A
Muslim man who attacked a Jewish girl and her friends has been handed a
one-year jail sentence from a Canadian court.
Mustafa
Taj will also serve a year of probation, ruled provincial court Judge Bill
Cummings, according to the Calgary Sun.
The
judge ruled the assault was a hate crime.
Taj,
21, was convicted in May of attacking four Calgary teenagers in November, 2006
as they waited for a train. He slapped and pulled the hair of Nichola Cordato,
who identified herself as Jewish, after saying "I’m Muslim and hate
Jews." When friends attempted to intervene, he punched them in the face
and kicked one in the stomach and ribs. He threw another friend on to the train
tracks.
