Mosque Burglarised in Bloomington
The Bloomington mosque that was bombed this summer was burglarized early Friday morning.
Police responded to Dar Al Farooq Islamic Center after a report of an overnight burglary, according to Deputy Chief Mike Hartley. They found that the building had been entered by force and that someone had gone through offices, he said.
Police were investigating, and detectives and administrators at the center were working together to determine what was stolen, he said.
The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) on Friday asked that anyone with information about the burglary call Bloomington police.
CAIR said security cameras at the mosque showed two men wearing masks and gloves entering the building between 2 and 3 a.m. The video shows the men walking around the mosque breaking windows and entering offices.
Hartley said there was no evidence that the burglary was related to the bombing in August. Mosque leaders recently released videos of the explosionin hopes of generating tips that could lead to an arrest.
The FBI has announced a $30,000 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of suspects in the bombing. No one was injured in what Gov. Mark Dayton at the time called an “act of terrorism.”
