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Tennessee mosque fire 'was arson',
3 September 2010 Last updated at 20:17 ET Share this pageFacebookTwitter ShareEmail Print Tennessee mosque fire 'was arson', investigators say A fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a Tennessee Islamic centre has been ruled arson.
Officials in Murfreesboro have offered a $20,000 (£13,000) reward for help finding the person they say doused a lorry in diesel and then ignited it.
The FBI said it had yet to determine whether the fire was a hate crime and would not say if it has any suspects.
The Saturday incident came amid growing anti-Muslim animosity and opposition to new mosque building across the US.
The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro has outgrown its current space and is constructing a new campus.
Mosque leaders note Muslims have lived and worshipped in Murfreesboro without any problems.
But anti-Muslim protests have risen in recent months, provoked in part by opposition to a developer's plans to build an Islamic community centre near the site of the World Trade Center in New York City
Officials in Murfreesboro have offered a $20,000 (£13,000) reward for help finding the person they say doused a lorry in diesel and then ignited it.
The FBI said it had yet to determine whether the fire was a hate crime and would not say if it has any suspects.
The Saturday incident came amid growing anti-Muslim animosity and opposition to new mosque building across the US.
The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro has outgrown its current space and is constructing a new campus.
Mosque leaders note Muslims have lived and worshipped in Murfreesboro without any problems.
But anti-Muslim protests have risen in recent months, provoked in part by opposition to a developer's plans to build an Islamic community centre near the site of the World Trade Center in New York City
If you go back in history, some of this stuff going on is eerily similar. Like after the bombing of pearl harbor, when how many thousands were rounded up and put in camps? And martial law was declared. I have heard people liken the events of 9/11, and the growing discord to those very times. If we do not learn from the past, we will repeat it.
Ignorance, hate, and supremacy abound for sure. I could never figure out how one human is more or less valuable than the next?
Ignorance, hate, and supremacy abound for sure. I could never figure out how one human is more or less valuable than the next?
Stuff like this will continue. Seems like parts of America are ignorance's breeding ground.
This is terrible! Now someone is trying to burn down a place of worship. Aren't these people American as well? Don't they have the same rights as all Americans? It seems some would like the definition of American to only apply to White Christians...what a shame.
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