Posted on 08/10/2007 5:17:25 AM PDT by theothercheek
Two unidentified men tossed a soda bottle filled with acid at the Albanian American Islamic Center of Arizona, a Phoenix area mosque. The bottle broke 20-25 feet away from imam Didmar Faja and another man; neither was injured.
Faja is one of six "Flying imams" who filed a discrimination suit against US Airways for kicking them off a Minneapolis to Phoenix flight last November after crewmembers and passengers became alarmed at what they perceived to be terroristic behavior.
Predictably, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is claiming that the imams and their attorney received death threats, and pressured Glendale police to treat the incident as a hate crime.
Predictably, the police caved: "Until we know [the reason], we are going to assume that [the mosque attack] was religiously motivated," sergeant Jim Toomey tells Reuters.
Five other similar incidents recently occurred in the Glendale area but none of them were directed at Muslims or any other religious group, according to police - typically, these "acid bomb" attacks are pranks. Doing the math, 84 percent of the incidents were not religiously motivated, so why is the police department indulging CAIR’s paranoid delusions?
Jeez, you’d think CAIR could tell the difference between a bomb and a fizz.
It’s not in their best interest to. They exist solely to make up phoney charges of anti-muslim backlash so that Americans are intimidated about seeing something and saying something, lest they be accused of racism or sued by CAIR. By diverting people’s attention with phoney accusations they give cover to the unknown number of jihadis among us planning murder and mayhem.
They cant tell the difference between a firecracker and a pipe bomb.
http://www.breitbart.com/print.php?id=D8QRQ1N00&show_article=1&cat=0
But nothing the muzzies do is religiously motivated and therefor cannot be a hate crime.
Soda drinks contain phosphoric acid. Is that the basis for the claim of an "acid" attack?
No that’s not the bais for the claim - click on the “pranks” link for a description - and the “acid bomb” link to see a video.
And I agree with you that CAIR has never called 9/11 a religiously motivated hate crime, although that was what it was. And what about that Muslim college student who mowed down a bunch of his classmates with his SUV. The victims demanded that it be prosecuted as a hate crime, and I don’t believe it was.
A dog would’ve worked, too.
How do we know they didnt do it themselves for propaganda?
We don’t.
If they had done it for the propaganda, they would have only targeted mosques so that CAIR’s baseless allegations of anti-muslim backlash would look credible for once.
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