Who's burning the churches in Alabama?

[Dunvegan]

Since the churches are of both predominantly Black and predominantly White Baptist congregations, who is doing this?

Who has something to gain from burning Alabama?

http://premium.cnn.com/2006/US/02/03/alabama.churchfires.ap/index.html

Six Alabama churches burned
Arson suspected in some cases

Friday, February 3, 2006; Posted: 11:08 a.m. EST (16:08 GMT)

CENTREVILLLE, Alabama (AP) -- A series of fires damaged six rural Alabama churches overnight, and investigators Friday were trying to determine whether they were arson.

Most of the churches were Baptist, located near major highways, and all but one were in Bibb County, about 25 miles south of Birmingham.

The other church, in Chilton County, had been undergoing construction, which could have been a source of the fire, said Ragan Ingram, a spokesman for the state insurance agency that oversees fire investigations. That church, New Harmony Baptist in Fairview, was destroyed. No arrests had been made Friday morning.

In 1996, race was a factor in a series of arsons that damaged rural black churches in Alabama and elsewhere. But Ingram said the fires late Thursday and early Friday destroyed both the churches of predominantly black congregations and predominantly white congregations.

[toddaa]

1. Episcopalians?

[Critters2]

2. Mystery solved!!

:spray:

[Mithras61]

3. Must be those violent & reactionary...

Quakers...


(just kidding...geez, gimme a break! :D)

[robbedvoter]

4. It's Al Quaeda, silly! Everyone knows that.

hence the need for wiretaping.

[StClone]

5. I don't know but

If authorities are not staking out a good number of churches that fall into the profile they are not doing their job.

[YOY]

6. Not the best of tactics...they love being persecuted and all n/t

[benddem]

7. tweety says

it's those Homo sex uals and libruls that are doing it. I'm sure he knows. What a doofus.
This really though is an interesting conundrum. Race doesn't appear to be the focus...it's just baptists. Hmmm.

[sickinohio]

18. I still believe it's the

Serpent Handlers!!:sarcasm:

[mmonk]

8. Black Ops

[zonmoy]

9. perhaps they are burning them themselves

that way they can blame anybody they want for persecuting them by burning the churches.

[Wilms]

10. Are any cartoons suspected? n/t

[SlipperySlope]

11. It is almost certainly someone with access to matches...

...or possibly someone with access to an assault lighter.

This is a clarion call to ban these dangerous incendiary devices. They clearly have no purpose except to start fires.

1/2: :sarcasm:
1/2: serious

[sickinohio]

19. HeHeHeHeHeHeHe

:spray: :spray: :spray: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[blm]

12. They are all small churches, so I guess a new MEGA-CHURCH has most to gain

.

[yellowdogmi]

13. kkk roves minions.

Trying to distract the sheeple. As if the superbowl wasn't already doing that.

[snowbear]

14. I wonder if rightwing nut-job Phelps is a "person of interest?"

[Twist_U_Up]

15. Just tap their phones DUH!

[sickinohio]

20. HeHeHeHeHeHe

:spray: :spray: :spray: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Just Me]

16. Assholes!! Questions? Let's go get those assholes. Will Bush help?

NOT!!! He and his exploit/inflame these monsters of humanity. The Bushco/neoconster regime USE THESE PUCKERS to spread the conflict and chaos necessary for their dictatorial ideology. They don't give a shit about HATE CRIMES. Just look at what they invest all that exploited taxpayer dollars into,....look at it and see the truth.

[sickinohio]

17. Maybe it's the

Serpent Handlers??? They have churches down around Birmingham I believe and I don't think they much like the Baptists.

:shrug: :sarcasm:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

21. My serious guess is that it's some adolescent who has been hurt

by fundies in some way.