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TexasTowelie

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Wed Mar 15, 2017, 06:00 AM Mar 2017

Vandal desecrates Quran at Islamic Center of Tucson

Police are investigating after a vandal struck the Islamic Center of Tucson.

At about 3:30 a.m. Monday, a man broke into the building and ripped copies of the Quran, throwing them around the building before he left, according to a post on the center’s Facebook page.

Nothing was stolen and no one was injured, leading center employees “to believe that the sole intent of this individual was to damage the center’s religious property,” the post said.

Tucson police were called to the scene later in the morning and found no signs of forced entry, said Sgt. Kimberly Bay, a Tucson Police Department spokeswoman.

Read more: http://tucson.com/news/local/crime/vandal-desecrates-quran-at-islamic-center-of-tucson/article_70c8ad81-f57c-56b6-85c7-4148394a8d5f.html

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