The Muslim community in Fort Smith, Arkansas, has expressed gratitude for their neighbors, who offered outpouring sympathy and support after a recent hate crime targeting their mosque, while stressing that education is the best solution to eradicate fear.
The Muslim community in Fort Smith, Arkansas, has expressed gratitude for their neighbors, who offered outpouring sympathy and support after a recent hate crime targeting their mosque, while stressing that education is the best solution to eradicate fear.
“We should dwell on the similarities and commonalities and not the differences of opinion,” Dr. Sahibzada A. Ahmed, a member of Masjid Al Salam mosque in Fort Smith, told Times Record.
The comments followed the recent arrest of three suspects who spray-painted the mosque last October.
The mosque serves about 150 Muslim families in the area, 35 members of who are physicians providing health-care in the community — 20 specialists and 15 general practitioners.
