CAIR reports subway hate crime against NY Imam — US Attorney General defends sting operations

Bismillah walhamdolillah.

Full Credit to CAIR National for tweeting this story about the apparent hate crime against a NY Imam in the NYC subways:
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A moment later, the train stopped at the Canal Street station, prosecutors said, and Mr. Melendez tried to kick the man as he stepped off the subway car. As the two men struggled, the complaint stated, another man who was with Mr. Melendez — Eddie Crespo, 28 — grabbed the victim and tossed his kufi onto the subway tracks while shouting, “You know, I really don’t like Muslims.”

According to prosecutors, Mr. Melendez then punched the man repeatedly in his face, causing “substantial pain” and “bruising and swelling” to his left eye.

Found on the New York Times web site.

According to another local news story, the imam refused medical attention, so we pray that means his injuries were not medically serious.

The day after an imam was attacked in NYC, the US Attorney General appeared at the annual dinner of Muslim Advocates in San Francisco, showing his appreciation for Muslim American cooperation with law enforcement while defending the FBI’s practice of sending informants into mosques, hoping the informants can convince someone — anyone — there of committing a violent crime.

In his remarks, Mr. Holder said the cooperation of Muslim-Americans had been essential in preventing terrorist attacks. He said that the Justice Department was focusing on “violence, threats, vandalism and arson against Muslims and Arab-Americans,” and that in the last fiscal year federal prosecutors won convictions of more hate-crime defendants than any year but 2000.

“I believe that law enforcement has an obligation to ensure that members of every religious community enjoy the ability to worship and to practice their faith in peace, free from intimidation, violence or suspicion,” Mr. Holder said.

But he also rejected criticism of some counterterrorism techniques used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, including sending informants into mosques in search of would-be terrorists and creating elaborate sting operations enabling them to carry out fake attacks using dummy bombs.

Found on the New York Times web site.

Can we zoom in on these words please: “I believe that law enforcement has an obligation to ensure that members of every religious community enjoy the ability to worship and to practice their faith in peace, free from intimidation, violence or suspicion.” Unless of course its the FBI committing that intimidation, violence, or suspicion.