Teens Arrested For Firing Shotgun Outside Western NY Mosque

Members gathered outside the World Sufi Foundation mosque.

Two 17-year-olds and three 18-year-olds have been arrested in Carlton, NY for harassing worshipers and yelling obscenities outside the World Sufi Foundation mosque after Ramadan services on Monday. One reportedly fired his shotgun outside, and as they drove away their cars they hit mosque member David Bell, leaving him with cuts on his hip. Bell told YNN, “I’m just grateful that things weren’t worse last night, which they easily could’ve been."

The teens charged with disrupting a religious service, and the 17-year old who fired the shotgun was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon. Orleans County DA Joseph V. Cardone told the Times, "We have had occasions in the past, and it seems every three or four years we have some kids drive by the mosque and make comments and that sort of thing. We’ve had minor incidents, but nothing of this magnitude in the past."

Two men were recently arrested: one for peeing on the prayer rugs of a Steinway Street mosque, the other for slashing the throat of a cab driver after finding out he was Muslim. Cardone said police are looking into further charges. He also said, "Clearly what motivated them was their ignorance of the religious beliefs at the mosque, ignorance as to what it is that transpires there, and the people who attend."

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By Jaya Saxena in News on September 1, 2010 5:50 PM

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ozik

"disrupting a religious service" should not be a specific crime, it privileges religious folks over non. Is this really an actual specific crime? It should be trespassing, or disorderly conduct, or in this case menacing and assault.

Boogie Down

Yeeeehaw! Fucking rednecks.

potsmoker

Feisal Abdul Rauf also heads up the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) which enjoys a partnership with the Cordoba Initiative and provided $100 million to secure the site close to ground zero for the mosque to be built.

That $100 million came directly from the back pockets of ASMA’s financial backers.

According to ASMA’s website they include the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Rockefeller Brothers, Rockefeller Philanthropy, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

potsmoker

meanwhile coke in purse heiresses, dlist dancing celebritries, tobaccoo executives, mcdonalds logistics managers, oil fortune sons, media manipulators, military war monger profiteers, and pedo preists drive by and laugh while poor upstate ny hillbilly trailepark fox news loving beck believing, palin worshippers get arrested for harassing muzzies, thinking to themselves "the plan is working just perfectly..."

exnyer

Sorry, but I get "spooked" when I encounter a full Niqab walking around in the supermarket, mall or see them behind the wheel.

wow 14th street

Just for balance guys!

Was the Muslim Psychiatrist that killed 10 or 12

unarmed GI's an Islamaphobic?.

Where was the rage from "Muslim Lite"that comment here?

Wza

Top story on FOX?

Nope, of course not.

S.D.

Expect worse to come.

Let's see what the tally is so far:

* Nearly assaulting a construction worker on suspicion of being Muslim.

* A cabbie stabbed for being a Muslim.

* A Jackass peeing on prayer rugs.

* A fire at the proposed site for a Mosque in TN.

* Shots fired near the proposed site for a Mosque in TN.

* These IDIOTS.

Sadly, they kill someone next.

dollarmenu

The worst part is that Muslims absolutely cannot, under any circumstances, fight back or even exchange angry words lest they "prove" these idiots right.

John L

I have another one for you:

* Fire at Tenn. Mosque Building Site Ruled Arson

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/28/national/main6814690.shtml

We are seriously approaching dangerous territory now.

S.D.

"We are seriously approaching dangerous territory now."

IMO, this country is there. The GOP and the Radical right have been demonizing ALL (Guess who's that for) Muslims for years.

Did you see
Aasif">http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-august-25-2010/tennessee-no-evil">Aasif Mandvi interview of the crazy lady in TN??

She's Batshit Crazy and people listen to her and follow her!

robingee

Attacking innocent Muslims is no better than attacking innocent Americans. We are making more war possible.

Darrell

And still more to come since the neocons have turned the war on terror into a holy war. And you know what's going to happen next? This news is going to circulate all around the middle east and everything that Al Queda said that America was will be substantiated by our own actions.

nice job

what is it with people bothering the sufis lately? they're like the hippie-dippie mystics of islam.

robingee

People like this don't pay attention to actual beliefs or facts! They just go "Muslims bad! GIT 'EM!"

jaycjay

Doesn't matter. They're all potential terrorists! Why do you hate freedom?

John Clavis

The builders of that mosque were clearly insensitive to the victims of 9/11, because their mosque was located in the same state as Ground Zero...

harrisgraber

Proof again that people are stupid. Islamophobia is spreading. There are, and will continue to be a growing number of acts against Muslims. Thank Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Rupert Murdoch, the Fox Network, and the GOP for that.

These are acts of ignorance and hate. When I say that people are stupid, I mean they are ignorant, but they are proud of their ignorance. That's why they are stupid.

I leave the rest of the comments to the usual trolls.

John L

"Thank Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Rupert Murdoch, the Fox Network, and the GOP for that."

Yes but don't forget the Koch Brothers who are financing this whole thing from Think Tanks to the Tea Party itself for their own twisted agenda.

Every American I plead with you to read this article.

It explains the whole money trail and who is really financing the Tea Party & why

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer

EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO READ THIS!

bashmentgirl

Just'a good ol' boys

Never meanin' no harm.

Beats all you never saw

Been in trouble with the law

Since the day they was born......

When I read this story, the "Dukes of Hazzard" theme song popped into my head.