| Pete aka Abdul Malik ( @ 2004-09-25 21:17:00 |
To those who dont think there are muslim hate crimes, just read this...
NEW YORK
In Parrish, New York, Cassie J. Hudson, 19, was sentenced to three months in prison for vandalizing and setting fire to a Sikh temple in November. Hudson was placed on probation for five years, given 200 hours of community service and fined $1,000.
William Reeves, 18, was sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison for setting fire to a New York Sikh temple in November 2001.
A 19-year-old man was sentenced in Oswego to three months in jail and must spend at least 200 hours rebuilding a Sikh temple he and three others allegedly burned down.
Mitchel Trumble, 18, was charged with felony criminal mischief as a hate crime and fourth-degree criminal mischief for allegedly participating in the destruction of a Sikh temple in Palermo in November.
A group of high school students allegedly attacked two Muslim students in New York City.
A 20-foot-high religious Hindu chariot in Flushing, Queens was deliberately torched.
In Oswego, William Reeves, 18, Joshua Centrone, 18, and Cassie Hudson, 19, were charged with arson for allegedly setting fire to a Sikh temple. Hudson was also charged with conspiracy.
Two men allegedly attacked an Indian-American man in Lindenhurst and set his business afire while yelling "Go back to Afghanistan!"
A man of Indian descent was allegedly beaten and robbed and his store was set on fire in Long Island.
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 United Nations.
An Indian girl was beaten to death in Long Island.
Meera Kumar alleged he was 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 Arab American girls on their way home from school were approached by a group of adults and teenagers who verbally threatened and threw stones at them.
People harassed and spat at Muslims at the 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 a deli owner in Ardsely if he was Arab. When he responded affirmatively, the customer cursed and yelled, then attacked him 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.''