Police: Cab Driver Stabbed Repeatedly By Passenger Who Asked "Are You Muslim?"

[nick1985]

steeplerot. lol.

 

[Throckmorton]

Whether the stabbing was justified depends on how many blocks away from Ground Zero the Muslim cab driver was.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

First off, the perp needs to receive a fair trial and get a bullet in the back of the head if he's found guilty.



We can hypothesize that a lot of resident liberals will suggest the same thing, that people who criticize Islam are a cause of all this. Let's just recognize that those doing so are being hypocritical. When a muslim extremist does something, it's not Islam's fault. After all, it's just an extremist with mental problems. But when an American (presumably anti-mosque person) does this, it reflects poorly on conservatives. Seems like a double-standard to me.

We can hypothesise that you are a pedophile too, does that mean shit?

Look, i get that you want to get in before the irony of backlash for your idiotic "everyone is an islamist extremist apologizer if you don't hate all muslims" bullsheit but for the love of fuck man, don't be EVEN MORE retarded than you need to be by randomly labeling a whole group as stupid as you are because trust me, there are very VERY few who are as stupid as you and your fellow "all Muslims are EVIL" sympathisers.

 

[Infohawk]

Look, i get that you want to get in before the irony of backlash for your idiotic "everyone is an islamist extremist apologizer if you don't hate all muslims" bullsheit

I didn't say that. You have reading comprehension problems. And apparently you're just interested in personal insults... But I guess if it makes you feel better about yourself you can keep on hurling strawmans and personal insults.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

You are right. Relig-nuts are what stirred up the hate.

USS Cole
African Embassy Bombings
WTC
WTC II
Bali
Daniel Pearl
Taliban
Madrid Bombings

Now our relig-nuts are going to lump all Muslims together, much like you lump anyone who isnt a flaming liberal together.

Since no one enven mentioned any of that before you... let me just be the first to say that since a white man killed six million of my people it would be ok for me to kill you.

Not because you were involved, but you are indeed being all white and shit and that is enough for me.

Either that or we can just agree that excusing the murder of a cab driver who happens to be Muslim with extremists bombings of which he had nothing to do with was so fucking daft that you should be ashamed of making it.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

I didn't say that. You have reading comprehension problems. And apparently you're just interested in personal insults... But I guess if it makes you feel better about yourself you can keep on hurling strawmans and person insults.

I read the entire thread, you DID say just that, you started out by claiming that everyone who doesn't denounce all Muslims is an "Islamist apologist" and you qualified that in a number of posts.

I wouldn't have brought it up if you didn't qualify it several times, it could have been a misunderstanding but you made it clear that it was not through your other posts in that thread.

I use plenty of insults towards everyone, take it for what it is, it's how i talk in real life too, i really don't give a sheit what you think about it either twat. But i made up no strawmans by saying EXACTLY what you said.

What goes around, comes around, learn that little one.

 

[Steeplerot]

Whether the stabbing was justified depends on how many blocks away from Ground Zero the Muslim cab driver was.

"Like omg...Free-Speech Zones are so last decade!"

LIVE ON FOX

EYE FOR AN EYE ZONE!

Git ur ammo ready 'merica!

*Bimbos jump up and down to the carnage bouncing gleefully*

 

[Infohawk]

I read the entire thread, you DID say just that, you started out by claiming that everyone who doesn't denounce all Muslims is an "Islamist apologist" and you qualified that in a number of posts.

Hmmm I was wondering if you were intellectually dishonest as opposed to just bad at reading. But now I can see you really believe I said if you don't hate muslims you're an apologist. "EXACTLY." LOL.

If you deny that Islam had anything to do with 9/11, you're pretty much a Muslim apologist.

That is what I said. Nothing about hate. And actually, if you really read the whole thread, I said,

Hate is a waste of time in my opinion.

Hey but I understand, you're probably just here to blow off steam after a miserable day at work... But for you're own benefit you might want to read more carefully.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Whether the stabbing was justified depends on how many blocks away from Ground Zero the Muslim cab driver was.

Yup, see in the US, there is no such thing as true religious freedom, you can only have it if you are Christian, if you are Muslim, others will decide where you can build your house of worship.

At leat those "constitutionalists" don't give a fuck about the constitution when the government follows it.

