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‘Unbelievable’: Joplin Mosque Burns to the Ground in Second Fire This Summer, Arson Suspected

Joplin, Missouri Mosque on Fire for Second Time This Summer, Arson Suspected

A Carl Junction, Mo., firefighter works to extinguish the smoldering remains of the Islamic Society of Joplin mosque, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, in Joplin, Mo. (Photo: The Joplin Globe, T. Rob Brown / AP)

(The Blaze/AP) — A mosque in southwest Missouri burned to the ground early Monday in the second fire to hit the Islamic center in little more than a month, officials said.

The fire at the Islamic Society of Joplin was reported about 3:30 a.m. Monday, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s department said the building was a total loss. No injuries were reported and no charges have been filed.

“The whole thing was on fire,” 15-year-old Omar Ahmed recalled. “As soon as we turned on 32nd Street and Black Cat Road, you could just see the pillars (of smoke).”

He added: “It’s unbelievable…It’s a house of worship. It’s a place of God.”

Imam Lahmuddin, who leads the mosque and was in the building until late Sunday, said he was “sad and shocked” by the fire.

“I’m still in front of the building looking at the damage and nothing can be saved,” Lahmuddin said in a telephone interview Monday. “But since we are people of faith we just can remember that this is a thing that happened because God let it happen, and we have to be patient, particularly in the month of Ramadan, control our emotions, our anger.”

Joplin, Missouri Mosque on Fire for Second Time This Summer, Arson Suspected

(Photo: Imam Lahmuddin holds his hands over his face after a fire destroyed the Islamic Society of Joplin, Mo., mosque, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, in Joplin, Mo. The fire was the second fire to hit the Islamic center in little more than a month. (Photo: The Joplin Globe, T. Rob Brown / AP)

A blaze at the same building on July 4 caused minor damage and was determined to be arson. No arrests were made, though the FBI has offered a $15,000 reward for information leading to charges in that fire. The agency released video footage of what appeared to be a man starting the July blaze that did not cause extensive damage.

FBI spokeswoman Bridgett Patton said the agency is investigating the cause of the latest fire and whether or not it was also the result of arson.

“It was really burning when we got here,” Carl Junction Fire Chief Bill Dunn said. “The fire got inside and broke through the roof.”

Dunn noted that an accelerant may have been used.

Sharon Rhine, spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office, added that the center’s security cameras were burned, bu the FBI will be attempting to recover footage.

Joplin, Missouri Mosque on Fire for Second Time This Summer, Arson Suspected

(Photo: Firefighters maneuver debris following a fire at the Islamic Society of Joplin, Mo., Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, in Joplin, Mo. (Photo: The Joplin Globe, T. Rob Brown / AP)

About 50 families belong to the Islamic Society of Joplin, which opened in 2007 as a mosque and community center.  The FBI led an investigation in 2008 when the mosque’s sign was torched, though that crime also remained unsolved.

Lahmuddin, who has lived in Joplin for about four years, said several people were at the center late Sunday and, despite the attacks, the center’s members have good relationships with residents and other churches. He is mainly thankful that no one was inside the building, because he says members often sleep there during Ramadan.

The imam said it was troubling that the mosque was torched right after a Sikh Temple was attacked in Wisconsin, in terms of religious freedoms.

“I heard that yesterday, and this morning we see this happen in our place…” he said.

Lahmuddin concluded: “We are more fortunate that no one here got hurt in this incident.”

Comments (144)

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  • Bruce P.
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:04pm

    Better headline for this article:

    “Christians and Muslims continue to prove they are a scourge upon the Earth.”

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    • Rumrunner3
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:28pm

      And Bruce your proof is what, a better title would be the “people don’t know crap about nothing and try to appear they do” Just like the left lib no nothings, stoke and stir and have no facts to nothing.

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    • Right wing nut job
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:47pm

      Bruce, thanks for diverting attention away from the Jews. Idiots, libs and supremists usually blame them for all of the worlds problems.

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    • fireAKems
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 1:02am

      Which is why it’s best to have athiests rule and run the world, just ask the 100,000,000 people who have died in the 1900′s alone from Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Pol Pot, all the Dear Leaders of N. Korea, Pinochet, Mao…
      Oops, sorry, did I bring up an Inconvenient Truth?
      Oh and Hitler was no Christian. He was a Satanist. Just getting that out there before you try and point out the one example of all of the above who wasn’t atheist as if that would somehow make it okay.

