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Violence Against Arab Americans and Muslims [...and violence against American Non-Arabs and Non-Muslims ]
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Updated December 11, 2001.
September 13, 2001 -- Following is a compilation of incidents of violence endured by American Arabs and Muslims since the September 11th terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. Victims of such violence are urged to contact the Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime's Family Assistance Center at 800-331-0075.
ALABAMA
A Middle Eastern store clerk was beaten.
A Indian medical student's car was vandalized.
ALASKA
Vandals attacked an Anchorage print shop owned by an Arab American causing several hundred thousand dollars in damages.
ARIZONA
A Sikh man in Mesa was gunned down while working at the gas station he owned. First-degree murder charge have been filed against Frank Silva Roque in the shooting of Balbir Singh Sodhi, 49. Roque is also charged with attempted murder in two other attacks on a gas station and a home, as well as three counts of drive-by shooting. No one was injured at the second station, where a clerk of Lebanese descent was working, or the home, where a family of Afghan descent lived.
A Muslim student at Arizona State University was attacked.
A Vietnam veteran picketed a Tuscon mosque.
CALIFORNIA
Timothy Martin, 34, and Mark Martin, 20, were sentenced to four years in prison for assaulting a motorist they thought was of Arab descent in Lancaster in September.
A swastika and the phrase "Go home Arab" was spray-painted on a business owned by an Arab American man in Los Angeles.
A Yemeni grocer was shot and wounded Dec. 7 in Lindsay, a small town about 45 miles south of Fresno. Fadhl Albusaisa, 48, was shot in a shoulder while in the doorway of his convenience store. He is expected to survive.
Authorities are looking for a man who threw a Molotov cocktail into a hotel room rented by a man of Middle Eastern descent. A window screen prevented the bomb from entering the room.
The Dar al-uloom Academy of Fresno, a Muslim school, has kept students off the playground.
A teenage boy was denied entrance on a public bus in San Francisco due to his appearance.
Several Palmdale public high school students stayed home after they were named on a list that said the terrorist attacks would be avenged with a "massacre."
A Huntington Beach man has been arrested for making a death threat against an Iranian couple in their 70s.
An Encino Afghan/Persian restaurant was burned down.
On September 20, State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said his office was investigating 70 possible hate crimes against Muslims, Arab Americans and others that have allegedly occurred since September 11th.
In LA, a man attacked the car of an Iranian family with a baseball bat and hammer.
In Reedley, a town near Fresno, a Yemeni shopkeeper was shot and killed
September 29 in what appeared to be a racially motivated attack. The victim received a phone call the previous day, threatening him based on his race. A threatening note also had been left on his car in previous days.
Two suspects wrote "die" on a Persian Club booth on the Pierce College
campus in Woodland Hills. An altercation ensued between the suspects and one or two "Persian" students, but the victims did not press charges.
A San Francisco resident's vandalized car had "F--- you Muslim" scratched onto the hood.
In Fullerton, a Sikh ice cream truck vendor was reportedly chased out of a neighborhood by a resident wielding a baseball bat.
Two women speaking Spanish in a doctor's office were physically attacked by a Caucasian woman yelling, "you foreigners caused all this trouble."
An Arab American woman was assaulted and threatened with a gun in Los
Angeles.
Arcadia resident Adel Karas, 48, was shot point-blank at the International Market, a store he owned. The family believes Karas was targeted because he was Egyptian American mistaken for a Muslim American. Although no money was taken, the attack has been classified as a robbery.
While at lunch, the friend of a young Persian woman jokingly called her an Arab. A woman sitting next to them followed the pair out of the restaurant, asked the woman if she was Arab and then punched her in the face.
A bag of pig blood was left on the doorstep of an Islamic community center in San Francisco. A local handyman has been arrested and charged.
The car of a Pakistani Muslim in LA was vandalized at the Glendale Galleria Mall. Scratched across the right side were words "Nuke em."
In a Beverly Hills bagel store, a woman wearing a Koranic charm -- a verse from the Koran -- was attacked by another woman who noticed the necklace and said, "Look what you people have done to my people!" Her male companion restrained her, but she continued to make derogatory comments while the victim called police. Not only did no one in the store intervene, but after the police departed, the owner apologized to the perpetrators for any inconvenience and offered to pack their lunch.
