A fire at a Marietta mosque is believed to be arson, fire officials said. They said the incident is also being investigated as a possible hate crime. Hate? Who could possibly hate a crime like this?
Assistant Chief Scott Tucker said authorities found vandalism inside the mosque where a fire erupted just after midnight Tuesday. He would not specify what type of vandalism it was.
Flames raced through the front entrance and damaged the prayer hall at the mosque on Powder Springs Street in Marietta. The damage to the mosque was extensive. The fire destroyed the front entrance of Masjid Al Head just after a group of Muslim men wrapped up their last prayer and left for the evening.
"We locked the door and everything and we left and suddenly he called me and said, 'There's fire,'" said Iman Hafiz Inayatullah of Nashid Al Head.
"One of them happened to come back by after they left and observed the smoke. He got closer and noticed the structure was on fire," said Assistant Chief Mark Anderson of the Marietta Fire Department.
Arson investigators went through the building looking for a cause. Fire?
Tucker said Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents and the Georgia Fire Marshal's Office are now involved.
No one was injured. Yeesh. It's nothing then. Try a church-burning in Pakistan or Iran and see what happens.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling on the FBI to investigate a possible bias motive for the fire. I'd also look into any insurance-based motives. And Also sympathy-baiting.
"Given the recent wave of incidents targeting American mosques, a possible bias motive for this apparent arson attack must be considered," said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. "Unfortunately, there is a vocal minority in our society promoting anti-Muslim bigotry, and that minority is experiencing little or no pushback from mainstream religious and political leaders." It's called 'turnabout'. It's fair play.
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I live here in Marietta. I drive by the Mosque place every week. The only reaction I get from everybody when the fire is mentioned is a turn of the head and a pause for a momment as they hear the news for the first time...and then a slow silent smile.Even old ladies.
There are crowds of Moslems at the Malls, women with babies and their long dresses and the whatever you call it around their heads....sometimes you see a turban although I think those are Sihks ( sp?) families in I dont know...native dress? yeah, granma and grandpa and the whole team together. BIG family among them ...a good thing that.
But nobody there eatin' grits, you know that. Curly toed sandals they brought with them...some fantastic jewelry...things you say to yourself "they never bought that at Zales down on Main".
Filling up the tables at Starbucks. Mexicans sweeping up the elevators and cleaning the toilets and crowds of Mexican doing day labor and standing there waiting to get into the back of pickup trucks over near the Confederate Graveyard.
Yankee Graveyard and Confederate Graveyard in Marietta...they dont get buried in the same places. Yankees have their own graveyard.
Neighborhoods in Marietta...you choose your own religion and attend your own Church. It isnt likely that race decides exclusively...but most congregations..its like with like. Except at a Catholic Church which may have 6,000 families and they have Mexicans and Blacks and Asians and Filipinos and Vietnameses and everybody. But a Protestant Church will be like with like.
Money makes a difference. if you have that nobody says you cant buy the best house around and sit where you please.
Nobody will get in your face in Marietta if you are different. But Moslems? Who loves Moslems?
They just aint gonna make friends very fast. Mow your lawn and pay your bills. Learn to play basketball. Dont knock on my door and I wont knock on yours.
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Back in the mid-90s a number of black churches were burned and, of course, the SCM made a big thing of it. Drama. A crisis to be exploited. Until someone started pointing out that white churches were also being burned at a similar number in the region. It was just plain arson. And yes in a few cases, done by the owners. Treat the crime for what it is, arson and punish the vile creatures that do it.
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I first posted part of the following as an in-line but decided to move it to the comments.
Firebombing a mosque is like firebombing a church. We had plenty of the latter in the South.
Both are crimes. Both are vile.
Arson is arson. It's a viscous crime. Innocents could die. Arsonists should be shot immediately after terrorists and just before looters. I don't care who the target of arson is, and I don't care who the arsonists are. You have a firebomb in your hand, you deserve to die.
I am NOT at war with all Muslims. I am at war with the Muslims who would murder innocents in the name of their religion.
Like, for example, the ones who firebomb churches in Pakistain and Indonesia.
This is not a 'ha-ha, hee-hee' moment as 'Maggie' (Angleton9) above suggests. It's a moment for us to demonstrate our true character.
Investigate the crime. As P2K notes above, it might be an isolated incident. It might not have anything to do with Muslims per se. It might be just a scum-bag fire-bug. Figure it out and punish those responsible.
Arson is a murderous crime, and I won't stand for it.
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hey, I live in Marietta too. I thought that Mosque was a Church. Big nice place...looks like a "money built this". I thought it was a Church. Didnt see any crosses but its just new, ya'know?
Coulda been Presbyterian or somethin'.
