Jersey City Mosque Receives Threats: Muslims Are 'Evil'

Jersey City, NJ - Jersey City Mayor Steven Fullop announced on Wednesday that the city will be increasing security around certain Muslim houses of worship after one received threatening phone calls that labeled Muslims as “evil.”

Fullop stated during a press conference that police officers will be assigned to walking posts or stationed outside selected Jersey City mosques during worshipping hours

“As rhetoric escalates on the national stage it has an impact on the local level,” Fulop said. “We want to make sure we do everything possible to make sure that a community that’s important to Jersey City feels safe and appreciated.”

Fios1 News reported that the Al-Tawheed Islamic Center recently received a phone call from a woman who labeled its members “evil.”

“We don’t want you here,” the caller stated on a voice message. “If you guys come over here in mass numbers like you want to do, every American that has their 2nd amendment right is going to take their f****** gun out and blow you away. So I just want you to be prepared for that.”

The same mosque also received an anonymous letter telling congregants to “go back to the desert,” according to The Jersey Journal.

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