"When confronted there about the fliers, he made unspecified verbal threats, according to the sources"

...what part of "convert or die" did they not understand?....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at September 19, 2007 7:47 AM

"The student's religion was not immediately known."

Well I guess it could have been a Buddist asking people to convert to Islam.

Posted by: Elric66 at September 19, 2007 8:06 AM

"then made threats once he was caught, "

....gee...Hamas terrorists do the same thing, as do Muslims terrorists caught in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at September 19, 2007 8:10 AM

I'm sure they meant to put:

"The extent of the student's Islamic extremism was not immediately known."

-XRDC

Posted by: XRDC at September 19, 2007 8:17 AM

"A Department of Education spokesman did not return a call seeking comment."

...they were fearful of yet to come fatwas....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at September 19, 2007 8:21 AM

" A Queens teen "

.....let me guess:.....a black 17 year old convert influenced by older black converts (who converted while in prison)...

.....Queens has many such individuals....

...of course, just a hunch.....a teen on a power trip....encouraged by Islam.....with a complete disregard to the social morales established and paid for by the blood of our forefathers....

.....homegrown Muslim convert....but a Muslim is a Muslim is a Muslim.....

....and Muslims are establishing a tarnished track record.....

....and the betting window is open....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at September 19, 2007 8:34 AM

The alleged perp's name and affiliations are easy to deduce. There was a more curious incident in Toronto recently.
In the middle of August, there were a number of letter bombs delivered to a limited number of people in the Toronto area. The police quickly caught the perpetrator, apprehending a suspect on the 31st of August and closing off major arterial roads so that the bomb squad could transport the suspect's car and the bombs it carried to a place where it could be safely detonated. But unlike other cases in which violent offenders are caught, there was no announcement of the perpetrator's name. I found this curious and immediately wondered whether the accused was a Moslem. I don't know why "Moslem" immediately came to my mind. It just did. So I pored over the local newspapers and found the story eventually buried in the back pages. Yes. Moslem name all right. "Adel Mohammed Arnaout." Lived in a house with a Moslem landlord ("I don't understand. My tenant is a nice man. He wouldn't do such a thing." etc. etc. etc.). But this bit of information wasn't forthcoming. What was almost forthcoming was that the suspect's motives were personal. Apparently this bit of information was considered important enough to broadcast immediately, perhaps even before the police had an opportunity to question the man in custody.
Of course it's true that this man's alleged actions may or may not have anything to do with his religion. But the way in which the story was handled leads me to conclude that somebody didn't want this fellow's ethnic background broadcast. Someone felt that there was something to hide. When the Unabomber was caught, how long did it take for his identity to be made known? Remember "Theodore John Kaczynski?" The police couldn't wait to provide the public with an identity. But it would seem that times have changed.

Posted by: Chatillon at September 19, 2007 8:39 AM

Should read "What was almost IMMEDIATELY forthcoming."

Posted by: Chatillon at September 19, 2007 8:40 AM

hmmmmmm......Now what religion would get all testy if one was confronted while passing out fliers?.....Yaseen? that name sounds like maybe southern baptist? huh....

Posted by: americanmadestrat at September 19, 2007 8:59 AM

Just a guess, I think his religion is................Islam!

Posted by: tanstaafl at September 19, 2007 9:04 AM

It makes me laugh how the school bored will cover this up, when wasn't it in Queens not too long ago a female teacher was reprimanded for wearing a cross? If I'm not mistaken it was on the news, and the news station very much took the stance of mixing church & state. I might be wrong but...its not out of the realm of possibilities.

Posted by: americanmadestrat at September 19, 2007 9:04 AM

I spelled "bored" on purpose

Posted by: americanmadestrat at September 19, 2007 9:06 AM

Just a guess, I think his religion is................Islam!

Posted by: tanstaafl

No Way! thats the religion of peace......I'm just dumbfounded, I can't believe it. I thought southern baptist, maybe Episcopalian, you know there is a big controversy in the angelican church these days!!! Nothing like a good morning laugh!

Posted by: americanmadestrat at September 19, 2007 9:11 AM

"The student's religion was not immediately known."

Given the horrifying increase of Islamaphobic crimes by ignorant Western wahoos, I'm sure police first wanted to rule out the likelihood that this was an impostor trying to smear innocent practitioners of the religion of peace.

/sarc

Posted by: Josephine at September 19, 2007 9:23 AM

unbelievable

Posted by: ThackerAgency at September 19, 2007 9:52 AM

This "religion unknown" business from New York Post??? that's it...

Posted by: yankee imp at September 19, 2007 9:55 AM

... was charged with aggravated harassment as a hate crime.

Not only is the concept of "hate crimes" in the criminal code unconstitutional, it's a fast-track to Sharia.

Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at September 19, 2007 10:24 AM

Nonsense by the Post reporter here. Most of the MSM dropped this tactic awhile ago.

Regarding the "hate crime" tag in this incident, I am in full agreement with APF.

A bad precedent.

Posted by: awake at September 19, 2007 10:46 AM

Awake,

Too true. A crime is a crime.

Posted by: Elric66 at September 19, 2007 10:52 AM

'Yaseen Chowdhury' is Pakistani muslim name.

Posted by: Crusader at September 19, 2007 11:51 AM

If a person was distributing leaflets that called for conversion to Islam, the "religion unknown" commentary is a dhimmi move done as to not upset you-know-who. Who else would make such a demand? Did they think this guy was like those door-to-door flyer deliverers?

We have all become so trained.

