Saturday, September 16, 2006

People use words to criticize Islam; Muslims use stones, fire, and eventually bombs to protest back. When was the last time Christians threw firebombs at a mosque to protest Muslim imams characterizing Christianity as polytheistic? When have we seen Jews firebomb mosques for Muslim leaders calling them the descendants of pigs and monkeys, a common insult from both religious and secular Muslims in the Middle East?

--Captain Ed at Captain's Quarters, in response to reports of church firebombings on the West Bank

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Local mosque hit by firebomb

by James Boyd
Hoosier Times
July 10, 2005

BLOOMINGTON - The bomb came through the window sometime before 2 a.m., leaving fractured glass and the tattered remains of a Quran in its wake.

Federal investigators are looking into what they called a hate crime Saturday, after vandals threw a Molotov cocktail into a kitchen window at the Bloomington Islamic Center, 1925 E. Atwater Ave. ...


Sentencing in Firebomb Attack on Mosque

On June 22, [2005,] a Texas man was sentenced to 171 months in prison for the attempted firebombing of the Islamic Center of El Paso. Antonio Flores admitted at a plea hearing in March to throwing a lighted Molotov cocktail at the mosque and placing a second one near the mosque’s gas meter and lighting it....


Netherlands school hit by bomb; Muslims targeted after critic slain

November 9, 2004

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands -- A bomb damaged an Islamic primary school in this southern Dutch town yesterday, the latest in a series of attacks on Muslim buildings since last week's murder of a filmmaker critical of Islam....

Dutch news agency ANP reported that police had arrested a 21-year-old man in the central town of IJsselstein on suspicion of throwing a firebomb at a local mosque....


MELBOURNE, Australia, October 17 [2002] (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – Arsonists who firebombed a Melbourne mosque Thursday, October 17, have threatened further attacks against Muslims, an Islamic community leader said.

Arsonists threw a firebomb into a Melbourne mosque early Thursday, the third attack on a Muslim religious site since a weekend bombing in Bali....


Texas mosque attacked

DALLAS, SEPT. 13 [2001]. A firebomb was hurled at a mosque and Islamic school in Texas, a day after windows were shot out at a similar Islamic centre near Dallas, police said today....


A major anti-Arab demonstration took place on June 3, 2001. Over one thousand Israelis participated in sporadic rock and firebomb attacks toward the [Hassan-Bek] mosque [in Jaffa, Israel], calling for revenge against Arabs....

And that's just from page 1 of the Google search.

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