To: NATIONAL AND RELIGION EDITORS
Part of victim's ear bitten off by assailant who questioned his name and inhabitant origin
HOUSTON, Dec. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Houston chapter of a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Houston) currently called on internal law coercion authorities and a FBI to examine a probable disposition ground for an conflict on a Texas Muslim in that a apportionment of a victim's ear was bitten off.
CAIR-Houston pronounced a occurrence occurred on Wednesday in Tomball, Texas, when a victim, a confidence complement salesman, was assembly a homeowner who began seeking questions and afterwards pounded him. "He kept seeking about his name, and where are we from so he only became really aggressive," a victim's mother told KTRK-TV in Houston.
Video: CAIR Seeks FBI Hate Crime Probe of Attack on Texas Muslim
In further to a apportionment of his ear being severed, a plant has 10 damaged ribs. The purported assailant has been charged with aggravated conflict involving critical corporeal injury. Family members of a plant trust a conflict should be treated as a hate crime.
"Because of a questions reportedly asked of a victim, we titillate local, state and sovereign law coercion authorities to examine a probable disposition ground for this attack, to move suitable charges and to find hatred crime enhancements to any sentencing in a case," pronounced CAIR-Houston Executive Director Mustafaa Carroll. "We perspective this discouraging occurrence as partial of a settlement of attacks on American Muslims or those viewed to be Muslim or Middle Eastern."
Carroll pronounced a arise in anti-Muslim hatred debate in American multitude is contributing to a Islamophobia that can lead to such attacks.
Earlier this week, CAIR called for sovereign hatred crime charges to be filed opposite a male who allegedly pronounced "f*** Osama Bin Laden" during an conflict on a Wisconsin male of Moroccan heritage.
SEE: Man who allegedly kick Moroccan arrested for hatred crime
Last week, CAIR called for identical hatred crime charges opposite a male seeking to "save his country" by allegedly stabbing a expertise member of a University of Illinois College of Law who he suspicion was "Middle Eastern."
Earlier final week, CAIR contacted a FBI and internal military to find a review of a probable disposition ground for a stabbing of a Sikh male during Fresno Yosemite International Airport in California. (Sikh organisation who wear beards and turbans are mostly targeted by bigots who mistake them for Muslims.)
Video: CAIR Seeks Hate Crime Probe of Attack on Sikh in Calif.
A Hindu male was assaulted final month in San Jose, Calif., by a organisation of organisation who called him a "terrorist."
SEE: San Jose Man Punched, Called 'Terrorist' on Grocery Trip to Lucky
A series of new reports have documented a expansion and graduation of Islamophobia nationwide.
CAIR: Same Hate, New Target
Center for American Progress: Fear, Inc.
Southern Poverty Law Center: Jihad Against Islam
People for a American Way: The Right-Wing Playbook on Anti-Muslim Extremism
CAIR is America's largest Muslim polite liberties and advocacy organization. Its goal is to raise a bargain of Islam, inspire dialogue, strengthen polite liberties, commission American Muslims, and build coalitions that foster probity and mutual understanding.
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CONTACT: CAIR-Houston Executive Director Mustafaa Carroll, 832-549-1042, 713-838-2247, E-Mail: mcarroll@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, or 202-488-8787, E-Mail:ihooper@cair.com; CAIR Communications Coordinator Amina Rubin, 202-488-8787, 202-341-4171, E-Mail: arubin@cair.com
SOURCE Council on American-Islamic Relations
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