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Australian Muslim leaders call for calm after shot fired at mosque.
(From AFX Europe (Focus))
SYDNEY (XFN-ASIA) - Australian Muslim leaders have appealed for calm after a shot was fired into a crowded mosque in the western city of Perth.
Western Australia state police and the country's top spy agency ASIO are investigating the apparent drive-by shooting late Friday at the Mirrabooka mosque in Perth's northern suburbs.
Police said a single shot was fired through a second storey window at the mosque, where up to 400 people, including women and children, were observing Friday prayers.
No one was injured in the incident but former Islamic Council of Western Australia president Rahim Ghauri said it had left the city's Muslim community shaken and angry.
"People are horrified that something like this can happen in a peaceful country like Australia," Ghauri told reporters. "There is anger, there is dismay and there is disappointment.
"Naturally, when people are scared they do feel angry -- they say, 'What have we done, why do we deserve this, a bullet ...
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