Tennessee mosque fire ruled arson
CNN:
A fire last weekend at the construction site of a future mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, has been determined to be arson, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokesman said Friday.
Lab reports indicate that accelerants were used to start and spread the fire, which destroyed an earth mover and damaged three other vehicles at the future site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, ATF spokesman Eric Kehn said.
There are no suspects in the arson, which occurred early Saturday morning, Kehn said. The investigation is ongoing and the ATF and FBI are offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect or suspects, authorities said at a Friday press conference at the construction site.
“Somebody here in Rutherford County knows what happened here,” said Keith Moses, an FBI assistant special agent based in Nashville, at the press conference, which featured representatives from the Islamic center.
“Whether or not we have a civil rights hate crime will be determined once we have a suspect or suspects and a motive,” Moses said.
The FBI, ATF, and Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office are conducting an ongoing investigation. Federal authorities and members of the Islamic center had suspected that the fire was intentionally set.
“We were expecting to hear it but in the back of our minds we were hoping for the best, that it was some kind of electrical fire,” Camie Ayash, a spokeswoman for the Islamic center, told CNN on Friday. “It ingrained into our heads that this is definitely arson and that somebody did intentionally go out and do this.”
The Islamic center’s board has decided to hire private security for the site, Ayash said, after the contractor for the project suggested it. She expects a private security firm to start monitoring the site after hours beginning next week.
The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office has stepped up patrols of the site since the fire, driving by about every 30 minutes, she said.
The blaze has “really raised the fear factor” among area Muslims, Ayash told CNN earlier this week.
“We see the different type of fear with our children,” she told CNN’s “American Morning.”
“It is very hard to explain to children what is going on. It is hard to explain to the little kids when they ask you, ‘Mommy, are these people for us or against us?’ “
A candlelight vigil, organized by Middle Tennesseans for Religious Freedom in response to the fire, drew about 100 people to the Rutherford County Courthouse on Monday night.
The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro has existed in the Murfreesboro area for more than a decade, according to its website, and currently meets about a mile from the site of the future mosque.
The congregation purchased a 15-acre plot in 2009 and announced plans for a center that will include a mosque, educational facilities, a gym, cemetery and various recreational areas, including tracks, pavilions and a playground.
The project has provoked controversy in Murfreesboro, about 35 miles southeast of Nashville, and statewide.
In July, several hundred opponents of the mosque staged a march against the project. Some objected to Islam itself, carrying signs like “MOSQUE LEADERS SUPPORT KILLING CONVERTS,” while others opposed the project for environmental reasons.
Last month, Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey publicly criticized the project. “You could even argue whether being a Muslim is actually a religion, or is it a nationality, way of life, a cult, whatever you want to call it,” Ramsey, then a candidate for Tennessee governor, said at a rally.
Ramsey placed third in Tennessee’s Republican primaries last month.
Last weekend there was a fire in Murfreesboro, Tennessee at a construction site for a masque. After an investigation, the ATF has determined that his fire was an act of arson. The investigation revealed that gasoline was used as an accelerant for the fire. The FBI and ATF are working diligently to solve this case, and they are asking for the help of the community. They are offering a $20,0000 rewarded to the person who supplies them with information leading to the capture of the person who committed arson at the construction site. At the scene of the crime, an earthmover and three other vehicles remain damaged.
Several crimes were committed at the construction site in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The first crime that was committed was trespassing. Whoever set the fire, entered a construction site and proceeded to dump gasoline in order to cause a fire. Setting something on fire on purpose is another crime known as arson. One could also argue that setting the construction site of a Masque on fire could be considered a hate crime. Not to mention that it could be considered a terroristic act. Destruction of property and vandalism is another crime that was committed, since the earthmover and 3 other vehicles caught fire. Whoever committed this crime is most defiantly facing more charges than just arson.
I personally think that committing arson is a childish act. If someone was unhappy that a masque was being built in their town, then they should have dealt with it another way. It was obvious that this crime was committed on purpose, because gasoline was used as an accelerant. The coward behind the act, thought that they were sending an important message by setting the site on fire, but they really didn’t do as much damage as they could have by setting the structure on fire closer to completion. Hopefully law enforcement will find the perpetrator before they commit any other dangerous acts.
This article was about a dangerous crime called arson. An arsonist set fire to the construction of a future mosque that was being built in Tennesse. After inspection, it was declared that the burning of this site was due to arson. Many people reject the building of mosques so it is not surprising that this happened.
The crime committed here was arson. This is a very serious crime because it can cause a lot of damage to both property and to people.
Although I can understand why some people may feel rejection against the building of mosques, there is no reason to go as far as arson. From personal experience, I have been a victim of arson. About three years ago an arson set fire to the woods next door to my house. This was a very scary time and ever since I have felt strongly about the crime of arson.
