(COLUMBUS, OH, 12/20/10) –- On Tuesday, December 21, the Columbus chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will hold a news conference to urge the FBI to investigate an apparently bias-motivated attack earlier today on a Muslim woman outside a local mosque as a hate crime. CAIR said the Muslim woman, who wears Islamic attire, was allegedly stalked, verbally harassed and then pepper-sprayed by a white man shouting religious and ethnic slurs such as, “Tell all of your Muslims that this is not your country,” “Go back to wherever you came from,” and threatening “I will kill you.” The incident was recorded on the mosque’s security camera. Columbus police are investigating the alleged assault.