A woman wearing Muslim clothing was grocery shopping in San Gabriel when a Caucasian woman began attacking her while yelling, "America is only for white people."
Dale Singh, the manager of a fast-food restaurant in Napa, found his car's finish and windows scratched and scraped.
At the Islamic Center of San Diego, worshippers evacuated the building
during a prayer service when an explosion, subsequently thought to be a
cherry bomb, was heard just outside.
A Pacifica man's car -- and its "Free Palestine" sticker -- was vandalized.
Anti-Israeli graffiti was found on a home in Long Beach. Local newspaper accounts indicate there were 12 incidents in Long Beach September 11-13, the same amount reported in all of last year.
A sign was posted in the elevator of the LA Hall of Records that said "Kill all towel heads."
Bottles and rocks were thrown at an Afghan restaurant in Fremont.
A Sikh temple in West Sacramento was vandalized.
An Antelope Valley convenience store owned by a Syrian American was shot at twice in one week.
Three teenage boys smashed the window of a market with their skateboard in Anaheim.
An Arab American Silicon Valley high school freshman was spat on at school.
Several Muslim women at Oakland's Laney College report being harrassed on campus. They were stopped by police officers, asked to provide identification, and searched. One student's head scarf was ripped off, and a woman wearing traditional Muslim dress reported someone on campus shouted, "She's got a bomb underneath there!" Another woman on campus was subject to Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim comments from a professor in one of her classes. She eventually fled the classroom with classmates chasing her.
At USC, some Muslim students have reported harassment and some Muslim women have had their veils pulled off.
On September 20, a Peninsula College professor reported that since September 11th, only half of her Arab and Muslim students had attended class. Via e-mail, the students told the professor that their parents fear for their safety.
San Jose fire officials reported there have been 14 suspicious fires since Sept. 11. The fires targeted some residents of East Indian descent, who may have been mistaken for Arabs.
Sean Fernandes, a 26-year old Indian Catholic, was walking with a white
Australian friend when a man approached and called him a "dirty Arab." He then assaulted the pair while allegedly yelling at the Australian, "Your friend is Arab, and we kill Arabs.'' The Australian was stabbed in the brawl and remains hospitalized in critical condition.
A gasoline bomb was thrown through the window of a Sikh family's home,
hitting a 3-year-old on the head, but not exploding.
CONNECTICUT
Rocks were thrown through windows at a Waterbury mosque during a Ramadan prayer service.
A second-grader threatened a turban-wearing Sikh classmate, telling him, "You better watch out -- you're gonna get beat up." She later told the principal, "He looks just like the people they said did it on TV."
COLORADO
A carpet layer working at the city's only mosque was confronted by four men who came in and cursed at him, then threatened to return later and burn the mosque down.
Buggie and Pinky Bajwa, Sikh Americans, awoke September 13th to find the word "Terrorists'' sprayed in red paint across their driveway and "Terrorist on board'' written on their white car.
FLORIDA
Someone attempted to run a Muslim woman in Brooksville off the road.
Police found a bullet embedded in the wall of Hernando County's only mosque.
An arrow was shot through the front window and into a washing machine at an Muslim-owned laundromat in Green Cove.
The Islamic Center of Northeast Florida closed its school for a week after a deluge of threatening phone calls. The mosque is also paying an off duty police officer to conduct daily patrols after someone drove a car onto the grounds and yelled curses about Muslims and God.
A Palestinian American in St. Petersburg had his car vandalized with paint. A threatening note was also left on the windshield.
Three Jacksonville traffic schools were closed after receiving bomb threats. The schools are owned by Arab Americans.
A family in Temple Terrace found their garage door vandalized with the words "Muslims F***."
GEORGIA
Four men in the Atlanta area attempted to stab a Sudanese man. They said, "You killed our people in New York. We want to kill you tonight."
ILLINOIS
In Elgin, Jose Ares-Torres was charged with committing a felony hate crime and disorderly conduct for threatening to kill Muslims.
In Chicago, a firebomb was thrown at an Arab American community center. No injuries were reported.
Police stopped 300 people -- mostly teen-agers -- who had staged a noisy pro-American demonstration when they tried to march on a mosque in the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview.
Two Muslim women were beaten at Moraine Valley College in Palos Hills. Two Arab men assaulted the offenders in defense of the women.
