NEBRASKA — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the FBI and state law enforcement authorities to investigate the desecration and attempted vandalism of a Nebraska mosque as a possible hate crime.
Officials with the Islamic Center of Omaha in Omaha, Neb., tell CAIR that two masked men left bacon on a door of the mosque at 3 a.m. yesterday. The men, whose actions were captured on surveillance cameras, also threw rocks at the glass doors of the mosque, but failed to do significant damage.
CAIR said this is the fourth time the mosque has been targeted by hate vandalism in recent months.
In November of last year, someone spray-painted graffiti of an Eiffel Tower peace symbol, which was used online as a sign of solidarity with those impacted by the Paris terror attacks, on an outside wall of the mosque.
Earlier that month, CAIR reported that a vandal was caught on surveillance camera attempting to break a glass door at mosque.
