March 26, 2017 05:48 PM UTC

Fort Collins Islamic Center Vandalized

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• by: Colorado Pols

Denver7’s Oscar Contreras reporting, Trump-era hooliganism strikes again:

Police are looking for a vandal who targeted the Fort Collins Islamic Center early Sunday…

Sunday afternoon, Rabbi Hillel Katzir of Temple Or Hadash, said in a news release the center was “seriously vandalized.”

Rabbi Hillel said someone threw a Bible through the glass doors. The doors were broken with large stones or bricks, Hillel added.

“I went there this morning to view the damage, and was appalled by what I saw,” he said.

Rep. Jared Polis tweeted about the crime, calling it “unacceptable.”

It’s our understanding that throwing a Bible at anything, even an Islamic center, is no way for Christians to treat their holy book. The Fort Collins Coloradoan adds:

[President of the Islamic Center Tawfik] AboEllail said he reviewed the center’s security footage and identified a man whom he estimated to be in his mid-20s. The man tried to break into the center using a screwdriver and then increasingly large rocks, AboEllail said. The man threw several rocks through the glass with such force that they left scuff marks on the wood paneling on the other side of the prayer room…

AboEllail said he was disappointed with what he described as a “lukewarm” response by Fort Collins Police Services to the incident. The call for the vandalism came in about 5:40 a.m., but AboEllail said FCPS responded after 7 a.m.

A short while ago this evening, though, the good people of Fort Collins did what they could to make it right.

This, we hope, will be the story–as much as the broken glass. This is what Coloradans do when our neighbors are attacked.

And you can take some pride in it.