CAIRO – A Chilean pianist has been beaten by skinheads who attacked him in a train near Warsaw, breaking his teeth after mistaking him for an Arab.

The attack on the pianist, Christiano Ramos, comes amid increasing anti-Muslim sentiments in Poland, The Guardian reported.

It comes as a warning alarm to the rise of Islamophobia in Poland, which has sharply increased after the flock of huge refugee crowds to Europe last year.

Rejecting the attack, Poland’s commissioner for human rights, Adam Bodnar, urged people to attend Ramos’ performance on Monday evening to show Polish support.

Ramos, who has lived in Poland for many years, lost a tooth and sustained a head injury.

Bodnar said he wants to convince Ramos and others like him that they “have many friends in Poland, that Polish society might be different, and that he should not decide to leave our country”.

Bodnar warned against an outpouring of hate speech against Arabs in recent months that has translated into violent incidents.

“Unfortunately, massive hate speech towards Arabs translates into hate violence incidents,” Bodnar said.

“Basically, every two weeks, we can identify a situation when somebody is attacked, because he looks ‘like an Arab’.”

The attack is not the first to target refugees.

Last year, a Syrian Christian was attacked in the western Polish city of Poznan.

A court on Monday sentenced one of his attackers to two years in prison, and a second to three months.

Poland has about 25,000 Muslims, according to the European Jewish Congress and US State Department estimates.

Dozens of Syrian Christians were granted asylum in Poland last year, though most left quickly for western Europe.

Last year, Poland pledged to take up to 7,000 migrants, though only a fraction of them are expected this year.