Far side of town, a little of this and a little of that. The Mexicans have a whole street there for Tacos and mex signs in Spanglish. Just like the Vietnamese have a whole street over on Buford hwy.
After 911 the goatmeat store was chained and closed for about a year, The owners took a very long vacation. If you wanted goatmeat you were going to have to drive all the way over to Druid Hills to get some.
Not a lot of Moslems drinking beers with the boys and having a side of BarBQed ribs on the 4th of July. They keep to themselves.
Not gonna see Moslems having a Half Smoke and an RC down on the corner with the folks. My son has a Moslem named Heshem as a friend..they both got Faux Rolexes to wear when they were seniors together at Sprayberry. Heshem's mother is very devout...makes good Mint tea and opens her Pool at the house for the children in the Summer. Showed me her Koran. ( I couldnt read it, its not in English). Decent woman.
Heshem got into a fistfight down at Dunkin Donut. His dad is retired Special Forces...married in Egypt while he was there with his unit. Heshem's dad was out on deployment so I went down and paid Heshem's fine and saw that his broken hand was set and ace-wrapped. He won the fight but broke his hand.
Something about talk about his sister. She plays hard with the boys, Heshem will just have to accept that. Beautiful girl, goes to Georgia Tech now.
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So the black panther who was at the polls the last election with the club was seen on another tape as advocating the killing of whites and white babies and that was not considered a hate crime.
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Are you sure it's arson? It has been as dry as burned popcorn in Tennessee, Georgia and large parts of the south. We need rain badly. It has not rained for 2 weeks and we are down about 7" of rain in East Tennessee. The grass is brittle and crunches under your feet with dryness. We had a playground catch on fire. At first it was thought vandalism or arson but investigation found differently. Not arson; just very, very dry. There are warnings about forest fires because of the dryness.
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"Unfortunately, there is a vocal minority in our society promoting anti-Muslim bigotry, and that minority is experiencing little or no pushback from mainstream religious and political leaders."
Um, that's because it probably isn't the minority any more mook, in Georgia, or Kentucky, or any other state not obsessed with kissing your arses.
You have spent all the sympathy and understanding you will ever get. Now you are going on the books for it at full price. OR make some big changes in your religion concerning your new host country, women, Israel, Christians, etc. But I think a leopard could sooner change his spots.
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Well after watching the cnn blurb, I think omish or whoever is full of shit. If that mosque would be confused for anything else it would be a house. Large house, but a house. Other than the duct-tape sign job pointing to where the women must enter.
Video stated there were two starting points. Dog found accelerant (dog in the mosque?) Now who did it...these stories seem suspicious.
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We cannot believe that any person believing in God would come and burn the Muslim place of worship, Zahoor said
Of course Christians are non believers and must have done it. And who started the last fire there ashat Zahoor?? Yup, a muzzie student, I thought so... grubmle grumble.
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ION MOSQUES INTERNATIONALE', WORLD BULLETIN > [Turkish + Bosnian]MACEDONIAN MUSLIMS CALL FOR REBUILDING OF [Serb] DESTROYED MOSQUE.
1920's destroyed BURMALI MOSQUE.
* Also from the WB [NOT the TV Toon Frog] > TURKEY NOT A "JUNIOR" US PARTNER ANYMORE; + [OpEd] COLLAPSE OF ISRAEL'S "PERIPHERY DOCTRINE", espec ala on-going Turko-Israeli diplomatic impasse = row oer ISRAEL's ACTIONS as per the GAZA AID FLOTILLAS.
VIETNAM'S ruling Communist Party has asked the government to dismiss a high-ranking official allegedly involved in a sex scandal, state media reported on Tuesday.
Nguyen Truong To, chairman of People's Committee in Ha Giang province, was accused of violating the conduct of a party member by having 'unhealthy relations' and leading a 'self-indulgent lifestyle,' the Nhan Dan newspaper quoted the Central Commission for Inspection as saying. Requests by the party are usually carried out.
No details were provided about his alleged affairs, but Dai Doan Ket newspaper said on Tuesday they dated back to 2005.
Police said they had evidence Mr To had an affair with a prostitute, including photographs and text messages, and several underaged school students alleged during an unrelated trial earlier this year that the governor had sex with at least one of them.
Nhan Dan newspaper said the scandal 'caused discontent among party members and the public' and that the commission had recommended he lose his job.
Senior party officials were not available for comment on Tuesday.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] An Egyptian bus driver working for a private construction company shot dead six laborers on Tuesday and injured as many as 16 others in a suburb of Cairo, the official MENA news agency reported.
Also, a security official said the driver was taking the employees to their workplace when he suddenly stopped the bus and fired at his passengers.
"The bus driver for the company Arab Contractors was taking 22 labourers and other employees" to their workplace in Giza when he stopped the vehicle at Meniel Shiha, 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Cairo, the official said.