 

[rudder]

Where is the outrage?
http://www.aina.org/news/20090728062837.htm
http://www.christiantoday.com/artic....riots.kill.christians.in.nigeria/13758-2.htm
http://www.persecution.org/sufferin...78&PHPSESSID=e5635c02f30486306f62c3f8d81fcd0e
http://www.persecution.org/suffering/newsdetail.php?newscode=12963
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-z-chesnoff/saving-the-islamic-worlds_b_244641.html

I could go on... but I hope you get the point. Your comment is nothing more than a troll post. Doc Savage was correct in calling the first two posters morons for turning this one act into a political troll thread.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Hmmm I was wondering if you were intellectually dishonest as opposed to just bad at reading. But now I can see you really believe I said if you don't hate muslims you're an apologist. "EXACTLY." LOL.



That is what I said. Nothing about hate. And actually, if you really read the whole thread, I said,



Hey but I understand, you're probably just here to blow off steam after a miserable day at work... But for you're own benefit you might want to read more carefully.

I've spent most of the last 9 years in Afghanistan and Iraq, before that in Kosovo where the Muslims were killed en masse by Christians and i can tell you one thing, Islam (the religion) has as much to do with terrorism as the Serbs committing genocide had to do with Christianity.

Just fucking understand that extremism brings these results regardless of ideology used, Islam as in Al Quaida, Christianity as in LRA, Hinduism as in LTTE (which was the most prominent terror movement on earth before GW wanted to spread Al Qaueda by invading Iraq), capitalism - Pinochet, communism - North Korea.

You DID call everyone opposed to building that Mosqe an Islamist apologist.

In ALL well off western nations we have a minimum of extremism in both our economic system (we all have mixed economies) and ideology (we are all secular nations), the tolerance for freedom is what sets us apart and relieves us from the despair that any extremism brings.

You along with a sheitload of others don't get that.

 

[Steeplerot]

None of those have any relation to the post.

I think you are a idiot for trying such a lame distraction. Tit for tat then.

Spreading the wealth is good Comrades!

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Where is the outrage?
http://www.aina.org/news/20090728062837.htm
http://www.christiantoday.com/artic....riots.kill.christians.in.nigeria/13758-2.htm
http://www.persecution.org/sufferin...78&PHPSESSID=e5635c02f30486306f62c3f8d81fcd0e
http://www.persecution.org/suffering/newsdetail.php?newscode=12963
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-z-chesnoff/saving-the-islamic-worlds_b_244641.html

I could go on... but I hope you get the point. Your comment is nothing more than a troll post. Doc Savage was correct in calling the first two posters morons for turning this one act into a political troll thread.

I don't get your point?

I really really really don't get your point...

Explain your point to me.

 

[Infohawk]

You DID call everyone _opposed_ to building that Mosqe an Islamist apologist.

Try to pay attention to details... It's often important.

 

[sandorski]

Whether the stabbing was justified depends on how many blocks away from Ground Zero the Muslim cab driver was.

This.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Try to pay attention to details... It's often important.

What is an Islamist if not a follower of Islam, the made up word means Muslim, just like a Christianist is a Christian.

Don't deflect twat, answer the post instead or just apologise for being too retarded to think.

 

[Infohawk]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-08-25-cabbie-stabbing-muslim_N.htmz

NEW YORK — A Manhattan cabbie who was stabbed Tuesday night by a Putnam County man questioned Wednesday whether the attack stemmed from the contentious debate over creating a mosque near ground zero.
Ahmed H. Sharif, 43, of Queens, was stabbed several times by Michael Enright, 21, of Southeast, N.Y., after Enright had asked Sharif if he was Muslim and the cabbie responded that he was, a police spokesman said.

When officers responded to the scene around 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, Sharif was outside the vehicle, suffering from stab wounds, after attempting to lock Enright inside the cab, a police spokesman said. Enright escaped but was captured nearby by police.

The charges against Enright include attempted murder as a hate crime.

Enright, a 2007 graduate of Brewster High School and an aspiring filmmaker, recently returned from Afghanistan, where he filmed Marines as part of a project for the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, where he is a student. In Afghanistan, he was embedded with a Marines Corps crew that included his fellow Brewster High graduate, Cpl. Alex Eckner.

Enright was highly intoxicated when he hailed the cab, the police spokesman said. Once inside the cab, Enright asked Sharif whether Sharif was Muslim. When Sharif responded yes, Enright stabbed him several times with some type of utility knife.

