Demonstrators and counter-demonstrators at a July 14 rally in Murfreesboro TN to protest building of a mosque.
Does anyone realistically expect that this isn’t going to get worse? Nope, it only takes one moron to start a chain reaction and the odds are in favor of increasing violence as long as we have Fox News egging people on:
Federal officials are investigating a fire that started overnight at the site of a new Islamic center in a Nashville suburb.
Ben Goodwin of the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department confirmed to CBS Affiliate WTVF that the fire, which burned construction equipment at the future site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, is being ruled as arson.
Special Agent Andy Anderson of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told CBS News that the fire destroyed one piece of construction equipment and damaged three others. Gas was poured over the equipment to start the fire, Anderson said.
The ATF, FBI and Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office are conducting a joint investigation into the fire, Anderson said.
WTVF reports firefighters were alerted by a passerby who saw flames at the site. One large earth hauler was set on fire before the suspect or suspects left the scene.
The chair of the center’s planning committee, Essim Fathy, said he drove to the site at around 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning after he was contacted by the sheriff’s department.
“Our people and community are so worried of what else can happen,” said Fathy. “They are so scared.”
The fire was smoldering by the time Fathy and the center’s imam, Ossama Bahloul, had arrived. Fathy was told that responders had smelled gasoline near the fire.
“as long as we have Fox News egging people on”
Then shouldn’t the banner be, “Fox propaganda continues to foment violence”
When the “eco-terroists” do this like of stuff they go to the top of the FBI most-dangerous threat list.
Right on, Ron @ #1 — indeed, I’ve feared “there will be blood.”
In NYC, a Muslim cabbie’s was the first blood drawn and he survived.
What will happen when the KKK-types get involved? 21st Century lynchings?
These are scary times, and FOX is fanning the flames of anger and bigotry. Good enough reason for me to boycott their advertisers.
Got lists of those advertisers? I don’t get FOX on cable….
And right on, #2. But will an Obama DOJ be fearful of taking on FOX?
People are being terrorized and marginalized due to their choice of religious practices. Regardless of any archaic arguments over constitutional law, treating people in such a manner is simply wrong.
Hose the place down in pig fat. Make it unclean. Make it a shrine of protest to violent threats and terrorism by leaving pork products.
Why is it that bigoted dipshits INVARIABLY have an AOL account?