The all-female staff at Clifton's Palestinian American Community Center received about 30 calls including slurs, death threats and threats of sexual abuse.
Caller: “So I know to come blow you up.” They are not going to catch me,” he says at another point, “so I do not know why you re worried about calling it in.
Selaedin Maksut, executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations, said his organization has asked the FBI to join what city police said is a bias investigation.
Racist, Islamophobic, anti-Arab, and misogynistic language was used against the staff, he noted.
It wasn’t the first time a caller has targeted the center which offers Arabic classes, along with youth events but it was by far the most troubling, Maksut said.