Queens imam and his assistant shot to death by gunman in attack local Muslims blame on Donald Trump:

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Source: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Updated: Saturday, August 13, 2016, 8:53 PM
BY DALE EISINGER
RICH SCHAPIRO
ELLEN MOYNIHAN
LARRY MCSHANE
THOMAS TRACY

A Lone gunman executed a revered Queens imam and his friend as the pair walked home from Saturday prayers, blasting each in the back of the head without a word, officials said.

Mosque leader Maulama Akonjee and friend Thara Uddin were dressed in Muslim garb when the killer “approached from behind and shot” from point-blank range, said NYPD Deputy Inspector Henry Sautner of the Queens South Detective Bureau.

Akonjee, 55, a married father of three, was a respected religious leader since his arrival in Queens from Bangladesh less than two years ago. The bearded Uddin, 65, died about four hours after the attack.

“We are all crying,” said his brother Mashuk Uddin. “There’s so much crying.”



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/drive-by-shooter-queens-gravely-injures-men-article-1.2749901

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00:38 video at link.

[forest444]

1. I'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner, the way he - and other Rethugs - incite people.

God bless the victims and their families.

[rug]

4. Ozone Park is about seven miles from Jamaica Estates where trump grew up.

One neighborhood is working class, the other is not. They're both in Queens.

trump's view of people and the world has been skewed from birth.

[forest444]

7. Interesting.

He sounds like a mafia don - no pun intended.

[rug]

10. Well . . . . John Gotti did lived n Howard Beach, a couple of miles east.

[forest444]

19. Aha!

That might explain why the two did so much business together in the '70s and '80s.

You seem to know quite a bit about Brooklyn, rug. It's always good to have someone with first-hand knowledge of a given location in the news. Thanks for your input!

[True Dough]

2. What do you think, rug?

Is it fair to pin this on Trump? He's abhorrent. Islamophobia is abhorrent. But is there cause and effect here?

[rug]

9. I don't think there's enough evidence yet.

Ozone Park has always been working class and, in recent decades, heavily populated with immigrants from many places. Immigrants have historically been a target for crimes of opportunity.

Time will tell.

[True Dough]

15. I agree

That's a fair and level-headed reply.

[keithbvadu2]

22. Most of the time we should wait three days or so for a reasonable telling

after a bunch of rumors have been disproven and some real facts have come out.

[anamandujano]

12. a few suggestions re: cause and effect

Trump's has mouthed off about deporting all Muslims, his disrespect of the Khan family and dismal failure for it in the press and polls. Add to that his request of his 2nd Amendment friends to take care Hillary. The neanderthals that worship him do not need much encouragement from the mafia Don.

Yeah, he's to blame.

[True Dough]

16. A lot of us here at the DU

have said some really nasty things about Trump. Some of those things even insinuate his demise in a painful manner. Let's say Trump is assassinated tomorrow. The killer says he was inspired by his "brothers and sisters" at the DU who also despise Trump.

Are some of us culpable?

[Lochloosa]

21. A lot of us at DU are not running for President.

Words matter.

And I take offense to your remarks.

[True Dough]

25. We are all responsible for our own words and actions

regardless of whether or not we are running for POTUS.

Trump ought to be answerable for his bigotry. But, at the same time, anyone who chooses to murder another human being can't sidestep his or her own heinous actions by pinning it on a scummy politician.

[apcalc]

3. Any suspects?

[rug]

6. All I see so far is a description.

Cops and witnesses described the shooter as tall and Hispanic, carrying a large handgun, and wearing a dark blue shirt and short pants.

[dhol82]

14. Would be strange for a Hispanic to be the shooter

No real reason there.
Might believe a Shia/Sunni mix. But, hell, what do I know?

[rug]

17. The trouble with trump is that his rhetoric makes everything possible.

If Hillary does not smear him on the sidewalk, this country will be sucked into the black hole that's on the other side of his eyes.

[dhol82]

18. Dayum!

Truly hope that never happens!

GOTV!

[kestrel91316]

20. I can TOTALLY believe Hispanic. The horrible anti-Muslim bigotry

that I see all over the internet by Hispanics is really appalling. It was terrible here in SoCal after the San Bernardino massacre. Far and away the worst, most horrible blanket generalizations and hate speech then were from Hispanics. I was stunned.

[dhol82]

23. Wow, had no idea

Just did not think that shit would happen in the northeast.

[kestrel91316]

24. There is something about the conservative Hispanic crowd,

whether they are uber-Catholic, or more likely Pentecostal types - they have an irrational hatred of all Muslims. And spew the worst, most inflammatory garbage. Right up there with the Neo-Nazis for hateful.

[dhol82]

26. Interesting. Good to know.

Had no clue about this.

[guillaumeb]

5. I would like to nominate Donald Trump for the Pamela Geller award for incitment.

With his fear mongering talk of building walls, and Second Amendment people having solutions, and totally banning Muslims from America.

[Shrike47]

8. It's a tragedy all the way around, for the victims, for their families, for America.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. I am so ashamed of this country.

[StrictlyRockers]

13. This is what hate-speech and hateful rhetoric leads to

This has been well documented. If it is left unchecked and unopposed, it leads to things like The Holocaust. This is why we need to take Trump's divisive and hate-filled, racist, bigoted language very, very seriously. And we need to fight back against it with everything we can muster.

We can't let this become normalized behavior. We have to call it what it is. It is a hate-crime. We have to teach our children to value inclusion, respect, compassion and love. Love is the only thing that can conquer hate. Where is all of this hatred coming from?

I fear for the future of our country.

[In_The_Wind]

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