Board member Faisal Naeem told KVUE they can’t be sure if it’s connected but said they’ve never had anything like this happen in their three and a half years in Pflugerville.
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“We were talking in the vehicle how someone smeared poop on their church and that was a really, really terrible thing to do and we had a good conversation what churches are for and how everybody’s churches are important”, Laura told KXAN. Among them was 7-year-old Jack Swanson, who donated the entire contents of his piggy bank to the mosque.
A young boy donated all the savings in his piggy bank to a local mosque that had been damaged by vandals following the attacks in Paris. The seven year old and his mother Laura stopped to help, and he gave a very generous gift to the centre.
“It doesn’t matter what you believe or I believe or he believes or anybody believes”, she said. KXAN reported that the act of kindness “restored Naeem’s faith in humanity”.
But one little boy didn’t want to just stand by after a mosque in his hometown was desecrated.
“This isn’t NY, so when there are a lot of TV cameras, people stop to look…”
Pflugerville Police said it was being investigated as a hate crime, according to Kxan.com. “If we have more kind-hearted kids like them in the world, I have hope for our future”.
The mosque is now deciding to send Jack a present for the upcoming holiday season.
“Jack’s $20 are worth $20 million to us because it’s the though that counts”, said Faisal Naeem, a board member at the mosque.
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Outside the center Monday night, flowers took the place of ripped and soiled pages and the sidewalk was washed clean. “This gives me hope because this means it’s not one versus the other”.
