Farrukh Afzal was screaming “Allah” and “kill all the Jews.” Before he attacked Lipa Schwartz, he switched lanes and nearly hit a Jewish pedestrian. But WABC, without explanation, removed Lipa Schwartz’s statement that Afzal was screaming “Allah” from its report. And while the Daily Mail reported yesterday that Afzal had been charged with a hate crime, today there is no hate crime charge listed for Afzal. It looks as if powerful people in New York City want a Muslim-on-Jew hate crime to disappear. Islam is a religion of peace, doncha know.
“UPDATE – INSANITY: Hate Charges DROPPED Against ‘Allah’ Shouting Man Who Beat Hasidic Jew in Boro Park [NEW VIDEO],” The Yeshiva World, October 16, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report):
A suspect has been hit with multiple charges – without hate-motivated distinction – for viciously beating a Hasidic Jewish man in Boro Park on Sunday morning.
Farrukh Afzal, 37, of Staten Island was charged with assault, criminal mischief and harassment for the attack, which took place at around 7:30AM near 46th Street and 13th Avenue.
He was initially hit with hate charges as well, but prosecutors have decided to label this a mere “road rage” incident and NOT a hate crime. This despite the victim and witnesses saying Afzal shouted “Allah, Allah”, said he wanted to “kill all Jews” and made references to Israel throughout the attack.
Additionally, new video (see below) provided to YWN on Monday night, shows Afzal switching lanes and nearly hitting another Jewish pedestrian (top left – behind white van) and blowing a red light as he sped down 13th Ave enroute to 46th street where he viciously beat 62-year-old R’ Lipa Schwartz.
Afzal, who has 8 prior arrests, was detained on Sunday night in lieu of $15,000 bail. He has since been fired from the “Church Ave Car Service” at which he was employed and whose car he was driving at the time of the assault.
As reported by YWN on Sunday, R’ Lipa Schwartz, 62, was walking to Shul, Tallis and Tefillin in hand, when a black “Church Ave Car Service” vehicle driven by Afzal came to a screeching halt at the curb nearby. Afzal got out, ran towards Schwartz and began punching him in his face while screaming “Allah, Allah” repeatedly.
“He came out from the car. I couldn’t explain to you how angry he was. He was screaming the whole time,” Schwartz told CBS2.
“All of a sudden… boof, boof, boof, boof!”, Schwartz said, referring to the barrage of punches that came his way. “So I start to fight back because it’s either death or life.”
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James Lincoln says
Recommend checking out “Church Ave Car Service” Facebook page before it is shut down.
The anti-Semitic comments are enlightening.
gravenimage says
I think they have removed the antisemitic comments, James.
Two comments refer to the attacks, though:
Maggie Martin doesn’t recommend Church Avenue Car Service.
1 hr ·
They could improve by not being Islamic terrorists attacking non-muslims.
Dan Silagi doesn’t recommend Church Avenue Car Service.
Yesterday at 3:52 AM ·
Don’t hire thugs as drivers.
Good to see some pushback.
Lydia Church says
It has arrived on our shores too… sadly.
Guy Forester says
It arrived on our shores over 3 decades ago. I had “encounters” with mujahideen from Afghanistan right here in the USA in 1983-84, Also with an Iraqi agent in 1997 or 98. The attacks started even before the WTC attacks in 93.
gravenimage says
And Guy, I had my artwork censored–a very tasteful nude among other paintings–at my show at the International House in Berkeley in 1979 after Iranian students complained.
Walter Sieruk says
Such extreme vicious and brutal spiteful Muslim hate for the Jewish, which is in seen in this specific case in Brooklyn ,is far from an isolated incident this hate and anti-Jewish h violence occurs in the different cities in North and south America in the cities and towns of the different countries of Europe and ,of course, many times in the different towns and cities of the Jewish State of Israel.
