NEW YORK, Sept 16: A Muslim woman, owner of an upscale nail and facial salon that caters to the likes of Jennifer Lopez, was beaten and robbed on Saturday in what the police called a bias attack.

The attack followed two weeks of phone calls in which Iranian-American Zohreh Assemi was called a “terrorist” and told to “get out of town,” friends and family told a local newspaper. She was opening her store in Locust Valley (located in a New York suburb) early morning when two men came out of a public bathroom and forced her inside the salon.

They smashed her hand with a hammer, sliced her with a boxcutter and kicked her before taking about $2,000 in cash and scrawling anti-Muslim slurs on her mirrors, sources said.

Ms Zoreh was treated at North Shore University Hospital at Manhasset.