Several
mosques have been destroyed and a number of suspected hate crimes targeting
Muslims carried out after a number of United States governors broadcasted they
would not accept Syrian refugees in their states.
The Council on American
Islamic Relations (CAIR), a civil rights organization, said on Monday that it
has documented recent "wreckage, threats and hate [incidents]"
in Massachusetts, Florida, Texas, Kentucky, Virginia, Nebraska, Tennessee,
Ohio and New York, among other states.
The wave of incidents
follows declaration by at least 26 state governors - 25 from the right-wing Republican
Party and a Democrat - saying they will block Syrian refugees, citing last
Friday's deadly attacks in Paris, claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL) group.
In one
incident, officials at the Islamic Centre in Omaha, Nebraska, said that an
image of the Eiffel Tower was spray-painted on the wall of a local mosque
overnight on Monday, CAIR said.
In Pflugerville, Texas,
worshippers arrived at their local mosque on Monday morning to find faces
smeared on the door and a torn-up copy of the Quran on the doorstep.
The Islamic Centre of St
Petersburg, Florida, received threatening voicemails just hours after news of
the Paris attacks broke.
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