Muslim Community On 'Heightened Awareness' After Islamic Center Set on Fire in Texas

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/02/14/3623274/houston-islamic-center-fire/



Houston, Texas fire officials said that an accelerant was used to burn down an Islamic community and education center early Friday morning, an act of arson that is putting some Muslim groups on edge, in light of the grisly shooting deaths against three Muslims in North Carolina earlier this week.
In a preliminary investigation, officials said they believe that the fire started in the back of one of three buildings at the Quba Islamic Institute around 5 a.m. Ahsan Zahid, the son of the center’s imam said in a Facebook post that the building contained “our materials, our computers, our monitors, our lights, and everything we were going to use for our renovation project, but the fire was so destructive it completely destroyed everything.”

Mustafaa Carroll, executive director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Houston chapter, told ThinkProgress on Saturday, that the two other buildings sustained minor damage. Carroll said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating after they found that the fire was started with an accelerant, but authorities couldn’t yet definitively say that the fire was a hate crime. Carroll said, “We try to be prudent about what we say. [The fire] definitely was started intentionally so we are waiting for the FBI’s investigation to see if they can give us any more insight into what happened.”

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The lesson is if the target of terror is Muslims and no one is killed or injured it probably did not really happen.

But if the place was Christians and the targets Christian....then of course it is ludicrous to say it was not terrorism.

The logical chasm can only be bridged by furious backfilling with veiled bigotry.