Drunk Man Pees On Prayer Rugs At Queens Mosque

If it's not a drunken man allegedly stabbing a cabbie because he's Muslim, then it's a drunken man entering a Queens mosque and urinating on its prayer rugs. Last night, at the Al-Iman Mosque on Steinway Street, an apparently intoxicated man stormed in and "shouted anti-Muslim slurs as he urinated on prayer rugs," the Post reports. Naturally, that interrupted the evening prayers.

According to witnesses, Omar Rivera was shouting slurs and calling the worshippers "terrorists." One told the Post, "He stuck up his middle finger and cursed at everyone... No one can pray now because the rugs are completely soiled. It was disgusting... He calls us terrorists, yet he comes into our mosque and terrorizes other people... This is a true hate crime."

Rivera was eventually subdued and held in a back room until police arrived. He was charged with criminal trespass.

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By Jen Chung in News on August 26, 2010 10:20 AM

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Jack

McDonald likes the pork sword

whitecastlerock

I'm glad he pissed on the rug-maybe it will force those smelly fuckers to use soap and water before they get into their cabs...

matty

Teddy Roosevelt once body slammed the Prime Minister of Canada and told him "don't piss on my rug"

Maybe he was a muslim.

John L

And as the media, especially Fox News, continues to fan the flames of hate and bigotry for their ratings we will undoubtedly see more incidents like this and the cab driver stabbing. We are going into dangerous territory now and it's not even coming from the terrorists. I'm all for the war on terrorists but now this is becoming a war on religion and that is very dangerous. Let's keep in mind that there's close to 2 billion muslims throughout the world.

nik13

Ever watched Olbermann on MSNBC? That's a real hate fest. Richard Madcow is nearly as bad. More snark, less screaming.

2B Muslims & thy produce meaningful to rest of the humankind, except oil, dried dates & terrorism.

Jack

Maddow is packing junk

robingee

You're packing crap where your brain would be.

robingee

>> Ever watched Olbermann on MSNBC? That's a real hate fest. Richard Madcow is nearly as bad. >>

Oh yeah, Keith and Rachel are real hate-filled warmongers! HA!

jt10000

Really? How come in the US, where we have Fox and MSNBC, we keep having nutty violence from people who say they listen to Beck and O'Reilly (and Limbaugh), and nearly nothing from Maddow fans?

There is a lot of anti-government, anti-women's right, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim violence in the US right now, and the right wing media is getting morons hyped up to commmit it.

And you talk about "hate" from Maddow?

Boogie Down

Not only do I agree with you, sir, I applaud your ability to comprehend what this idiot was trying to say.

ProudLiberal1947

Now is the time to start ambushing the hate and fear mongering Anti American COWARDLY republican christian, they threw down the gaunglet now lets return the favor.

Look they have TERRORIST Central known as FAUX NOISE the Nit Wit noise station for the the Uneducated and inbred. It has been proven they are a terrorist orgaization and want the DEATH of America look at their ShareHol;ders and how they are PROTECTING them, DO NOT forget this Share Holder is the one wanting the Mosque at ground zero.

Next look at the TERROR@IST fox NOISE and their support of the American leader of BP and his stance NOT to comment on or answer question about Lockebie Scotland, tell me these TEROORIST at fox Noise aren't working over time with Misdirection and Twisted facts.

Baseball bats, bows and arrows and guns kill them all as they are Anti American. booby trap their stair cases car accidents oops my brakes failed. The more dead Anti American fox employees and their followers the better off for American and the REAL AMERICANS

SP's Ghost

Uh. What?

robingee

Oh come now. Let's not get nutsy-poo.

nik13

Rivera is a NYC performance artist in search of NEA grant. If he only kept his urine "bottled", he'd have become a darling of polite society.

Cannibal

The Captain was here.

elveese

Wasn't his fault. Dude drank too much and had to pee. Like, what? The mosque guys can't get the carpet cleaned? Then he talks trash about their faith? Come on! Dude was just, you know, shit-faced. I mean, seriously, Islam. You folks find this disrespectful?

Sheesh!

chuzzlewit

that is so......sigma nu.

or something. wtf.

freddynyc

My initial reaction to this is to burst out laughing. Am I being insensitive?

jt10000

A bit. But pissing is sorta funny, as is people saying they can't pray because they lack a rug.

I'm not condoning the vandalism and hate - it's a sign of stuff in our society that are being whipped up by some elements of the media and some politicians. But yeah, the action is slightly funny.

SFNY

Don't be so ignorant about the rugs, jt10000, or about Islam in general.

The prayer rug keeps the worshippers clean and comfortable during the prostration to God during prayers. Every Muslim must perform a ritual cleaning of himself or herself before they pray, and they must pray in a clean place.

If you think of it as somewhat akin to a yarmulke for an observant Jew who must cover his head during prayer, or the Pope's mitre, you might understand why this is a big issue.