{"id":5270,"date":"2018-01-02T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5270-arkansas-mosque-forgives-vandal-grants-him-freedom\/"},"modified":"2018-01-02T16:23:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T16:23:46","slug":"arkansas-mosque-forgives-vandal-grants-him-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5270-arkansas-mosque-forgives-vandal-grants-him-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas Mosque forgives vandal, grants him freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Muslim community in Fort Smith, Arkansas, has forgiven a vandal who attacked their mosque last year, granting him his freedom ticket.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>The Muslim community in Fort Smith, Arkansas, has forgiven a vandal who attacked their mosque last year, granting him his freedom ticket.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be hanging over him for the rest of his life,\u201d President of Masjid Al Salam in Fort Smith Louay Nassr said.<\/h4>\n<h4>The attack, caught on camera, occurred in October last year when Abraham Davis sprayed Swastika and the words \u201cgo home\u201d at the front of the Masjid Al Salam.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cWe knew this person did a bad thing and there have to be consequences for their actions,\u201d Nassri said. \u201cBut we didn\u2019t have any ill feelings towards anybody.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>Davis\u2019 felony charge consisted of community service and a hefty fine, a debt he could not pay.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cWe heard that he was having financial problems,\u201d Nassri said. \u201cNow if you don\u2019t pay your fine, that\u2019s an automatic six years in jail. Well, we didn\u2019t want him to go to jail for six years.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>Granting Davis freedom before the end of the year, president of Al Salam Louay Nassri decided to write a check for one-thousand seven hundred dollars to wipe away the rest of Davis\u2019 fines.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cAfter all that he had been through, we didn\u2019t want him sitting on the severe financial stress,\u201d Nassri said. \u201cAnd like I told him, we want him to have a much better future.\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Muslim community in Fort Smith, Arkansas, has forgiven a vandal who attacked their mosque last year, granting him his freedom ticket. \u00a0 The Muslim community in Fort Smith, Arkansas, has forgiven a vandal who attacked their mosque last year, granting him his freedom ticket. \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be hanging over him for the rest of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[363,612,214,228],"class_list":["post-5270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-attack","tag-freedom","tag-mosque","tag-usa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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