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grossproffit

(5,591 posts)
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 08:14 AM Dec 2015

Muslim store owner in tears after he’s beaten by New York man on mission to ‘kill Muslims’

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[quote]A Muslim store owner in Queens reported that he was attacked over the weekend by a man who said that he wanted to “kill Muslims.”

Fatima Food Mart owner Sarker Haque told WPIX that the man came into his store on Saturday and began punching him.

“He punched me here,” Haque recalled, motioning toward an ice cream cooler. “I fell down here… I say, ‘What the hell you doing? What’s wrong with you?’ [The attacker] said, ‘I kill Muslims.'”

“He punched me as much as he can with his left hand,” the store owner added, choking back tears. “He grabbed me here. Then he punched me here.”

The attacker was identified by police as Piro Kolvani. Investigators believe that Kolvani punched Haque multiple times before a Latino customer intervened.

“A person came [by]… He knows me,” Haque said. “I’m bleeding [at] this time so he [took] hold of [the attacker].”

“It doesn’t matter what color or nationality you are,” he pointed out. “We are in America. Everybody came from somewhere.”

Officials said that the attack on Haque was being investigated as a hate crime.[/quote]

[url]http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/watch-muslim-store-owner-in-tears-after-hes-beaten-by-new-york-man-on-mission-to-kill-muslims/[/url]


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Muslim store owner in tears after he’s beaten by New York man on mission to ‘kill Muslims’ (Original Post) grossproffit Dec 2015 OP
HUG THIS MAN. NOW. retrowire Dec 2015 #1
I am not a touch feely kind of guy, but my first thought was exactly the same. Lucky Luciano Dec 2015 #2
Exactly. retrowire Dec 2015 #3
Please do..... daleanime Dec 2015 #4
Vigilante Justice At Its Finest ProfessorGAC Dec 2015 #5
Parking Lot Of Sikh Temple In OC (CA) Vandalized With Graffiti Referencing ISIS, ‘Islahm’ pinboy3niner Dec 2015 #6
Worser and Worser ProfessorGAC Dec 2015 #7
You really think this mouth breather would know what to do with a book? lpbk2713 Dec 2015 #11
If we elect a Republican, especially Trump, this is what we'll have. PatrickforO Dec 2015 #8
Fuck the Bush Administration d_legendary1 Dec 2015 #9
And Daesh rejoices. Coventina Dec 2015 #10
Commendations to Mr. Haque's customers and defenders. Eleanors38 Dec 2015 #12

Lucky Luciano

(11,242 posts)
2. I am not a touch feely kind of guy, but my first thought was exactly the same.
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 09:39 AM
Dec 2015

I just wanted to give the man a hug. Le him know we are not all assholes.

ProfessorGAC

(64,413 posts)
5. Vigilante Justice At Its Finest
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 09:58 AM
Dec 2015

Guy must not have read the Ox Bow Incident. Justice applied to the wrong person again.

PatrickforO

(14,514 posts)
8. If we elect a Republican, especially Trump, this is what we'll have.
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 10:45 AM
Dec 2015

It's called 'fascism' and involves a bunch of heavily armed xenophobic white haters in brown shirts and jackboots terrorizing our people while corporations quietly take over and everyone prepares for the inevitable war.

Ragnarok, anyone?

d_legendary1

(2,586 posts)
9. Fuck the Bush Administration
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 04:33 PM
Dec 2015

If it weren't for them this man and others like him wouldn't be facing the daily vitriol and violence from assholes that Trump whips up into a frenzy. This man deserves more than a hug: he deserves compensation from the millions Bushco stole from the rest of us.

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