Man Is Stabbed Outside a Mosque
November 18, 2012, 10:44 p.m. ET
By PERVAIZ SHALLWANI and JENNIFER WEISS
... Mr. Ahmad is an Afghani immigrant who immigrated to the U.S. in 1989 from Kandahar. He runs a halal food and breakfast cart on the Upper East Side.
In an interview Sunday, Mr. Ahmad said he heard steps from behind as he arrived at about 4:45 a.m., as he does every day to open the mosque for prayer. Someone then began attacking him, he said.
"I don't understand this guy, he's crazy," said Mr. Ahmad, noting Sunday was the first time he had missed a full day of prayers.
Mr. Ahmad told police he had climbed the stairs to the modest strip mall mosque and was fiddling with a lock when the man approached and began yelling anti-Muslim statements, the official said. He said the man stabbed him multiple times in the back with an object he believed was a knife, the official said ....
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Neighborhood was farm until 1930, so was apparently growing up around the time folk were fleeing Europe as conditions deteriorated and war loomed, hence picked up a lot of refugees in its early years: that crowd of folk was probably interested in promoting tolerance
I think part of Kew Gardens Hills is in the district involved in the Congressional race between Republican Dan Halloran and Grace Meng. Halloran made sure to visit Israel at the height of the campaign, then accused Meng of being a “Chinese National” with dual-citizenship, though in fact she was actually born in Queens and is a citizen only of the US. So it looks like Halloran thought he could make a winning coalition from anti-Chinese supporters of Israel. He lost: she just became the first Asian-American elected to Congress from NY State
