From Kansas City Star
The first sign that hatefulness had visited their new home in the Northland was the smoke.
A Muslim couple — he grew up in Pakistan and she is an African-American mother from Kansas — saw smoke spewing from their garage as they returned home one night last month with their three children.
One or more people had broken in and spray-painted “Allah Scum,” a racial epithet and other slurs on various surfaces, including the master bedroom door upstairs, the wall of the master bathroom, the refrigerator and a counter top. Police suspect charcoal lighter fluid had been used to set fire to a staircase, according to a report.
“I’m pretty sure it was a hate crime,” the father said. “That’s what it looks like. That’s what you see in there.”
