Center for Islamic Life vandalized at Rutgers University in New Brunswick during Eid al-Fitr

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - The Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University in New Brunswick was vandalized during Eid al-Fitr, the three-day Islamic religious celebration marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.Leaders of the center and investigators do not believe the timing of this, at the start of Eid, was a coincidence. Now the search is underway for whoever did it.

'For something like this to happen to happen at the end of Ramadan, start of the holiday, it really shows that the university is not doing enough to combat hate, to foster an environment of understanding here at Rutgers.'New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy posted on social media that he is 'disgusted' by the incident, and the President of Rutgers University sent out an alert to the campus community calling it 'a criminal act of bias and hatred.''I got the RU alert.

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