From The Desert Sun (California)
by Colin Atagi
“It’s scary. It hurts my heart,” the Coachella man said. “Everyone should be careful and be safe.”
Two bullet holes were on the bottom, driver’s side of the blue Toyota. There was a bullet hole in the front door and another one to its left. One of the bars in the front gate also was damaged, but it wasn’t clear if it was hit by a separate bullet.
“Somebody drunk? Something crazy? Nothing ever happened here before,” said mosque board member Salah Salah, adding “We are concerned about our safety, our security.”
The mosque has been around for 16 years and has about 90 members, Salah said.
Melisse Banwer, executive director of the Tolerance Education Center in Rancho Mirage, said people occasionally reference the local Muslim population, but there’s plenty of room for more awareness.
“I don’t think a lot of people know we even have a mosque out here,” she said. “It takes something like this, unfortunately, to bring it to our attention.”
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