After an Arkansas man vandalized their mosque, members paid off his fines so he wouldn't go to jail

By Jen Hayden at the Daily Kos

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/2/1729238/-After-an-Arkansas-man-vandalized-their-mosque-members-paid-off-his-fines-so-he-wouldn-t-go-to-jail

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Five months later, that worry was wiped away, when Hisham Yasin, the mosque’s lively social director, climbed the stairs of the courthouse with a cashier’s check. That was what had left Abraham speechless next to the Christmas tree.

“There’s no words,” he said, his hands covering his face. “English. Find it.”

Some weeks back, Hisham had called me to say that the mosque had received a generous donation from the Jay Pritzker Foundation. No one at Al Salam had ever heard of the foundation, and they thought at first that it was a rip-off scheme — one of those send-me-your-bank-account-number-and-we’ll-send-you-a-million-dollars ruses. A bit of Googling told them otherwise. Now they wanted to spread the good will: They had decided to pay off Abraham’s court fines.

Abraham’s life had come crashing into theirs. They were now linked. They could not leave him behind.

Mosque President of Al Salam Louay Nassri said they had no desire to see Abraham Davis go to jail. From Arkansas Matters:

"We heard that he was having financial problems," Nassri said. "Now if you don't pay your fine, that's an automatic six years in jail. Well, we didn't want him to go to jail for six years."


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