The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned the attack on the Islamic Center in Tucson, Arizona, which was carried out by unknown persons, last Saturday morning.
The council explained in a tweet on Twitter that “due to the attack on American citizens outside the Islamic Center in the city, it has become necessary to protect people while performing their religious rites and to secure mosques and their contents.”
The video clip – published by the local Tucson news agency – showed three people (two women and a young man) throwing stones at the doors and windows of the center, and then assaulting a person when he confronted them.
Sohail Muhammad, a member of the board of directors of Tucson Islamic Center, said in the published video that the incident was unjustified and had not happened before.
Muhammad added that the accident resulted in the center’s guard being injured in the eye, as a result of the unknown attackers on him, as shown by the surveillance cameras.
One of the center’s windows was smashed due to the unidentified persons throwing stones at it, as it appeared in the video as well.
It is noteworthy that many American cities and states have witnessed during the past few months repeated cases of attacks on Islamic religious centers.
In mid-December, the US Congress voted in favor of a resolution establishing a special office in the US State Department to combat Islamophobia around the world.
