In the small town of Pflugerville, Texas, on Monday an unsettling scene greeted congregants at an Islamic Center: torn pages from the Quran were smeared with feces and left outside the mosque. It was a “hate crime,” according to police. But so far, officials have not been able to track down the perpetrators. For 7-year-old Jack Swanson, the assault was an opportunity to share religious tolerance with the small suburban town outside Austin: Jack emptied his piggy bank’s grand savings of $20 to donate to the Islamic Center. The mosque...
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