{"id":11552,"date":"2012-08-07T08:51:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T15:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11552"},"modified":"2012-08-07T10:08:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T17:08:52","slug":"us-mosque-burned-to-ground-only-day-after-sikh-massacre-nye-a-word-in-us-main-stream-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11552","title":{"rendered":"US mosque burned to ground only day after Sikh massacre – nye a word in US main stream media"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mosque burned to the ground in Missouri on Monday, in what worshippers suspect was a hate attack, less than a day after six people were killed in a shooting at a Sikh temple.<\/em>
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\nUS mosque burned to ground<\/strong>
\n6 August, 2012 – Telegraph UK<\/p>\n

Firefighters and police were called to a blaze at the Islamic Center in Joplin, Missouri \u2013 where around 125 members of the local Muslim community pray \u2013 at around 3:40am (0840 GMT), according to the FBI’s Kansas City office.<\/p>\n

“The building was completely destroyed,” said Sharon Rhine, a spokesman for the local Jasper County Sheriff’s office. No one was wounded in the incident.<\/p>\n

“No one was apprehended. They don’t want to call it a hate crime without information or knowledge of having someone to charge,” Rhine said.<\/p>\n

Monday’s fire followed an attack on July 4, when an unidentified suspect threw a petrol bomb onto the roof of the same mosque, causing minor damage.<\/p>\n

The mosque’s surveillance cameras captured an image of the assailant’s face, and the FBI offered a $15,000 (\u00a39,600) reward for information related to the July incident, but no one has been apprehended.
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“It does seem coincidental that there was a fire a month ago and there was another one this month,” Rhine said.<\/p>\n

FBI spokesman Bridget Patton said both incidents occurred in the middle of the night, but said the FBI would “wait to determine the cause of the fire.”<\/p>\n

“If it is determined that the attack was intentional, we will conduct and investigation to see if there is any correlation between this fire and that of July 4,” Patton added.<\/p>\n

Local community members say this is one of a series of attacks on their mosque since it was founded in 2007.<\/p>\n

“Since the establishment of the mosque, we’ve been constantly under attack,” said former mosque board member Navid Zaidi, 47. “Our sign has been burnt … Our mailbox was smashed multiple times. We had bullets shot at our sign.”<\/p>\n

Zaidi says the local community is lucky the attack occurred in the early morning, when no one was there.<\/p>\n

“During Ramadan is a time when more people attend the services. We are fortunate that no one was hurt today,” he said, referring to the ongoing Muslim holy month of fasting and prayer.<\/p>\n

Zaidi complained that no suspects have been apprehended in the month since the July 4 attack. “I don’t recall in my 27 years in the US, ever seeing perpetrators apprehended,” he said. …source<\/a><\/p>\n

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