The fire that broke out in Murfreesboro, TN at a construction site for a mosque is now being considered as arson. Evidence of gasoline was found on the scene to accelerate the fire. So far the investigation is not getting very far and they have no suspects, but are asking for a $20,000 reward for anyone that may have some information regarding this crime.
There a numerous crimes committed here like, trespassing and destruction of property on top of the arson charge. Some people are also considering the possibility of it being considered a hate crime.
I believe this is a crime of mala in se. We live in a land that prides itself on the fact that we “the people” are free and have liberty and have a government that fights for OUR rights, which one of them happens to be freedom of religion. There is just something about religion that you don’t mess with. It’s immoral and wrong. You should have respect, even if it’s not something you believe in. At least respect it enough to let it be. Don’t through the holy book away, don’t spit or destroy it, and you don’t do immoral acts in or on holy grounds and you definitely do NOT set fire to a holy place of worship either.
This article is about a fire at the site of a future mosque that has been ruled an arson. The fire destroyed an earth mover and three other vehicles. When the mosque is completed, it will have a mosque, educational facilities, a gym, cemetery and various recreational areas. The FBI and ATF do not have any suspects and they are offering a $ 20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. The mosque has provoked controversy and in July, people staged a march against the project.
The Classical School of Criminology believes that human behavior is rational and that people have the right to choose from right and wrong. They also believe that people make rational choices to commit a crime. Their overall beliefs are that humans are rational and their behavior is a result of freewill. They believe that pain and pleasure are two determinants and that punishment is evil. They also believe that right and wrong are inherent and cannot be denied. They believe that crime is immoral.
A person from the Classical School would view arson as a crime and say that the arsonist chooses to commit this crime. They would that the person responsible for setting the fire knows the difference between right and wrong and they made the rational decision to commit this crime. They would say that this person was born a criminal and that they are a bad person no matter what. The Classical School would push this criminal and they believe that the punishment should fit the crime. The punishment would probably be burning something important to the criminal.
This article is about a fire that broke out in Murfreesboro, TN at a construction site for a mosque. There was evidence of gasoline found on the site to start the fire so it was then considered to be arson. The fire didn’t only destroy the construction site but also destroyed three other vehicles. As of now the FBI and the ATF do not have any suspects. They are giving a 20,000 dollar reward for information so they can arrest the person who did this. Many people are not for mosques being built and in July there was a huge controversy about the project.
According to Classical School of Crime human behavior is rational and people have the ability to choose between right and wrong. People are able think through and make rational choices to commit crime before they actually do it. Overall the classical school believes that human behavior is the result of free will and pain and pleasure are two central determinants of human behavior. The Classical School of Crime also believes that crime is immoral and it breaks bonds between individuals and society.
People from the Classical School of Crime believes the punishment of the crime committed should fit. The way a person from the Classical School of Crime thinks is that everyone is rational and they have the choice to do the right thing and the wrong thing. In this case a person would view the arsonist as someone that chose to commit a crime. This person clearly knows that setting a fire is wrong.
In Tennessee, the construction site of a future mosque went up in flames. After further investigation, the fire was determined to be arson. The police have not yet identified a suspect, and therefore cannot determine whether the fire is the result of a hate crime. There is currently a twenty-thousand dollar reward for anyone with information that leads authorities to a suspect, or suspects.
In the Positive School of criminology, theorists look into biological influences on humans that enable to commit crimes. Most theorists from that school believe that criminals are born “bad”, that they are predisposed to behave in a criminal nature. They would conclude that the perpetrator of this crime must have had parents that were criminals and their criminal genes were passed down to them, leading him to behave in a criminal manner. Gleuck, from the positive school, may determine that the perpetrator is a ectomorph. He studies the relationship between body type and behavior, called samotyping. An ectomorph is introvert and more likely to commit non-violent crimes.
The Positive SChool of criminology believed in punishment and would have punished this individual.
This article is about an arson in Murfreesboro Tennessee. The fire was at a construction site of a Islamic Center. The fire was determined to be an arson due to the evidence found that indicates that accelerants were used to start and spread the fire. The ATF and FBI are now offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect or suspects. As a result from this the Islamic Center has taken extra steps to secure their construction site by hiring security to secure the area after opening hours.
The Classical School view is that people choose to make crimes. They also know the consequences of their crime which is a certain punishment for a each specific crime. People also choose to commit crime with consideration between pain and pleasure. They believe that crime is immoral and it breaks the bond between the individual and society.
