Man charged with attacking Muslim taxi driver in New York

Today, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance called on Manhattan's DA to take action against the suspect in an attack on a Muslim taxi driver.

A twenty-one year old man is being charged with hate crimes and possession of a weapon after allegedly attacking the 43-year-old driver. The attack took place on Tuesday. After the man entered the cab, he asked the driver if he was Muslim and observing Ramadan and then attacked him with a knife, slashing him across the neck, face and shoulders, according to the driver, Ahmed Sharif.

Sharif spoke to New York 1 after being treated at the hospital.

"I saw on his face so much hate and so upset, he anger me, because of my religion and it shocked me."

Sharif said he believed the attack was related to rising criticism over the Islamic Center in lower Manhattan.

Also in New York a man has been arrested after entering a mosque in Queens during a prayer service last night. According to CAIR and the New York Post, the man shouted anti-Muslim slurs and urinated on prayer rugs. The man has been charged with criminal trespass.