MOSQUE IN MICHIGAN VANDALIZED

BANGLADESHI MOSQUE IN MICHIGAN VANDALIZED - TOPBangla Patrika in Voices That Must Be Heard, News Report, Abu Taher Translated from Bangla by Moinuddin Naser, Mar 23, 2006http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=c07c3bbde4f65a60d06fe10e30eeda1dNEW YORK - Several unidentified Christian teenagers reportedly vandalized a mosque in Hamtramck, Michigan last week. Many consider this as another racial bias act against Muslims.According to a report, local Bangladeshis in Hamtramck alleged that several Christian teenagers threw bricks and shoes at the mosque.Abdul Mutallib, an Islamic devotee who goes to the mosque often, said that a group of 15- and 16-year-old Christian teenagers threw their shoes at the mosque, and mocked fellow devotees who visited the mosque.Don Clini, an FBI official, told Bangla Patrika that several officials have been entrusted with the responsibility of continuing the investigation and discussing the incident with Bangladeshi devotees and local police. . .Bangladeshi Muslims said that aside from the mocking, some Christian people in the locality also started harassing the devotees of the mosque. A few days before the vandalism incident, a Bangladeshi imam was attacked.The Michigan Department of Civil Rights expressed its concern, saying that anyone responsible for racial attacks will face the law.Director of Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Dawud Walid condemned the incident and demanded a thorough investigation to punish those responsible for the crime.