Muslim businessman’s shop covered in Islamophobic slurs
The hate graffiti include slurs such as 'sand n**ger,' 'camel Jockey,' 'I will kill you,' and 'towel head'
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Your support makes all the difference.A Muslim business owner in Nevada has received repeated Islamophobic threats including anti-Muslim graffiti sprayed over his car repair workshop.
Vic Ahmed, 60, who has a family to take care of, including an 80-year-old mother, said he was worried about his family's safety.
The hate graffiti include slurs such as “sand n**ger,” “camel Jockey,” “I will kill you,” and “towel head”, as reported by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
“I was startled as well as disappointed,” he told NBC news. “It’s sad.”
“I had a guy tell me tell me to go back to my “effin' third would country” and I had to educate him on what India was,” he added,
Sharon Wehrly of the Nye County sheriff's office said if the incident was determined to be a hate crime they would turn the case over to the FBI.
She added it was the first time the town had witnessed such an incident.
“I know there’s a lot of hatred going on, but the hatred is fed by ignorance, and educated people that I speak to, they treat me just fine,” said Mr Ahmed.
The news comes the same week that hate messages were scrawled on a note of paper and left at the door of the Dawah Mosque in St Paul, Minnesota.
The message included a derogatory statement about the Prophet Mohammad and an explicit message about the Islamic religion.
“We urge local, state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate the apparent bias motive for the alleged threats and hate vandalism,” said CAIR national communications director Ibrahim Hooper.
In Minnesota, a 26-year-old man called Anthony Sawina has been charged this week with five counts of second degree assault for shooting two Muslim men in the leg after one of the victims questioned why the aggressor's friend had insulted them.
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