US mosque is destroyed by fire just hours after Donald Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ comes into force
Shop assistant spotted flames at Victoria Islamic Centre in Texas during early hours of Saturday morning just a week after it had been burgled of laptops
A MOSQUE was “completely destroyed” in a fire that took place just hours after President Donald Trump announced a ban on Muslim entry to the US.
The Victoria Islamic Centre in Texas was torched in the early hours of Saturday morning – a week after it had been burgled.
The religious centre was also the subject of hate graffiti in 2013 and was spotted burning to the ground by a shop assistant yesterday at approximately 2am.
Shahid Hashmi, the centre's president, said: “It's sad to stand there and watch it collapse down, the fire was so huge. It looks completely destroyed.”
Victoria Fire Marshal Tom Legler asked for help from the Texas Fire Marshal's Office and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to determine what caused the blaze.
Hashmi said authorities have told him it was too early to speculate as to what happened in the city located around 115 miles southwest of Houston.