The Classical School believes that the punishment should be in relation to the crime which in this case is arson. They don’t put into consideration the suspect’s mind state or reasoning behind the crime. This is because of their belief in people being rational with their decisions. The only thing they see is that the crime was done and thus they will receive a punishment that has been set by the law.
In this article, a fire broke out in Murfreesboro, Tennessee at a construction site for a mosque. The fire was ruled arson after evidence showed that gasoline was used to accelerant the fire. The FBI and ATF are teaming up to find the suspect or suspects. They believe that someone knows what happened and is offering the community a $20,000 reward to speak out to lead them to the capture of the suspect.
I have chosen the Classical School of Criminology. According to The Classical School of Criminology, people rationally choose to commit criminal acts. Two main influential men of criminology, Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham, developed The Classical School of Criminology. The eighteenth-century classical school viewed human behavior as essentially rational in nature, and felt that people had the ability to choose right from wrong. It also believes that the major element that someone commits a criminal act is the basic human desire to obtain pleasure and avoid pain.
According to the Classical school of Criminology, the person or people that committed this arson must have weighed this act out; that setting the mosque on fire would outweigh the criminal offensives they would face if they were caught. There hasn’t been anyone suspects to this crime yet, but if the FBI or ATF found the suspect or suspects, according to the Classical school, they would be punished with the offensives they deserved. The punishment is proportional, fits the crime, and is carried out promptly in the Classical school.
This article is about a fire at a construction site in Murfeesboro, Tennessee. An ATF spokesman has come out and said the fire has been determined to be arson. Lab reports have indicated that accelerants were used to start and spread the fire. At the site, an earthmover was destroyed and three other vehicles were damaged. There are still no current suspects and the investigation is ongoing. The FBI and ATF have teamed up to offer a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect(s).
According to the classical school of criminology, human behavior is rational. People have the ability to choose right from wrong, and people rationaly choose to commit criminal acts. This means the person thought about the crime before they did it. They weighed out the consiquence and went ahead and set the fire anyway.
People from the classical school of criminology believe punishment of a crime should fit the crime itself. A member of the classical school would look at this and say the person had the ability to choose right from wrong and still chose to set the fire even though they knew they will be punished. That being said, when this person is cought he will face a penalty for his actions
This future mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee that caught on fire the week prior is consider to be arson. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reported that accelerants were found and used to start fire. Even though there is no current suspect to determine weather or not this is a hate crime. In general the burning of any religious artifact/building/ place of pray should be consider a hate crime. I believe once motive is found on the severity of the punish would be accounted for.
According to chapter 10 Arson are fires that are willingly or maliciously set. In this case, even though there is no person to attach the crime to, I clearly see a motive of hate and anger to this particular religion. This can also can be consider is the area is hostile to Islamic views. If this case were to be consider arson as a hate crime, this person maybe be consider Thrill Seeking offenders. This person or group attack member of group that they consider to be inferior to them. After 9/11 many middle eastern america became second class citizens compare to everyone else. Constantly living in fear. There are about 10,000 or more hate crimes reported annually excluding the dark figure of crime that isn’t.
I thought this was sad when a spoke woman for the Islamic center said, ” We were expecting to hear it but in the back of our minds we were hoping for the best…”. What have people turn to? People from all over the world come to America to live freely and achieve their dreams in a new land. Yet arrive here and because of one event flipped there world up side down even though they weren’t the one’s to blame. It’s sad to know that in a country were many people have freedom of speech, religion, and the right to pursuit their own happiness many still live in fear because of others lack of respect and understanding.
The article is about a fire that took place on the construction site for a future Islamic Center in Murfreesboro in Tennessee. It was to comprise of a “mosque, educational facilities, a gym, cemetery and various recreational areas, including tracks, pavilions and a playground” and was in the works since 2009. There were demonstrations held by opponents of the center took place in July. The FBI, ATF, and county sheriff departments are working together on this investigation and declared this to be an arson case. A claim supported by the lab who found accelerants that were used to create the fire. No suspects were found in this case so far, however, the enforcement agencies are convinced someone knows who caused this fire so are offering a $20,000 reward for information.
According to our Criminology book, arson is “any willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft or personal property of another.” They say suspicious fires cause $1.3 billion in losses per year and cause possibly up to thousands of deaths a year. Furthermore, that some reasons people commit arson include “mental illness, anger, desire to vandalize, desire to “get even” with someone for something, and for profit” as well as “profit and insurance fraud, intimidation, extortion, […] sabotage, and psychiatric afflictions.” One psychiatric affliction related to the causing of fires is pyromania, which refers to people who find fascination in setting fires and watching them blaze.
