Man Stabbed For Being Muslim

[zuhaib]

I do not care about religion no more!

[Angry Citizen]

Not any more likely than I'll get a fatwa issued on me. I don't condemn your religion for the lunatic fringes. Why do you condemn my people for theirs?

[zuhaib]

Not any more likely than I'll get a fatwa issued on me. I don't condemn your religion for the lunatic fringes. Why do you condemn my people for theirs?

Your people? what your people .. your atheist :) probably the most peaceful and free people on this planet.

[zuhaib]

Your people? what your people .. your atheist :) probably the most peaceful and free people on this planet.

Just because someone is Muslim that does not mean they support these FUCKEN idiots who think their Muslims... btw these so called Muslims kill their own people as well . My parents swear and cruse at the talban or w.e Muslim terrorist organisation they see on tv. These are not the real Muslims my friends these are brain washed fucks...

[zuhaib]

I think our nation is forgetting is that we are one species instead of subcategorizing them into religions and colors. I really think we just really learn to live like humans.

[RickSp]

The bigotry, demagoguing and outright hatred shown in the anti-Park 51 protests has it consequences. This is but one.

It is about time that those who talk so much about freedom actually stand up and support it.

[kancer kid]

I think the guy was too drunk. People get violent, belligerent and incomprehensible when they are drunk.

[RickSp]

I think the guy was too drunk. People get violent, belligerent and incomprehensible when they are drunk.

Excuses like that are too easy.

[kancer kid]

Excuses like that are too easy.

I don't know. I was watching the news last night and this guy has a past pointing to him being quite pro muslim:

A young filmmaker who recently returned from Afghanistan has been charged with stabbing a New York City cab driver the after asking the driver if he was Muslim.

Michael Enright, 21, is being held without bail on charges of attempted murder and assault as a hate crime and weapon possession. T

Enright started out friendly, asking the driver Ahmed Sharif where he was from, how long he had been in America, if he was Muslim and if he was observing fast during Ramadan, Sharif told NBCNewYork.

Then, Sharif claims, Enright began making fun of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and the driver says he remained quiet.

Then after a few moments of silence, Enright allegedly began cursing and screaming, yelled, "Assalamu Alaikum" and "This is a checkpoint," and then slashed Sharif across the neck.

Source: Man stabs cabbie after asking "Are you a Muslim?" - NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral & Naples, Florida

Also

Paragraphs 22 through 38--the last 17 paragraphs of the story--tell us of the suspect's background: "What is known about Mr. Enright presents a complicated picture." He lives in Brewster, a suburb north of New York City. He goes to the School of Visual Arts. He has some previous arrests for minor crimes. He spent time embedded with Marines in Afghanistan for a film-school project called "Home of the Brave."

Then--in paragraphs 28 and 29--comes this:

Mr. Enright is also a volunteer with Intersections International, an initiative of the Collegiate Churches of New York that promotes justice and faith across religions and cultures. The organization, which covered part of Mr. Enright's travel expenses to Afghanistan, has been a staunch supporter of the Islamic center near ground zero. Mr. Enright volunteered with the group's veteran-civilian dialogue project.

Joseph Ward III, the director of communications for Intersections, said that if Mr. Enright had been involved in a hate crime, it ran "counter to everything Intersections stands for" and was shocking.

It's shocking, all right. It's also news! The Times hasn't exactly buried the lead here: The attack is a significant story in itself, and it's an entirely defensible editorial decision to begin by simply telling what (allegedly) happened.

But revealing the suspect's association with the pro-mosque left so low in the story shows atrocious news judgment. Rehearsing the America-hates-Muslims narrative first strongly suggests that the Times's reporting is driven more by an ideological agenda than by the facts of the case.

Source: Who Is Michael Enright? - WSJ.com

It seems the guy was pro-Muslim. Maybe he was getting in debates with people and defending Muslims tooth and nail and got in some trouble because of it and took it out on this muslim taxi driver.

All I am saying is it is probably a deeper motive than the guy being totally anti-Muslim

[zuhaib]

I think the guy was too drunk. People get violent, belligerent and incomprehensible when they are drunk.

could be

[RickSp]

It seems the guy was pro-Muslim.

Really?

Muslim cab driver Ahmed Sharif, victim in bloody attack, saw 'so much hate' in face of assailant

When he was arrested Tuesday in midtown, Enright had a personal diary filled with pages of "pretty strong anti-Muslim comments," a police source said.

The source said Enright's journal equated Muslims with "killers, ungrateful for the help they were being offered, filthy murderers without a conscience."

Doesn't sound pro-Muslim to me.

[RickSp]

Another drunk who doesn't sound pro-Muslim either. Fortunately no one was hurt

Drunken Man Yells "Terrorists," Urinates on Mosque Rugs: Report