الولايات المتحدة: تحقيقات في تعرض مسلمة منتقبة لجريمة كراهية

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تجري شرطة ولاية نيويورك تحقيقات في تعرض مسلمة منتقبة سمراء تبلغ 56 عامًا لاعتداء من قبل امرأتين أمريكيتين بعد أن طالبتهما بالتوقف عن تصويرها أثناء سيرها بالطريق.

وقد أكدت "أيساتو ديالو" أنها طالبت المرأة بالتوقف عن تصويرها إلا أنها ذهبت للاستعانة بامرأة أخرى وقامتا بالاعتداء اللفظي والجسدي عليها ووصفتاها بالإرهابية ووجهتا اللكمات لها، ثم طرحتاها أرضًا وجذبتا نقابها ولعنتاها.

وتأتي هذه الحادثة في ظل تصاعد جرائم الكراهية ذات الدوافع الدينية، وبعد قيام أحد مواطني "نيويورك" بسكب مشروب البيرة المسكر على إحدى المنتقبات يونيو الماضي. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Muslim Woman Attacked in Alleged NYC Hate Crime

New York City police are investigating whether an attack on a 56-year-old burka-wearing woman in Harlem was a hate crime.

“A hate crime is a crime with an element of bias,” explained New York civil rights violation lawyer David Perecman.

Aissatou Diallo claims that two women attacked her as she was walking on West 141st Street. She said she was attacked after she asked one of the women to stop taking pictures of her.

Diallo said Francesca Johnson, a 28-year-old black woman, began taking cell phone pictures of her while she was doing nothing more than walking to her husband’s store. When Diallo asked her to stop Johnson “ducked into a building and reappeared” with Linda Paplow, a 60-year-old white woman.

“The white lady called me a f–king terrorist,” Diallo said. “She said she was going to kill me. The white lady punched me in the left eye.” The pair allegedly then ran off only to come back and throw Diallo to the floor, pull off her burka and curse at her.

The two women have been arrested on assault charges and hate-crime detectives are investigating whether the crime was a bias attack.

“There is little question on the allegation of harassment. Now the focus is on whether or not the incident was motivated by prejudice against Diallo’s religious beliefs and presentation,” said Perecman, a New York civil rights violation lawyer for over 30 years.

In June 2011, a Brooklyn man was arrested and charged with a hate crime for pouring beer on a neighbor while calling her an “Arab terrorist.”

In New York, civil rights violation lawyers understand that being charged with a hate crime can increase the severity of an assault or battery charge.

“Being charged for a hate crime can make a rotten situation even worse for someone arrested in New York,” civil rights violation lawyer Perecman said.