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Jun 4, 2009 11:49 am US/Pacific

Mosque In SoCal Gets Vandalized With Racial Slurs

CYPRESS, Calif. (AP) ― Police said a Southern California mosque was vandalized with a spray-painted threat and other graffiti.

Police Sgt. Tom Bruce said an officer spotted the slurs and expletives painted on the Islamic Center of Cypress before dawn Thursday. He says the lettering was still wet to the touch.

The Orange County Human Relations Commission said that the painted lettering was about 4 or 5 feet tall and read, in part: "We will kill you all."

A call to the Islamic Center was not immediately returned.

Police said there were no witnesses and the incident was not caught on surveillance video.

The vandalism was reported even as President Barack Obama is touring the Middle East and reaching out to the Muslim world. He gave a major address Thursday in Cairo, Egypt.

(© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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