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 1:35am

      @BRUCE

      True

      @FIREAKEMS
      You put Hitler in a category of Atheist and then claim he was a Satanist… I can conclude the following from your post:

      You don’t know what Atheism is, you don’t know what Satanism is, and clearly you don’t know anything about Hitler.

      Lets play your game. Atheists killed 100,000,000 people in the last 100 years. Fine, lest assume that’s true.

      If God exists, he killed over 15 Billion in that same time span by having given man a finite life time. Next argument please.

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    • docgreen
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 3:16am

      So let me get this right! During rahmadan, muslims stay at the mosque, does it surpise anyone that somehow nobody was there? First question I have is why wasn’t anyone there? 2nd one, the Imam happens to link this with the Sikh’s shooting after the Left claims they “the sikh’s were muslim” and ties this with the Sikhs shootings? WOW, doesn’t anyone see the Coincidences? It just so happens people didn’t have a sleepover at the mosque? Something stinks about this and the words “never let a good Trajedy go to waste” keeps popping into my head! Well is it to far fetched that maybe they started this themselves to use it to incite muslims around the World and in the US? Is it possible someon left something on? But once again the blame game starts and the Rights to blame! I sure love how were so divided as a country!

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    • docgreen
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 3:36am

      One other question for everyone! Would you vote for a President that wanted to tell the Private Sector how much each person would make at their jobs? Now keep in mind this isn’t Govt. jobs, this is Private, and in obama’s 2nd term he and his goons will tell us how much each one makes! So now he’s God? You may want to read this, because this is Big News!

      http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/obamas-2nd-term-plans-for-your-paycheck-exposed/?cat_orig=us

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    • wynnsjammer
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 5:53am

      You have to remember when someone says the word “Muslim” it’s connected to many “Negative” situations and I don’t believe that many people in this country like the idea that “Muslims” are slowly trying to take “Control”. There not coming to the United States to be “American”, there coming here to hopefully someday change the way Americans live. I would like to think “Differently” but I can’t. Since the United States has been involved with Muslim Countries they have been doing nothing but causing “Havoc” in so many different ways it’s hard to comprehend sometimes. I have to be honest, I can’t stand the people either, but there are more “Diplomatic” ways to handle things rather then burning a “Mosque” down. They will just go and build another one at some point. There beliefs are very “Radical” and “Scary” and it’s not like the “Women” have any say so as far as decision making goes. And God forbid the Daughters wanna marry someone there actually in love with. Most likely “Muslim Dad” will either “Run” the daughter over with his car or “Shoot” her dead. Yes, being a Muslim is such a “Treat”. This country better place its other “Oar” back in the water and start rowing the right way

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    • jzs
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 10:09am

      With all the hatred against Muslims, there is really little surprise in events like this or the Sihk murders. With the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-Mexican sentiment in this country, which readers here express so well, the only suprise is that these events aren’t even more common.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 10:35am

      Another example of how Christianity is a religion of peace. Nothing more than more bible supported bigotry from Tea Party members.

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    • NOTALOTTAYITTAYADDA
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 11:20am

      Yep, it was arson alright, solved in 1.5min: http://youtu.be/g6S4hmNN2Hk

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    • eric6161
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 11:29am

      yeah, and an even better one might be: “Don Quixote leads a group of atheists and skinheads to attack a vacant building”

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    • GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 11:45am

      Living in the south, I recall a rash of black church burnings promoted just before the summer. A congressional inquiry was call to investigate the matter. Congress determined after many man hours, the primary cause of most to have been related to electric wiring from the old structures. Upon the release of this critical information, Al Sharpton jumped up and declared “THAT MAY BE TRUE, BUT IT WAS THE WHITE WIRE THAT CAUSED IT !!”

      Now for those who want to know what it was really about here is a short opinion post: http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/community/race/churches.html

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 6:27pm

      @GROUNDZERO IS NUCLEAR DEMOLITION X3

      “Now for those who want to know what it was really about here is a short opinion post:”

      With Emphasis:
      “Now for those who want to know what it was REALLY ABOUT here is a short OPINION post:”

      One more time so there’s no confusion:
      “… REALLY ABOUT … OPINION … ”

      Um, yeah… No thanks. I think I’ll get my facts from facts.

