Fire in a mosque in Texas - the Islamic Center of Victoria badly damaged

Islamic Center of Victoria, a mosque in Texas, has been badly damaged by a fire just hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting migration from seven predominantly Muslim countries. The fire was noticed by a clerk at a convenience store. He spotted smoke and flames billowing from the mosque at around 2am on Saturday.
The fire department spent more than four hours trying to battle the blaze. Photographs showed the dome toppled, and as the center's president has said: 'It looks completely destroyed.'
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 29 January 2017.

The imam of the mosque was awake in the early morning hours and, on checking the mosque's online surveillance, found that the alarm was inactive and the doors were unlocked. Just last week, someone had gained entry into the mosque and stole a number of electronic items, including laptops. In addition to the break-in, the mosque was subject to vandalism in July 2013 when a man painted 'H8' or 'hate' outside the building.
The mosque had been built in 2000, and has enjoyed support from the city 115 miles southwest of Houston.


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