Missing Muslim teen located in New York

By Michael Hernandez

WASHINGTON

A Muslim teen who went missing earlier this week has been located, the Nassau County Police Department told Anadolu Agency on Saturday.

Yasmin Seweid was last seen Wednesday leaving her home at around 8 p.m. in New Hyde Park, just outside of New York City, police said.

The department confirmed Seweid had been located in New York and is okay. Other details on the case were not immediately available.

The 18-year-old student reported to police Dec. 1 that she was harassed by three drunk men who called her a terrorist and tried to pull her hijab off her head on the platform of the number 6 train station in Manhattan.

The attack was soon followed by two more against hijab-wearing Muslim women.

Soha Salama, 45, who works with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was verbally abused during the morning commute Monday by a passenger on a train, who then followed her off the car and pushed her off the stairs, leaving her with leg injuries.

Last weekend, police officer Aml Elsokary was targeted, along with her son, in a hate attack. Elsokary, a NYC native, was told to "go back to your country" and accused of being a terrorist by a white man who pushed her son around. He was later arrested and charged with second-degree harassment.

Attacks on minorities, including Muslims, and anti-minority rhetoric are becoming increasingly common in the U.S. following the election of President-elect Donald Trump.

The Southern Povery Law Center, an anti-hate crime group, chronicled 867 hate incidents in the 10 days after the election alone.