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

[David Morris]

I think we all need something like this.

On Saturday, April 9, 2016, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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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