Dozens of volunteers gathered to clean the mess created by the miscreants outside a mosque in Cold Lake, Alberta.
The mosque was vandalized in the wake of attack on Canadian House of Commons in Ottawa by a local man who had reportedly converted to Islam.
Following the attack, unidentified people vandalized the Cold Lake mosque; smashed windows and painted racist messages like ‘go home’ through graffiti.
Following the incident, dozens of local community members volunteered to clean up and repaint the vandalized exterior of the mosque, as an effort which is widely being regarded as ‘heart-touching’ and ‘a lesson for America’.
Ajaz Quraishi, president of the Cold Lake Islamic Society told the Canadian media that he knows that this was an isolated incident and that the ‘vast majority’ of Canadians does not endorse the actions of these isolated miscreants.
“I know just about everybody in the city of Cold Lake, and people are good… I don’t know who did it, very hard to say, but I’m very surprised to … see this happen in Cold Lake,” he said.
Mosque’s board member Mahmoud Elkabri said that he doesn’t believe that the vandalism was result of any anti-Muslim sentiment.
“I am very sure whoever did this could be just a drunk random person at nighttime or it could be … someone not from Cold Lake,” he said.
The Ottawa shooting outside the Canadian parliament had one soldier and a gunman dead.
