by Daniel Burke | CNN | Dec 11, 2015 | In The News
Gunshots fired into a mosque in Connecticut. Armed men protesting the “Islamization of America” outside Islamic centers in Texas. Death threats called in to mosques in Florida, Maryland and Virginia. Anecdotal evidence suggests 2015, a year bookended by...
by Carla Hinton | NewsOK | Apr 16, 2015 | In The News
An Islamic mosque in Edmond wasn’t the only Muslim house of worship targeted by vandals on Sunday, April 12. Several windows were shot out Sunday at a mosque near the campus of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, an Oklahoma City Muslim leader said Thursday. Adam...
by Dallas Franklin and Lacey Lett | KFOR | Apr 13, 2015 | In The News
Before Sunday prayer service, raw bacon was discovered by a child at a local mosque. “I always felt safe here. I always felt it was a comfortable place to go,” Adam Soltani, CAIR executive director, said. On Sunday, vandals tossed bacon along the doorway of an Edmond...
by Andrew Griffin | Red Dirt Report | Apr 13, 2015 | In The News
It was sometime after morning prayer Sunday that children attending classes at the Islamic Society of Edmond discovered someone had vandalized the building by wrapping bacon on the front door of the building, along with more pork products left on the ground. Speaking...
by NewsOK | Apr 12, 2015 | In The News
The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations called on state and federal law enforcement Sunday to investigate an act of vandalism and possibly a hate crime at an Edmond mosque. Edmond police said a report was taken Sunday morning involving pieces...