According to the statement from the Taxi Workers Alliance, Enright's conversation with Sharif started out friendly, with Enright asking the cabbie where he was from, how long he had been in America, if he was Muslim and if he was observing Ramadan.

Enright then went silent before suddenly cursing and screaming, the statement said.

He then shouted "'Assalamu Alaikum,' common among Muslims as a wish for peace, before pulling out the knife and slashing Sharif across the neck and stabbing several more times as Sharif tried to knock it out of Enright's hands, the alliance said.

Enright was charged with attempted second-degree murder as a hate crime, first-degree assault, felonies, aggravated harassment and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, misdemeanors. He is awaiting arraignment.

Enright also worked with Intersections International, a Manhattan-based, multifaith and multicultural effort that seeks to promote justice and peace. Messages left with the School of Visual Arts and Intersections International were not immediately returned.

Intersections has stated the following:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Rev. Robert Chase, Executive Director,
212.686.1119, rchase@intersectionsinternational.org,

Joseph Ward III, Communications Director,
646.723.7827, jward@intersectionsinternational.org

We have learned about an incident wherein one of our volunteers may have been charged with a hate crime in a stabbing incident that involved a New York City cab driver on Tuesday evening.

The alleged perpetrator is not an employee and has never been an employee of Intersections. There is a person who fits the description of the alleged perpetrator who has worked with us as a volunteer, but until we get further confirmation of the details in this incident, we cannot comment.

Our hearts go out to the cab driver, his family and any person who has dealt with such unacceptable violence.

Intersections is on record, explicitly and consistently, as promoting interfaith dialogue and cross cultural cooperation, specifically with our Muslim brothers and sisters. We deplore violence and any act that may be categorized as a hate crime.

Our thoughts and prayers are with all parties in this tragic incident.

I agree with Intersections, this is deplorable. Also pretty bizarre.

Was this guy just drunk? Or did his true colors show? And if so, why volunteer for Intersections? (Maybe someone made him do it as part of a punishment for something else?

Edit: His classmates say he had alcohol problems.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsme...classmates_describe_history_of_alcohol_ab.php

I go to school with Mike, although we are not friends. I have no idea about his current condition butI have been following the story all day. What I can say about Mike is that he is without question a troubled person with a bad, bad drinking problem. He was my best friend's roommate in freshman year and would drink till he blacked out every single night. I remember on election night 2008 we were all downstairs outside of the dorm screaming and celebrating at Obama's victory and Mike came outside with tears streaming down his face. He pushed his way through us and when he came back five minutes later he had two 40's in his hands.

He's had problems in the past with alcohol but had been sober and in recovery.
I'm not sure when he picked up drinking again. I saw him after he had
gotten back from Afganistan from filming his doc, he was happy to be
back and had fond memories of the Afghan children.

Second edit: prior locked steeplerot thread now unlocked?

 

[her209]

Was this guy just drunk? Or did his true colors show? And if so, why volunteer for Intersections? (Maybe someone made him do it as part of a punishment for something else?

Maybe his religion made him do it...

 

[MotF Bane]

Crazy people do crazy things?

 

[Phokus]

More info about the guy:

According to his Facebook profile, he's also a fan of Greg Ball, Tea Party favorite of New York's 40th district.

Figures

 

[peonyu]

Well the media got they're white hate crime commiter now, the last time stabbings happened they were disappointed when it turned out it was a Arab-Christian man committing them. I dont think he was charged with hate crimes though despite targeting only one group of people.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

He had to be a wingnut. That's the only option, or so I've been told.

 

[Moonbeam]

Not all white Christians are Muslim hating imbeciles.


Too bad he wasn't an observing Muslim though, because they don't drink.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Not all white Christians are Muslim hating imbeciles.


Too bad he wasn't an observing Muslim though, because they don't drink.

Some truth to that. I don't think anyone knows much about this guy. He's not off the hook for his actions, but I wonder exactly set him off. He doesn't seem to have a track record of violence, at least that we know of yet.

What demons drive people to do such terrible things?

 

[Lanyap]

Some people have speculated it was a combination of PTSD from his stay in Afghanistan and being so intoxicated. He mentions something about a checkpoint immediately before he stabbed the cabbie.

More info about the guy:


Quote:
Originally Posted by OHNONINJA
According to his Facebook profile, he's also a fan of Greg Ball, Tea Party favorite of New York's 40th district.

Figures

Finally, a link to the tea party.