A national Muslim civil rights group is calling for state and federal hate crime investigations into the vandalism of a Waterloo mosque captured on the building’s security cameras. The video shows what appears to be a middle-aged woman vandalizing the Al-Noor Islamic Community Center on the evening of Dec. 28. The Courier reports that the woman first used snow to draw crosses on the mosque’s windows before graduating to scrawling profanities aimed at Islam and Muslims on the mosque’s walls using some type of oil-based substance. On Wednesday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations issued a statement calling for local, state and federal authorities to launch their own hate crime investigations into the vandalism.
