re: #52 kansas

Islamic centre ‘arson’ investigated by police Wonder why they used the parenthesis around arson?

I think I’ll take a stab at that.

This is probably because no one has a clue whether this is even a ‘crime’ or not. There was a fire, no doubt of that. Whether or not that fire came about in the way of most other spontaneous blazes, or by way of a carefully placed match is up to fire investigators to figure out. That arson is ‘suspected’ merely means that the bugger reporting the crime reported it as such; that’s how it works here.

…links between the attack and a burnt-out BMW 3 Series found in nearby Elmore Road…

A car found burnt out in a place where burnt out cars are probably more commonplace than civic art, on the same night as a ‘suspected’ arson attack? Not entirely grasping at straws, but we’ll see.

The blaze comes only a month after a small group of extremist Muslim protesters marred a soldiers’ homecoming parade in the town, holding placards saying “Anglian Soldiers: Butchers of Basra” and “Anglian Soldiers: cowards, killers, extremists”.

… Inserting that paragraph attempts to draw a connection between the protests and this ‘suspected arson’, implying that the two may possibly be connected. There was no other reason for doing so, which is as much a crass bit of journalism as it gets.

I know……. Let’s just see how this pans out during the course of official investigation before we strike out on the nearest tangent to be put before us by a journalist who likes to presume without so much as a shred of concrete evidence to back up their tenuous theories.