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Benjamin Enderle MOORHEAD,MN (KVRR) – A July trial has been set for a Moorhead man accused of spray painting hate messages at the Moorhead Fargo Islamic Center. Twenty-two-year-old Benjamin Enderle is charged with felony harassment with bias and felony criminal damage to property.  His trial is scheduled to begin July 20 in Clay County District Court in Moorhead. Court documents say Enderle admitted to police that he was responsible for the vandalism and said “he did it as a joke.” “Death to Islam” and “Go to Hell” were among the words painted on the building’s exterior. Ende...

KVRR Local News May 11, 2021 MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – A Moorhead man charged with vandalizing a Moorhead mosque made another court appearance Tuesday. Twenty-two-year-old Benjamin Enderle is charged with aggravated harassment because of bias and criminal damage to property because of bias. Enderle is accused of spray painting hate messages including “Death to Islam” and “Go to Hell” at the Moorhead Fargo Islamic Center. According to court documents, Enderle admitted to police that he was responsible for the vandalism and said he “did it as a joke.” Enderle’s next court appeara...

Muslims Forgive Moorhead Mosque Vandal Get our free mobile app Moorhead, MN (KROC AM News) - The man who is accused of vandalizing a Minnesota mosque with hate graffiti has been forgiven - by the local Muslim community. The vandalism was discovered last Sunday at Moorhead-Fargo Islamic Community Center in Moorhead. Police later arrested 22-year-old Benjamin Enderle, who admitted to the vandalism. He told police he did it as a joke. Clay County ADC   The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says it has joined the Moorhead Muslim community in forgiving Enderle. They ...

By Kelly Fisher Apr 29, 2021 Court documents show that a Minnesota man’s defense for spray-painting hate messages and symbols on a local mosque is that it was all a “joke.” The Moorhead Fargo Islamic Community Center was vandalized with hateful, spray-painted phrases — including “Death to Islam,” “women can’t vote” and others — and a swastika. The Moorhead man accused of the crime said it was all a “joke” to get a rise out of the community and the media, the complaint states. He insisted he doesn’t “hate them.” Benjamin Enderle, 22, is charged felony harassment ...

One image from the attack on the Moorhead mosque still lingers for Dr. Ademola Hammed. A little boy with a scrub brush. One of hundreds of neighbors and strangers who rushed to help after last weekend's attack on the Moorhead Fargo Islamic Center. As volunteers swept up the broken glass and turned power washers on the filth that a vandal had spray-painted on the house of worship, Hammed watched the little boy scrub away at the floor — determined not to let hate speech have the last word. At that moment, he said, the story changed. "The story is now the love. It's no longer the hate," said H...