OMG - ughhh! CNN is reporting on a Mosque was burnt to the ground in Joplin, MO.

[jillan]

Fuck!

I am so sick of this racist bullshit!!!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/joplin-mosque-razed-fire-2nd-blaze-summer-160342127.html

I guess this happened yesterday - I'm sorry if this was posted before - I just heard about it.



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[Lint Head]

1. Yeah! I think the bigots and racists are feeling cornered and striking out because it looks like

Obama in a landslide.

[yellerpup]

2. Yes, I fear these are just the ones who

can't wait until after the election to start shooting.

[Chorophyll]

6. Absolutely. The last time I can remember the nutjobs being out in such full force

was during the Clinton administration.

Anyway, this story is absolutely horrible.

[lpbk2713]

3. Meanwhile, the Limbaugh Memorial remains safe ...

thanks to the security measures paid for by the Missouri taxpayers,
whether they want to pay for it or not.

Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/25/missouri-taxpayers-fund-24-hour-security-camera-for-limbaugh-statue/

[orwell]

4. And Faux Newz will report...

...how Christians are under attack.

[jillan]

5. And they will thank Michelle Bachmann for her activism against those evil doers.

[catbyte]

7. Have they said it was arson? I heard they were investigating but no conclusion

[Cerridwen]

8. Second fire at the same center, in the past month.

Very bad electrical wiring?

[eridani]

9. Part of a pattern?

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/416-gun-control-/12967-us-eight-attacks-in-11-days-targeting-houses-of-worship

The Illinois attacks come on the heels of an incident in Joplin, Mo., where a mosque was reduced to ashes by a powerful fire last Monday. Although authorities are investigating whether it was an act of arson, a previous fire at the mosque over the July 4 weekend was determined to be arson. Elsewhere, a mosque in North Smithfield, R.I., was URL target="_blank">vandalized by a man who "head-butted" and pulled down signage. Teens were arrested on hate crime charges for taunting worshipers by throwing eggs and oranges and shooting bb pellets at a mosque in Hayward, Calif. Vandals defaced the Grand Mosque of Oklahoma City with paintballs, and, in an especially malicious incident, women hurled pig legs at a mosque site in Ontario, Calif., while people were leaving the temporary prayer space.

Is something deeper at work here? Last week, notoriously brusque Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., who represents Lombard, may have helped stoke anti-Muslim hatred with comments at a town hall meeting in Elk Grove. Walsh sowed the seeds of mistrust and suspicion by alleging that "radical Islam" had made a home in the suburbs of Chicago; that "It's in Elk Grove, it's in Addison, it's in Elgin. It's here"; and that radical Muslims are "trying to kill Americans every week." Walsh's warnings were met with applause.

Many Muslims in Chicago spoke out to condemn Walsh's comments. "How long are we going to go pretending like there is no relationship between this acquiescence of hatred and politics and the inclination of violence on the ground?" asked Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago). "You cannot demonize a community and then be surprised when they're under attack."