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By BOB VON STERNBERG
St. Cloud, MN, December 12, 2009 – A St. Cloud human rights group has
offered a $1,000 reward in the hopes of finding the person responsible
for posting anti-Islamic cartoons in the city this week.
Create CommUNITY, a non-profit organization that works to foster racial
harmony, announced today that the money would be posted with the
Tri-County Crime-Stoppers information that leads to an arrest and
conviction in the case.
The crude cartoons were found stapled to a pair of utility poles on
Tuesday They depict the prophet Mohammed in derogatory ways, the Qur'an
and a swastika. One of the posts was stapled to a pole outside the
Mandeeq Shop, a discount store named in honor of the native name for
Somalia.
The city attorney's office is investigating whether the cartoons violate
any criminal statutes and if it is determined they do, the case could be
treated as a bias crime.
The police department has received tips in the case, but has made no
arrests.
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 12, 2009
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