After the shooting of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a message of compassion rose up from many corners of the Muslim community.
Farris Barakat, the brother of one of the victims, spoke at a vigil at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the day after the shooting, saying:
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“There’s no reason for there to be so much hate within someone to want to do something like that, at that level of violence,” he said. “But at the same time, we have forgiven. We don’t want to know necessarily his motives, but we want to help him get better and get to know us better as well.”
The center estimated the cost of damage to be $200,000 and launched a crowd funding campaign to help raise the money for repairs.
