I got a real giggle out of the dinosaur media's antics today. After pounding on the Islamophobia drum all week they had a collective orgasm over a story that a New York cabbie had been slashed after revealing to a passenger that he was Muslim.
And then it turned out that the perpetrator is a Lefty agitator who belongs to a pro-Ground Zero Mosque group!
The apparent anti-Muslim assault on a New York city cabbie by a man shouting “Assalamu Alaikum. Consider this a checkpoint" produced an immediate round of recriminations over its connection to opposition to a New York Islamic Center and an apparent rising tide of Islamophobia.
But as often at the intersection of politics and violent crime, the story doesn't appear to fit any easy stereotype: The alleged assailant, Michael Enright, is — according to his Facebook profile and the website of the left-leaning media organization Intersections International — a student at the School of Visual Arts and a volunteer for Intersections, which recently produced a statement of support for the Park51 project....
Awwwwwwwww! All anticipation and no consumation..
(via Memeorandum
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