Daily Breeze reports: “Thieves damage Azusa mosque”
— “Thieves broke into an Azusa mosque, damaged the building and stole cash from a donation box, and American-Islamic relations advocates today urged police to investigate the incident as a possible hate crime”
— “The break-in occurred Monday between 2:30 p.m and 7 p.m. at the Masjid Al-Fatiha mosque in the 200 block of North Citrus Avenue, said Sgt. Sam Fleming of the Azusa Police Department.
— ” ‘There was $20 stolen from a donation box,’ Fleming said, adding the front door and glass windows were broken.”
— ” ‘It appears to be a crime of opportunity,’ he said. ‘There was no other damage. There was no graffiti and no vandalism.’ ”
— CAIR also reports to Daily Breeze past incidents of Islamophobia at the Masjid Al-Fatiha mosque
Day: December 15, 2009
Pakistan: “Allegedly Poison Christian Employees to Death”
Pakistan: “Allegedly Poison Christian Employees to Death”
— CDN reports: “Two brothers die, third in critical condition, after complaining they were not paid.”
— “Muslim employers of three Christian sanitation workers at a banquet/wedding hall here allegedly poisoned the three workers yesterday, killing two of them; at press time the third was struggling for life in intensive care.”
— “The father of the three workers, Yousaf Masih, said the owner of the hall, along with the manager, poisoned his sons because they were Christians who had dared to ask for pay owed to them.”
— “Imran Masih, 29, and Irfan Masih, 25, died at the Ferozewala Pul Banquet & Marriage Hall after being forced to drink something that was heavily poisoned, Yousaf Masih said. The third worker, 23-year-old Aakash Masih, was in critical condition at the Intensive Care Unit of Civil Hospital Gujranwala, in Punjab Province.”
— ” ‘It appears from the position they were in that they were forced to consume some kind of poisoned drink, or a drug, and they were left there to die,’ Yousaf Masih said. ‘The administration of the banquet and wedding hall did not call a hospital or take them to a hospital – instead they called us after the death of two of our loved ones.’ “
Turkey: Turks Threaten to Kill Priest over Swiss Minaret Decision
Turkey: Turks Threaten to Kill Priest over Swiss Minaret Decision
— CDN reports: ” In response to a Swiss vote banning the construction of new mosque minarets, a group of Muslims this month went into a church building in eastern Turkey and threatened to kill a priest unless he tore down its bell tower, according to an advocacy group.”
— “Three Muslims on Dec. 4 entered the Meryem Ana Church, a Syriac Orthodox church in Diyarbakir, and confronted the Rev. Yusuf Akbulut. They told him that unless the bell tower was destroyed in one week, they would kill him.”