Minneapolis police are raising the alarm after repeated threats against Minneapolis Mosques.
Authorities say 14 threatening phone calls were made to the Dar Al-Qalam Islamic Center over the weekend along with a text message sent to a mosque employee containing a video of the 2019 New Zealand Christchurch mosque shootings.
Minneapolis Police Cheif Brian O'Hara called the threats repulsive.
"We believe that crimes that target our houses of worship in this city, those crimes that are motivated by bias, are especially egregious and it doesn't matter if you're not Muslim," O'Hara said. "It's an attack on the entire community in this city and all that we're supposed to value as Americans."
Executive Director of The Council on American-Islamic Relations Minnesota Jaylani Hussein says a text sent by the caller was particularly shocking.
"He was able to send a text message, he clearly sent a message that included a forty second clip of the shooting in New Zealand, which you can see horrifically, this man who was wearing a body camera showing how he was killing worshippers in a mosque," says Hussein.
The calls reportedly came from a St. Cloud area code. Police say they know who the suspect is but no one is in custody. They say that the case has been turned over to the Hennepin County Attorney's Office.
Hussein says this marks thirty-third threat or attack at a mosque in Minnesota since 2021. In April of 2023, Minneapolis Police investigated two fires at local mosques they thought were connected.