Therefore to provide the answer to explain the strong and malicious Muslim hate for the Jewish people this is the result of a firm but blind and unquestioning faith in the “holy book’ of Islam the Koran. Which instructs in violence and killing for the cause of Islam. As found in, for example, 4: 89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. In other words the Koran inspires and causes such hideous violence. Furthermore, another role the Koran has in such deadly Islamic terror attacks in the Jewish nation of Israel is that the Koran contains many negative about the Jewish people. This has everything to do with the history of the prophet and founder of Islam, who was Muhammad The history is that for a specific time period of his life Muhammad lived among many Jewish people and he liked them at first. Later then they would not accept his claim of being of prophet, Muhammad then took is dislike to them that then turned into bitterness and even hate for them. So in the hate and bitterness he spoke many derogatory things about the as even referring to them as “apes and swine.” Such word of bitterness and hate, along with other thing he said, where written down on things and then later after his death those words were together together and then eventually, in time went in the composition of the Koran. Therefore, that why the Koran reads and in does about the Jewish people, as in calling them descendants of “apes and swine.” As seen in the Koran in 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60. Furthermore, as a Christian I can keyboard that there is a chance the Muhammad actually might had been a prophet but the important thing to understand is that Muhammad was NOT a prophet send by God. Instead, Muhammad was a deceptive, lying false prophet send by Satan to lead many people astray and even and straight into hell. Jesus, in fact, had predicted and warned of the coming of such men as Muhammad. For Jesus taught “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matthew 7:15. In addition, the Bible further warns that “many false prophets are gone out into the world.” First John 4:1. [K.J.V.]
Keith says
Mahammad is a child of satan as all Muslims are. They think they own the world.But they don’t. They have plans of taking ver America and the world and they must be stopped. The hate Israel as they hate America. For some reason the Democrats believe in them and their cause. Thus must be stopped or America and the world will be taken over and your way if life and freedom gone.
elee says
District Attorneys know they’re elected officials.
gravenimage says
Brooklyn: Hate crime charge dropped against Muslim who brutally beat Jew while screaming “Allah” and “kill the Jews”
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How is this *not* a hate crime?
And there is no way that this could be “road rage”–the victim is not driving, nor is the man who tried to come to his aid. It is obvious that Farrukh Afzal stops specifically because he saw the victim walking on the sidewalk.
This is famous as a Jewish neighborhood, and Hasidic Jews dress *very* distinctively.
Jean says
gravenimage.
It is not a question of ‘is’ or ‘isn’t’. It is not a question of anyone (as in: anyone at all) being in doubt that this is a case of religious persecution and antisemitism in the most straightforward sense. It is a question of someone actively hiding this truth by any means possible. And when people make up their minds for a certain course, and have no scruples, then the truth doesn’t make any difference to them anymore.
This does not mean that one shouldn’t keep exposing it and confronting them. One just shouldn’t think that appealing to reality or logic will change anything in their agenda. So it is just as important, if not more, to expose the reason why they have removed the information about the attacker’s behaviour and the evidence of the witnesses. This is what they don’t want people to attend to.
Why do they hide the truth? Who or what motivated them to DISREGARD the witnesses and REMOVE the victim’s statement? This is the question they should be forced to answer. It is not expedient to waste time arguing from a premise that they have somehow overlooked the obvious.
We all know that they haven’t. The question to them is not “Can’t you see…?” But “Why do you lie?” It means dropping the polite pretense and putting the finger right on the sore spot. Employing a deeper level of honesty.
Tommy Robinson uses this confrontation to great effect. The New Yorkers should do the same.
D J says
Thank you for that Tommy quote. I will use it in my complaint to the Prevent organisation which I am compelled to take because of work.
Attached to the training document is a list of banned terror organisations.Over60 are Islamic, about 6 are Irish and National Action and a couple of offshoots are mentioned.
I was marked wrong for the question about which of the people is most likely to become involved in terrorism.
1.Jade is 15. She doesn’t have any friends and is being bullied at school.
2.Masood is 25, he is an asylum seeker and frustrated because he cannot get a job.
3 None of these descriptions.
4.Peter is 18, he has just passed his exams with distinction and is going to university very soon.
I answered 2.The ‘correct’ answer was 3.
I was on the Tube on 7/7 and my brother lives near Parsons Green where an Iraqi asylum seeker was recently convicted of a bombing. I have had friends murdered Muslim terrorists.
