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Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 1, 2024

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What is going on with the church fires in France? The noticer accounts are not-so-subtly implying that they are due to arson. Is this the old Chinese Robber falacy, an artifact of France having lots of old highly-flammable churches wired with 220 volts, or actual arson?

Looks like the police have arrested a man who was 'known to authorities'.

Could be an Islamist, or maybe a 2000s-style atheist edgelord like in Norway, or maybe just a guy who likes fire.