{"id":20284,"date":"2010-08-26T23:27:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T03:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20284"},"modified":"2010-08-26T23:27:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T03:27:26","slug":"the-hate-crime-that-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20284","title":{"rendered":"The Hate Crime That Wasn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, 21-yr old Michael Enright was arrested for attempting to murder a Muslim taxi cab driver<\/a> in New York City. Enright had gotten into the man’s cab and after a short conversation where Enright supposedly asked the man about how Ramadan was going, Enright started attacking the man with a knife. The cab driver sustained injuries to his face and was only able to escape after he locked Enright in his cab. Enright was arrested by NYPD and charged with attempted second-degree murder.<\/p>\n

Immediately, the incident by tied to the protests against the Ground Zero Mosque. Posters at HuffPo<\/a> claimed he was a Tea Party member (which no evidence has surfaced that he is). However, details have emerged about Enright that have complicated this story and made me question whether this has anything to do with the Ground Zero Mosque or the fact that cabbie was Muslim.<\/p>\n

From CNN (emphasis is mine):<\/p>\n

A film student<\/strong> suspected of stabbing a New York cab driver after learning the driver was Muslim was described Thursday as someone who worked to build bridges across religious and ethnic boundaries<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Those who know Michael Enright, 21, a film student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, were “shocked and dumbfounded” by his arrest, said Robert Chase, the executive director of Intersections International. Enright volunteered with the nonprofit group, and it partially funded his trip in the spring to Afghanistan<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So here is a guy who volunteered time to a group that reached out to Muslims and spent time in Afghanistan (and who had a picture of himself posing with an Afghan child on his Facebook, but the FB page seems to have been taken down). Nothing in his past would suggest an association with hate groups. I also doubt that this guy would be caught dead at a Tea Party rally or anti-Ground Zero Mosque protest (he is a Film Student, c’mon…). \u00a0I am sorry, but I don’t believe this guy did this for a minute because he hated Muslims. The CNN article says he was drunk when he was arrested. This seems to be a case of a dumbass who couldn’t handle his booze and who gets violent when he drinks. He should go to jail for a long time but to blame it on the opposition to the Ground Zero Mosque is absurd (but not out of the realm of the supporters of the Mosque).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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