Man Beat Muslim Store Owner in Astoria

Police are investigating the beating of a Muslim store owner in Astoria, Queens as a police hate crime. Sarker Haque, the 53-year-old man who was hit said the attacker yelled "I kill Muslims." This is just the latest offense in growing anti-Islamic sentiment in the country. On Sunday, someone threw a pig's head against the wall at a mosque in Philadelphia.

GOP Rep: Deport Any Muslims We Can't ‘Verify’A Florida lawmaker wants to remove people with a “Middle Eastern background” from the United States. In a segment on the radio show The Palin Update, Republican Rep. Ted Yoho proposed a ban on people of Middle Eastern descent, a policy even broader than the anti-Muslim immigration plan suggested yesterday by presidential candidate Donald Trump."The people that are here that shouldn’t be here, we need to have a way of vetting and screening them,” Yoho said. “If they have a Middle Eastern background that we can’t verify, they need to be out of the country.”