A Muslim doctor in the US state of Texas has been shot and stabbed while on his way to a mosque for morning prayers, local reports said.
The victim, identified as Arslan Tajammul, an eye specialist, had parked his car and was walking towards Madrasah Islamiah in the city of Houston, when he was approached by three men, according to KTRK.
Without any warning, the doctor was stabbed, before one of the men reportedly pulled out a gun and shot him twice.
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The Houston Police District said the victim was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he will remain in the intensive care unit for 24 hours.
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Mustafaa Carroll, executive director of the Houston-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Texas, told Al Jazeera it was too early to know what motivated the attack.
Police also said the motive for the attack was not known.
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On Saturday, a Muslim man was also attacked near a mosque in Florida.
The Southern Poverty Law Centre, which tracks hate groups, said anti-Muslim attacks rose sharply in 2015.
CAIR and the Centre for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley also reported that in 2015, there were approximately four times as many attacks on mosques than the previous year.
alJazeera
I'm sure that's just coincidentally timed with the campaign of Donald Trump.
The United Arab Emirates has advised its citizens to avoid wearing the national attire abroad after an Emirati man was wrestled to the ground in the US state of Ohio and held as an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suspect.
The UAE has also summoned a senior American diplomat to protest against the "abusive treatment" of Ahmed al-Menhali, in the US for medical check-up, who was arrested at a hotel in the suburb of Cleveland.
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A hotel employee had suspected Menhali had pledged allegiance to ISIL (also known as ISIS), while speaking Arabic on the phone.
"She [the employee] went off and texted her sister and said I pledged my allegiance to ISIS," Menhali told Al Jazeera, speaking through a friend due to his inability to speak properly following a previous stroke.
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After confirming that Menhali posed no danger, the policemen let him go.
Menhali told media that he got "several injuries" from the arrest.
alJazeera
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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