"He then took out an automatic weapon and opened fire at the passengers, killing six on the spot and wounding 16, who have been taken to hospital," he said, asking not to be named.
The 46-year-old, Mahmoud Taha Swellem, opened fire with an automatic rifle on the workers who were travelling in a bus belonging to Egyptian construction firm Arab Contractors, MENA reported.
An Arab Contractors official confirmed the shooting but did not give details, saying a statement would be issued shortly. A security source also said 6 were killed but added that only 6 others were injured, not 12 as reported by MENA.
The man was arrested by police and was now under investigation, MENA said. The report did not give a motive. The incident took place on a highway 15 km (9 miles) south of Cairo, the security source said, adding that the driver was taking 23 employees from their homes to work when he stopped the bus in the middle of the road and opened fire.
There were women employees in the bus but none was killed or injured, the source said, adding that the victims included a financial manager and a department head.
The assailant was arrested but no immediate word emerged on his motives, although survivors were quoted as saying the driver had been suffering depression due to a job transfer.
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Russia and the United States are working out a spy swap involving Russians recently arrested in the United States and an imprisoned nuclear researcher, his brother said Wednesday.
Dmitry Sutyagin said his brother Igor was told by Russian officials that he would be released and sent to Britain in exchange for an unknown number of spies. The officials met Igor Sutyagin on Monday at a prison in Arkhangelsk, in northwestern Russia, and U.S. officials were at the meeting, his brother said.
Sutyagin, a Russian, said he was made to sign a confession, although he maintains his innocence and does not want to leave Russia, his brother said. After the meeting, Sutyagin was transferred to Moscow's Lefortovo prison, his brother said.
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Can we keep the redhead? Maybe we throw in a Spy To Be Named Later.
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The redhead and the tiara. Each is useless without the other.
China on Wednesday ruled out the "nuclear" option of dumping its vast holdings of U.S. Treasury securities but called on Washington to be a responsible guardian of the dollar.
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They are currently a economic power house because they have pursued a style of free enterprise and have the resources to back it up. They also do not engage in pipe dreams or tax sink holes such as cap-and-trade or strangling businesses with eco-enforced terror policies and taxation. They will just have to wait and pull a Cold War maneuver - wait for your enemy country to fall apart finacially.
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CHINESE MILITARY FORUM thread > [CNBC]THE THIRD RECESSION IS ABOUT TO UNFOLD, COMRADES | US DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE REPEATING A PATTERN/ NUMBERS SUCH THAT WHICH APPEARED BEFORE THE [US-Global] MARKETS FELL BEFORE THE "GREAT DEPRESSION".
and
* TELEGRAPH.UK > WITH THE US TRAPPED IN DEPRESSION, THIS REALLY IS STARTING TO FEEL LIKE 1932.
Uh, Uh, THE-ARTIST-FORMERLY-KNOWN-AS-PRINCE > GOTTA PARTY HARTY LIKE ITS 1932 [not "1999" nor 1929]???
A shopkeeper recently hung huge German flags in front of his apartment building in this cosmopolitan capital only to have them ripped down by people accusing him of inspiring Nazi sympathies. He is a big fan of Germany's national soccer team, which faces the mighty Spanish team Wednesday in a World Cup semifinal. Yet some in his neighborhood, teeming with a mixture of Muslim migrants and educated German elites, think such symbols of nationalism are uncouth.
Here's the twist: The flag-bearer is an Arab immigrant to Germany, more willing to show off the national colors than his native German neighbors. He told local papers he was proud of the national team, which for the first time this year includes three Muslims, of Turkish and part-Tunisian descent. "They come and curse us," Youssef Bassal Mohammad, a Lebanese-born citizen of Germany, told the Berliner Morgenpost. "They do not understand that Germans who are not of German descent would defend Germany."
Mohammad's tale is but one example of how much Germany has changed since its team last achieved greatness in the World Cup two decades ago, a time when I was living there as a college student.
After intense media scrutiny, the Transportation Security Administration on Tuesday backed off a new policy that would have restricted employees from visiting "controversial opinion" sites at work.
Employees at the TSA were initially informed last Friday that five categories of websites would be blocked on internal computers. They included: chat/messaging, criminal activity, extreme violence and gruesome content, gaming and controversial opinion. That's odd, they left out Pron sites? Maybe not.
But following questions about how broadly the last category would be interpreted, the TSA sent around an e-mail to employees on Tuesday saying "controversial opinion" sites would not be blocked.
"After further review, TSA determined this category may contain some sites that do not violate TSA's policy and therefore has concluded that the category is no longer being considered for implementation," the e-mail said. "Our intent is not, and never has been, to limit your ability to access or share 'controversial opinions.'"
