{"id":241183,"date":"2026-05-22T23:15:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241183\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:15:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:15:36","slug":"man-hit-by-egg-outside-brooklyn-mosque-wont-let-hate-crime-stop-him-from-praying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241183\/","title":{"rendered":"Man hit by egg outside Brooklyn mosque won’t let ‘hate crime’ stop him from praying"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 30-year-old man hit by an egg as he prayed outside a Brooklyn mosque<\/a> said he won\u2019t let the ugly incident keep him from expressing his faith.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not scared,\u201d the worshiper, who would only identify himself as Hossain, told the Daily News when reached. \u201cThis kind of Islamophobia that they did. (They did it) to make us scared.\u201d<\/p>\n

The worshiper was praying outside the Baitul Mamur Mosque and Community Center<\/a> on Glenmore Ave. near Euclid Ave. in East New York around 3 p.m. on May 15 when someone hurled an egg at him.<\/p>\n

The victim was kneeling in the street in the middle of his prayers with hundreds of other mosque congregants, when he was struck in the back.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody threw the egg. Where this come from I don\u2019t know because my head was down at that time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He wasn\u2019t injured, he said. At least one other egg was thrown, hitting another congregant.<\/p>\n

Friday, he said, is the only day \u201cwe pray outside.\u201d<\/p>\n

Congregants speculated the egg was hurled by a resident of a new building across the street. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe they were targeting everyone,\u201d Hossain said. \u201cThis was a hate crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Baitul Mamur Mosque and Community Center on Glenmore Ave. near Euclid Ave. in East New York. (Julian Roberts-Grmela \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Imam Ahmad Ubayda, 46, says that nearly 2,000 people come to the mosque to pray.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbout 300 to 400 people pray outside because we don\u2019t have enough accommodation for them,\u201d Ubayda said.<\/p>\n

The mosque has been in the neighborhood for \u201cthe last 30 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s never happened before,\u201d the imam said of the egg incident. \u201cWe have a very good relationship with our neighbors. We don\u2019t bother people, so no one should do anything with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully,\u201d he said, \u201cit\u2019s never gonna happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Word of the incident was brought to Mayor Mamdani, who condemned it<\/a> in a strongly worded post on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am aware of the disturbing incident targeting worshippers during Friday prayers outside the Baitul Mamur Mosque in Brooklyn, where a man praying was struck with an egg,\u201d Mamdani posted on X late Sunday. \u201cThat hateful act is unacceptable and an affront to the values that define us as New Yorkers. My administration is committed to rooting out anti-Muslim hate in all its forms and ensuring every New Yorker can live and worship in safety and dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 30-year-old man hit by an egg as he prayed outside a Brooklyn mosque said he won\u2019t let…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-241183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}