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marmar

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Wed Dec 9, 2015, 11:54 AM Dec 2015

NYC: Muslim store owner in tears after he’s beaten by man on mission to ‘kill Muslims’ [View all]

A Muslim store owner in Queens reported that he was attacked over the weekend by a man who said that he wanted to “kill Muslims.”

Fatima Food Mart owner Sarker Haque told WPIX that the man came into his store on Saturday and began punching him.

“He punched me here,” Haque recalled, motioning toward an ice cream cooler. “I fell down here… I say, ‘What the hell you doing? What’s wrong with you?’ (The attacker) said, ‘I kill Muslims.'”

“He punched me as much as he can with his left hand,” the store owner added, choking back tears. “He grabbed me here. Then he punched me here.”

The attacker was identified by police as Piro Kolvani. Investigators believe that Kolvani punched Haque multiple times before a Latino customer intervened. .................(more)

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/watch-muslim-store-owner-in-tears-after-hes-beaten-by-new-york-man-on-mission-to-kill-muslims/






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