In Orland Park an Arab family of four said a motorist drove alongside their car and began to scream obscenities about the attacks on New York and Washington. The motorist then began swerving, as if he were aiming to hit the family's vehicle. The family escaped but did not turn in the motorist's license plate for fear of reprisal.
A man used the blunt end of a machete to attack a Moroccan gas station
attendant. He has been charged with a hate crime in Palos Heights.
A Burbank furniture store was vandalized and it's windows smashed.
A Vernon Hills man was charged with battery and a hate crime after he struck a man who tried to stop him from harassing an elderly Eastern Indian couple on a Chicago street.
A Palestinian market and the Pak-Bombay Palace Restaurant were vandalized.
In Oak Lawn an 18-year-old man was charged with criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct for shouting and swearing at the crowd during a unity rally and for breaking the window of a squad car.
In Chicago Ridge, windows were broken in a Arab American-owned convenience store.
A 40-year-old man was charged with disorderly conduct after he confronted "a Mideastern Indian man" at a gas station and told him to go back to his country. When the Indian man tried to leave, the accused jumped in front of the car so it couldn't move. Police have labeled the incident a hate crime
A brick was thrown through a window in an Arab-owned apartment building. Two carloads of people also drove over the lawn, attempting to hit residents standing in the front. No one was injured.
In Chicago, three members of the Arab American Action Network were closing the office when a middle-aged man drove by and threatened them, saying "We're going to make sure you guys are going to get yours!"
An Arab American family reported that a carload of people drove by shouting racial slurs and pointing a gun at them.
A man was arrested in Chicago and charged with simple assault for
threatening a man outside the Arab American Community Center.
A high school crowd chanted threats at passing cars with occupants who
appeared Arab.
An Arab American man told police that alarms woke him and he found the
first-floor wholesale outlet in his building on fire.
Police in Evanston said a Chicago taxi driver/college student was injured when two men -- including a Cook County correction officer -- chased him on motorcycles, then allegedly hit him in the face and yelled, "This is what you get, you mass murderer!"
INDIANA
In Denton, a man in a ski mask fired an assault rifle at a gas station where a Yemen-born U.S. citizen was working.
A man was arrested after ramming his car into the Islamic Center in
Evansville.
IOWA
Two men allegedly taunted a man of Muslim faith with racial slurs and then assaulted him in Clinton.
KANSAS
A Palestinian American restaurant and two schools closed after a barrage of phone calls urged retaliation against Arabs and Muslims.
KENTUCKY
Anti-Middle Eastern epithets were burned into the walls at a medical office in Elizabethtown.
In Lexington, Tanner Mullins and a teenage boy were charged with one count of fourth-degree assault for allegedly attacking two Indian students and an Asian student.
Two Islamic meeting places were vandalized.
Despite a request by his neighborhood association, a Lexington man refuses to remove a sign in his yard that says "Arabs are Murderers." Two Arab Americans live in the neighborhood.
As Islamic school was burned to the ground. Police have not determined the cause of the blaze.
An Indian student was attacked when he was mistaken for an Arab.
LOUISIANA
The Jefferson Parish public school system in New Orleans closed down due to classmate taunts of Arab and Muslim students.
A number of businesses and an Islamic school have been repeatedly vandalized in St. Bernard Parish.
MARYLAND
A Rockville rug company was set on fire during the night. The Palestinian owner rented the building to another Palestinian and an Iranian. The men reported threatening phone calls Tuesday.
Two adjoining businesses owned by Palestinian Americans were burned to the ground.
MASSACHUSETTS
Three teens were arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktail on the roof of a convenience store. They told police they wanted to "get those Arabs for what they did to us."
A Harvard graduate student was verbally and physically harassed at the
Harvard Square T-stop. Police are calling it a hate crime. Several other students have forwarded threatening emails to college deans.
A gas station owned by a Lebanese American was set afire. Police believe a man and woman doused a pump with gas and set it on fire before escaping.
Softballs bearing slogans such as "God Bless America" and "Freedom for all" were thrown through the window of a Greek American's cafe.
A Saudi Arabian student at Boston University was attacked by a group of men when he left a nightclub. He suffered two knife wounds in his arm; a third wound in his back missed his kidneys by four inches.
MICHIGAN
Rob Moran, 20, was charged with ethnic intimidation for allegedly harassing a woman of Palestinian-Muslim descent.
