A bacon incident reported at a Las Vegas mosque is being treated by officials as a hate crime, it has recently been announced.
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The vandalism at Masjid Tawheed mosque was captured on surveillance video and shows a man wrapping raw bacon around the door handles of the facility.
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Muslims are forbidden to eat or even touch bacon and pork, which have repeatedly been used in offensive acts against members of the faith.
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A worshipper found the bacon when he arrived for morning prayers and notified police.
Google The doorknobs of the Masjid-e-Tawheed mosque were wrapped in raw bacon last Sunday, in what the Council on American-Islamic Relations called a hate crime. Seconds later, he’s at the front door, struggling to open the package as he puts a few strips in his mouth.
Local Muslims try to make sense of it all. For collecting statistics, the site added, Congress has defined a hate crime as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation”. “Maybe he could be armed”, said member Ismaeel Almughrabe.
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Despite being offended however, one member of the mosque extended a peaceful invitation to the vandal to come speak with them.
