CAIR-MN Executive Director Jaylani Hussein said most Muslims around the world oppose the public display of images of the Prophet Muhammad. To show the image of the Prophet, said Hussein, is deeply offensive. And he called that violation of the prohibition an act of Islamophobia.

New Jersey’s chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling for a bias incident investigation after an unknown vandal smeared a public school sign.The vandal used an “unknown dark substance” to block out the letters forming the word “Allah” on the sign for the Dr. Hani Awadallah school, according to CAIR-NJ. Allah is the Arabic word for God.In a statement, CAIR-NJ Executive Director Selaedin Maksut called it part of an upward trend.“While the circumstances surrounding the incident remain unknown, the smearing of the word ‘Allah’ in Dr. Awadallah’s name is apparently intentional, with the remainder of the sign left untouched, making an immediate hate crime investigation into this incident necessary,” Maksut said.