November 07, 2008	Friday	Ziqa'ad 8, 1429

NEW YORK, Nov 6: A black Muslim teenager, of the Staten Island borough in New York has charged that he was beaten on Election Night by four white men furious at the election of Barack Obama as president.

Seventeen-year old Ali Kamara was walking home when four white men leaped from a car and started kicking him and smashing him with a baseball bat at about 10 near his home, according to a report in New York Daily News.

“I see the car coming. They looked at me and said, ‘Obama!’ They were not happy. They had hoodies on. They started hitting me with bats and my body started vibrating,” said the school student .

Kamara said he tried to cover the back of his head, and broke away from his attackers. He managed to jump over a neighbour’s fence to hide.

When the assailants finally drove off, Kamara crept back to his home. “I was bleeding all over. I did not know them,” he said. “I think it was a racist crime.”