Mosque arson anniversary brings questions of faith, unity
VICTORIA -- As the flames of arson illuminated their tears, members of the Victoria Islamic Center paced the sidewalk surrounding their burning mosque and prayed for understanding.
"I was shaken," Abe Ajrami, a Victoria resident and mosque member, said, recalling the night of Jan. 28, 2017.
For center president Dr. Shahid Hashmi, a Victoria surgeon, the building's destruction was akin to losing a patient - an experience he still struggles with after decades of practice.
"Why is there hate? Why is there all this? And why would (someone) do something like that?" Hashmi said. "Then you sit there and think about it, and then your faith tells you, 'It's a test.'"
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