Media focuses on Mosque firebombed in Queens, Ignores Multi-Pronged Firebombing against Hindus, Christians, Homes UPDATE: Target was the Deli

Color me skeptical. We find time and time again, in the rare instances when a mosque has graffiti or falls victim to some prank, the perp is Muslim. More times than not.

Here's a sketch of the perp; looks like a CAIR member.

One clip shows the arsonist tossing a lit Molotov cocktail that spilled its flaming contents onto the lawn in front of a home at 88-20 170th St. that also houses a Hindu temple. Read more: NY Post

UPDATE: A police car was posted outside the mosque Monday, and there were several other patrol cars outside another of the targets, the 179 Deli on Hillside Ave. Officials asked residents to be on the lookout for a man they described as black, 5-feet-8, 200 pounds, 25 to 30 years old, and driving a light-colored four-door sedan.

A worker at the deli said the man showed up at the store about three nights ago, tried to shoplift and threatened employees when they caught him in the act and ejected him. Police said the suspect had tried to steal milk and a Starbucks Frappuccino and appeared to be of Guyanese descent. (Read more here)

The act of revenge against the deli and its workers had nothing to do with the "mosque".

Media focuses on Mosque firebombed in Queens, ignores firebombing against Hindus, Christians

Posted by Matt Lacy • January 2, 2012

Other attacks included house where African American Christians lived, Hindu place of worship by Matt Lacy, Greely Gazettte

A series of firebombing in Queens, New York that targeted a Hindu place of worship, an African-American Christian couple’s home and a Mosque is being portrayed by the mainstream media and a Muslim advocacy group as a hate crime solely directed against Muslims.

A series of firebombs involving Molotov cocktails was directed against two homes, including one where a group of Hindus was meeting to worship, another home where an African-American Christian couple lived, a convenience store and a local mosque.

The Al-Khoei Islamic Foundation houses one of the most prominent Shiite mosques in New York. According to its website it lists branches in several cities including London, Paris, Montreal and Islamabad, Pakistan. The firebomb, made with a Starbucks bottle was thrown at the door of the center. While the door was blackened, the building did not catch fire.

Police are investigating the crime as an anti-Muslim hate crime. A spokesman for the New York Police Department told the Gazette anytime an attack is made on a Mosque or a synagogue, it is automatically investigated as a bias or hate crime.

The meeting at the Hindu home consisted of two firebombs that did not catch fire, while the home of Monty and Sonya Burnett, who are African-American and Christian, was heavily damaged.

The Burnett’s home was the most heavily damaged of all of the structures firebombed during the four attacks. It took more than 60 firefighters to get the fire under control.

While the bombings were directed at Hindus and Christians as well as Muslims, one would not know that from reading much of the mainstream press coverage of the event.

The New York Times said in the lead paragraph that “police were investigating (the firebombings) as a possible bias crime against Muslims.” Nowhere in the story does it mention the attack on the Hindu worshippers or the Christian family, simply referring to them as houses that were bombed.

The New York Daily News followed a similar lead. While the article did mention the other attacks were on Christians and Hindus, the headline read “Four firebombs, including one tossed at Queens Mosque, eyed as hate crimes.”  

Other headlines by various papers included “Islamic structure firebombed in Queens, three other structures attacked”, “4 Firebombs hit Muslim targets in NYC” and “Firebomb attacks in Queens hit Mosque in possible hate crime.”

On Monday morning, the Council on American Islamic Relations sent out an e-mail release suggesting the attack was directed solely against Muslims. The e-mail said in the subject line “CAIR condemns firebombing of NY Mosque.”

The e-mail went on to say that Ibrahim Hooper, National Director for CAIR said the organization is calling on local police to boost patrols near mosques and advised members of the Muslim community to review security procedures.

Nowhere in the message from CAIR is there any mention made of or a condemnation of the attacks against Christians and Hindus during the same wave of attacks.

Instead, Hooper focused exclusively on the Muslim component saying “a number of recent reports have documented the growth and promotion of Islamophobia.”

Robert Spencer, founder of Jihad Watch said the media spin shows the favoritism Muslim groups are given to the exclusion of other groups and that CAIR is simply trying to use this attack to portray Muslims as the exclusive victims in this case.

“Implying the attacks were directed solely at Muslims is obviously false and self-serving. It seems as if whoever did this is opposed to foreigners or religion in general and to say this is exclusively a Muslim hate crime is a politically motivated claim.”

Spencer went on to say that CAIR’s ignoring the firebombing of the black Christian family and the Hindus shows the agency’s isn’t really interested in hate crimes against other groups but simply want to use the attacks to their advantage.

“CAIR did not mention anything about the Hindus or Christians when they issued their release. This just shows how self-serving their claims of victimhood really are,” Spencer said. “They called for increased police patrols against mosques, but they didn’t say anything about calling for protection for Hindu or Christian places of worship.”

