Boy donates piggy bank to vandalized mosque

“But my kids and Jack, both Americans, born here are going to grow up together”, said Faisal Naeem, a board member of the center.

A string of Islamophobic incidents have been reported since the massacre in Paris last week, but at least one little boy in Texas knows the attackers don’t represent the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims. He donated the entire contents of his piggybank, $20 (all in pennies) to help go towards to the cleanup.

On the way to morning prayers, community members of the mosque found feces smeared on the sidewalk and torn pages of the Quran, the Islamic holy book, scattered outside the center. However, he said he was frustrated that such “generalizations” are often applied to the Muslim community after extremist attacks.

In addition, a mosque in Pflugerville, a suburb of Austin, was vandalized late Sunday (Nov. 15) leaving local Muslims distraught and without a place of worship.

“This gives me hope because this means it’s not one versus the other”, Naeem said.

His mother, Laura, said the pair had spoken about how the act of vandalism was a “really very bad thing to do”.

The outside of the mosque was washed clean by Monday night and the soiled papers replaced with flowers, Naeem added.

‘It’s disgusting, it’s gross, it doesn’t matter what you believe, what I believe, what he believes or anybody believes, all faith is important, ‘ Mrs Swanson said. And especially peaceful faith I mean what happened in Paris is not what’s happening in Pflugerville. “We should all be supporting each other”.

It’s a lesson in love, now passed down from mother to son.

“Jack’s 20 dollars are worth twenty million dollars to us because it’s the thought that counts” he told ABC News.