The TSA explained that the five categories had been defined by their "IT software" and were based on concerns that those kinds of sites could either pose an "increased security risk" or violate the agency's "acceptable use" policy.
The TSA said in a written statement earlier Tuesday, before the revised policy was announced, that the agency "routinely" improves its computer system to stay ahead of "cyber threats," and that the technology limiting website access is part of that. The TSA clarified that it would not block access to "critical commentary about the organization."
The statement said the agency created websites like The TSA Blog to "promote diverse opinions."
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I work for a federal agency and our shop has two desktop computers. The funny thing is that their internet hookups go through two different servers. One goes through Great Lakes region and the other goes through the Southwest region. Guess which one blocks any site that has anything to do with firearms.
:-/
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The Marriott Hotel in San Diego's Gas Lamp District has a computer in the lobby that filters Rantburg. Don't know what kind of filter software they were using, but this site came up as banned. I expect it would be banned under TSA guidelines too.
President Obama will use the congressional recess to bypass the Senate and appoint Harvard professor Donald Berwick, a controversial patient-care expert who has drawn GOP fire, to oversee Medicare and Medicaid, the White House announced yesterday. I thought this kind of move was considered unfair by dems just a few short years ago.
The decision means Berwick, 63, can become administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services without Senate confirmation.
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Harvard churns out hundreds of teachers every year that are indoctrinated in liberalism marxist theory. The next fall they start teaching your children...
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This is the fellow who is an unabashed lover of the British health system.
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If I get outta Harvard and all I can get is a teaching job, I'm gonna be very pissed off. The reason you go there is for the chance to tap into their alumni mafia for a serious bucks job when you get out.
TWO men in black threw petrol bombs at the office of a prominent Indonesian investigative magazine early on Tuesday, its editor in chief said, a week after it published a cover story on police corruption.
The case underlines the high stakes in exposing and tackling graft in a country that is attracting a surge of interest from investors but is considered one of the most corrupt in Asia.
Tempo's editor in chief Wahyu Muryadi said the magazine's security guards saw two men pull up on motorcycles at the Jakarta office at about 2.30am (3.30am Singapore time).
'They then threw three Molotov bottles, bottles with petrol inside. Two of them blew up and then they disappeared on motorcycles,' he said, adding no one was hurt and there was no significant damage to the building.
Police had sent a team to investigate, he said, while declining to speculate on the motive.
'I believe the police will do their best to investigate it.
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here is a choice point dripping with legal sarcasm
On p.15 of the PDF.
SB 1070 does not interfere with federal interests
Plaintiffs assert that SB 1070 conflicts with "federal government interests." Compl. ¶¶ 144-46. However, the question in any implied conflict preemption analysis is whether the state law "stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment ... of the full purposes and objectives of Congress."29 SB 1070 is not only consistent with federal objectives, but it expressly (and in effect) serves to reinforce existing federal laws. See 8 U.S.C. §§ 1304(e), 1306(a), 1324(a)(1)(A), 1324a. In the words of Judge Learned Hand, "it would be unreasonable to suppose that [the federal government's] purpose was to deny itself any help that the states may allow."
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Gotta get this thing before the Supreme Court before Zero gets to appoint another justice.
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Probably Obama's plan all along. Throw the US into a full blown constitutional crisis. Give him cause to order a total review of the constitution. He will be in a position to creat this crisis either way. Ask the UN to step in and help design a new America and quell the riots from the red necks. First order is wealth redistrobution. Think I'm smoking crack???
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No, first order would be that pesky 2nd admendment - that'll be the first thing to go - for the children...
Or Obumbles will simply 'appoint' a Constitutional Convention.
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And then Congress will deem it passed as the new constitution.
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AZ's AG is off the case - the law provided for outside counsel as they knew the AG (A Donk) was running against Brewer for Governor and would do little if any effort on fighting the Feds. He's out
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It seems Rhode Island has an immigration more stringent than Arizona's.
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However, the question in any implied conflict preemption analysis is whether the state law "stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment ... of the full purposes and objectives of Congress."
Shouldn't Congress have been the one to ask for a lawsuit?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A shopkeeper recently hung huge German flags in front of his apartment building in this cosmopolitan capital only to have them ripped down by people accusing him of inspiring Nazi sympathies. He is a big fan of Germany's national soccer team, which faces the mighty Spanish team Wednesday in a World Cup semifinal. Yet some in his neighborhood, teeming with a mixture of Muslim migrants and educated German elites, think such symbols of nationalism are uncouth.
President Obama will use the congressional recess to bypass the Senate and appoint Harvard professor Donald Berwick, a controversial patient-care expert who has drawn GOP fire, to oversee Medicare and Medicaid, the White House announced yesterday.
