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Severed pig's head left at N. Phila. mosque
Updated on DECEMBER 7, 2015 10:17 PM EST
Philadelphia police, the FBI, and the city's Human Relations Commission launched investigations Monday after a worker at a North Philadelphia mosque found a severed pig's head outside its door.
Surveillance video outside the Al Aqsa Islamic Society, on Germantown Avenue near Jefferson Street, showed a red pickup truck drove past the building twice just before 11 p.m. Sunday.
The first time it crept along slowly near the curb. On its second pass, the video shows, someone extended an arm from the passenger window and tossed something that rolled to a stop near the mosque's front door.
An employee found the bloodied animal head there around 6 a.m. Monday. Pigs are considered insulting to Muslims who observe halal dietary laws.
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"It is," (Ruth Landau, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations] "a heinous act that sends a message to Arab-American communities that they are not wanted here in Philadelphia and that could not be further from the truth."
Philadelphia Mayor-elect Jim Kenney expressed outrage.
"The bigotry that desecrated Al-Aqsa mosque today has no place in Philadelphia," he said in a statement. Philadelphia "has a long history of coming together in the face of challenge. We cannot allow hate to divide us now, in the face of unprecedented difficulties. I ask all Philadelphians to join me in rejecting this despicable act and supporting our Muslim neighbors."
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http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/7/1457932/-The-America-Trump-Wants-Severed-Pig-s-Head-Found-On-The-Doorstep-Of-A-Philadelphia-Mosque
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Now, let me explain how, by taking every fourth letter of President Obama's Oval Office address last night, rearranging the letters, and extracting certain verses from the Bible, I can conclusively prove that arglebargle, give me a show, Fox!
grntuscarora
(1,249 posts)William Penn just rolled over.
Despicable, and I hope they catch and prosecute these morons.
Tab
(11,093 posts)He is a good communicator, I'll give him that, which is exactly why he's so dangerous right now. Republican extremists are going to destroy this country if we let them.