CAIR-NY Seeks Hate Crime Charges for Attack on Muslim Woman

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) called on state and federal authorities to file hate crime charges against two people who allegedly attacked a Muslim woman, ripped off her religious attire and called her a “f**king terrorist.”The 56-year-old woman says she was attacked Wednesday after asking one of the two alleged assailants to stop taking her picture as she walked down a New York City street. The alleged attackers were charged with assault. Hate crime charges are being investigated. “An American of any faith or ethnicity should be able to walk down the street without fear of bias-motivated harassment or attack,” said CAIR-NY Civil Rights Manager Cyrus McGoldrick. “We urge New York law enforcement authorities and the FBI to bring appropriate hate crime charges in this troubling case.”He said CAIR-NY recently welcomed the filing of hate crime charges against a Brooklyn man who allegedly shouted “F****ing Arabs! F****ing terrorists!” as he attacked a Turkish man and his wife who live next door.McGoldrick added that CAIR and the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender recently released a report that documents growing Islamophobia in the United States./129