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    • thewatcher93
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 8:21pm

      Actually it is not a surprise that the events do not occur more often when you look at the rest of the world, like for example the persecution of Christians in Egypt or Iraq. It happens here the least because most of the people here in the US are not anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-Mexican, and so on.

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    • GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 9:15pm

      I did not write the post, hence the disclaimer. Unlike you’re OPINION that hijackers from Saudi Arabia flew planes into the twin towers, bringing them down by a kerosene fire. There are so many FACTS OF PHYSICS that prove you’re THEORY wrong, many books have been written about it.
      View the blast radii left behind on the NASA photos taken on the 16th, and the pits those fission reactions left behind that were chalked up as “glacial wear”. As if the largest structures ever built at the time were constructed over underground VOID 50 yds in diameter.
      The disinformation IGNORANCE you spread is not hard to expose.

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  • bnorton11
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:58pm

    Hmm a mosque burns down possibly due to arson and the only comments on The Blaze are anti-Islamic? Wonder where how much love got restored a week back…

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    • HorseDancer
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:40am

      Yes, that’s how it is here at The Hootenanny of Hate.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 2:13am

      It’s hardly surprising, you know, BNorton.

      The Islamists have been attacking and killing innocents for over a decade. They have been screaming insulting drivel in the west’s faces for equally as long. They have contemptuously informed civilised people that they are going to subjigate them, and offer conversion to Islam or death.

      What on earth did they think was going to happen?

      I do not endorse this action, but who is really surprised?

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 2:15am

      *subjugate

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 10:37am

      Beckerheads sheepishly nods as Bachmann wrote her hate letter/witch hunting decree.

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    • eric6161
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 11:49am

      Christ said, “And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town. Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
      (Matthew 10:14-15 ESV)

      How much love is Christ showing here? He’s just giving facts out… like 1+1=2. Statements of fact have nothing to do with ‘love.‘ IF you’d like to know facts stripped of all pc you really should read the Bible. It comes complete with good and evil, love and hate… it’s about God, God’s people, and God’s only Son – Jesus Christ. Fact!

      Next argument

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    • Sara123
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:26pm

      Only an atheist liberal could name Islamists victims while they call for genocide of the Jooos and systematically slaughter Christians and oppress infidels all over the world as a part of their Koranic governing system. Operating on politcally correct stereotypes and slogans does not require much knowledge on any subject in life. Liberals consider themselves “smart” because they have memorized all the correct thought they are told to think.

      That being said, I hope they catch the arsonist.

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    • Big Book Harry
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 2:17pm

      bnorton11 You are right the arsonist? It seems most everyone can’t wait to jump on the hate/racist band wagon.
      The root is SATAN his goal is to seek, kill, destroy and has been doing it for a long time. Using our defects of character and free will to manipulate us according to those goals, those that live in denial are his puppets. Where do I start? The Jews having Jesus crucified by the Romans, continued persecution of the Christians, Constantine connecting with the Romans to create the Roman Catholic church under the guise to stop the persecutions. (don’t forget the inqusitions) See Fox’s book of martyrs. Christianity had spread throughout much of the Middle East (North Africa, Persia, Asia Minor) The Roman/Catholics could not have that so they used Kadija/Warqa (Catholics planted in Muhammad’s life) to exterminate the Christians. Their plan backfired when Muhammad visited the cave of Hira (Bukhari V9B87N111) where satan took control by physically assaulting Muhammad causing fear and terror which led to suicide attempts and causing one of his demons to posess him. After 400 years the Catholics began the european crusades to push back the legacy of the monster that they instigated. The Jews are tied to Rome and the Catholic church who are tied to Islam and they hate Christianity (don’t forget the protestant distortion 1625AD). It is about satan fighting against the Gospel of Jesus. True Christianity is not a religion, it is a way of life. In the Name of Jesus, God Ble

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  • marcus_arealius
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:54pm

    I think I heard that Harry Reid hired some arsonists to burn down something, it may have been mosques.. in order to stir up the Muslims against the Christians, or was it Hindus, whatever. Yeah, Harry Reid needs to be investigated for any large cash withdrawals in the past couple of weeks.

