Firebomb attack: Mosque, shop hit by arsonists in NY

NYPD says Imam Al-Khoei Foundation building suffered damage to the front door from a Molotov cocktail.

NEW YORK: A mosque and a nearby store run by Muslim immigrants were among four sites hit by suspected arsonists in a single New York neighborhood late Sunday, police said Monday. A spokesman for the New York Police Department said the Imam Al-Khoei Foundation building in the borough of Queens suffered damage to the front door from a Molotov cocktail. The foundation said on its website that two firebombs were “hurled at the main entrance” but that thankfully “no major damage, no injury was caused by the blast.”

Published in The Express Tribune, January 3^rd, 2012.