'Obama haters' attack black-Muslim youth in US
As celebrations of Barack Obama's historic victory broke out across the United States, a group of hooded white men brutally attacked a young black-Muslim immigrant while shouting "Obama," press reported Friday.
Liberian immigrant Ali Kamara, 17, said he was on his way home on the Nov. 4 Election Night when four white men jumped out of a car and began beating him with baseball bats near his Staten Island home, ABC News reported.
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"I see the car coming. They looked at me and said, 'Obama!' They were not happy. They had hoodies on. They started hitting me with bats and my body started vibrating," the young high school student was quoted by several U.S. media outlets as saying.
"I was bleeding all over. I did not know them," the teen said. "I think it was a racist crime," Kamara said, adding he has had to have several stitches to close a severe wound in his head.
U.S. Islamic civil rights organization, CAIR, called for an FBI investigation into the assault.
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