Flames engulfed the Islamic Center of Victoria, destroying the building in the predawn hours Saturday as congregation members watched from the curb, overcome with emotion.
“It’s a house of worship,” Shahid Hashmi, president of the center, said as he watched the flames from across the street.
Firefighters and several engines were dispatched to the burning building, 201 E. Airline Road, after 2 a.m. Fire crews and police officers arrived to find the mosque completely consumed in flames, said Battalion Chief Jeff Cowan, Victoria Fire Department.
Cowan said firefighters did not discover anyone inside the burning building.
Because of the fire’s intensity, firefighters practiced defensive tactics, spraying water from extended ladders to control the flames.
Paul Hulbert, a clerk at a nearby 7-Eleven convenience store and gas station, said he called the fire department just before 2 a.m. after he saw smoke and flames while taking out the trash. He said…
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the ban is only on some (7 ) Muslim countries; but even that does not seem to be wise, as, news reports are showing Yezidis and Christians and those that are Muslims but have helped US soldiers in those countries, like Iraq, and Iraqis that helped with translation work for years are now being held up in airports. Some already had visas.
It does not seem like they studied the complicated nature of such a blanket ban on those particular countries.
Your title Paul could have been worded more accurately.
And the fire is sad, but we don’t know if there is any connection to the travel ban at all.
It would have been better to not include the second part of your title and let investigations see what the cause was. It would have been better to just report, “Texas Mosque destroyed by fire” and leave it at that until the investigators find out the cause, if they can.
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‘Your title Paul could have been worded more accurately.’
It wasn’t my title. I reblogged it
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ok, thanks for answering;
I didn’t realize that until you pointed that out; but don’t you agree that the person who came up with that title was making a connection without justification, until more investigation is done on the fire?
The “Muslim ban” is not wise as it is, as Yezidis, Christians and Muslims who have translated and helped US soldiers there in Iraq are being affected, according to news reports.
Also it is only for 7 countries; but the issue is much more complicated that than.
The fire on the Mosque was sad and wrong (if it was deliberately done).
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what happened?
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again, what happened to my comment? I thought it was fair.
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Sorry I didn’t delete any of your comments
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It is weird; I can only see three of the comments, but it says there are 6.
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I know there is something very wrong here with WordPress 😦
I don’t understand what has happened.
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can you see all the comments or is that just me?
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even though it says there are 9 comments I can see only 6
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The Muslim ban and the ethnic cleansing of America ~ Hamid Dabashi
Trump’s Muslim ban is integral to his long-term plan to make the US a solely white, Anglo-Saxon and
Protestant ‘nation’.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/03/muslim-ban-ethnic-cleansing-america-170314135102604.html
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