{"id":19606,"date":"2017-02-05T03:12:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T03:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19606"},"modified":"2017-02-05T04:19:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T04:19:12","slug":"they-burned-a-mosque-wheres-the-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19606","title":{"rendered":"They burned a mosque … where’s the outrage?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Someone torched a mosque in Victoria, Texas several days ago. No one was hurt but the house of worship is destroyed.<\/p>\n

Did I miss the statement of outrage from Donald J. Trump? Did the president issue a statement of condolence for the families affected by the fire?\u00a0Did he offer federal support to local law enforcement agencies as they investigate the cause of the fire?<\/p>\n

I don’t recall hearing it. He must have been too\u00a0 busy tweeting about other matters, the big stuff: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s sagging ratings for “Celebrity Apprentice,” or the “so-called judge” ruling against his refugee ban.<\/p>\n

We are living in hyper-contentious times relating to people’s faith. The president’s ban on refugees is aimed at seven countries that comprise a mostly Muslim population. He wants to invoke “extreme vetting” of all immigrants.<\/p>\n

Then a mosque is burned to the ground.<\/p>\n

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Granted, there has been support expressed by community members in the South Texas city. Victoria residents have rallied to help the families who worship at the Victoria Islamic Center. They deserve high praise for the rallying that has occurred.<\/p>\n

As the Texas Tribune has reported, the support has been ecumenical in nature: “Just hours after the fire, Victoria\u2019s Temple B’Nai Israel offered its synagogue\u00a0for local\u00a0<\/strong>Muslims\u2019 five-times daily prayer needs. Similar proposals followed from three Christian churches and the owner of an empty building in town. After initially accepting some of those offers, the Islamic\u00a0<\/strong>Center is preparing an adjacent building on its property \u2014 cramped, but unburned \u2014 for prayer. That move delays plans to open a free weekend medical clinic in that structure.”<\/p>\n

But in this time of national angst over matters relating to religion and the president’s aim to target Muslims seeking refuge in the United States, a statement of condolence from the Oval Office would resonate loudly across the nation.<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t it?<\/p>\n\n

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Someone torched a mosque in Victoria, Texas several days ago. No one was hurt but the house of worship is destroyed. Did I miss the statement of outrage from Donald J. Trump? Did the president issue a statement of condolence for the families affected by the fire?\u00a0Did he offer federal support to local law enforcement … Continue reading They burned a mosque … where’s the outrage?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,18],"tags":[1424,6895,4728],"class_list":["post-19606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-religious-news","category-state-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-refugee-ban","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19613,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19606\/revisions\/19613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}