students<\/a> attended the early-morning prayer and reflection for those observing Islam. Barakah means blessing and the purpose was simple: community, faith and preparation for a sacred month.<\/p>\nBut shortly after the gathering began, that peace was interrupted. Hingora said a man who was not part of the group approached them and began yelling.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor a second I\u2019m just standing there looking at him like\u2026this can\u2019t be a real moment right now,\u201d Hingora said.<\/p>\n
He pulled out his phone and began recording. Hingora says the man was wearing a GoPro camera strapped to his chest and a hoodie with derogatory language about Islam.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis guy with a GoPro strapped to his chest, he has his phone on, he\u2019s wearing a hoodie with some derogatory things about Islam on it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Video from the scene captures the confrontation, as students continued their gathering despite the disruption.<\/p>\n
In the video, the man can be heard yelling \u201cdisgusting fake religion\u201d and \u201cwicked devils\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I saw it, I thought it was just\u2026 it was sad in a way,\u201d said Mustafaa Carroll, executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations-Dallas Fort Worth (CAIR-DFW).<\/p>\n
\u201cMy concern is if somebody does that, then what\u2019s next?\u201d Carroll said.<\/p>\n
Plano police say they are aware of the video and the situation. As of now, officers say they have not received an official police report. CAIR-DFW says it plans to file one.<\/p>\n
Carroll is also calling on city leaders to publicly condemn the behavior.<\/p>\n
Despite the confrontation, Hingora said no one engaged with the man. The group stayed focused on why they were there.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just kept praying,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t fathom someone having that much hate in my heart toward someone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hingora said he hopes sharing the video sends a broader message, not just about what happened that morning, but about how communities respond.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just have to be kinder to each other,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the video, the man can be heard yelling \u201cdisgusting fake religion\u201d and \u201cwicked devils\u201d towards the UT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-172532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}