A 7-year-old boy in central Texas can teach us all a little thing about compassion.

Vandals ripped up a Koran at the local mosque in Pflugerville, a suburb of Austin, scattering feces-smeared pages of the holy book outside the entrance, according to Fox 7 in Austin. The distressing scene was discovered early Monday morning and police are investigating it as a hate crime.

When young Jack Swanson and his mom heard about their neighbors in need, the boy gathered the contents of his piggy bank — about $20 — and donated it all to the mosque.

“Jack’s $20 are worth $20 million to us because it’s the thought that counts,” Faisal Naeem, a Islamic Center of Pflugerville board member, told ABC News. The mosque estimates it will cost about $150 to clean up the mess.

Jack and his mom, Laura, aren’t Muslims. “It doesn’t matter what you believe or I believe or he believes or anybody believes,” she told KVUE about the teachable moment. “All faith is important.”

“What happened in Paris is not what’s happening in Pflugerville,” she said.