Mouffa Nahhas is president of the mosque being built at Cooper Street and the Road to Six Flags in north Arlington.
He was called to the mosque Saturday morning.
"The fumes were very strong," he said of the smell of gasoline when he got to the site.
Nahhas said Friday night, someone cut through the fence, draped the inside of the mosque with drywall tape and left an open can of gasoline under the dome. Construction workers found the scene the next morning.
Nahhas said he can’t think of any reason for someone to bring gasoline into the mosque “except to burn it.” But, there was no fire.
Nahhas called police.
Muslims in Arlington were already on edge because of a recent posting to a newspaper blog about the threat of radical Islam and sleeper cells in America.
The writer mentioned revenge and Friday prayers.
"It's going to get bloody this time around Islamo-folks," the post read. (More)
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