Houston Muslim School Burned Down In What Investigators Say Is Likely An Arson Attack

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Unfortunately, the execution of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill was not the only Islamophobic violence that happened this week. The same week, an Arab American family was assaulted in Dearborn, and now in Houston comes a horrible story of what appears to be an arson attack on an Islamic school for young children.

The Quba Islamic Institute opened in January of 2013 with the goal of doing Sunday school, summer school, and after-school programs for young children as well as host other Muslim events. Here's a photo from children there shooting hoops they posted yesterday on their Facebook:



And here's what happened to the school overnight:



Early this morning Houston firefighters responded to this blaze which was part of a fire taking place in one of the buildings of the school campus. After an investigation, they determined an accelerant was used to cause the fire, most likely an incendiary device.

I spoke to Ahsan Zahid, the son of the imam at the institution. Zahid described the scene early this morning when they arrived at the school to find it on fire. As the investigation was ongoing, the firefighters asked them if they “had thrown around a desk in a parking lot” – it soon became clear that school property had been smashed overnight, most likely intentionally.

[HappyMe]

1. Score another point for hatred and

dumbass bigotry.

[newfie11]

2. What imbecile would do this!

Pot for all!
Otherwise we are going to kill each other!

[Gothmog]

3. According to the local news, this was arson

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

4. Poor kids.

Imagine what they are feeling right now, and what their parents are feeling right now. Houston is a great city in many ways, and I feel certain that the powers that be are going to step in and find a building for these kids to use as a school.

I wish them all the best.

[riderinthestorm]

5. . Pretty fucking sick nt

[jwirr]

6. We have taught hate since before raygun was elected and it is going to come back to haunt us in

that these acts against American Muslims are no different than the racism of the past and the acts of hate against our own citizens during WWI and WWII. This will be added to the long list of things that we now talk about as the mistakes the USA has made in the past. And the rwers still will not want to talk about it.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Ugh...

It's unfortunate that those children have to be exposed to such horrible bigotry at such an early age.

I hope they find the fuckers that did this.

[Rex]

8. America, land of the almost free.

I can't believe we still behave like this in 2015.

[etherealtruth]

9. This is frightening and sickening

[DeSwiss]

10. These are not random attacks.

- But it still won't work. Assholes.

K&R

[Octafish]

11. now THAT is evil.

The terrorists who burned that school are the ones who need an education.