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You Reap What You Sow
Arizona mosque targeted in "acid bomb" attack
 Police in Arizona said two unidentified men tossed a bottle filled with acid at a Phoenix area mosque early on Monday, splashing a caustic chemical near a Muslim cleric involved in a high-profile discrimination suit.
| Only near the holy man, huh? They didn't manage to hit him? Why is my spider sense tingling? It only does that in the presence of bullshit... |
A Glendale Police Department spokesman said two men driving in a red car threw a soda bottle filled with acid and a reactant at the Albanian American Islamic Center of Arizona, in Glendale, west of Phoenix, around 1 a.m. on Monday.
| At 1 in the morning? Why, I'll bet there weren't any witnesses on the street at that hour... |
The bottle, which contained pool cleaner and strips of tin foil, burst some 20-25 feet away from Imam Didmar Faja and another mosque official, although neither man was injured, sergeant Jim Toomey said.
| Right. "We wuz jus' standin' on the corner, discussin' our bidnid, at 1 a.m. when dese here guyz comes by in a red car and stink booms us! It's a hate crime!" |
"The bottle ruptured in front of them and they smelled a strong chemical smell when it went off," Toomey said. "We are treating it as a hate crime. We are taking it very seriously," he added.
 Right. I'll bet you are. You might want to conduct a thorough investigation: why were they standing on the corner at 1 a.m. instead of safe at home in their trundle bed or beds? How did the perps know they were going to be standing on that particular corner at that particular hour to receive the benefit of that particular acid bomb? Why did the acid bomb land the width of a small house away from them, rather than showering them with pool cleaner and dissolving them like green algae? Who, other than Muslims and especially South Asian Muslims, is in the habit of throwing acid bombs at people? |
Faja is one of six Muslim clerics known as the "Flying Imams" who are bringing a suit against US Airways alleging discrimination after they were removed from a Minneapolis to Phoenix flight last November.
| My spider sense is cooing "self-inflicted hate crime." What's yours say? |
The imams were ordered off the aircraft and were briefly detained by authorities after some passengers and crew became alarmed at what they believed was suspicious behavior.
| Yeah. It's prob'ly the flight crew hunting them down for Dire RevengeĀ. |
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said on Wednesday that the imams and their attorney had received death threats stemming from the lawsuit, and urged Glendale police to consider that as a possible line of inquiry in their investigation.
| See? Death threats! Prob'ly from the flight crew, damn them! I get three or four calls a day from flight crews I've flown with, threatening my life. I have no idea how they get my phone number. Delta should give me lotsa money. |
Never got any death threats, but Delta employees did threaten to have me arrested after they lost my luggage. Toomey said that the attack was one of six similar incidents involving the soda-bottle device in the Glendale area over a three-day period, but the other five did not appear to have a religious link. "Until we know (the reason), we are going to assume that (the mosque attack) was religiously motivated," he added.
Posted by: Obvious Omens2791 2007-08-09 |
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