SAN ANTONIO -- Local Arab and Muslim Americans have been shaken by the Fort Hood shootings.
News 4 WOAI visited the Islamic Center of San Antonio, where hundreds of Muslims gather for their weekly Jumaah prayer on Fridays.
"We have been devastated by the news," said Solomon Hamideh, President of the Islamic Center. "Our hearts and thoughts go out to people who got killed."
There are currently about 30,000 Muslims Americans who live in San Antonio. News of the massacre is drawing them together in grief, and fear.
Surwat Husain, an advocate of American-Islamic relations, told News 4 WOAI that since September 11th, people have sent threats and even vandalized her home. She said tragedies such as Thursday's shooting give Muslims a bad name.
"My car has been vandalized four times in front of my house," Husain lamented. "When police came out, he looked at me, then my car, and said, 'This is what happens to you here when your people do what they do."
Husain is pushing for solidarity and awareness of the Islamic faith.
"We should be uniting, and doing things for the blood drive, and raising funds for the families of the ones that got killed," added Husain.