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  • Constantine Ivanov
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:42pm

    Just asking:
    If “It’s a place of God,” as Omar Ahmed said, why then the Almighty God didn’t save it from the fire?
    Didn‘t want or didn’t can?
    If the latter, why is he called Almighty?
    If the former, is it because helping people is not in his To-Do List?
    Just asking…

    Constantine Ivanov  
    • NHwinter
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:45pm

      Please, lets stop responding to the trolls, its a waste of our time and nothing is accomplished. Let them blow smoke all they want. We do not agree with them and never will, so please ignore.

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    • WATER-THE-TREE
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:50pm

      It is not a place of worship it is not a house of God, it is an islamic military base, on us soil.

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:51pm

      Could ask the same question any time any tragedy befalls a Christian.

      But we know your answer. It’ll be because of “Satan” or that the Christians involved weren’t “true” Christians.

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:57pm

      WATER-THE-TREE — just like Christian churches…

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    • PAJoe
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:15pm

      @NHWINTER. I couldn’t agree more on your comment about trolls. How they are not banned from here is beyond belief.
      I have no doubt that this fire was set by members of this demon sect themselves. These misanthropes will do anything to demonize our society, including vandalizing their own house to point a finger at those who give them the FREEDOM TO WORSHIP!
      They have no religion. It is a theocratical facism which they wish to impose upon the US.

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    • Constantine Ivanov
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:23am

      @Bruce P.:
      Do you mean the Satan is more powerful that the Lord?

      @PAJOE:
      1. Who determines who a troll is and who is not?
      If you don’t like some questions, you’ll immediately call the asking person “a troll”?
      Liberasts do the same.

      2. “How they are not banned from here is beyond belief,” you said.
      Liberasts also don’t like the Freedom of Speech of others.

      3. “They have no religion,” you said.
      Whether you like it or not, but over 2 Billion of people believe in Allah already over 1,300 years.
      And Allah is just an Arabic word for Eloha, which is Yahweh, the Biblical God.
      So, it’s definitely not you how can take part in a serious discussion what religion is and what is not.

      The overall tune of your comment unfortunately shows that you are as radical fundamentalist as rabid Muslims. It’s a pity.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 2:18am

      @ Pajoe

      The principle of freedom of speech is more important than any silly troll. As NH says, just don’t respond.

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    • meikungfu
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 11:09am

      Christian, jewish,hindu and all others religion’s houses of worship have been slaughteted and burned by muslims. They are the intolerants and deserve destruction. Also, ishamael and his tribes were servants to abraham and his heirs, israel and the saints of god. The servant is not greater than the master.

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    • eric6161
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:03pm

      Constantine, You were asking an important question and I thought I’d help you, and others in the same boat as you, who might be questioning and don’t know where to look for answers.
      Helping people isn‘t in Gods ’to do’ list. Helping is in the purvew of individuals. People who have gotten used to the government tit have turned society lazy and even expect God or the government to donate food, cars, clothes, and housing to able men. God gave you the ability to do it for yourself and He condemns you if you don’t. You’re not a poor person… less than .01% of the population of America is poor. “He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap…”
      (Psalm 113:7 ESV)
      As you can see… the poor are in the ash heaps… in the dust. They aren’t owners of cars, homes, and big screen TVs.
      As Christians we are expected to love and help the poor. To do this most have to go out of the country since there are so very few here and many of those are poor by choice and don’t want help.

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    • Big Book Harry
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 2:31pm

      Do research then you won’t have to ask.
      Give you a hint… The one that Muhammed met in the cave of Hira and called god was satan and posessed him with one of his demons. The history up to current events makes this painfully obvious. Jesus prayed to the Father which is the God of Abraham. Do not pin the evil actions of those that call themselves Christian on Jesus. Catholics are not Christians, Protestants are not all necessarly Christians. Christianity is not a religion, it is a way of life followint the teachings and examples set by Jesus. If you care to know what that is read the Gospels.

