The incredibly gracious way Muslims welcomed a man who had drunkenly shot their mosque

[Mark Thibodeau]

Thank you for this. I really needed to read something like this today.

Jerky

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:01 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/04/06/after-paris-attacks-he-shot-at-a-mosque-this-month-he-prayed-with-the-muslims-there/?postshare=8841460210622661&tid=ss_fb
>
> Ted Hakey, a former Marine, knelt in prayer, his forehead on the floor,
> beside his Muslim neighbors inside their Connecticut mosque last Saturday.
> The enormity of that gesture was lost on no one.
>
> It was only several months earlier, on the night of the terror attacks in
> Paris, when Hakey, 48, went to a local bar and downed 10 drinks. In the
> early morning, he went home, drank some more and loaded his 9mm handgun and
> an M14 rifle. He went into his yard and fired rounds at the side of the
> mosque next door.
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