A worker opening the mosque – which is in the same building as an Islamic school and the Arab American Development Corp. – found the pig’s head around 6 a.m. Monday.
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Mr Nutter made the comments during a press conference on Tuesday reacting to a question on whether Mr Trump was right in his remarks about Muslims.
A severed pig’s head was left outside the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society, prompting a police investigation of the incident.
The Mayor of Philadelphia is the latest target of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
In a Monday night tweet, Rick Kriseman, the mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, cheekily declared he would ban the GOP front-runner from entering his city “until we fully understand the unsafe threat posed by all Trumps”.
In Queens, New York, a Muslim store owner was left with a black eye after an attacker repeatedly hit him, according to PIX 11. “I’m asking Philadelphians to cooperate with our police to provide information that will help bring the disseminators of hate to justice”.
In Palm Beach, Fla., someone broke windows in a prayer room at the Islamic Center. One caller told them: “You’re all idiots”.
“There is no place in Philadelphia for hate crime and its perpetrators”.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee said it received complaints from three airline passengers pulled off planes since December 2. This particular mosque hasn’t been targeted in the past, even after 9/11, Kreidie said.
A day after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would ban all Muslims from the country, Mayor Nutter said he wants to ban Trump from Philadelphia.
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“There are many refugees there that are fleeing war conditions, that are fleeing poverty, that are fleeing chaos”, Cruz said.
