I hope people don’t draw conclusions from (another) isolated incident. Muslims love Jews! More Muslims please!
The manager of a Jewish bookstore on the Upper West Side of Manhattan was beaten up Monday afternoon by a self-declared Muslim man who threatened to kill him, New York Police Department officials told Jewish politics blog JP Updates.
Brooklyn native Salmon Salczer, 52, was inside West Side Judaica, when he saw a man pacing outside and peering into the store’s window. When Salczer approached the man to see what he wanted, the suspect punched him in the face repeatedly, while yelling, “F*** you Jews. I’ll kill you; I’m a Muslim.”
According to JP Updates, Salczer said he feared the attacker would strike him with a metal razer scooter he was holding. The suspect is believed to have later used the scooter to flee the scene. According to police, he is still on the loose.
Salczer called authorities and filed a police report. Detectives from the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force are now investigating the incident as a hate crime.
Authorities described the suspect as a 5’10” dark-skinned male in his 20s. He was wearing a red jacket and blue jeans at the time of the assault.
From my FB discussion:
Paul Ciotti It’s not a sin not to want Muslim culture in America. Our current ethic makeup is fine just as it is. It would be even finer to have it the way it was before Ted Kennedy changed it in 1965.
Christopher Donnellan Many prominent Jews lobbied for weakening immigration restrictions and permitting mass third world immigration with the Immigration Reform Act of 1965, so in this case, unfortunately for this proprietor, the Kosher chickens came home to roost.
Lars Guillen-Creed The Muslim just needed a safe space to check the Jew’s privilege
Chaim Amalek If some Syrian or Somali migrants had been there to restrain him, or better yet, talk him down as a brother, little to none of this need have happened.
