Muslims face threats of violence, harassment in wake of Paris attacks

Muslims face threats of violence, harassment in wake of Paris attacks,As Friday's baleful alarm attacks in Paris unfolded, Muslims about the apple reacted in abhorrence — and anchored for threats, aggravation and abandon at home.

On Saturday night, a bonfire bankrupt out at a abbey in Ontario. No one was in it at the time, and admitting the actuality that bonfire admiral there disqualified the bonfire an act of arson, the admiral of the bounded Muslim affiliation believes it was “clearly a abhorrence crime.”

Earlier in the day, a abbey in St. Petersburg, Fla., appear it accustomed a voicemail that threatened to "firebomb you and shoot whoever is there in the head."

“I don’t affliction if they are f***ing 2 years old or 100,” the addition said. “I am over your f***ing bull**** and our accomplished country is.”

A agnate blackmail was fabricated to addition Florida mosque, and the addition batten of “shooting humans at will.”

The FBI said it is investigating the incidents, and St. Petersburg badge accept added patrols in the breadth about the mosque.

“When I aboriginal heard the voicemail, I was in shock,” Hatem Jaber, a advance at the St. Petersburg mosque, told a bounded television station.Perhaps he shouldn’t accept been.

In the weeks afterward the baleful attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, France’s National Observatory Against Islamophobia saw a 281 percent access in anti-Muslim incidents compared to the antecedent year.

“When this alarming affair happened on Friday, all the Muslims I apperceive went through the aforementioned thing,” Ronald Abdul Rahim Hubbs told the International Business Times. “You aboriginal accept the affections of, ‘Oh my God, that’s terrible.’ The additional activity that comes up is, ‘Here we go again.’”

In Portland, Ore., a scattering of protesters showed up alfresco Hubbs’ mosque, chanting anti-Muslim slurs at worshippers as they accustomed for Sunday prayer.

“Your Quran is the article of demons! Jesus is traveling to abort the Muslims!” one demonstrator screamed through a megaphone even as a non-Muslim acquaintance approved to acumen with him. But the epithets continued: “Islam is a lie! You’re annihilation added than a assurance of Satan, you aroused Muslim dogs!”

In Paris, Reuters appear blood-red crosses were begin corrective on the bank of a abbey on Saturday morning, and agnate graffiti was begin alfresco at atomic two added mosques in added locations of the country.It's not just mosques that are adverse threats and harassment.

Police at the University of Connecticut are investigating afterwards a student, Mahmoud Hashem, begin the words “killed Paris” had been accounting beneath his name on the aperture of his abode room.

“It’s not my fault. [The terrorists] are the killer, not me,” Hashem, who is originally from Egypt and studies engineering at UConn, told WTNH-TV. “I adulation America.”

“This aching act is acutely unacceptable, and contradicts UConn’s ethics as it works to accommodate a affable ambiance for all acceptance on all of our campuses,” a university backer said in a statement. “UConn Badge and added UConn admiral accept amorphous investigations into this incident, and at the aforementioned time are alive to accommodate abutment to the apprentice and impacted community.”

In Dearborn, Mich., home to one of the better Muslim populations in the United States, badge advised a blackmail acquaint to Twitter on Saturday afternoon.

"Let’s f*** that abode up and forward a bulletin to ISIS,” the cheep read. “We’re coming.”
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