Detectives are searching for a vandal who wrote an obscenity on a South Florida mosque's street signs.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday that the vandal spray-painted the signs outside the Alamin Islamic Center overnight.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations says the mosque's surveillance cameras recorded a car entering the parking lot about 12:40 a.m. Wednesday.
The group says an individual got out of the car and painted the signs with the words "F*** Islam and F*** ISIS."
"Our community continues to suffer from an increase in hate crimes and hate incidents. We still have fresh in our memories the recent hate crime committed at the Islamic Center of Ft. Pierce that was attacked by an arsonist. The hate speech and rhetoric that has come along this presidential campaign is fueling this type of crime that endangers not only the Muslim community but the Florida community in general," said Wilfredo Amr Ruiz, CAIR-Florida Communications Director.
In September, a Fort Pierce mosque sometimes attended by the Orlando nightclub shooter was torched.
A suspect was arrested.
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Several weeks earlier, a worshipper at that mosque was struck in the face in the parking lot.
Two August fires at Tampa-area mosques were also ruled to be arson.
