Authorities probe fire attacks on 4 NYC sites
NEW YORK (AP) – While members of an Islamic cultural center gathered for a Sunday evening dinner, a Molotov cocktail hurled by an unknown assailant and made from a Starbucks bottle burst and shattered against the center’s main entrance. Another was thrown at the sign for the center’s school.
It was one of a string of suspected arson attacks that police were investigating on Monday as possible bias crimes and trying to determine whether the incidents were linked. No arrests have been made.
Structural damage to the Imam Al-Khoei Foundation was minimal, but some members of the center were emotionally shaken, the assistant imam said. About 80 worshippers were there when the firebomb was set off at 8:44 p.m., the third in the series of suspected arson attacks in Queens on Sunday night.
“We were very surprised,” assistant Imam Maan Al-Sahlani said. “This has never happened here before.”
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I don’t know about you, but I find it a bit puzzling how *The Religion of Peace* finds it to be surprising, and are emotionally shaken when terroristic attacks are directed against them, but overall, thought it would be a joyous time to celebrate when the United States was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001.
Kind of funny how that works isn’t it?
The decades-old foundation is among the foremost Muslim institutions in New York, with branches around the world, he said. Named for one of the most influential Shiite scholars, it promotes work in development, human rights and minority rights as a general consultant to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
Wait … what?
A Muslim institution that promotes work in development, human rights and minority rights? Human rights? In a Muslim organization? What are these people? The good guys that want to treat women as equals and advance past some evil and antiquated version of Sharia Law that demands death to Infidels? Seriously?
I wonder? How do these folks feel about beheadings, amputation, lashing, bombings and all forms of female genital mutilation?
The center also has a full, accredited school that resumes Tuesday after holiday break, and some parents were concerned about the attack, Al-Sahlani said. The sprawling complex has two minarets rising high with the Van Wyck Expressway as a backdrop. On Monday, the concrete overhang outside the main entrance was blackened from smoke damage and there was minor damage to the area near the sign, as yellow police tape fluttered.
But Al-Sahlani, 36, dressed in traditional clerics’ robes, said the center was working with authorities and trying to move forward. Worshippers prayed and milled around, and the front doors were wide open.
“This is America,” he said. “And we must continue to love one another.”
Yeah, unless it’s an Infidel, Christian, Jew or any other type of non-believer.
Other targeted locations were more substantially damaged. No one was injured in the four attacks. Police said at least three Molotov cocktails were thrown, though some did not explode.
OK, I don’t condone the use of Molotov cocktails and I am NOT trying to encourage anyone to use them, but a Molotov is the most simple thing there is to construct and use. A bottle, a rag, gasoline, a match, some assembly required. How complicated can it be?
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Council on American-Islamic Relations condemned the violence.
I have never heard of CAIR condemning attacks by Islamic Jihadists against Christians and Jews. Just sayin’.
Also, I am not intimating that these recent attacks were committed by some Christian or Jewish groups, or people. This really is a case of *who knows*, Muslim sects are as likely to attack a sect that they disagree with as they are to attack *The Infidel*.
Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the advocacy group, said CAIR recently called on the FBI to investigate threats targeting mosques posted on an anti-Islam blog called “Bare Naked Islam.”
CAIR seems to really get their Burka in a wad when the threat is on the other foot, so to speak. The hypocrisy of Islam is almost unbelievable … almost.