FrankRep
08-25-2010, 06:09 PM
Cops: ‘Are You Muslim?’ Leads To Cabbie Stabbing (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/08/25/cops-man-stabbed-cabbie-after-asking-if-he-was-muslim/)
CBS News
A taxi cab driver was recovering Wednesday from a vicious attack that’s been labeled a hate crime.
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Police said Michael Enright of Brewster, N.Y., while a passenger in a cab, blew up in a hate-filled rage against 43-year-old taxi driver Ahmed Sharif.
“He sat in the back seat, obviously, asked driver if he’s Muslim. The driver said he was. He said “assalamu alaikum” and then began to stab the driver through the partition. He said ‘this is a checkpoint,’” NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
Police said an intoxicated Enright slashed Sharif across the neck with a Leatherman knife.
Full Story:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/08/25/cops-man-stabbed-cabbie-after-asking-if-he-was-muslim/
The Weird Part:
What We Know About Michael Enright, The Alleged Slasher Of The Muslim Cabbie (http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/what_we_know_about_michael_enright.php)
Talking Points Memo
The man accused of stabbing a Muslim NYC cab driver hardly has the background one might expect from someone charged with a hate crime committed in a drunken rage.
Michael Enright is a film student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and has been working with the Intersection International, an interfaith and multicultural effort which seeks to promote justice and peace. The project's website is strongly supportive of the Cordoba House project in lower Manhattan and videos of its leader, Imam Faisel Rauf, are posted on their website.
The 21-year-old aspiring filmmaker had been to Afghanistan recently, working on a documentary on a Marine unit his high school buddy served with. His earlier efforts to embed with his friend were the subject of a profile in the local paper.
Neighbors in Brewster were stunned to hear Enright was in trouble over an alleged hate crime.
“I find that hard to believe,” one woman said. “He doesn’t have a mean bone in his body.
SOURCE:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/08/25/cops-man-stabbed-cabbie-after-asking-if-he-was-muslim/
CBS News
A taxi cab driver was recovering Wednesday from a vicious attack that’s been labeled a hate crime.
...
Police said Michael Enright of Brewster, N.Y., while a passenger in a cab, blew up in a hate-filled rage against 43-year-old taxi driver Ahmed Sharif.
“He sat in the back seat, obviously, asked driver if he’s Muslim. The driver said he was. He said “assalamu alaikum” and then began to stab the driver through the partition. He said ‘this is a checkpoint,’” NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
Police said an intoxicated Enright slashed Sharif across the neck with a Leatherman knife.
Full Story:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/08/25/cops-man-stabbed-cabbie-after-asking-if-he-was-muslim/
The Weird Part:
What We Know About Michael Enright, The Alleged Slasher Of The Muslim Cabbie (http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/what_we_know_about_michael_enright.php)
Talking Points Memo
The man accused of stabbing a Muslim NYC cab driver hardly has the background one might expect from someone charged with a hate crime committed in a drunken rage.
Michael Enright is a film student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and has been working with the Intersection International, an interfaith and multicultural effort which seeks to promote justice and peace. The project's website is strongly supportive of the Cordoba House project in lower Manhattan and videos of its leader, Imam Faisel Rauf, are posted on their website.
The 21-year-old aspiring filmmaker had been to Afghanistan recently, working on a documentary on a Marine unit his high school buddy served with. His earlier efforts to embed with his friend were the subject of a profile in the local paper.
Neighbors in Brewster were stunned to hear Enright was in trouble over an alleged hate crime.
“I find that hard to believe,” one woman said. “He doesn’t have a mean bone in his body.
SOURCE:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/08/25/cops-man-stabbed-cabbie-after-asking-if-he-was-muslim/