In this case I think the causes related to setting this Islamic center on fire were; malice, anger, a desire to “gen even”, to vandalize, intimidate, and sabotage. Tennessee is a southern state with a population not necessarily known for their impartial and equitable views on all races and religions. What happened on 9/11 probably didn’t help their opinions especially against Muslim people. Hence, this fire was set because they are angry with the situation that they have Arabs building a mosque on their land, which the locals probably think they are not welcome on. In addition, burning their center down would be some sort of retaliation of 9/11 and in the locals’ eyes, a way to “get even”. This situation is in itself a reflection of malice and vandalism. It would be a good way to intimidate the Muslim people because they would not feel safe after such a thing happened. In addition, it could possibly chase them away for their town for good, which is most likely not going to happen since the center has existed for more than a decade. And last but not least this is obviously sabotage, to disrupt the construction and even if they do rebuild, a fire would incapacitate the site for a while and they would have to start from scratch.
One has to be disturbed to think of doing something like arson in the first place, but this previous explanation was an attempt to deciphering why someone from Murfreesboro would set fire to a future religious center. Arson is a traumatizing crime because fire wipes everything out; all your work, passion, dreams for the future, making it hard to rebuild after that. The Muslim congregation has to start from scratch with the fear that this could happen again at a later time and that people of the community could get hurt. It must already by difficult for them to live on a day to day basis with people viewing them as responsible for 9/11 even though they are not necessarily part of the group responsible for that tragedy, and now the locals burn down the only place they could come together and feel safe. This kind of behavior just engenders more hate and unnecessary conflict. But it is good to see the authorities are taking this seriously and working together to find who is responsible. But most likely in this case it is not only going to be one person, the majority of the locals must feel a similar way, therefore, wouldn’t think the fire was a bad thing, and as a result will probably not talk.
This article, even though written almost 3 months ago, targets an ongoing problem in the United States. In the beginning of September, a mosque blazed in fire and was later ruled arson. The Islamic community of Murfreesboro, TN had hoped that this was just an electrical glitch that caused their house of worship to burn down. However, the feared came true; the cause of this fire was arson. It is taken as a threat when somebody burns down such a sacred place and the people that belong to this religion are now truly scared. It was apparent to them before as well that there are several people who do not support their religious ways, including Tennessee Governor Ron Ramsey. I can only image the struggle that these people have been going through and what they still have to face today.
Arson, defined in our book, is any willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another, etc…” Structural arson, such as the article discussed, account for 42% of reported incidents. It is probably one of the easier crimes to commit if you are an amateur or are not well prepared. I believe that is why 50% of people arrested for arson are juveniles. This statistic shows that our youths have easy accessibility to such things as matches and gas that can truly cause harm. Also, males take lead in arson crimes by accounting for 84% of all arson arrestees, making it interesting to see the different demographics in crime performance. Sometimes, however, arson is not reported or recorded. According to the UCR, different levels of reporting cause for different information to be relayed back to UCR, which I find confusing. Arson is a crime, and like any, should be reported for statistical research on the elimination of this crime. Fire has also brought out pyromaniacs, who enjoy causing fires and the sensation that they achieve once the heat and flames prevail.
I understand that some people have issues, such as pyromania, but someone should be there to control them. It is still not apparent whether this fire was a job of an experienced anti-Islam activist or a young kid who loves to watch a fire burn, even though most fingers point to option number one. In that case, it is the job of our government and community leaders to protect everyone and give them a fair chance in this “free” country. It is absolutely unacceptable that the governor of Tennessee was capable of saying such things about a predominant community in his state and that nothing was done about it. Whites account for 77% of arrestees for arson, and in such a community as Murfreesboro, TN, where 80% of the population is white, more precaution should have been taken by the community to prevent an outpour of such terrible hate crimes.
Arson is defined as, “any willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without attempt to defraud a public building, motor vehicle, aircraft…etc.” In Murfreesboro, Tennessee there was a fire at a mosque that was ruled arson. The Islamic community was hoping that it was electrical glitch for they have been dealing with hate crime problems for a while now. In the article the incident was labeled as Structural Arson which is usually the case about 42% of the time. Ever since the fire the area has been on high patrol and has been looked after with great care by the police in the town. One Islamic person said, ‘The blaze has “really raised the fear factor” among area Muslims’. This incident has really put a damper on this town for the Islamic community and after something as horrific as this it makes it hard for them to have the faith to continue following there religion without worrying that someone is going to harm them. Arson is classified as a Part I index crime, it causes property damage and also threatens lives. Some people may have whats called as “pyromania” and there consequences may be less severe if they got in trouble for it for they get some sort of satisfaction from the fire. Though what im writing about doesnt have to do with the hate crime that happened here, arson is still a scary thing and can threaten the lives of many and could hurt people in more ways then you think.