OT My daughter is a TA at a grade school. Her class won a pizza party for reaching a fundraising goal. There is one muslim cild in the class.

Usually the students can vote on 3 kinds of pizza-pepperoni, sausage, or cheese. This year the teacher said "cheese only" to be "respectful of all" in the class. The kids did not get it, but my daughter did. Several parents inquired and the mud hit the fan. Bottom line: There will be 3 kinds of pizza this year, and 2 will contain pork.

This is a situation where the teacher "dhimmied-out" before any muslim complaint was made.

Posted by: CapitalistGig at September 19, 2007 12:29 PM

Greetings:

Typical Islamophobic over-reaction.

The student was just doing an extra-credit creative writing/drama project to get a scholarship to the Michael Bloomberg-Kalil Gibran Arab/Mosque school.

Everybody please calm down and take your seats.

Posted by: 11B40 at September 19, 2007 1:11 PM

CapitalistGig,

You have taught your daughter well.

Posted by: Elric66 at September 19, 2007 1:21 PM

Thanks, elric66. I try. But as knowledge is power, it is also not bliss, as is ignorance.

You don't know how many school board meetings I've attended just to be ridiculed by teachers and other parents who believe "all religions worship one God," "it's just a few muslims who are terrorists, "the qu'ran honors Jesus and Mary," and "you're can't be a true Catholic if you don't love others."

But Robert Spencer's knowledge changed all that. Using the actual qu'ran and Robert's books, I can silence an auditorium of people faster than a masked man with an Uzi.

People are very uncomfortable when confronted with reality. It puts a major crimp in their fantasy football, happy hour, t.v. distracted existences.

Posted by: CapitalistGig at September 19, 2007 1:41 PM

CG wrote:

"But as knowledge is power, it is also not bliss, as is ignorance."

Unfortunately, too true.

Posted by: awake at September 19, 2007 1:47 PM

Hahahahaha :) the article above seems like a parody!

:)

I wonder if the reporter and the editor even noticed the mental contortions they did to force themselves into the PC box.

Humor everywhere!

And now comes feelings of disgust.

Stupid fourth-estate echo chambers

Posted by: npabga at September 19, 2007 2:34 PM

"The student's religion was not immediately known."

It would have been a fair statement if the student's name was "Bob Smith", because the guy might have been indulging in black propaganda, i.e. trying to make Muslims look worse than they are (difficult but possible). But the guy's name--Yaseen Chowdury--just makes it silly.

Posted by: sceptico at September 19, 2007 2:35 PM

Or, to be charitable, the remark might have been a subtle piece of sarcasm.

Posted by: sceptico at September 19, 2007 2:37 PM

thanks for this story, i really needed a laugh this evening !

Posted by: M Al-Content at September 19, 2007 3:13 PM

Earlier this year there was a live BBC report on a family in England (originally from Africa) that had just had its 7th child on the 7/7/2007 in ward No7. The father on his own initiative explained how important it was to him because he was a Christian and the biblical associations with the No 7.

The BBC reporter quickly interrupted him with something like " Oh..Oh..its also important for Muslims because of...(something about Islam and No7.)

As soon as he heard the word Christian he felt it was his duty to include Muslims. You could hear the tremble in his voice as he desperately tried to counter talk of Christianity on its own.

Luckily this particular Christian had not spent to long in the West and replied "Well I don't want to talk about Muslims."

Posted by: BlowHammed at September 19, 2007 3:16 PM

Elsewhere in Utah wacademia;

Muslims discuss view of evolution: Life is too complex to have been created by chance. This was the overall idea Abdullah Yusuf Ali, a Muslim chemist, conveyed during a discussion and film presentation about the Islamic perspective on creationism, hosted by the Muslim Students Association of the University of Utah. "Evolution is a very dogmatic thing," Yusuf Ali said. The group presented a film titled "The Collapse of Darwinism and the Fact of Creation," which challenges Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution, on Aug. 13 as part of Islam Awareness Month.

Posted by: Terp Mole at September 19, 2007 4:14 PM

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

(Driven out of my mind by the PC-ness of the writer of the Post article.)

Posted by: traeh at September 19, 2007 5:14 PM

"The student's religion was not immediately known"

Now thats sarcasm!!!!

Posted by: Uriel Septim at September 19, 2007 5:30 PM

Why would anyone other than a muslim pass out fliers urging people to convert to islam?! Did someone offer him a commission for each successful conversion? Are muslims now paying non-muslims to forcibly covert people to islam? I could sit here all day dreaming up explanations for this guy's bizarre behavior.

This "news" story is about as satisfying as reading a gripping mystery that reveals few clues and keeps you wondering 'till the end, only to discover that the last three pages are missing and you'll never know the outcome.

Posted by: Susanp at September 19, 2007 11:51 PM

NYC is politically very democratic and liberal this is why they are so politically correct. And if you want to see what the liberals think of the Islamic threat and those who bring to the public's attention go over to DailyKos and see the diary on Peter king.

It will make you want to barf.

Posted by: waltc at September 20, 2007 12:53 AM

"The student's religion was not immediately known." There may be a good explanation for this. Consistent with his new religion and its doctrine of taqiyah, the culprit may have misrepresented and lied about about his culpability for hours and hours and hours.

Posted by: David England at September 20, 2007 7:26 AM

Imagine if two Mormon missionaries came to your door to talk about their religion. What if, later, you had to report them to the police for some reason (for, I don't know, being too polite, or saying no to a cup of coffee). Would the news report that night say, "The men's religion was not immediately known"? I don't think so.

Posted by: Josephine at September 20, 2007 9:08 PM