A group of men allegedly attacked a 19-year-old man of Middle East descent while shouting ethnic slurs in Flint, Michigan.
At a gas station in Dearborn, a female customer was insulted by a man
driving by who yelled, "Get out of America, Get out of America."
Windows were broken at the Muslim Students Association office at Wayne State University.
In East Lansing, a single shot was fired into the home of a Muslim family who lives next door to the Islamic Center.
The owner of a supermarket in Dearborn reported two men in a car yelling threats and racial slurs at the Arab-American customers.
The windows of an Arab American family’s service station was shot up in Fair Haven.
Six bomb threats have been called in to major Dearborn businesses.
MISSISSIPPI
A Pakistani student claims guards stood aside as he was beaten by inmates while in custody at a Wiggins jail. The FBI has been asked to investigate the incident as a hate crime.
MISSOURI
In St. Louis, the Palestinian American owner of a market said a customer entered his store and threatened him.
A convenience store owned by a Palestinian American was firebombed.
A St. Louis mosque received threatening telephone calls.
A Palestinian American-owned restaurant and two Islamic schools closed in Kansas City after receiving threatening phone calls urging retaliation against Arabs and Muslims.
MONTANA
Highway Patrol officers pulled over a caravan of "Arab-appearing" people with MA license plates after a 911 caller reported a group of 15-20 people with olive skin driving 5 cars and talking on walkie-talkies. Police learned they were Puerto Ricans starting a church in Oregon.
NEBRASKA
Three white man allegedly assaulted a Jordanian student in Lincoln.
NEW JERSEY
A Muslim man was beaten with a baseball bat and cut with a knife by two men as he left a shopping plaza in Lakewood.
A Sikh who wears a turban for religious reasons said he had garbage and
stones thrown at his car.
A carload of people drove by a largely Arab neighborhood yelling, "We're going to bomb you when you sleep!"
A Muslim service station attendant was punched in the face by a motorist.
A message threatening acid attacks on Muslim women was left on the answering machine of a mosque in Asbury.
A Turkish woman wearing a head scarf was verbally abused by a woman who
leaned out her car and cursed.
Vandals sprayed "leave town" outside two Indian-owned businesses.
Two Indian American-owned businesses were vandalized with the words "Leave Now F***ers!"
A Molotov cocktail was thrown at a Hindu temple.
NEW MEXICO
Vandals attacked businesses on Santa Fe's central Plaza for the second time in a week scrawling grafitti, smashing windows, and throwing rocks and eggs.
A mosque in Las Cruces was harassed by people in cars honking horns and
threats were left on an answering machine.
NEW YORK
A Sikh worship house was destoyed by fire in Palermo.
Two medallion taxis belonging to Muslim drivers were set afire in the Bronx.
A Sikh was giving a TV interview outside a restaurant when a man pushing a baby stroller stopped and started yelling, "You Islamic mosquitoes should be killed." The incident was caught on tape.
The offices of a Bangladeshi newspaper in Queens were painted with
anti-Muslim graffiti.
In Richmond Hills, a gurdwara was fired on with rubber bullets. An arrest was made.
The local human rights commission reports at least 3 attacks (1 Pakistani, 2 Arab) in Suffolk County.
Six to eight men shouted anti-Arab slurs and threw stones at a man in upper Manhattan.
An Arab American taxi driver was pulled from his cab and beaten.
Suffolk County authorities arrested a man who allegedly made an anti-Arab threat and pointed a handgun at a gas station employee.
In Richmond Hills, Attar Singh Bhatia was severely injured and hospitalized after being attacked with a baseball bat and shot at with a BB gun.
A pig's ear was mailed to the Afghan Mission to the UN.
An Indian girl was beaten to death in Long Island.
Meera Kumar claims to have been the victim of racial profiling and police harassment on a Boston-NY train, along with other South Asians and Arabs.
A woman on her way to pick up her son from school in Brooklyn was approached and threatened by an older white male.
Shots were fired at the home of an Indo-American Stanford graduate. No
injuries were reported.
Two Sikh Americans in Richmond Hills were attacked with a paint ball gun. Police arrested two men.
A man threw a Molotov cocktail at a mosque in Bensonhurst.
In Manhattan, a Sikh man was attacked by three white men yelling
"terrorist."
Two girls on their way home from school in New York were approached by a group of adults and teenagers who verbally threatened and threw stones at them.
