A doctor headed for morning prayers at a Houston mosque was ambushed by three masked men who shot and wounded him on Sunday, a day after a Muslim man was beaten outside a Florida mosque.
The victim of the Texas incident, Dr. Arslan Tajammul, an eye specialist in his 30s, was undergoing surgery and was expected to survive, according to Mustafaa Carroll, executive director of the Houston branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
The doctor had parked his car and was walking to the Madrasah Islamiah mosque for the day's first prayers when he was ambushed and shot twice at about 5:30 a.m. EST (0930 GMT), Carroll said. His three attackers fled on foot.