The perpetrators of the Philadelphia hate crime won that evening in 2015—they drove away from the crime. An investigation by police, the FBI, and the city's Human Relations Commission has not caught the perpetrators. Yet members of the mosque and people of all faiths in the surrounding city have won every day since.
Within a week, hundreds of neighbors streamed into the Islamic Society's parking lot for a barbecue. Islamic, Jewish, and Christian clergy led the group in prayer. Children played and community members interacted with one another, some for the first time, before sharing a meal.
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