The Filipino Community Center may have been the site of a hate crime.King County prosecutors have charged Abdinasir Ahmed, 21, and Adnan Osman, 22, with felony malicious harassment–the state’s hate crime statute–for an alleged anti-gay assault outside the Filipino Community Center in Columbia City last January. According to court documents, the victim was returning to the Somali New Year celebration being held at the Center when Ahmed and Osman blocked the path to the front door. A report filed by police alleges that Ahmed, who the victim recognized, attacked first. Then Osman jumped in. As they struck the victim about the head, both began yelling gay epithets, says the report.The fight was broken up by the security guard working the party. Osman–whose middle name just happens to be Basher–was immediately detained, while Ahmed managed to escape before police arrived, yelling, “I wanna beat your ass you gay ass motherfucker” as he fled. Both were eventually arrested by police, and arraigned on $50,000 bail. But a search of the King County Jail register shows that neither is currently in custody. Meanwhile, the victim has quit attending his Mosque, telling investigators that in Somali culture, gay men are stoned to death and that Ahmed has threatened to kill him.