USA: Iowa Woman Organizes Love-In Following Anti-Muslim Hate Crime

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Mohamoud said the house has been repeatedly broken into in the two years since he bought it, and the fence and water heater have been stolen. 

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit: The Huffington Post
By Antonia Blumberg | June 30, 2015

Responding to a reported hate crime against a Muslim man in her community, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, resident Lori Carlson decided to extend a message of love.

Carlson and her friends organized a love-in that drew about 100 people Tuesday evening after reports that a home owned by Tigani Mohamoud, who moved to the U.S. from Sudan in 2007, had been vandalized. Mohamoud told police on June 24 that his Cedar Rapids home had been painted with anti-Muslim graffiti, including a message reading, "You will be killed here."

Mohamoud said the house has been repeatedly broken into in the two years since he bought it, and the fence and water heater have been stolen.

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"It broke our hearts," Carlson, a photographer who has lived in Cedar Rapids for roughly two decades, told The Huffington Post. "So we decided to gather and do a little love-in."

Carlson described a love-in as "a form of peaceful social activism" and said the event was themed "love thy neighbor" and included music, conversation and meditation. Speaking from Time Check Park, where the love-in took place, Carlson said she and her co-organizers had set up an altar with peace signs, a coexist prayer flag and blankets nestled in a circle of trees.

The attack "just seemed really close to home," Carlson said. "We just wanted to show support in our community."

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