{"id":2996,"date":"2017-01-14T11:09:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T19:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2017-01-14T11:11:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T19:11:25","slug":"mosque-bellevue-wa-burned-vandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2017\/01\/mosque-bellevue-wa-burned-vandals.html","title":{"rendered":"Mosque in Bellevue, WA burned down by vandals on MLK weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, (January 14, 2017) the Islamic Center of Eastside in Bellevue, Washington was burned to the ground by vandals. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/75\/2017\/01\/bellevue1.jpg\" alt=\"bellevue1\" width=\"270\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2998\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a fundraising campaign at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.launchgood.com\/project\/rebuilding_of_islamic_center_of_eastside_washington#\/\" target=\"_blank\">Launchgood.com\/Bell<\/a> to help raise funds to rebuild. Please keep the community in Bellevue in your prayers this weekend. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no coincidence here that this happened on MLK weekend. And there&#8217;s a direct causation between this hate crime and Donald J. Trump&#8217;s laughable smearing of civil rights hero and US Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Lewis_(Georgia_politician)\" target=\"_blank\">John Lewis<\/a> as &#8220;all talk and no action&#8221; &#8211; not to mention his stupid assertion that his district is in &#8220;horrible shape and falling apart, not to mention crime-infested&#8221;, which is just code for &#8220;black = criminal&#8221;. John Lewsis did more to make America Great in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edmund_Pettus_Bridge#Civil_rights_flashpoint\" target=\"_blank\">one day on March 7, 1965 at the Edmund Pettis Bridge<\/a> than Trump will do in a lifetime. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/820251730407473153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk &#8211; no action or results. Sad!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/820255947956383744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/75\/2017\/01\/bloody-sunday.jpg\" alt=\"bloody sunday\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2997\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The dream is alive, but we aren&#8217;t there yet. Fight back &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/launchgood.com\/bell\" target=\"_blank\">donate to the Bellevue community<\/a> and show them that when they go low, we go high. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, (January 14, 2017) the Islamic Center of Eastside in Bellevue, Washington was burned to the ground by vandals. There&#8217;s a fundraising campaign at Launchgood.com\/Bell to help raise funds to rebuild. Please keep the community in Bellevue in your prayers this weekend. There&#8217;s no coincidence here that this happened on MLK weekend. 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