Posted on 09/19/2007 4:06:20 PM PDT by mdittmar
FBI officials have been asked to investigate an attack last week on attendees of a mosque in Columbus, Ohio, to determine if it was a hate crime.
An attorney with Ohio's Council on American-Islamic Relations asked the FBI to look into the incident at the Masjid AsSahaaba mosque to determine what motivated several men to throw rocks at people leaving the mosque, the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch said Wednesday.
An initial report from Columbus police identified Friday's incident as a "biased attack on Muslim men leaving the mosque after prayer during the Ramadan season."
Yet the mosque's imam, Abdiiaziz Abdi, opposed that stance, saying the men who threw the rocks weren't specifically targeting the Muslim worshipers.
Abdi told the Dispatch the unidentified men were part of a group of 20 or more teenagers, who likely would have attacked anyone they happened to see.
The Dispatch said two of the mosque's windows were broken during the attack and one mosque visitor was hit but unhurt by one of the projectiles.
I thought cair was suing the FBI?
Maybe they were trying to knock the explosives out of thier hands.
If it’s a crime to hate Muslims then many people need to be arrested.
They are immune from vandalism and and random crime, unlike the rest of us...
Just saying.
I wouldn’t be surprised if CAIR instigated this, just to stir things up.
YooBetcha' it's a hate crime.
should have been throwing bacon instead of rocks
The FBI would spend time more wisely investigating CAIR for its hate-crimes support and its links to terror.
The mosque is still standing?
As opposed to an unbiased attack?
The notion of hate crimes is stupid.
If this was not a serious hate crime; why was the FBI called?
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Know Your Civil Rights
” FBI called on to investigate mosque attack “
good, they have alot better explosives
There is the new stunt of throwing rolled up slices of bacon against mosque domes. Ideally, they unroll and stick, and are identifiable from considerable distance as bacon. On a hot day, the bacon soon adheres to the dome, with grease slowly dripping down, and it must be a pain to remove once it has dried on.
“Yet the mosque’s imam, Abdiiaziz Abdi, opposed that stance, saying the men who threw the rocks weren’t specifically targeting the Muslim worshipers.”
I wonder why the imam dosen’t want the FBI in his mosque investigating? What might they find?
“Yet the mosque’s imam, Abdiiaziz Abdi, opposed that stance, saying the men who threw the rocks weren’t specifically targeting the Muslim worshipers.”
I wonder why the imam dosen’t want the FBI investigating in his mosque? What would they find?
Ping.
*snicker*
Hmm, makes ya wonder...
I wonder, too. Normally they’d hold a press conference looking for sympathy. Maybe if teenagers all over the country vandalize mosques, the cops could get a good look at the crime scene.
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