Ahlul Bayt News Agency - ABNA - After Ingham County prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III concluded that no state laws were violated by the unidentified person who burned a Quran and left it near an Islamic center in East Lansing, the Council on American-Islamic Relations is demanding a federal investigation and federal hate crime charges in the case.
Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Michigan, called on federal officials to pursue charges.
“We call on federal law enforcement authorities to investigate the burned Quran left at the mosque door as they would investigate and appropriately charge someone who would leave a burned cross at a African-American church or who left Nazi symbols at a synagogue,” Walid said.
“Not to prosecute this hate crime would send a terrible message to bigots that there will be no legal repercussion against those who intimidate Muslims at their houses of worship,” Walid said.
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