Comments

[LouCom]

I read the Drudge link earlier in the day and I was skeptical about the anti-Islam slant. And I thought to myself, let's wait and see what Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have to say about this news item. And sure enough there was more to the story than the article portrayed.

Thanks for giving the full story to these and many other bias news articles.

[Mzungu]

I'm not worried Pam about bias. The hair-splitting will start soon enough if not already where one Muslim faction will try to eradicate the other as it does in all the Muslim lands. What we need to not do is move. This is our land and we need to be brave and stay next door to the Islamist haters. Buy large dogs. Neighbors should buy large speakers that play dog and pig sounds every now and then. oink oink

Perhaps the most diabolical, most destructive retaliation to a Muslim attack would be to send a little old gray haired Christian lady over to the mosque with a basket of fresh chocolate chip cookies. Of course the most gruesome retaliation would be to find out which neighbors are Muslim then dress up in business clothes and hand out Jehovah's Witness tracts. Oh the humanity!

[seb]

I have never heard such rapid and misleading spin on any other recent news story in NYC.
The details provided and emphasis of the story was changing every 15 minutes.
At ~ 4 PM, WNYC reported that the firebomber was the same man who had been caught shoplifting earlier in the deli which is on the corner of the same block as the houses and mosque.
These crimes were 'payback', revenge attacks, for the humiliation he suffered at the hands of the SE Asian store owner who caught him and threw him out.
They initially played an audio clip of the deli owner describing the facts above.
This clip was then excluded from all subsequent reports of these crimes.
After 4 PM, the story lead with this statement: 'the NYPD is investigating what is being called a bias/hate crime against a mosque.'
I never heard any mention of the foiled shoplifting that led this idiot to mindlessly attack the homes and mosque just steps from the deli, because he felt 'the same kind of people' lived there and worshipped there.
These acts are horrendous, but the real motivation behind them is being hidden in the media.

[Crombouke]

Muslims process victimhood on the industrial scale.

They seem to have only two modes of relating to infidels. When they can't dominate by thuggery, intimidation and terrorism, they sulk and play the victim, getting all the bleeding-heart liberals to cry them a river that they can wallow in. See links under 'VICTIMHOOD' at http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/everything-you-need-to-know-about-islam.html

[Isabellathecrusader]

Maybe they can do an episode on this on All American Muslim.

[orange county escort]

Maybe a picture of Obama would be appropriate as the worlds most wanted terrorist leader.

Anyone??

[CitiznX]

All these events may be false flag attack designed to foment racial division- as if the Obamatrons weren't doing that already. This is actually the first time my intuition has screamed "false flag".

[Michael Teuber]

Building on the comment by Mzungu:

We can help our Islamist and Islamaphiliac friends (as well as provide ecumenical nut jobs even more potential targets) by promoting true ethnic and cultural diversity.

• Convert a Kurd to Yezidism for Taus Malik.

• Convert a Persian to Zoroastrianism for Ahura Mazda.

• Convert a Nuristani to Paganism for Imri.

• Convert a Punjabi to Sikhism for Vahiguru.

Encourage an American to read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and Atlas Shrugged. Perhaps googling "vomiting and crazy eyes" mightn't hurt.

[aprilnovember811]

Pam,
I still haven't seen the photo of the Mexican here on a passport that shot National Guard members in Nevada a couple of months back. Was he using a Fast and Furious weapon? Don't know.

Haven't seen the photo of the man who went on the shooting spree in Hollywood chanting Allah Akbar

And right on the front of my computer screen yesterday, the white European American male with the assault weapon from the shooting in the National Park.

This media is satanic. Life will get even with them. It always does. I don't know why their complaining about the bombing of a mosque, they do this to others on a daily basis. My guess is, they hired him to do it.

Maybe Ayers is up to his old tricks again too. Maybe his friend, the impostor president should ask his pure as the driven snow crime syndicate, aka doj to investigate.

[aprilnovember811]

"Police are investigating the crime as an anti-Muslim hate crime. "

Since the country was founded by mostly Christians, can we at least qualify for hate crime status?

[mk]

OT/ but with the same theme. 50 LA fires, caught the guy, guess who:

Burkhart is a 24-year-old German national who carried travel papers from Chechnya.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/01/la-arsons-suspect-due-in-court-as-detectives-dig-for-evidence.html

[poetcomic1]

aprilnovember -
thanks! and all this time I thought the 'firestarter' was little Drew Barrymore.

[Richard]

poet, aim your thanks at mk, not aprilnovember; user names are under the comment.

These fires were a big friggin' deal in LA, in the news constantly. I hadn't heard of the Chechan angle at all.

[Auntie Gin]

Politics? Muslim perhaps??

[Infidel Task Force]

Ibe Hooper even blamed the fire bombs on "Bare Naked Islam" web site.