The imam “confessed that he did so to settle scores with others at the mosque.” That seems a strange way to settle internal disputes, however. Graffiti found on Muslim installations generally casts suspicion on “Islamophobes,” which is why Hamas-linked CAIR and other Muslims have not hesitated to stoop even to fabricating “hate crimes,” including attacks on mosques. CAIR and other groups like it want and need hate crimes against Muslims, because they can use them for political points and as weapons to intimidate people into remaining silent about the jihad threat.
“France: An imam confesses to vandalizing his own mosque,” translated from the French at Point de Bascule, November 16 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
At the end of October, police started an investigation after the discovery of an offensive green graffiti on the mosque in Pau, on Buros Street.
They did not find anything. On Wednesday, a man went on his own to the police station, maybe overcome by remorse, and admitted committing the mischief: it was the imam himself. Paid by the religious association, this man in his fifties confessed that he did so to settle scores with others at the mosque….