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    • Constantine Ivanov
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 4:01pm

      @ERIC6161
      Dear Eric, your response may actually be a great beginning of a very important discussion, but then I will be called “a troll” again.
      Nevertheless, I want to touch a few subjects in your response.
      You’ve actually repeated my belief that “helping people isn‘t in Gods ’to do’ list.” It’s in the purview of individuals.
      But this persuasion has its drastic consequences: it makes the common famous phrase “So help me God” absolutely senseless.
      It also strips God of such attractive qualitative adjectives as “Almighty,“ ”The Merciful,“ ”tender,“ ”loving” etc. because if God doesn’t show those qualities in a shape of help, then those qualities exist only in an imagination, aka fantasies, of people.
      We love repeating (like parrots) John 3:16: “For God so loved the world….”
      Where was that love when God annihilated cities, towns, tribes, nations, and the entire world (remember the Flood?)?
      Where was that love when God allowed:
      Bolsheviks to murder Dozens of Millions God-loving, God-fearing civilians;
      Hitler to murder Dozens of Millions God-loving, God-fearing civilians;
      Mao to murder Dozens of Millions civilians;
      Pol Pot to murder 2 to 3 Million civilians;
      etc.
      ???????????
      If He can’t, He is not Almighty.
      If He didn’t want and let people to do it by themselves, out of a principle “in the purview of individuals”, like a bystander who witnesses as a thug is murdering a kid on a street and does nothing to save the kid, what a monster

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    • Constantine Ivanov
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 4:12pm

      @MEIKUNGFU:
      It seems you didn’t pay enough attention to details in Genesis.
      Ishmael was the first son of Abraham according to Jews, Christians and Muslims.
      Read Genesis 16:7-16 that describes the naming of Ishmael, and Yahweh’s promise to Hagar concerning Ishmael and his descendants.

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  • RetiredAmericanNavyTaxpayer
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:35pm

    “It’s unbelievable…It’s a house of worship. It’s a place of God.”

    Ah yes, worship of allah, the moon god with no sons but 3 daughters (!). Mohammed (may his tribe decease) was the lucky winner when he played “pick the real god” by throwing out 359 of the 360 idols in the Ka‘ba and leaving allah’s idol in place.

    Mohammed’s prize was to receive the title of prophet, along with the injunction to kill anyone who wouldn’t submit to the allah (who apparently couldn’t defend himself against the doubters) that he proclaimed and to make up the rules (as per “revelation”) as he went along, even if a later rule contradicted an earlier one.

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  • jmcclena
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:34pm

    Religion is abhorrent. Christians are just as shameful, backwards, and close minded as all the other religions they judge. A peaceful, loving, harmonious world, is a world devoid of religion.

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    • GoodStuff
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:43pm

      “A peaceful, loving, harmonious world, is a world devoid of religion.”

      You mean like the Soviet Union? Or Mao’s China? Yeah, “peaceful” is the word that comes to mind when I think of those two countries.

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    • WCJ
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:49pm

      You mean a world run by atheist like Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao Tse Tung?

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:53pm

      Those places did not dispose of religion, they simply replaced what is worshiped.

      Atheism is not the same thing as Communism. No more than Christians today are the same thing as the Crusaders and Inquisitors.

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:58pm

      You are proving how abhorrent religion is with every post.

      It is obvious Christians cannot live in peace with others.

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    • jmcclena
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:01pm

      @GOODSTUFF @WCJ

      Oh yeah, obviously you read the invisible part of my statement that said “A peaceful, loving, harmonious world, is a world devoid of religion, AND A BRUTAL DICTATOR.”

      Ugh, you guys are idiots. No, I mean like places such as Sweden, Denmark, Norway, some of the happiest, and least religious places on the planet.

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    • WCJ
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:52pm

      Bruce P., I’m a Christian and I live at peace with others, you lose. JMCCLENA, You just proved you can’t live peaceful, loving or harmonious by calling others idiots.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 1:35pm

      Peace is just a resting period between wars. Mankind is a predator by nature.

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  • JamesA
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:31pm

    Gee, what a shame.

     
    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 5:59am

      Go MISSOU! (.youse guys don’t need no steeeking tornadoes)..No disrespect intended to the 161 Souls lost in Joplin last year. I was only 12 miles NE (in Carthage) that day. Come back stronger!

      JACKTHETOAD  
  • wisehiney
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:30pm

    Inside job, devious ploy.

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:55pm

      If it was Christians, you’d be saying something different.

      But anytime someone other than a white Christian faces violence, you hate-filled bigots claim they are doing it to themselves to get attention.

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  • RebelPatriot
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:23pm

    And sitting in the dark basement of your mother’s house eating HO-HOs and Doritos and drinking Mountain Dew while you play video games and troll will continue to be your sad existence until your arteries harden and your are unable to pump blood into that useless grey matter in your thick oversized skull.
    It’s really sad that those who live for a purpose will ruin your sad pitiful existence? Let not the world interfere with your video game expertise.

