Perspective: Kind World -- From Four Bullets To 'Love For All, Hatred For None' | Erika Lantz


"The first thing he did when he came in was that he started crying. This huge guy, and he has tears in his eyes. It kind of brought us to tears."

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | UK Desk
Source/Credit: WBUR / Kind World
By Erika Lantz | June 23, 2017

Ted Hakey, Jr. was a former Marine living with his wife in Meriden, Conn., when he says he started to feel uneasy toward Muslims. With each story of another terrorist attack, his resentment grew, so he admits he was concerned when, in 2007, an Ahmadiyya mosque opened next door to his house, just across a small field. Ted watched his neighbors through binoculars.

"I look out one day, the place is like a beehive, and there are all kinds of men coming and going, and I’m like wait a minute," he says. "I’m thinking they’re plotting. It’s such a mystery, you know? You don’t know what they’re doing in there."

Ted, who was in his 40s and working at a car dealership, lived next to the mosque for years without incident, peering over from time to time.
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