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Aamir Khan recalls the minute someone hurled a brick through his bedroom window in Bolingbrook, Illinois, a Chicago suburb.
“I was frozen, I started screaming. My parents came rushing downstairs, and they saw the brick, turned the lights on and then they went outside to see all the hateful graffiti,” he told ABC7.
The family found their home covered in racial epithets, swastikas and anti-Muslim graffiti. According to CBS Chicago, some of it bitch, f**, n*****, and Arab.
Khan lives with his parents and five siblings. The youngest is just 2.
“No one should never have to live in fear simply for being who they are,” Khan said. “The person who threw the brick in my window and tagged the front of my family home with hateful graffiti in the middle of the night is a coward, bully, and a menace to society.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is offering its support to the Khans.
“This is a stunning development. This is an area consistently ranked number one in the country to raise a family, and here you have a blatant white supremacist violent hate crime delivered right to a Muslim family’s home as they slept at night. They felt secure there and are now wondering where they can feel safe. It’s as if there is no escape,” CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab said to CBS Chicago.
About 7% of Bolingbrook's population of 75,000 follow Islam.
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