A hate crime investigation is underway after three men were shot and killed outside a San Diego mosque on Monday, in an attack that is reverberating nationwide, including in Philadelphia, where the Council on American-Islamic Relations is urging increased vigilance.
“We have been encouraging our mosque communities to take security precautions,” said Ahmet Tekelioglu, executive director of CAIR Philadelphia.
He added, “You always want your mosque, your church, your synagogue to be a welcoming place, not a fortified securitized kind of place, but at the same time these incidents are all too real.”
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