I am curious at the cowardice dishonesty and am not willing to be silenced.
Ps I will be on the street for Tommy again in future.
Jean says
D J.
It was not a direct quote from Tommy, more a paraphrase / description of his strategy as I see it. But you’re very welcome to use it.
And thank you for your interesting story. — In a way, answer 3 is actually correct, I’d say. Because I don’t believe that anyone commits terror out of frustration with mere unemployment. This is an excuse the media use to avoid naming the real motivation, which is Islam. So if Masood is really just worried about getting a job, then he will not become a terrorist. That will only happen if he is a devout Muslim.
So they are technically correct; but they are still playing a mind trick, since they are trying to make people feel wrong about suspecting a guy from the Middle East… while they carefully avoid naming the real reason why people suspect people with a Muslim name in the first place… namely, Islam itself. Its central doctrine of jihad. The elephant in the room.
Do continue to support Tommy. He is a true hero, someone who cares deeply about justice. Watch his videos on his Facebook page to see his strategy in action – a constant reminder about what honesty is.
https://www.facebook.com/thetommyrobinson
I am very sorry to hear that you have lost friends to jihad. My condolences.
gravenimage says
True, Jean. And no–I was not appealing to the logic of those obscuring the motive for this attack, since they seldom use logic at all.
BC says
Ludicrous. Road rage usually involves two drivers or the unlikely event a pedestrian interferes with the safe passage of a vehicle. The accused swerved across two lanes (dangerous driving?) and also ran a red light, also dangerous driving, to get near to the victim. The prosecutors are either politically motivated or do not know their jobs. A decent judge, if there are any, should see through this nonsense
gravenimage says
+1
mgoldberg says
Now imagine….. anywhere, if a muslim man, 62 yo, had been assaulted by a non muslim.
Imagine…. what the politicians would be doing, lining up for severe punishment and demanding interfaith dialogue and education about Islam, the religion of peace.
mortimer says
Crime? Walking while Jewish in the presence of a Supreme Muslim.
This crime, if committed against a Muslim would be BIG NEWS around the world.
The Leftards are desperate to depict Muslims as victims.
Jews? Not so much.
The noble savages have an IDEOLOGY of supremacism and TERRORISM. Jews do NOT have an ideology of supremacism or terrorism, but rather an ideology of COMPASSION based on the GOLDEN RULE.
There is NO GOLDEN RULE in Islam.
The Istanbulian says
Sarsour anything you’d like to say? This could backfire terribly on your community as well.
WPM says
Sarsour lives in Bayridge Brooklyn to my knowledge she has never approached the Hasidic community of Boro Park .She will not touch this with a 10 foot pole ,the MSM will start the spin in a few days that this Jihads from Staten Island is mental ill, not real a devoted Moslem ,upset because of disappointment in his personal life, violence not his usually demeanor ect..The story will not be followed up after that ,his name quickly forgotten by the media. He will not have SJW snowflakes going to his house or hounding him at his new employment, or at in public areas, or protesting at city hall that something must be done about this {only law abiding people of the republican party, get this treatment in NYC} . The Jihads has Islamic Teflon coating nothing in the media will try stick anything to .
RichardL says
Hey, it is a Haredi! They are evil, everybody knows this… I do hope the US Jews wake up and stop voting for Democrats.
I wish prosecutors would go after the lawyers, too. Lying is a crime.
mortimer says
Conclusion of the judge then:
IT ISN’T a “HATE CRIME” when MUSLIMS DO IT.
Roderick MacUalraig says
Indeed. Shame on that whole corrupt apparatus up there that allowed the specific charge to not be included.
Huh!?! says
If the implications weren’t so ominous this would make a comedy of the absurd. As others have pointed out: How is this not a hate crime? Oh yeah, islamist beats up a Jew or infidel or apostate as described by Mo. Evidently being in the presence of a Jew or infidel or apostate drives an islamist to mental illness. Therefore it is the fault of the Jew or infidel or apostate that the attack took place. Jew or infidel or apostate must be held and convicted of the attack. .
Freedom of religion as long as you are worshipping Allah.
This is going to keep getting worse. Sadly very few “leaders” in D.C. seem to have the backbone to lead the charge against islam seeping into the U.S.
