– In Philadelphia, police have stepped up patrols around houses of worship after a severed pig’s head was left outside the Al Aqsa Islamic Society. “In fact, they are doing exactly what the radicals want them to do”.
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“Certainly if I had the power to do so, the only banning that should be done is that of that person not being allowed in the city of Philadelphia”.
The uproar over presidential candidate Donald Trump’s support of banning Muslim immigrants met a strong and unexpected critic on Tuesday: Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter.
“We don’t have any room for that kind of stupidity here”.
His comments drew a sharp rebuke from Nutter, a 1979 Wharton graduate, who said he supported banning Trump from the city.
The complex will be under increased police protection, Kreidie said.
Officials from the center, which is in the same building as an Islamic school and business development center, said the pig itself worries them less than the prospect of violent attacks against the center. “Are you happy about what happened in France?” the male voice stated.
“It’s worse now that it was after 9/11”, he said, “which is really frightening”. But national discourse about Muslims has become increasingly hostile lately.
His comments came after Trump was widely condemned for his call to ban Muslims from entering American following recent terrorist attacks.
Video of the incident caught on the mosque’s surveillance camera shows that a red pickup truck drove by the property twice, tossing the pig’s head onto the lawn the second time around.
But he said he was unsure if the two incidents were related.
And on Sunday, a pig’s head was reportedly found in the bathroom of a university mosque in Australia.
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PETA-whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”-has also asked permission to place a banner adjacent to the mosque that promotes peace for every living being-regardless of religion, nationality, or species”.
