Muslim cab driver slashed by boozed-up bigot just back from filming Marines in Afghanistan: cops

The MSM has no problem reporting this story. Over 600 new stories produced by Google search with 24 hours.

The MSM has no problem naming the race/religion/nation of origin affiliation of the suspect and victim.

The MSM has no problem getting to court house to take pictures of the suspect and then posting those picture.

The MSM has no problem getting to the hospital to take pictures of the wounded sand-nigger and displaying is picture.

And of course the jew mayor has time to talk with the victim and invite victim to city hall.

Maybe MSM had the as lot of extra time to do these things because they did not rush the suspects family/friends/neighbors to get quotes saying the suspect was great guy, had just turned his life around, would never do anything that, is well respected, always has a smile on his face, is loving father with several small children, spends his free time attaching wings back onto flies.

A boozed-up bigot who just returned from filming U.S. Marines in Afghanistan used a pocket knife to slash a cabbie - just because the driver was Muslim, police said Wednesday.

Michael Enright, 21, of upstate Brewster, was charged with felony attempted murder as a hate crime - among other crimes - after the sick attack on Ahmed Sharif, 43, Tuesday night.

Enright slashed Sharif across the face, arm and hand after asking the Bangladesh-born cabbie if he was Muslim and then saying 'As-salaam alaikum' - which means 'peace be unto you' in Arabic, cops said.

The suspect also yelled, "Consider this a checkpoint" - an apparent reference to security screening in Afghanistan - as he wildly thrust his knife through the open glass partition at Sharif, said Manhattan Assistant District Attorney James Zaleta.

"The EMT on the scene said if the cut had been any longer or deeper he [Sharif] would have been dead on the scene," Zaleta said at Enright's arraignment Wednesday.

Zaleta said Sharif was "sliced from his mid-neck half way up his cheek."

"This ... was a highly vicious attack on an innocent person based on his religion," Zaleta said in court.

Mayor Bloomberg, who spoke to Sharif and invited him to City Hall Friday, said the unprovoked attack was clearly "motivated by anti-Muslim bias."

"I assured him that ethnic or religious bias has no place in our city," Bloomberg said of his conversation with Sharif.

"This attack runs counter to everything that New Yorkers believe, no matter what God we pray to."

Enright was arraigned on charges of second-degree attempted murder as a hate crime and first-degree assault as a hate crime. He was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon and ordered held without bail. He faces 8 to 25 years in prison if convicted.

In an odd twist, Enright was a volunteer for Intersections International, a Manhattan-based group that promotes peace among different religions. A spokesman confirmed he was filming for the group, which recently threw its support behind the controversial Park 51 mosque project near Ground Zero.

Sharif said he believes the vicious attack may have been rooted in the anti-Muslim fervor that has been inflamed by the mosque debate.

"I feel very sad," Sharif said, according to a statement released by the Taxi Workers Alliance.

"I never feel this hopeless and insecure before," added the Queens father of four who has been in the United States for 25 years. "Right now, the public sentiment is very serious (because of the Ground Zero mosque debate). All [taxi] drivers should be more careful."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/26/slashed-muslim-cabbie-visit-nyc-mayor/