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  • scrapadapolis
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:14pm

    Ok 9 you have the best 2 post.Monger cant comment now can he.They kill more americans,christians,or anyone else they deem unfit.But a couple of mosics,and some mistakes.but whos counting?Not him,Hes an obama infel(traitor)

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  • watersRpeople
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:09pm

    Here‘s what I’m for. Overbearingly giant government, confiscation of all civilian arms (and the NRA is ridiculous only making money from decay- it’s a Republican coffer), and taxes, taxes and more taxes. The faster all that happens – the faster it resets.

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  • Magyar
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:04pm

    This kind of reaction to Islam is no surprise and I fear just the beginning.

    Christians and most sensible Americans clearly understand that fanatical Islam along with Sharia law have been a scourge in France, Britian, the Netherlands etal. These countries have been infested with Muslims who never want to become part of the cultural fabric– instead their goal is to destroy it and replace the culture with Islam’s Sharia law–

    I sense this is only the beginning of America’s rejection of this perverted brand of Islam and the hatred and contempt that comes as a result.

    Oh, and how could we forget–9/11…MMMmmmm?

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:19pm

      9/11 isn’t forgotten. But what we have is political correctness turned into tyranny by the implication that anyone who remembers 9/11 is a terrorist. The police questioned someone in Wisconsin about involvement in that attack just because they had a 9/11 tattoo on their arm. In the near future it will be a hate crime to display or possess the American flag…just watch and see.

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    • HorseDancer
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 1:01am

      CAPT CRUNCH . . . What’s it like to go through all of life a continual victim? Always suffering under the thumb of some vague and ill-defined “other” who keeps you from succeeding in life? You know who shares those kind of thoughts? People like Mark Chapman and The Joker and Mr. Skinhead in Wisconsin. Keep your crazy in check, captain, or we’ll come tie you to a gurney and wheel you into the corner for the next few decades.

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 4:10pm

      @HorseDancer

      Shutup stupid!

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  • watersRpeople
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:03pm

    Well you see what Americans need to do is some soul searching. You need to search your souls for some answers of course I know you won’t find any.

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    • watersRpeople
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:13pm

      And you won’t find any answer because the American lifestyle is a life of complacency and leisure. The food you grow is genetically engineered to be easy, people who have home gardens usually plant that which grows easy. I can tell a lot about people by their plants – and Americans in general can’t stand taking the dirt road.

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    • barber2
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:27pm

      So you don’t like Americans ? Bet we make the medications you should be taking .

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    • ccprotect
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:56am

      Lol Barber.
      but he is right, i gave up trying to grow coconut trees in the upper Midwest.

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  • MasterJoshua7
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:03pm

    That’s horrible. People ought to be able to worship how they see fit without being bullied or killed no matter who they are. I’ll be praying for them.

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    • Magyar
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:18pm

      You might want to rethink your statement— If you’re a Christian, you know they are NOT part of the LORD’S elect! Pray that they hear the Lord’s word.

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    • www.TopTheNews.com
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:26pm

      @Maygar-

      Did our Founding Fathers not encourage religious diversity? There is something called a boogeyman, don’t be afraid of it. It’s not real…

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:59pm

      MAGYAR — I hope you leave behind the hate-filled heart Christianity has instilled in your and instead embrace the light of reasoned compassion.

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    • ccprotect
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 1:02am

      I am not a big Christian guy but Christians don’t have a modern day ethic of convert or be killed still being practiced in the place of its religious birth land.

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  • RebelPatriot
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:01pm

    This is exactly what the administration knew would happen. We are at war against terrorist, the MSM and the government tells us these terrorist are Muslims. They have allowed Islam inside our country and those within our country who are beginning to feel threatened are reacting to the hate that is being taught by the Islamic leaders in the Middle East and in our very own country.

    The invasion of 14 million illegals was also supposed to create the same reaction when unemployment went through the roof. This is nothing more than the progessive socialist working their plan to divide and conquer our great nation.

    When it intensifies look for the government to begin to intensify it’s investigations and arrest of those associated with hate groups who are acting out against the Muslims and illegals.

    But rest assured the this administration will not address the terrorist of the Islamic faith who they continue to allow to live here and the ones they have allowed release from custody who have committed terrorist acts since their release.

