Members of a mosque in San Francisco are worried about their safety and security.
That’s after a man was caught on surveillance camera tearing pages out of the Quran. They say that same man has harassed people who belong to the mosque before.
The Islamic Center of San Francisco is one of the oldest mosques in the state of California.
Members say they witnessed a hateful act on December 24.
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“He’s thumbing through our holy book, the Quran,” said Zuhaib Siddique with Islamic Center of San Francisco. “He showed up with religious books, the Quran, bible and he started standing in the front, tearing pages from the Quran, waving on the security camera. It kind of looked like a hammer. Though later, it looked like a toy hammer and kind of confronting people coming into the mosque.”
The suspect is someone with a history of harassing mosque members.