Thursday morning, causing $2 million in damages before it was put out, officials said.
The three-alarm fire at the Kurdish Community Islamic Center was reported just after 2 a.m. and burned for more than an hour before firefighters from 15 different crews extinguished it, said Monica Zech, a spokeswoman for the El Cajon Fire Department.
"When they got here, there was heavy smoke coming from the building and then the fire broke through the roof and flames were shooting through the roof," Zech said. "It's pretty much a total loss."
The cause of the fire in this east San Diego suburb was unknown. Investigators were unable to search for clues inside the building because it was unstable, Zech said. Instead, they used fire truck ladders to get an aerial view of the inside of the 800,000-square-foot community center, she said.
Arson investigators from the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the FBI were on the scene.
The FBI would become involved if it was determined that the fire was a hate crime, Zech said.
Members of the community center arrived early Thursday for morning prayer, only to find the center in ashes. Zech said the center's owner was out of town.
could be
I certainly HOPE so!
How much ammunition was heard cooking off???
If an Imam gives orders to kill non-Muslims, that is a matter for the police, not mobs with torches, unless there is imminent danger of the order being carried out, in which case the right of self-defense takes precedence. But the general threat of Islamic extremism does not justify acts of arson against mosques or Islamic centers, or acts of violence against individual Muslims.
Side stepping a pitch doesn't qualify as a hit.
I said: ask your friend what SHE will do WHEN her imam orders her to kill you, your family and your friends.
I call him the "pervy prophet"
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