    They pit Americans against Islam, they pit white Americans against African-Americans and finally they pit the unemployed Americans against those illegals who undercut their wages for manual labor jobs. Let us not forget the number of immigrants from India that are taking engineering jobs from our newly graduated college adults who presently show an unemployment or underemployment rate of nearly 50%.

    Thank you King Hussein for your t

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:55pm

    Arson?????? Surely you jest!

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  • 666Sucks
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:50pm

    Looks like some Americans are tired of being pushed around. I think I prefer the burying of pig parts on the property so that when the “tenants” move out we can turn the buildings into battered women’s shelters. In fact, I would bet that Obama’s thugs are doing this to start civil unrest!

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    • Calm Voice of Reason
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:00pm

      Nobody’s pushing you around. You are one of the most privileged citizens that has ever walked the face of the Earth. It becomes necessary for you to invent problems in order to get upset: Obama does not care about setting fire to Mosques and would not profit from civil unrest.

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    • QuincySmith
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:07pm

      Calm;

      I think oblama WOULD benefit from civil unrest.

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    • Calm Voice of Reason
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:33pm

      @Quincy Smith: It would be a disgrace to his Presidency. I realize that the hyperbole that thickens the soup around here would already claim his Presidency already IS a disgrace, but seriously, he would go down in flames if civil order broke down. Besides, you aren’t going to get riots on a national scale just by burning down a few Mosques. Heck, if it were that easy to start a race war, some clown would have already done so; there are thousands of them, black, white, and what have you, all ready to take out there anger on somebody, anybody.

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    • stage9
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:37pm

      It is necessary for you to invent problems?

      We didn’t invent secular humanism, liberalism, socialism or marxism….the wicked left is responsible for those evils….and they aren’t imagined, they show their ugly faces every night on the the evening news.

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 11:02pm

      666SUCKS — oh yes, the people who make up 80% of the population, the people who make all the laws, are being pushed around by a minority that consists of .06% of the population.

      Of course, we know what you mean…you consider the mere existence of anyone who is not an ignorant fundamentalist Christian like yourself to be a threat, to be oppression, to equate to you being “pushed around.”

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    • Rayblue
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 1:36am

      @freason..
      Reason is not your foremost appellation.
      And “calm voice” is a designation reminiscent of non-culpability.
      “Of” is the single preposition that makes any sense.
      I’ll have to call “of”.

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  • eshaw380
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:48pm

    Just plane terrorable….I didnt misspell those.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:47pm

    Holy Smokes. First a tornado, now Mosques on fire. The city is thinking of changing it’s slogan from Welcome to Joplin, the Nicest town in Missouri, to “Welcome to Joplin……DUUUUCCCCKKKKK!!!!”

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  • eshaw380
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:47pm

    Yep, just plane terrorable…I didnt misspell those.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:16pm

      and 5 minutes later your professed values came crashing down with those buildings.hypocrites-you could dish it out but never expected to have to take it. Welcome to the 21stc -the peoples century launched by those freedom fightesr in those terroable planes!

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:26pm

      It’s obvious who the Islamo-terrorist sympathizer is. How does it feel to be on that side Rose-Ellen…being worse than a common murderer.

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  • Captain Crunch
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:46pm

    The Sikh temple in Wisconsin was targeted by a misinformed and misguided man. That mans real target was muslems. Looks like someone in Joplin found the right target this time.

     
    • Elena2010
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:51pm

      You do not know that Wade did not know the difference. He was a white supremacist. He would target any non-white. He hated Jews, too.

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:05pm

      @Elena2010

      You are right. I am presuming he didn’t know the difference between a Muslim and a Sikh based on the reports of many mistaken identity attacks on Sikhs in the past. Just goes to illustrate that people need to be well informed and sure about their targets. No mistakes!

       
    • rose-ellen
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:20pm

      but the good news is it’s a hate crime and will be prosecuted as such by your own fellow citizens. You anti muslim genocidists are on the wrong side of history.No wonder that guy went off the deep end in wisconsin.Didn’t do him any good though.

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    • barber2
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:24pm

      TROLL: That is one of your most hate filled comments. The Tea Party is now back as Target One of the Democrat Character Assassination Squad. Talk about hate speech. You have the mark of an Obama Democrat : arrogance, disrespect and hate. Can see why you guys like the OWS and the anarchists. And why Obama likes you : useful tools for his anti-capitalism movement .

