Local residents in the New York borough of Bronx have denounced a recent violent attack on a Muslim man in the area.

Residents and community leaders have reportedly expressed outrage over the weekend attack on a Muslim who was beaten by teens shouting “ISIS, ISIS” – another acronym for the Daesh or ISIL militant group.

The victim identified as Mujibur Rahman, 43, a Bangladeshi man, was attacked in front of his horrified niece in the Bronx, according to the New York Daily News.

The man was attacked while walking with the nine-year-old girl in the Bronx around 5:30 p.m. on Friday, according to the New York City Police Department.

He was punched several times in the head, knocked down and kicked, police said. The victim was treated for injuries at a hospital and released.

No one was immediately arrested in the New York assault, which is under investigation by the police department's Hate Crime Task Force, the agency said in a statement on Saturday.

Hate crimes against US Muslim communities have increased sharply in the aftermath of the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris and California.

According to a report released by a research body in the California State University, crimes such as assaults on hijab-wearing students, arson attacks and vandalism at mosques and shootings and death threats at businesses with Muslim owners have tripled.

In its analysis of data released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the group found that in recent years, there has been an average of 12.6 suspected hate crimes against American Muslims per month.

However, that figure has reached an average of 38 cases since the deadly terrorist attacks in the French capital, Paris, where on November 13 alleged Daesh (ISIL) affiliates killed more than 130 people.

The group also attributes the rising trend to the December 2 mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, which left 14 dead. It was alleged by US officials that “radicalized” Daesh sympathizers were behind the massacre.

American Muslims strongly condemned the incident within hours, but this did not stop the US mainstream media from going on a rampage against Islam. The analysis is the first of its kind to formally document the wave of hatred, according to New York Times.