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April 19, 2013

2 People Subjected to Violent, Anti-Muslim Attacks 
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Speculation about the backgrounds of those behind the bombings prompted
at least two violent attacks. In the Massachusetts city of Malden, a
Palestinian woman says she was assaulted and harassed Wednesday while
walking with her infant daughter. Heba Abolaban told the Malden Patch a
man punched her shoulder and launched into a profanity-laced tirade
against Muslims, saying: "You are terrorists! I hate you! You are
involved in the Boston explosions!" Meanwhile a Bangladeshi man told the
New York Post he was brutally beaten just hours after Monday's bombings
by a group of men who called him an "f-ing Arab" at a restaurant in the
Bronx. Abdullah Faruque said his shoulder was dislocated in the attack.

 

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