Colorado police are looking into a Sunday vandalism incident in which a surveillance video caught someone throwing a Bible and rocks into a mosque.
Footage captures the man heaving several large rocks and a Bible into the building’s glass doors and in the prayer area, officials with the Islamic Center of Fort Collins told CNN.
{mosads}The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim advocacy organization in the nation, said the vandalism incident should be investigated as a hate crime because the Bible suggests a “bias motive” for the attack.
“Because of the use of a Bible in the vandalism, we would urge state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate the possibility of a bias motive for this attack on a house of worship,” said Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR’s national communications director.
Local police denounced the crime on Twitter along with lawmakers.