From Gothamist
Police are investigating a possible hate crime in Astoria after a halal cart operator was pelted with eggs and Islamophobic messages earlier this week.
The unidentified attackers threw several eggs at food vender Farid el-Baghdadi, with one of the eggs wrapped with a note that read “F-ck Arab. F-ck Muslim,” police said. The incident occurred just after midnight on Monday on Steinway Street near 25th Avenue.
The owner of Farid Grill said this has happened on three separate occasions over the past few weeks. “They use the ‘F-for Arab,’ and the first paper is ‘Go back to your country,'” he told PIX11. “I’m scared.”
He also told the outlet that he doesn’t know why someone would be doing this to him, and is only looking for answers.
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