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New York Muslims blame Trump’s Islamophobia for the murder of Imam and his assistant

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A crowd of community members gather at the location where Imam Maulama Akonjee and this assistant were shot dead. The gunman reportedly approached the pair from behind after they left the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque and shot both in the head at close range about 1:50pm (local time) in the Ozone Park neighbourhood, police said in a statement, adding that no arrests had been made.
A crowd of community members gather at the location where Imam Maulama Akonjee and this assistant were shot dead. The gunman reportedly approached the pair from behind after they left the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque and shot both in the head at close range about 1:50pm (local time) in the Ozone Park neighbourhood, police said in a statement, adding that no arrests had been made.

Residents of Queens in New York gathered at the mosque where just hours earlier an imam and his assistant were shot dead.

Members of the American-Muslim community are calling for a ‘hate crime’ investigation with some blaming prominent politicians for stoking Islamophobia.

“For those in leadership like Mr. Trump and Mr. Giuliani and other members of institutions that project Islam and Muslims as the enemy this is the end result of their wickedness,” said one man at the gathering outside the mosque in Ozone Park.

“You need not be a Muslim, you need not be a person of any faith, you just need to be a person of conscience. Imagine your father gunned down for no reason, then let that feeling, that motivate you, to come out of your silence and I especially say this to those with influence within the community and beyond. Every single one of us has a responsibility,” said Afaf Nasher, Executive Director of the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) New York.

Police say so far there is no evidence the pair were targeted because of their faith.

Crimes against Muslims saw a sharp spike following terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernadino late 2015, while Trump called for Muslims to be banned from entering the US.

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8 responses to “New York Muslims blame Trump’s Islamophobia for the murder of Imam and his assistant”

  1. Oh Yeah Avatar
    Oh Yeah

    Was it a tit for tat?

  2. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    Who is to blame for the rise of ISIL?
    Al Jazeera Mehdi Hasan goes Head to Head with Michael T. Flynn, former head of the US Defense Intelligence.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG3j8OYKgn4

  3. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    Muslims blame Trump’s Islamophobia, he is not the only one that takes precautions against muslims, in order not end in the status we have ended.
    https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/998968578727653377

    1. Niemals Avatar
      Niemals

      Remember the criminal Lebanese large families in Berlin?

      See the mass brawl between two Lebanese large families in front of a shisha bar in Bremen https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/999613196469186560
      or the rejected asylum seeker Said K., 48, beat up the Social Affairs Officer ???? https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/999611977944195072

      1. Niemals Avatar
        Niemals

        Remember the criminal Lebanese large families in Berlin?
        Berlin prosecutors confiscate Lebanese clan’s properties!

        The seizure of property was the latest development in a four-year investigation originally triggered by a 2014 bank robbery in Berlin’s Mariendorf district, during which an explosion nearly destroyed an entire branch of a Sparkasse bank, and €9.16 million was stolen.

        Members of the R. family have also been connected to other spectacular robberies in Berlin in recent years. Last year, four members of the network, aged between 18 and 20, were arrested on suspicion of stealing a 100-kilo, €3.7-million Canadian gold coin from the city’s Bode Museum in March 2017, though no charges have yet been filed, and the men were subsequently released. The coin was never recovered.

        One member of the Lebanese. family, Toufic R., was convicted of the robbery, but the money was never recovered.
        However, investigators noticed subsequently that one of Toufic’s R.’s brothers was buying property around the city, even though he was apparently living on state benefits.

        Perhaps now we will be able to deport the entire Lebanese mafia.

  4. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    Meanwhile in the Swedish supermarket! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ac866fb99a10c327e570d4143cf6da063ddaceec92a23b8506ab467ad1e8c404.jpg and there is no Islamisation of Sweden going on….. https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/998532581762260994
    https://youtu.be/WIif_ADc7P4

  5. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    It seems that in Sweden you will find ‘better’ Muslims than in the UK or BRD, https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/999700075893968897
    The man who filmed the aggressive migrants in the supermarket, was threatened by them in a parking lot, he shoots with a shotgun in the air. Then he is hunted by the pack with iron bars & beaten.
    Now comes the joke!
    The man was arrested, but none of the migrants! https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/999700642217250816

  6. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    Islamophobia statistics…
    https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/1000074842278957058

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