Queens, NY – New York City police have released a sketch of the suspect they say fatally shot the leader of a mosque and a friend as they left afternoon prayers.
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Police say witnesses described the shooter of 55-year-old Imam Maulama Akonjee and 64-year-old Thara Uddin as a man with a medium complexion, last seen wearing a dark shirt and blue shorts. Police released a sketch early Sunday of a dark-haired, bearded man wearing glasses.
Authorities say the shooter approached them from behind as they left the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque in Queens shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday. Police say video surveillance showed the suspect then fled south on 79th Street with the gun still in his hand.
Police say they haven’t determined a motive, and that there’s no indication the men were targeted because of their faith. But members of the Bangladeshi Muslim community served by the mosque worry it could be a hate crime.
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Seems like a Muslim-on-Muslim murder then. That’s good – they can’t make another blame-the-white-people only-POC-lives matter incident out of this.
Don’t be surprised if the killer is an ISIS bum, who killed these men because they were not militant enough. Throughout Bangladesh murders of normative Imams have occured, not to mention in many other country. Sad for them and everyone else.
It looks like the shooter was another Moslem! This was not a random hate crime!
How soon before we start seeing Muslim Lives Matter protests?