{"id":3060,"date":"2003-05-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/05\/05\/2003-05-05-vandalism-at-carbondale-mosque-is-investigated\/"},"modified":"2003-05-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-05T12:00:00","slug":"2003-05-05-vandalism-at-carbondale-mosque-is-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/05\/05\/2003-05-05-vandalism-at-carbondale-mosque-is-investigated\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandalism at Carbondale Mosque is Investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/P><P>ST. LOUIS, U.S.A., May 1, 2003: The FBI is investigating the vandalism of the Islamic Center in Carbondale, Illinois, which took place over the weekend. The building had been defaced with painted slogans, including &#8220;Long Live Shri Rama,&#8221; and &#8220;Free Kashmir.&#8221; Such vandalism is often the work of unsophisticated youngsters, but the content of the messages in Carbondale suggests otherwise, said James Hacking of the St. Louis chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. He said he thought the incident was the first of its kind at the center, which opened about 18 years ago. He said it was one of only a few mosques in Southern Illinois. Hacking on Wednesday called for an FBI investigation, but FBI Special Agent Rick Stonecipher of Carbondale said the agency was already on the case along with Carbondale police. He said the crime could be subject to federal jurisdiction if there was a civil rights violation. Stonecipher said he did now know yet if the content of the message pointed to any particular suspect or suspects. <\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Post-DispatchST. LOUIS, U.S.A., May 1, 2003: The FBI is investigating the vandalism of the Islamic Center in Carbondale,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}