Australia Mosque Vandalized in Racist Attack
The converted house on Hogarth Road at Elizabeth Grove in Adelaide's north has been scrawled with phrases in graffiti including "No Muslim".
The number 88 — a code used by neo-Nazis to mean "Heil Hitler" — has also been spray-painted on the building.
Police confirmed they were notified about the graffiti on Friday night, and said the incident occurred at some time in the past week.
The attack has been widely condemned as "awful" and "absolutely disgusting" on social media, where pictures of the vandalized building appeared earlier today.
Imran Lum, whose family runs the mosque, wrote on Facebook that the attack occurred on Friday night.
"They've tried to set it on fire, smashed our windows with their rocks and now swastikas on the doors of our [mosque]," he said.
"We're not scared or intimidated and it's not going to stop us coming together and serving the community."
The building has operated as a mosque for 16 years and has never been targeted in this fashion before, a spokesman said.
It serves as a place of worship for Muslims from different ethnic backgrounds.
The Islamic Society of South Australia said it was aware of the incident.
But it said it did not want to comment as it was not responsible for the management of the mosque.
Source: ABC News
