Stabbed Muslim cabbie to enter Ground Zero mosque spat

saifkhan

saifkhan

abd-Allah
Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatu-llah

It is a very shocking news for the muslim ummah.
Ahmed Sharif, a taxi driver from Bangladesh.
may Allah subhanahu wa ta'la gives him the Hayat -e-tayyibah.
Allahu Akbar....Allahumma A'izzal islama wal muslimeen.

here goes the news:

NEW YORK — A Muslim cab driver stabbed in an alleged hate attack in New York was due to meet Mayor Michael Bloomberg Thursday.

Cabbie Ahmed H. Sharif, 43, also planned to join representatives from the New York City Taxi Workers Alliance in a press conference to call for an end to bigotry and anti-Islamic rhetoric in the debate over plans to build an Islamic center and mosque two blocks north of ground zero.

Prosecutors charged baby-faced college student Michael Enright Wednesday with using a folding knife to slash the neck and face of the taxi's Bangladeshi driver after the driver said he's Muslim. Police said Enright was drunk at the time.

Enright once volunteered with a group, called Intersections International, that promotes interfaith tolerance and had recently filmed a documentary in Afghanistan — actions distinctly at odds with what authorities say happened inside a city taxi.

A representative of Intersections International, which supports the mosque project, called the attack "tragic."

"We've been working very hard to build bridges between folks from different religions and cultures," the Rev. Robert Chase said. "This is really shocking and sad for us."

for more you can visit : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38861763/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts?GT1=43001

wa alaikum assalam
PS: and they wanna say that they are the leaders of peace and they preserve human rights!!
 
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uddim004

Junior Member
innalillahi wa innaeliehi wa rajioun.
i am Bangladeshi and so i take personal offense on top of the fact he was muslim. count on the media to say that he was drunk, i recon he won't even spend life in prison. so much for democracy. inshalla i will make dua for him and his family.
:angryblue:
 
ShahnazZ

ShahnazZ

Striving2BeAStranger
Drunk huh?

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Taxi Driver Brutally Attacked in Anti-Muslim Hate Crime
PRESS CONFERENCE
THURSDAY, AUGUST 26TH, 2010
1:00PM
City Hall Steps


Ahmed H. Sharif, 43, a yellow taxi cab driver slashed across the neck, face and shoulders by a passenger during an anti-Muslim hate crime will stand with fellow New York Taxi Workers Alliance members, and community, immigrant and Muslim organizations to call for an end to the bigotry and anti-Islamic rhetoric in the debate around the Park 51 Islamic Cultural Center, referred to as the Ground Zero Mosque. "I feel very sad. I have been here more than 25 years. I have been driving a taxi more than 15 years. All my four kids were born here. I never feel this hopeless and insecure before," said Mr. Sharif. "Right now, the public sentiment is very serious (because of the Ground Zero Mosque debate.) All drivers should be more careful."

On Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 Mr. Sharif picked up the perpetrator at 24th Street and Second Avenue, his first fare for the shift, and headed toward Times Square. The man, 21, started out friendly, asking Mr. Sharif about where he was from, how long he had been in America, if he was Muslim and if he was observing fast during Ramadan. He then first became silent for a few minutes and then suddenly started cursing and screaming. There, at about 6:15pm at Third Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets, he yelled, "Assalamu Alaikum. Consider this a checkpoint," and then slashed Mr. Sharif across the neck. As Mr. Sharif went to knock the knife out, the perpetrator, continuing to scream loudly, cut the taxi driver in the face (from nose to upper lip), arm and hand.

"While a minority of has-been politicians spew ignorance and fear, it's the working person on the street who has to face the consequences," said NYTWA Executive Director Bhairavi Desai. "This kind of bigotry only breeds more violence and makes taxi drivers all the more vulnerable on the streets where there are no bully pulpits or podiums to hide behind." The US Department of Labor reports taxi drivers to be thirty times more likely to be killed on the job than other workers.

The 13,000-member NYTWA called on the District Attorney to be vigilant in its prosecution of the attempted murder and hate crime and urged the Governor to sign the Taxi Driver Protection Act, passed by the state legislature on June 26th, 2010, increasing penalties on crimes against taxi drivers and requiring a sign in all taxis, "WARNING: Assaulting a Taxi Driver is Punishable by Up to Twenty-Five Years in Prison." "Maybe if the warning sign was there, this kind of stranger who comes to us with hatred would have to think twice," said Anwar Hossain. "At least we could feel safer and not alone. No matter what political issue is going on, at least we could be treated as equal Americans and feel protected."

Sounds pretty lucid to me. If not, then we're in danger from crazy drunks as well.
 
shaheeda35

shaheeda35

strive4Jannah
:salam2:
In my opinion he will not get any real time. We live in a racist society and they will find a way to get him off. Being drunk is no excuse to abuse!
 
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jynous

Junior Member
:salam2:

alhamdolillah , he didnt die but this is a despicable act against a brother...i hope the criminal who commited this act of racism gets some time in jail..

:wasalam:
 
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Aapa

Mirajmom
Assalaam walaikum,

This is not an act of racism. This is an a crime. A crime that needs to be punished. It had nothing to with the color of the skin. This is much deeper.
 
sister herb

sister herb

Official TTI Chef
:salam2:

This reminds me similar happening in Israel when passenger stabbed taxi driver (who was Palestinian) to death and at court murderer said it didn´t feel nothing and was like he just killed an animal.

:girl3:
 
mabera

mabera

Junior Member
Assalaamu alaikum

Inna lillah wa inna ilaihi raajioon

Allah the exalted said;

Q85:8 And they ill-treated them for no other reason than that they believed in Allah, Exalted in Power, Worthy of all Praise!-


Q33:58 And those who annoy believing men and women undeservedly, bear (on themselves) a calumny and a glaring sin.
 
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