The Washington Post reports on laudable efforts by the local community to support the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community following extensive vandalism in January of the mosque under construction in Chantilly.
But if their intent was to ostracize or frighten the worshippers, mostly of Pakistani origin, it didn’t work. Religious and political leaders across the region quickly issued statements of condemnation. A week later, at a regional interfaith meeting in Sterling, officials from a variety of congregations expressed their outrage and sympathy.
