Are the Mosques not owned by the Muslims?
Don't know. Haven't cared enough about these events to look into the details. But I know there's rumors floating around the web about the attacks being staged, and it usually means someone somewhere has found something fishy.
When I say "I'm still not convinced", it just means I'm still waiting for someone to put all the pieces together and give me the boiled-down, definitive version. And if no-one does, I won't lose any sleep over it.
But anyway, for it to be insurance fraud I'd assume the muslims
has to be the owners of the properties in which the mosques are housed.
They tend to be reluctant to burn down their own places of worship.
Meh. They were basement mosques. Not exactly the stone of kaaba.
Three in a week seems unusual for insurance fraud as well surely?
Not really. Might even make it more likely.
These things tend to come in waves in Sweden. A while back people started burning cars all around the country (mostly areas with a high percentage of immigrants). Media did the usual dance about alienation and segregation and so on, but the attacks kept on going, and the cars burnt were a little bit too select to be just random acts of vandalism (for example, it might be a car right in the middle of a large parking lot, when it would have been much easier to just burn a car somewhere out by the edges). Eventually it turned out it was just ordinary criminality, where gangs where paid by the owner to burn his/her car in order to collect insurance. The gangs knew they could easily divert popular attention by screaming about racism and whatnot, so they did. And the media lapped it up, for a while. The criminals capitalized for as long as they could, and stopped when the jig was up.
And the incidents described above has some obvious similarities to what we're seeing with the mosques now. Can't blame people for getting a bit suspicious.
Or it might be that the first mosque attack was genuine, and then the following ones were just opportunistic fraudsters thinking to fake another attack while there's still belief there's a serial arsonist around. It might be for monetary gain, it might be to garner support for the islamic cause.
Not saying it is, ya know. Just that it
could be.
