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Tuesday 24 Nov 2015 - 14:03 Makkah mean time-12-2-1437
 New York, (IINA) - The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) called New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the FBI to investigate an alleged threat to two Muslim women by a man wearing a U.S. postal service uniform and identifying himself as a postal worker as a possible hate crime.
The two siblings and an infant were allegedly approached on Friday evening in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn by a postal worker who shouted obscenities and reportedly said, “I am going to burn your temple”. He allegedly elbowed one of the women and spat in her face while she was waiting to cross the street.
The two women walked into a corner store with the man still following them. Inside the store, he reportedly continued threatening to burn their “temple” and even began shouting at the infant.
“We ask U.S. Postal Service investigators, the NYPD and federal officials to investigate this threat as a hate crime and to file charges that reflect the seriousness of the incident,” said CAIR-NY Director of Operations Sadyia Khalique in a statement issued on Tuesday.
Last week, CAIR-NY’s office was informed several similar hate incidents targeting Muslim women.
Earlier Monday, CAIR’s Cincinnati chapter called on the FBI and local law enforcement authorities to investigate a bias motive for an alleged attempt to run down a Muslim woman.
On the other side, CAIR’s San Diego chapter is taking part in a rally against Islamophobia after an alleged attack on a Muslim woman university student.
Also today, CAIR’s Massachusetts chapter called for increased police protection at local mosques because of a spike in anti-Muslim rhetoric and direct threats against Muslim houses of worship nationwide since the recent Paris terror attacks.
These incidents fit a pattern of increased hate-motivated crimes and bias incidents nationwide targeting persons and property associated, or perceived to be associated, with Islam and the American Muslim community since the Paris attacks.
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