Shots fired at TN mosque construction site

[Matt Collins]

http://www.dnj.com/article/20100830/NEWS01/8300304/Shots+report+checked+at+site

[BlackTerrel]

One day after a piece of construction equipment was burned at the building site for the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, the Rutherford County Sheriff's office investigated a report about shots fired at the site.

Congregation member Saleh Sbenaty was at the site on Veals Road off Bradyville Pike around 3:15 p.m. Sunday afternoon because a news crew wanted to interview a family regarding the equipment fire. While at the scene, two sets of shots — nine total — were fired near the property's eastern and southeastern boundaries, he said.

"It was nothing like a hunting rifle," said Sbenaty, an MTSU engineering professor and member of the Islamic Center's planning committee.

Female members of the center's congregation were on site and easily recognizable because of their wardrobe. He wasn't sure if the shots were being fired at the Muslim group, but in the aftermath of the weekend arson incident, he said they felt it necessary to report.

"We hope for the best, obviously, but this isn't hunting land. There's plenty of houses around here," he said. "To say we're nervous is a huge understatement. It's terrorism."

Several deputies responded to the scene Sunday afternoon, but they could not be reached for comment as they investigated at the site.

Basically something that sounded like gun shots were heard NEAR the Mosque. Wow :rolleyes:

Honestly arguments on both sides of this are getting to be incredibly over the top and annoying.

[Fozz]

Honestly arguments on both sides of this are getting to be incredibly over the top and annoying.

WRONG. There is only one side of this that is over the top and it is the bigoted neocons who claim to support liberty, who actually want to trample the Constitution to deny religious freedom to a vulnerable minority.

[QueenB4Liberty]

WRONG. There is only one side of this that is over the top and it is the bigoted neocons who claim to support liberty, who actually want to trample the Constitution to deny religious freedom to a vulnerable minority.

Well, people anti-Islam in general, I'd say.

[RedStripe]

WRONG. There is only one side of this that is over the top and it is the bigoted neocons who claim to support liberty, who actually want to trample the Constitution to deny religious freedom to a vulnerable minority.

^

I mean, how is this not the burning-down of black churches all over again?

[BlackTerrel]

WRONG. There is only one side of this that is over the top and it is the bigoted neocons who claim to support liberty, who actually want to trample the Constitution to deny religious freedom to a vulnerable minority.

Doesn't mean we need to freak out everytime someone farts within a mile of a Mosque.

http://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&as_q=church+arson&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=mosque&as_scoring=r&btnG=Search&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=a&as_minm=7&as_mind=31&as_maxm=8&as_maxd=30&as_nsrc=&as_nloc=&geo=&as_author=&as_occt=any

[Matt Collins]

Looks like a judge just halted construction of the mosque half-way through it:

http://www.wsmv.com/story/18646518/construction-of-murfreesboro-mosque-must-stop-says-judge#.T8UQkgHEpEU.facebook

[satchelmcqueen]

hmmm.. sort of like the iraq people firing on our soldiers for building usa buildings in their country?? but yet THEY (iraqis) are the bad guys in their own country for doing so?

ron paul "what if another country came here and did to us what we do to them over there? how would we feel?"

wake up america! it goes both ways. now, what if iraq or iran attacks us claiming we are now terrorists to their people? will they be justified? think about it while you watch fox news...

[jmdrake]

Basically something that sounded like gun shots were heard NEAR the Mosque. Wow :rolleyes:

Honestly arguments on both sides of this are getting to be incredibly over the top and annoying.

The next time property at a black church is burned and the next day multiple gun shots are heard near it I will remember that you don't care about what happens to someone else's group.

[Voluntary Man]

where was Bill Kristol (comedian Billy Kristol's retarded cousin), at the time of the shooting?