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:34pm

      @rose-ellen

      That is one comment you’ve made that I agree with…“ prosecuted as such by your own fellow citizens”.
      That is one of the things that need to be corrected. America is sooo brainwashed…but not all of us. I just hope you realize the Islamist might cut your head off someday Rose-Ellen.

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  • stage9
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:46pm

    Muslim Mobs Burn Egyptian Churches Killing 12, Injuring Hundreds
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/muslim-mobs-burn-egyptian-churches-12-killed/

    In Ethiopia, Muslims burn 69 churches
    http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=34859

    Islamic Terror Attacks on Christians (Since 9/11)
    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/ChristianAttacks.htm

    Zanzibar Islamists burn churches, riot: police
    http://news.yahoo.com/zanzibar-islamists-burn-churches-riot-police-063014379.html

    Nigerian Muslim Mobs Angry With Election Results Burn Churches, Kill Christians, Lay Waste The Land
    http://work949.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/nigerian-muslim-mobs-angry-with-election-results-burn-churches-kill-christians-lay-waste-the-land/

    Muslim Mobs Kill At Least 100 Christians, Burn Over 40 Churches in Northern Nigeria
    http://www.persecution.org/2011/04/19/muslim-mobs-kill-at-least-100-christians-burn-over-40-churches-in-northern-nigeria/

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    • Calm Voice of Reason
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:55pm

      And now, America can call these nations equals. That was your point, no?

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    • stage9
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:31pm

      Social Darwinism has killed countless millions more.

      And the point is, I can understand their pain….but it’s something they do to Christians indiscriminately throughout the entire world. I don’t condone EITHER, I’m a Christian called to LOVE MY ENEMIES and DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO PERSECUTE ME.

      So nice try with your implication, but I think atheism’s murderous reign through the 20th century has its sins to deal with.

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  • MAULEMALL
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:42pm

    o well…

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  • ohnomrbill
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:41pm

    This is so sad :(

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  • stage9
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:40pm

    Taliban hang 8-year-old boy in southern Afghanistan
    http://channel6newsonline.com/2011/07/taliban-hang-8-year-old-boy-in-southern-afghanistan/

    Pakistani Muslims Convicted for Beating Christian to Death
    http://www.persecution.org/2011/07/23/pakistani-muslims-convicted-for-beating-christian-to-death/

    Three Schoolgirls Beheaded in Indonesia
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,173913,00.html

    Iraq sentences 3 to death in Baghdad church attack
    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/02/ap/middleeast/main20086710.shtml

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 9:53pm

      Islam is defective, yes. But their bad acts do not compel civilized people to respond in kind. Besides, these muslims did not commit crimes in the names of their god.

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  • barber2
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:18pm

    And your continuing hate speech is no help either. Guess that‘s hate speech is the Left’s Game Plan. Well, along with Harry’s ” you’re guilty until you prove that you are innocent” rhetoric.

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  • SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
    Posted on August 6, 2012 at 10:28pm

    I say that self proclaimed atheistic dictators are much more dangerous. Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, Kim Jung, and on and on have killed approx. 130 million among just themselves.

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  • ModerationIsBest
    Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:06am

    @Hippo

    How can you say that Kim Jung is an atheist?

    That entire family believes that they are Gods.

    It is reported that Kim Il Sung is referred to in their Constitution as “The Eternal President.“ and they still refer to him as ”The Great Leader.” His son Kim Jong Il was only the head of the Army and party, the father was still the head of the country(even while he was dead).

    It is reported that when Kim jong Il was born, that the mountains roared and that birds sang in Korean.

    Does that sound like an Atheist to you?

    Does that sound like a person who doesn’t accept supernatural explanations for things?

    The entire culture of North Korea reeks of a country dominated by dogmatic, supernatural, religious worship of someone as “more than a man.”

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  • HorseDancer
    Posted on August 7, 2012 at 12:50am

    Then again, there’s these dead Sikhs in Wisconsin and this smoking shell of a mosque in Missouri. Wait, I almost forgot . . .The Crusades! Putz.

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  • SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
    Posted on August 7, 2012 at 11:50am

    @ MOD…Yes it sure does because he does not believe in any authority above himself, it begins and ends with him. It is a well known fact that most all atheistic dictators have had a Messianic complex. Fits perfectly.

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