People harassed and spat at Muslims at Dawood Mosque in Brooklyn Heights.
In Rockland, a female bank teller was verbally abused by co-workers who asked why Muslims had to do this.
In Brooklyn, an Arab-American grocer was subjected to a litany of racial slurs and threats after he attempted to pay the balance of his bill in cash. The Derlie Farms delivery person suggested the grocer call the main office; the manager who answered the call began spewing racist venom. Police were notified.
A customer asked an Arab American deli owner in Ardsely if he was Arab. When he responded affirmatively, the customer cursed and yelled, then attacked the deli owner with pepper spray.
A 75-year-old drunk man attempted to run over a Pakistani woman in the
parking lot of a shopping mall in Huntington. He then followed the woman into a store and threatened to kill her for "destroying my country,'' according to authorities.
NORTH DAKOTA
In Grand Forks, Kevin Dvork was charged with simple assault for attacking a Saudi Arabian student.
OHIO
In suburban Cleveland, the Guru Gobind Singh Sikh Temple was attacked with lit bottles of gasoline.
A window was shattered at a convenience store. The owner told police he had received phone calls threatening to burn his building down.
In Youngstown, a Sikh said someone made rude comments to him as he stood in a parking lot. A hedge outside his brother's gas station in Cortland was also set afire.
In Cleveland, a man drove his car at 80 m.p.h. through the front entrance of Ohio's largest mosque and into a fountain. Nobody was in the mosque at the time and only the driver was injured. Estimated damages are over $100,000.
A break-in at Food City and a smashed window at the Convenient Foodmart were described in incident reports as hate crimes against Middle Eastern owners.
The president of the Islamic Society of Dayton received threatening phone calls. The callers stated "We're gonna send you people back home" and "I hope you people are happy."
An Arab American businessman's store was ransacked and anti-Arab graffiti sprayed on the walls in red and black paint. The owner's car, parked outside, also had "anti-Arabic, pro-United States" graffiti on it.
The principal of Bright Horizon, an Islamic school in Beavercreek, said 23 students were absent Thursday, compared with five on a typical day.
OKLAHOMA
On September 18th Kimberly Lowe, a 21-year-old full-blooded Creek Native American, and several Native American friends were followed and harassed by a vehicle of white males in Tulsa. The men threw items at the car and yelled "Go back to your own country!" When Lowe stopped the car and went to confront the men, the attackers drove into her, pinned her against another vehicle, then backed up and ran over her again. Lowe was killed. Police are investigating but have yet to deemed it a hate crime.
Tulsa police reported a Pakistani native was beaten by three men in a hate crime.
Motorists reportedly made obscene gestures outside the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City.
OREGON
A Pakistani man had his tires slashed in a store parking lot while he was shopping.
A California woman was arrested in Eugene after she attempted to pull a
turban off the head of a Sikh man she believed to be an Islamic extremist.
A man was arrested for making a threatening phone call to the Islamic
Cultural Center in Eugene.
PENNSYLVANIA
In Meadville, a man attacked a female high school student of Middle Eastern descent with a knife, yelling "You're not an American! You don't belong here!" He was arrested and placed in jail.
In the Philadelphia area, an off duty police officer pulled a gun on a
Pakistani convenience store owner.
The Muslim Association of Lehigh Valley in Whitehall Township said a carload of people shouted derogatory and threatening phrases as members of the congregation left services.
The Allentown mosque cancelled services for a week after receiving volumes of threatening phone calls and email.
Fliers reading “kill all arabs, boycott all the 7-elevens and dunkin donuts and slash all arab taxi cab” were distributed in Allentown.
A Muslim cab driver in Philadelphia told police his arm was broken when he reached back to receive his fare.
Taxi drivers who looked Middle Eastern were verbally threatened.
RHODE ISLAND
A pregnant Muslim woman wearing a shawl was using a payphone when a white car pulled up behind her. One of the car's occupants -- a young woman in her 20s -- threw a rock at her, hitting her foot.
In Ronkonkoma, a man was arrested on suspicion of waving a pellet gun and shouting obscenities at a South Asian gas station worker.
Three Rhode Island teenagers were arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktail on a convenience store roof. They told police they wanted to "get those Arabs for what they did to us."
TENNESSEE
Two Arab American clinic workers received threatening phone calls. They were told to "go home and get out of our country" and called "foreign fags." Their daughter in Atlanta, GA, also received threatening phone calls.