Guy Forester says
How many terrorist attacks, like San Bernardino, Pulse, Boston, WTC, numerous drive overs and stabbings, and failed home made devices a la Times Square have been committed by Haredi, Orthodox, or even run of the mill Conservative and Reform Jews.
Now, ask the same question regarding persons practicing the religion we dare not name.
Now you know why the low ball bail, hate crime charge dropped, and any mention of what prompted the attacks (one attempted drive over, one actual assault and battery) disappeared. The religion of pieces..
RCCA says
The politicians don’t want to mess with the hate crime statistics; they want to claim that hate crimes are mostly committed by white nationalists. Saying anything else would be Islamophobic.
I hope that local Jewish community rises up to protest this outrageous miscarriage of justice.
Berengaria says
Muslims are now entitled to “Minorities’ Privileges” they can not be capable of committing a Hate Crime. Hate Crimes are only committed by the Majority.
I believe Holder, Obama’s Top Cop, said that about Blacks. Blacks could not commit Hate Crimes, because they were a Minority.
Eight Years of Obama Rule, but some of his Sick Rules still Continue.
No one should be shocked by the reluctance of NY to charge a Muslim with a Hate Crime.
Vicky says
Of COURSE they were. The nefarious leftist implementation, the crime of ‘Hate’, was solely an unconstitutional criminalization of a normal human emotion, something ludicrously impossible to rightly regulate, to use as a tool to punish citizens they want silenced, or made an example of. It is almost 100% never used to punish any minority, any illegal alien, any muslim or any government official. No matter how ‘hateful’ their crime presents itself to be.
Obbop says
Wild guess time: Is there any possibility that the charges will be minimized so that the evil-doer who should never have been inside any Western country is released from its cage as soon as possible so that real justice can be meted out via a non-governmental system?
Not declaring that is right or wrong… just reality.
gravenimage says
No, Muslims are not being let off with light sentences so that they can be dealt with by violent vigilantes. This is not happening, and there is no basis in reality for claiming that it is.
Obbop says
A shame.
Denny says
A hatecrime can only be made to a muslim, never by a muslim.
Brenda says
This is disgraceful. People should be up in arms. Their police should be fired, starting with the police commissioner. Their uniforms should be yellow, for cowards, and their guns confiscated. City official starting with prosecutors should be tarred and feathered then run out of town on a rail.
JAT 349 says
This attack happened on the street in Brooklyn.
It was caught on video.
There were many witnesses.
But I have not seen anything anywhere on MSM news.
Why is that?
gravenimage says
JAT, I checked, and this story has been covered by the New York Post, NBC New York, WABC TV, ABC 7 NY, New York CBS local, and the New York Daily News. Several of these have had more than one story about the case. Newsweek also has a piece.
It was also covered by the Times of Israel and the UK Daily Mail.
I don’t know how much coverage the story is getting–or how often the assailant is being identified as Muslim–but it is not being ignored by the MSM.
Linda Furlong says
apparently the DA’s office doesn’t have a set. They bow down to politically correct. They bow down to these crazed muslims. Time to rid our country of them. If this were a Jew who beat a muslim he’d be in jail with no bail. Sad how our country is changing.
Carl Tidwell says
They want people to be tolerant towards them,but they don’t want to be tolerant towards other religions!
Michael Landy says
New York City is anti-religion except when it comes to the Muslims.
K says
Of course charges would conveniently be dropped over the radical Islam terrorist that attacked a Jewish citizen. Why would this surprise anyone who has been paying attention to he vitriol spewed by Jewish hating Muslims? Our so called schools, now more like indoctrination camps for the young & impressionable are shoving the teachings of Islam down their throats as a way to normalize Islam and paint these terrorists as “just like us” and a group we must empathize with. BS. The Koran teaches, Death to Jews, Death to America and anone not willing to convert should be murdered. We really do need a complete ban on Muslins UNLESS they agree to our way of life, our Christianity & our refusal to convert to their heinous terrorist beliefs. Lord knows, God can’t be mentioned in our s hooks but Allah sure has found a way to be accepted!