When a mosque in Antioch, California was set on fire early Sunday, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) called it an ‘act of terror‘, produced a long list of previously unreported attacks, and claimed widespread Islamophobia.

One Bay Area Muslim leader, however, called the fire “an act of terror against our community” and said vandals have targeted the building several times in recent months.

Safaa Ibrahim, executive director of the Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the mosque was broken into Friday evening and that its front windows were broken three times this year, including by a gunshot in January.

Ibrahim and Abdur Rahman, chairman of the mosque’s board of trustees, said the mosque has also received threatening phone calls in recent months. They said they had reported the previous attacks to police but had not publicized them, hoping they were isolated incidents.

Investigators suspect arson but found no evidence that it was religiously motivated.

Investigators with the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District said they are treating the fire that broke out early Sunday morning at the Islamic Center of the East Bay as likely arson, but have found no evidence it was motivated by religion.

Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs condemned the arsonists.

It should go without saying but I’ll say it again: whoever turns out to be responsible, and whatever their motivation, we condemn this kind of thuggish, criminal behavior without reservation.

We agree with Charles completely and without reservation. Whoever did this should be locked up for a long time. However, we find the hypocrisy of preferential reactions to crimes against Muslims offensive. When Naveed Afzal Haq, a Muslim, shot at Jewish women, killing one, in the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle Building, CAIR did not yell terrorism. This Seattle Times report does not mention the ‘I’ word or ‘T’ word even once.

When a gunman opened fire on women at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle last Friday, he announced the shootings were intended to make a statement.

Prosecutors who charged Naveed Afzal Haq on Wednesday say he did: Hate.

Haq, 30, was charged with nine felonies, including aggravated first-degree murder, five counts of attempted murder, kidnapping, burglary and malicious harassment, the state’s hate-crime law.

“Make no mistake, this was a hate crime,” King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng said Wednesday as he announced the charges during a news conference.

The charges provide chilling details of the shooting spree in which one woman was killed and five others were wounded. Prosecutors allege that Haq shot Pamela Waechter in the chest and then followed the wounded woman as she fled up some stairs. At the top, Haq allegedly reached over the railing and shot her again, killing her.

Maleng has 30 days from Haq’s Aug. 10 arraignment to decide whether to pursue the death penalty. Aggravated first-degree murder is punishable by either death or life in prison without the possibility of release.

The shootings were intended to make a statement? What kind of statement? Why not tell the readers?

It was a hate crime? Whom does Haq hate and why? Is it a secret?

Haq is a Muslim. He announced that he hates Jews. He terrorized helpless Jewish women. He killed one of them. Why wouldn’t the reporter provide all these facts? Is he afraid? Of whom?

Lots of questions.

When a Muslim pilot prayed “I put my faith in Allah” and crashed Egypt Air Flight 990 with 217 passengers on board, the Egyptian government insisted that Muslims don’t commit suicide, because it is against their religion. When a deranged Muslim shot up the El Al counter at LA Airport, CAIR warned against jumping to any conclusions. When a sniper named Muhammad shot and killed 10 people in Virginia, CAIR warned against linking the ‘crime, to Islam.

Check out Michelle Malkin‘s random gallery of ‘lone’ shooters.

If it turns out that the arson was religiously motivated, will American Muslims search for the root causes? Will they self flagellate? Will they ask “why do they hate us?” Will they buy up all the Bibles in the Bay Area in an attempt to understand Christians and Jews better?

We didn’t think so.

Historical note: On October 30, 637 AD the City of Antioch, cradle of gentile Christianity, fell to invading Arabs. In 1098 AD Crusaders liberated the city after a difficult long siege. In 1268 AD the Sultan Baibars re-conquered it, massacred the Christians, and burned their churches. Christians to this day remember the holocaust of 1268. Antioch is still under Muslim occupation. It has been renamed Antakya by the Turkish occupation army. Now we have this attack on a mosque in Antioch, California. The cycle of violence! Will it never end?