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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/police-nyc-cabbie-sharif-ahmed-stabbed-after-fare-asked-are-you-muslim/19607768

Roughly one block from his destination, the passenger, identified as 21-year-old Michael Enright, of Brewster in upstate New York, allegedly asked Sharif, "Are you Muslim?" When Sharif said yes, Enright pulled out a knife and slashed Sharif in the neck, face and shoulders, police said

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi

Some people can't discuss anything without trying to turn it into a right vs left fight. It's sad, but I don't see it changing anytime soon.

Personally it is situations like this that make me glad we have hate laws in place. It is sad that we need them, but as long as there are people like Enright running around it looks like we will.

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ORIGINAL: Marini

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi

Some people can't discuss anything without trying to turn it into a right vs left fight. It's sad, but I don't see it changing anytime soon.

Personally it is situations like this that make me glad we have hate laws in place. It is sad that we need them, but as long as there are people like Enright running around it looks like we will.

Thank you boi, for saying what I am thinking.
I am so tired of hearing about partisan crap, right/left that I am avoiding those conversations on these boards.

Hate crimes are fucking hate crimes, period.
This partisan shit, is fucking unreal.

When black people were being lynched with horrifying frequency in the South, years ago, most of the nasty pieces of shit trash/kkk members that did the lynching were Democrats, most blacks are Democrats.

I am going to start a thread one day, on KKK founders/leaders/organizers/ members that are Democrats.

Our country is slowly unraveling, both the Democrats and the Republicans are screwing us, and the idiots that spend their lives blaming the "other" side are not using their "brain" filters.

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ORIGINAL: SorceressJ

This is probably the wrong thread to say this on, but oh well. I mean no offense to anyone of open mind and heart.
Not that anyone will care, or change, or give a damn what I think or have to say about it, but I am getting
-REALLY FUCKING TIRED-
of all the narrow-minded bigoted Muslim-bashing, on this site and elsewhere.
This stabbing is a symptom of a much greater illness.
It's like this, people: most Muslims are peaceful and innocent of wrongdoing. No, sorry, they are not all either terrorists, in cahoots with terrorists, or approving of terrorists, and are no more like them than most Xtians are like the fruitbats from Westboro Baptist Church. They are not happy about the state of war. What happened on 9/11 was not. their. fault. They don't all veil and beat their wives and children. Most of them just want to live, love, work, worship Allah (who I'm veritably certain does not approve of all this war shit either), and raise their families in peace, more or less just like we all do. And IMO, as long as they remain peaceful and law-abiding, I believe that they have just as much of a right to live and be here as any of the rest of us.
P.S. If this post makes me unpopular, I really couldn't give half a shit less. When does the hate stop? Srsly.  

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I am waiting to see how long before someone here suggests that the cabbies start carrying a loaded gun and/or install bullet proof glass.

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The NYTWA is also urging Gov. David Paterson to sign the Taxi Driver Protection Act, passed by the Legislature on June 26. The bill would increase penalties for crimes against cab drivers and requires a sign in all taxis that reads: "Warning: Assaulting a Taxi Driver Is Punishable by Up to Twenty-Five Years in Prison."

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ORIGINAL: SorceressJ

This is probably the wrong thread to say this on, but oh well. I mean no offense to anyone of open mind and heart.
Not that anyone will care, or change, or give a damn what I think or have to say about it, but I am getting
-REALLY FUCKING TIRED-
of all the narrow-minded bigoted Muslim-bashing, on this site and elsewhere.
This stabbing is a symptom of a much greater illness.
It's like this, people: most Muslims are peaceful and innocent of wrongdoing. No, sorry, they are not all either terrorists, in cahoots with terrorists, or approving of terrorists, and are no more like them than most Xtians are like the fruitbats from Westboro Baptist Church. They are not happy about the state of war. What happened on 9/11 was not. their. fault. They don't all veil and beat their wives and children. Most of them just want to live, love, work, worship Allah (who I'm veritably certain does not approve of all this war shit either), and raise their families in peace, more or less just like we all do. And IMO, as long as they remain peaceful and law-abiding, I believe that they have just as much of a right to live and be here as any of the rest of us.
P.S. If this post makes me unpopular, I really couldn't give half a shit less. When does the hate stop? Srsly.  

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ORIGINAL: Vendaval

Drunken idiot + knife = stabbing a cabbie. Not a good day for NYC.

I am waiting to see how long before someone here suggests that the cabbies start carrying a loaded gun and/or install bullet proof glass.

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ORIGINAL: Vendaval

Drunken idiot + knife = stabbing a cabbie. Not a good day for NYC.

I am waiting to see how long before someone here suggests that the cabbies start carrying a loaded gun and/or install bullet proof glass.

It is kind of amazing, now that you mention it, that Bloomberg is adamant about the Muslims first amendment rights where it comes to building a Mosque, but shits all over EVERY NYers 2nd amendment rights to own a firearm.

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ORIGINAL: StrangerThan

Now that's funny. Islam electing a witch as its spokesperson.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Ask the Imam whats wrong with witches... I am sure he will tell you.

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ORIGINAL: flcouple2009
Would I get a different answer by going in a Christian church and asking the minister?

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Saudi Arabia: Muslim Courts Sentence ‘Witch’ to Death






Saudi Arabia is busy exporting its narrow and backward version of Islam – Wahhabism- to mosques and Islamic seminaries around the world. Yet Saudi Arabia is a country where women are second class citizens, and people can be executed for witchcraft. On Friday November 2, 2007, an Egyptian pharmacist was decapitated with a sword in Riyadh after being found "guilty" of sorcery. Mustapha Ibrahim worked in Arar, a city in the north of Saudi Arabia, and was said to have tried to separate a married couple.

http://thewomenofislam.blogspot.com/2008/02/witch-gets-death-penalty-no-botox-in.html

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ORIGINAL: flcouple2009

We can all confirm that the money your mother gave you for the tap dancing lessons you actually used for the lessons.

The question was would I get a different answer for a Christian minister about a witch would I get a different opinion?

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ORIGINAL: Vendaval

Drunken idiot + knife = stabbing a cabbie. Not a good day for NYC.

I am waiting to see how long before someone here suggests that the cabbies start carrying a loaded gun and/or install bullet proof glass.

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I am waiting to see how long before someone here suggests that the cabbies start carrying a loaded gun and/or install bullet proof glass.

Well, I agree with the proposed bill from the article:

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The NYTWA is also urging Gov. David Paterson to sign the Taxi Driver Protection Act, passed by the Legislature on June 26. The bill would increase penalties for crimes against cab drivers and requires a sign in all taxis that reads: "Warning: Assaulting a Taxi Driver Is Punishable by Up to Twenty-Five Years in Prison."

I would also like to see it extended to convenience store/ gas station employees.

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ORIGINAL: willbeurdaddy

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ORIGINAL: WyldHrt

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I am waiting to see how long before someone here suggests that the cabbies start carrying a loaded gun and/or install bullet proof glass.

Well, I agree with the proposed bill from the article:

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The NYTWA is also urging Gov. David Paterson to sign the Taxi Driver Protection Act, passed by the Legislature on June 26. The bill would increase penalties for crimes against cab drivers and requires a sign in all taxis that reads: "Warning: Assaulting a Taxi Driver Is Punishable by Up to Twenty-Five Years in Prison."

I would also like to see it extended to convenience store/ gas station employees.

Ridiculous. cops and firemen who protect the public yes, cabbies and gas station employees dont deserve any special consideration for crimes.