When I first heard that four Baptist churches had been burned in rural Alabama in a single night, I had my suspicions. I e-mailed a few other online publishers about this to ask them if I was crazy or paranoid, and each of them said that their initial response was the same. Nevertheless, we bit our collective tongues.

Now, I learn that four more churches were burned in Alabama two nights ago. That's eight Baptist churches gone in rural areas of a single state within a week.

Dare we call this what it really is? Domestic terrorism.

Dare we speculate who might wish to burn down the churches belonging to Bush-Hitler-Neocon-Zionist-Crusader-Pigs? No, we dare not.

Although no evidence existed, the media were free to speculate about the Klan members and various Nazi thugs who were accused of plotting a spate of church's with black congregations being burnned in the South in the 1990s.

We, however, are not free to speculate that there might be a connection between global unrest over a series of cartoons depicting Muhammed and a series of arson attacks against churches attended by people that might be seen as sympathetic to those who blaspheme the Prophet (sawt), on the heels of that unrest. Nor to connect the dots between the actual murder of Christians, the bombing of Christian churches, and death fatwas against blasphemers over a cartoon and the torching of Christian churches here.

No, we will not say what is on our minds. The Left and their allies in the MSM are free to speculate as to who the likely suspects are whenever an alleged hate crime is committed. We, on the other hand, are not for fear of being called an Islamaphobe. Even when incidents of Islam inspired terror are hundreds of times greater than any other ideology or phobia.

Like I say, it is only a suspicion of who the suspect might be. The deranged person might have been motivated by any number of hatreds--our speculation over Joel Henry Hinrichs III seemed to come to mind as an example of an initial speculation based on some very good circumstantial evidence, but where we turned out to be wrong. But our initial objection to that incident was that Islamic domestic terror was ruled out by so many before the investigation even really began.

Are we making the same mistake again by ruling out that which we fear the most? Only time will tell.

CNN via Stephen Taylor:

Four churches caught fire and two were destroyed in the southern state of Alabama, just days after another five burned in what authorities suspect was arson, local officials said.

State and federal officials were investigating the four rural west Alabama fires as intentional, the state fire marshal's office said in a statement.

All four churches torched were Baptist, like the five churches burned in the central part of the state late Thursday, three of which were completely destroyed.

"The fires are being investigated as suspected arson," Ray Zicarelli, spokesman for the Birmingham, Alabama office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, told CNN television.

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