Muslim Stabbing Victim in New York to Call for End to Anti-Muslim Rhetoric (& is Meeting Bloomberg)

[Turborama]

Source: VOA

A Muslim cab driver who was stabbed in an alleged hate crime in New York is expected to comment on the debate over a planned mosque near the site of the 2001 terrorist attacks in the city.

The New York Taxi Workers Alliance says Ahmed Sharif will hold a press conference Thursday to call for an end to bigotry and anti-Islamic rhetoric since the proposal to build the Islamic cultural center was announced.

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Sharif is also expected to meet Thursday with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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Mayor Bloomberg condemned the incident, saying the attack runs counter to everything New Yorkers believe. The victim says, after more than 25 years in New York, he has never before felt this “hopeless and insecure.”

Read more: http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2010/08/26/muslim-stabbing-victim-in-new-york-to-call-for-end-to-anti-muslim-rhetoric/

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Bloomberg statement on stabbed cab driver

"I spoke today with the taxi driver who was stabbed last night in an attack that appears to have been motivated by anti-Muslim bias. I assured him that ethnic or religious bias has no place in our city, and to help show that, I invited him to City Hall to meet with me tomorrow, an invitation he accepted.

This attack runs counter to everything that New Yorkers believe, no matter what God we may pray to. I want to thank the men and women of the NYPD for their quick response in apprehending the suspect who was arrested and charged with attempted murder as a hate crime. We will continue to do everything possible to crack down on any crime that targets someone because of who they are or what they believe."

From: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/bloomberg-statement-on-stabbed.html


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9020811">US Muslim Group: Cabbie Slashing A Warning On Anti-Muslim Rhetoric - Fox News Has Blood On Its Hands

[lakers4life24]

1. Betcha $20 Faux News will Portray the Stabber as the Victim

and was innocent in this whole situation just like Faux News always does.

[onehandle]

2. It's sounding like the stabber was not prone to this sort of thing...

...and that Fox News and other pushers of the anti-Islamic rhetoric might have set him off.

Not to mention alcohol.

That's the impression I got from Countdown last night.

[tanyev]

3. "the debate"?

When did a bunch of bigots throwing a temper tantrum and inciting violence become a "debate"?