Four Germans Attack Muslim Woman

TEHRAN (IQNA) - A Muslim woman has been verbally and physically attacked by four German men, leaving her severely injured after she was hit by their car while crossing the street.

The woman was hit by a car from which “four people, aged 20 to 22 years, came out and insulted the Muslim woman,” a police statement, cited by the 'Braunschweigter Zeitung', said.
“The driver suddenly grabbed her by the collar of the jacket” when surrounding witnesses shouted at them, assisted the women and the racists escaped by car, the police statement added, OnISlam.net reported.
The authorities are now looking for witnesses to the incident dubbed “xenophobic” act by police in the German city of Braunschweigh, where numerous racist Germans reside in the town of Gliesmaro.
The Braunschweig Association harshly condemned the attack, saying it was a result of those who are aligned with Pegida, the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamicization of the Occident inciting hate and Islamophobia amongst the public.
The Association said that they will not allow Islamophobia and incitement against refugees to have a place in society.
The attack on the woman show, "that the hatred and prejudice," which would be stoked at the far-right marches, "now turns into violence.”
“We call "all Brunswick on a clear signal against such attacks on Muslim and other fellow human beings to set. Racism, nationalism, Islamophobia and incitement against refugees have no place in this city," it said in a statement.
A debate about immigration and refugees has gripped German which sparked growing protests since last October.
Most of the protests have been centered in the German city of Dresden against what they consider a broken immigration and asylum system, after Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, has become the continent’s top destination for asylum seekers.
Germany is believed to be home to nearly 4 million Muslims, including 220,000 in Berlin alone. Turks make up an estimated two thirds of the Muslim minority.
The European country have grown hostile to the Muslim presence recently, with a heated debate on the Muslim immigration into the country.
A recent poll by the Munster University found that Germans view Muslims more negatively than their European neighbors.
Another survey for news website Zeit Online showed that nearly half of all Germans, 49 percent, sympathized with PEGIDA’s stated concerns and 30 percent indicated they “fully” backed the protests’ aims.