A drunk barged into a Queens mosque last night and shouted anti-Muslim slurs as he urinated on prayer rugs, cops and witnesses said.
Evening prayers were disrupted at the Iman Mosque on Steinway Street in Astoria when the unhinged man “came in with a beer bottle in his hands, clearly very intoxicated,” said Mustapha Sadouki, who was attending services. “He fumbled over to our rugs where people were praying” and then committed the despicable desecration, Sadouki said.
The man, identified by cops as Omar Rivera, also allegedly shouted slurs, calling the worshippers “terrorists.”
Two men managed to subdue him. They put him a back room and called 911. Cops took him to a hospital and later charged him with criminal trespass.
“He stuck up his middle finger and cursed at everyone,” said Sadouki, 43. “No one can pray now because the rugs are completely soiled. It was disgusting. He calls us terrorists, yet he comes into our mosque and terrorizes other people. This is a true hate crime.”
Via LoonWatch