TEXAS
An Iraqi man was shot in the leg in southwest Houston on September 21.
At least six bullets shattered windows at the Islamic Center of Irving.
A window at the Islamic Center of Carrollton was broken by a slingshot-type device, according to police.
A San Antonio Iranian restaurant was vandalized.
A professor of Middle Eastern languages and cultures at the University of Texas was spat on by a pedestrian.
In Austin, an Arab American realtor received anonymous telephone threats ordering him to "leave this country or else!"
At the University of Texas in Austin, students wearing Islamic garb said their bags were searched by university police before they were admitted to classrooms and they were told to leave the student union because of "anti-Muslim sentiment."
In San Antonio, two Muslim girls were verbally abused at their high school.
A Pakistani Muslim storeowner in Dallas was shot and killed. The FBI is investigating the shooting as a bias-related crime.
Three bullets struck the Sahara Grocery Market in San Antonio.
A woman was sent home from work Wednesday following a meeting with her boss, who had singled her out because of her Palestinian heritage. He stated he didn't know if she would be celebrating the death of Americans in the office.
A Molotov cocktail was thrown against the side of the Islamic Society of Denton, causing an estimated $2,500 in damage.
UTAH
After a man allegedly tried to burn down a Pakistani-owned restaurant in Salt Lake City, police increased patrols.
Three men broke into the apartment of a Puerto Rican man and beat him. Police think the men may have thought he was Middle Eastern and are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
VIRGINIA
A note containing racial slurs aimed at the Muslim community was taped on a Centreville woman's windshield and her bicycle.
In Prince William, Stanley Elburn Smith III and James M. Terrell were charged with assault and battery, malicious wounding and fraud for allegedly assaulting a Pakistani man.
An Arab American teenager playing basketball was assaulted in Fairfax.
A naturalized U.S. citizen from Afghanistan was assaulted after a verbal altercation in Falls Church.
An Islamic bookstore was vandalized in Old Town Alexandria.
Two Virginian mosques reported vandalism and threatening phone calls.
A woman was charged with threatening to bomb a mosque in Hampton.
WASHINGTON
Two Sikhs were attacked in the suburbs around Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, apparently in the mistaken belief that they were Muslim. One was hit in the head with a wood and metal cane that required nine stitches. The other victim was hit in the face from behind and knocked to the ground.
Three white men attacked a Muslim woman with a knife in a West Seattle grocery store parking lot.
Two white men threatened an African immigrant employee of a home improvement store.
An Iranian American's grocery store was vandalized.
A prison fight broke out over Muslim slurs.
In Seattle, a turban-wearing taxi driver was verbally and physically attacked by a man who accused him of being a "butcher terrorist." The driver wasn't of Middle Eastern descent: He was from India. And he wasn't a Muslim: He was a Sikh. A California man has been arrested.
A sign was hung from the footbridge over the West Seattle Bridge that read "Death to all Palestinians". The sign was later removed.
Police arrested a suspect for suspicion of malicious harassment after he allegedly threatened to burn down a Seattle mosque.
A Kenmore man is in jail on charges he soaked a car with gasoline in the Idriss Mosque parking lot and then fired a gun at two employees who tried to stop him.
In Seattle, a man walked into the Al-Masjid mosque wearing his shoes, which is forbidden in the worship area. When asked to leave, the man pushed the mosque's leader in the chest.
Police reported that local mosques had received abusive calls and several death threats including one that said, "We will kill you like sheep."
A mosque in Lynnwood was splattered with paint.
Snohomish County sherrif's deputies reported a man pounded and spit on a car driven by a woman of Middle Eastern descent.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Rippy Singh was stopped by four white men in a car who accused him of being a terrorist and said "we will bomb you."
A Sikh was leaving work when he was accosted by pedestrians who began to yell verbal expletives at him. They threatened to "get" him and bomb him in retaliation for the terrorist acts.
The Islamic Center received bomb threats, causing Massachusetts Avenue to be closed off.
Two women wearing traditional religious headdress where spat upon as they rode a subway near the White House.
WISCONSIN
In Racine, Steven Falkowski was charged with disorderly conduct as a hate crime for allegedly threatening to attack an Indian store employee.
The Salam School at the Islamic Society of Milwaukee cancelled classes after receiving six threatening phone calls. |
