Posted on 01/01/2014 10:19:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
At least 13 people were injured Wednesday morning after an explosion engulfed a Minnesote grocer and mosque.
Police are investigating the cause of the explosion.
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The UPI reported:
At least 13 people were hospitalized Wednesday when an explosion and fire engulfed a building in Minneapolis, officials said.
Minneapolis Fire Chief John Fruetel said six of the 13 people taken to area hospitals were in critical condition, KSTP-TV, St. Paul, reported.
No cause had been determined, but Greg Nelson, supervisor of the Minneapolis Emergency Communications Center, told the Star Tribune in Minneapolis the building likely would be a total loss.
KSTP said it was told the building was a community center that housed a grocery store and a mosque. WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, said the building had apartments. Fire and rescue crews were battling a three-alarm fire at West Bank Grocery and Pharmacy, near the University of Minnesota campus.
At least two media outlets said people climbed or jumped out of windows to escape the fire. Unconfirmed reports indicated second and third floors of the building had collapsed, KARE-TV, Minneapolis, reported.
The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) called on state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate the suspicious fire.
Now which stove did I leave that silly old pressure cooker on? It was either in the basement, the kitchen, the laboratory or was it actually a lavatory?
I lived outside of Minneapolis for 10 years, so the article was of interest. However, it’s being misrepresented as a mosque. It was a grocery store and apartment building, NEAR A MOSQUE. I really think someone’s trying to create a situation in the reporting of this. Go to Startribune.com for local news coverage.
I bet they did. Who exactly did they pay a personal visit to in the dark of night with this request?
About time we see a few “mosques” torched as opposed to it always being Christian Church’s
Never rent an apt above a mosque.
Leads to one thing Mosques are bomb factoies for terrorists
Exactly what happens wherever these maniacs congregate anywhere. If they are not murdering “unbelievers”, they are murdering each other.
The Muslim version of a selfie?
We had a similar fire at the Arab Center in our town several years back. Yup, insurance. The two men were found along side the road so badly burned that they couldn’t continue driving back to Detroit area. I think they died.
Are you thinking about the MOVE standoff/shootout in Philly in 1985?
http://philadelphianeighborhoods.com/2010/06/28/west-philadelphia-25-years-later-move-on-the-move/
You’re quite right, it is being misrepresented. The mosque is next door in another building. Three feet away, but not connected.
In 1971 I lived for a year about 5 blocks south of this building, at 19th and Minnehaha. A year before that on Franklin Ave, maybe 8 blocks away. A year later, maybe 6 blocks away in Middlebrook Hall, a U of M dorm. I was a student.
Cedar Ave. S. was a bunch of small businesses on the west edge of the west bank (of the Mississippi river) of the U of MN Minneapolis campus. Nothing notable. A few bars. Not upscale, not run-down. Lots of students. Little crime. No mosques.
After taking a look at the area, Cedar Ave. S. now seems to be dominated by “ethnic” small businesses with lots of Muslim and African names. For instance:
Halal Food Market, 410 Cedar Ave S
Bina Investment Group, 413 Cedar Ave S
Dahabshill Branch Crimiel Communications, 415 Cedar Ave S
Al-karama Mall Cedar Square, 419 Cedar Ave S
Otanga Grocery, 514 Cedar Ave S <==== SCENE OF THE EXPLOSION/FIRE
Wadajir Grocery & Halal Meats, 521 Cedar Ave S
Safari Travel & Tawakal Express Money Wire, 607 Cedar Ave S
Kaah Express Money Wiring, 611 Cedar Ave S
Afrik Grocery, 613 Cedar Ave S
Dr. Sirak Hailu, Chiropractor, 615 Cedar Ave S
Then, there’s Somali Yellow Pages at 1806 Riverside Ave, a few blocks away.
All members of the West Bank Business Association, which, on their site says “The West Bank is home to several religious communities” listing two of them:
Dar Al-Hijrah Riverside Islamic Center & Islamic Civic Society of America 504 Cedar Ave S. <==== NEXT DOOR TO THE EXPLOSION/FIRE
Imam Shafii Mosque 1501 S. 5th Street
And one Lutheran outfit that lost its building when I-94 was built in the ‘60s, commenting that “The mission-minded congregation voted to use its resources in active outreach to the Cedar-Riverside community rather than investing in a new church building.”
Are there more “religious communities” in the area? They don’t say.
They also call themselves a “progressive community,” whatever that means, as if we don’t know.
I guess you can get away with that sort of crap when most of your members are Muslims and the big guys who pay the bills are universities or colleges like the U of M and St. Catherine and Augsburg. And everyone else keeps quiet.
It also turns out that the “apartments” above the grocery store that burned were apparently actually rental rooms, all (except for one empty room) occupied by single men, mostly Somalis, according to one report. Which might explain the Somali “community organizer”-type who was quoted as being “concerned” in another report I read.
Now, perhaps every single one of these businesses are owned by heroic entrepreneurs striving to achieve the American dream and all of the rental room occupants were upstanding people engaged in nothing but legal activities.
But, it is passing strange that an explosion and subsequent fire just happens to occur in a building full of young Somali men right next door to a mosque in a neighborhood that now seems to be overrun by Somali ex-pats.
I can only note that other Somalis, having previously emigrated to Minnesota (surely not by choice) have then been later caught attempting to carry out or support terrorist activities. There’s certainly cause for some concern, it remains to be seen if it’s justified or not.
The neighborhood has certainly changed.
I’ll wait to hear what is revealed as time goes on before forming any conclusions.
You have the butt ugly public housing towers to thank for the area going to the dogs. Minnesota is activly importing muzzys.
This will be covered up ala hassan.
Great catch! Yes, that is what I was referring to.
I had forgotten that the Philadelphia PD bombed them, though. Thought it was a bomb factory that blew up.
I probably had this one conflated with the 1985 Move standoff referred to in post #51.
found this article on the Star-Tribune website - a photo looks awful!
http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/238359121.html
I read carriage_hill’s post before I read yours, but thanks for the information.
That the Philly PD murdered those folks doesn’t sit well with me.
Minneapolis Star and Sickle reports this morning that there is not a mosque in the building but rather there is one located next door.
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