Man Beaten in Anti-Muslim Attack Outside Bronx Applebees, NYPD Says
America, America...God shed his grace on thee...
NEW YORK CITY A 30-year-old man was attacked by men hurling anti-Muslim slurs while he was smoking a cigarette outside an Applebee's Monday night, cops said.
Abdullah Faruque later told reporters that he thought the attack was retaliation for the bombings at the Boston Marathon that occurred earlier that afternoon, but cops couldn't confirm that account.
I saw the news, and then it hits me: Thats why I got jumped, Faruque told the New York Post.
Faruque had just stepped out of the restaurant at 610 Exterior St. to smoke a cigarette when a group approached and engaged him in a conversation about 11:30 p.m., according to the NYPD.
America, America...God shed his grace on thee...