Minnesota mosque explosion 'deeper and scarier' than threats
August 6, 2017
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in suburban Minneapolis, like other U.S. mosques, occasionally receives threatening calls and emails. But leaders say they're more frightened after a weekend attack in which an explosive shattered windows and damaged a room as worshippers prepared for morning prayers.
"We feel like it's much deeper and scarier than like something random," Mohamed Omar, the center's executive director, said Sunday. "It's so scary."
No one was hurt in the blast, which happened around 5 a.m. Saturday. Windows of the imam's office were shattered, either by the bl...
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