An imam and his partner were gunned down on a road in Ozone Park, Queens, on Saturday, minutes in the wake of completing evening supplications, two pieces from their mosque. A man escaped auto, kept running up behind them, shot each in the head, and fled.
The executioner said nothing to his casualties and did not ransack them. In the hours after the wrongdoing, the New York Police Department said it had no suspect or known thought process in the snare, leaving open all potential outcomes — a contention, resentment or other clash, or some other irregular reason.
The potential outcomes incorporate disdain, for which the police said they had no confirmation, however which Muslims over the city, incorporating the numerous in the area with roots in Bangladesh, couldn't overlook. The imam, Maulama Akonjee, and his right hand, Thara Uddin, wore the facial hair and conventional clothing of ardent Muslims. They noticeably declared enrollment in a gathering that has been denounced, in the United States and around the globe, and especially in the current presidential crusade, by the individuals who trust that terrorist brutality embroils a whole religion.
That weight was intensely apparent in the off the cuff gathering on Saturday of a hundred or more Muslim-Americans in the sweltering night heat adjacent to the wrongdoing scene. Some argued for quiet, while others sobbed for equity. Their anguish and outrage were straightforward.
The information demonstrate that wrongdoings against mosques and Muslim-Americans are on the ascent. Contempt and suspicion of nonnatives are the center of the battle of a noteworthy gathering's candidate for president, Donald Trump.
Saturday's assault is just adding to a feeling of fear. The casualties' little place of love, Al-Furqan Jame Masjid, is a piece of a generally little yet developing Bangladeshi people group in what was at one time an intensely Italian-American territory otherwise called the turf of John Gotti.
Kobir Chowdhury, who is president of another mosque adjacent, said the group had made some amazing progress from the strains and constant misuse flung at South Asian outsiders in the mid 1990s, when he arrived. Be that as it may, obliviousness and trepidation have not left. He said that after the Republican presidential applicant Ted Cruz proclaimed in March that the nation ought to keep an eye on mosques, as the New York police used to do, a young fellow appeared outside Mr. Chowdhury's mosque, making what had all the earmarks of being an observation video with his telephone.
Suspicion and contempt can be fed at a separation. In any case, along these lines, as well, can sympathy. On Sunday, as news of the Queens killings spread, numerous non-Muslims overall began sharing the online networking hashtag #Illwalkwithyou, promising to go with Muslims to supplications, an unconstrained overflowing of solidarity notwithstanding viciousness and trepidation. The family and companions of Saturday's casualties can relax because of knowing they are not the only one.
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