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Thursday 14 Jan 2016 - 18:05 Makkah mean time-4-4-1437
 Nebraska, (IINA) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, in a statement issued on Wednesday called on the FBI and state law enforcement authorities to investigate the desecration and attempted vandalism of a mosque in Nebraska as a possible hate crime.
Officials with the Islamic Center of Omaha in Omaha, Neb., tell CAIR that two masked men left bacon on a door of the mosque at 3 a.m. on Tuesday. The men, whose actions were captured on surveillance cameras, also threw rocks at the glass doors of the mosque, but failed to do significant damage.
CAIR said this is the fourth time the mosque has been targeted by hate vandalism in recent months.
In November last year, someone spray-painted graffiti of an Eiffel Tower peace symbol, which was used online as a sign of solidarity with those impacted by the Paris terror attacks, on an outside wall of the mosque. Earlier that month, CAIR reported that a vandal was caught on surveillance camera attempting to break a glass door at mosque.
In August of 2015, CAIR called on law enforcement authorities to investigate the first act of vandalism as a possible hate crime.
“It is disturbing that a house of worship would be targeted four times by hate vandalism, while the perpetrators remain at large,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. “We urge local, state and federal authorities to redouble their efforts to protect this congregation from hate attacks.”
Earlier this month, CAIR’s Florida chapter called for a local, state and federal hate crime investigation of the vandalism and attempted desecration of a mosque in that state, also through the use of bacon and vandalism.
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