The first disgrace was that he was not charged with a hate crime. Now a new disgrace on top of that: to release him on bail after the gratuitousness and brutality of this crime amounts to wagging a finger in Afzal’s face and warning him not to do it again. Does Judge Ruchie Freier want to be careful not to show favoritism? Perhaps, but once again we see justice miscarried in connection with an act of jihad violence. Freier might as well have announced that Afzal was “mentally ill” and released him outright.
“Hasidic US judge releases NY Muslim who attacked Jew,” by Tzvi Lev, Arutz Sheva, October 18, 2018:
The first-ever female hasidic justice in the United States freed 37-year-old cab driver Farrukh Afzal for attacking an observant Jew earlier this week in Brooklyn.
Judge Ruchie Freier ordered Afzal freed on a $15,000 bail. Afzal faces charges of assault, criminal mischief and harassment. Afzal will not be charged with a hate crime.
Afzal reportedly attacked the victim, identified as Rabbi Lipa Schwartz, 62, because he thought he was an Orthodox Jewish man who had stepped in front of his car earlier in the day. Video footage shows Afzal pulling Schwartz into the street and savagely beating him.
Afzal was arrested soon after the assault. After his identity was published, he was fired from his job at Church Avenue Car Service.
During the assault, Afzal reportedly yelled “Allah, Allah” while he dragged Schwartz.
“He came out from the car. I couldn’t explain to you how angry he was. He was screaming the whole time,” Schwartz recounted to CBS2.
“All of a sudden… boof, boof, boof, boof!”, Schwartz continued. “So I start to fight back because it’s either death or life.”
Following the attack, Schwartz was evacuated to Maimonides Medical Center and was treated for minor injuries….
tedh754 says
Lets see what happens when they start beating up homosexuals like they do in Amsterdam.
Guy Forester says
What happens there? Any jail time, deportations?
Andy says
Nothing surprises me anymore in this leftie/liberal dominated land in which we live at the present moment.
gravenimage says
It’s already started here, ted.
“San Francisco: Muslims shoot gay man in the face, videotape the attack”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/03/san-francisco-muslims-shoot-gay-man-in-the-face-videotape-the-attack
This happened across the street from where I met my husband.
GreekEmpress says
Thanks for posting. You won’t hear it on mainstream media. SF is my hometown. Sad to see what’s happening there.
gravenimage says
I didn’t know you were from here, GreekEmpress. There is a vibrant Greek community in San Francisco and the East Bay.
I was born here, as well. We have not been overrun by Muslims here as much as others in the West have been, yet I still know three people murdered by Muslims, which still shocks me.
This story actually was covered by the San Francisco Chronicle–but I doubt they understood that the attack was Jihad.
Itinerant says
Nothing much will happen – gay rights, like women’s are expendable to globalists and deluded multikultists.
The Jews are first however and are the canaries in the coalmine. The progressives and bien pensants however are committed to the greatest piece of fake news in the 21st c. – Islam is a religion if peace (so huge it required an entire fake narrative).
To think otherwise is to be ‘right-wing’ and therefore evil incarnate and quite possibly neo-Nazi.
It’s all part of the giant trap, that liberals are leading so many Western nations into.
‘Berlin: “Nearly all” attacks on gays committed by “migrant-background men”’
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/10/18/berlin-sees-rise-homophobic-attacks-committed-migrant-background-men/
London: “it is the frequency and intensity of the recent attacks that is shocking.”
http://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/gay-londoners-see-attacks-rise
France: “There used to be Jewish shops on Chaussée de Gand, but these were terrorized by gangs of young kids and most closed their doors around 2008. Openly gay people were routinely intimidated, and also packed up their bags.”
http://www.politico.eu/article/molenbeek-broke-my-heart-radicalization-suburb-brussels-gentrification/
One could go on and on but apart from an odd indefatigable exception or two, where are the gay rights activists and anti-racists? too busy chanting: “we are all Hizbollah”, probably.
mortimer says
That is what the Leftards call a ‘HATE CRIME’ … isn’t it?
Oh, I see! In the opinion of LEFTARDS, it isn’t a ‘HATE CRIME’ when MUSLIMS do it.
Keys says
We all can imagine what would happen if a Jewish man did this to a Muslim man –
and I bet that would be judged a hate crime even if “road rage” were involved.
If our legal system is going to employ “hate crime” laws as a “tack on” motivational crime, should not Democrats physically attacking republicans for their views (and vise versa) be judged a hate crime ?
It is definately hatred for an opposing view. Indeed, any physical attack on another for any opposing political view could be a “hate crime” if we are going down hate crime alley.
If a Libertarian beats up a Green Party member for his views, isn’t that hatred too ? Or should hate crimes apply only to religion, race, sex, and ethnicity ?
I hate Islam.
mortimer says
Victim Rabbi Schwartz was taken to Maimonides Medical Center.
Maimonides, a renowned philosopher and physician, and one of the greatest of Jewish sages, a victim and observer of the Almohad persecutions, Maimonides fled Cordoba with his entire family in 1148. Maimonides had no good words for Islam:
“… on account of our sins God has cast us into the midst of this people, the nation of Ishmael [that is, Muslims], who PERSECUTED US SEVERELY, and who devise ways to HARM us and to DEBASE us…. No nation has ever done more harm to Israel. None has matched it in DEBASING and HUMILIATING us. None has been able to REDUCE us as they have…. We have borne their imposed degradation, their lies, their absurdities, which are BEYOND HUMAN POWER TO BEAR…. We have done as our sages of blessed memory have instructed us, bearing the lies and absurdities of Ishmael…. In spite of all this, we are not spared from the ferocity of their wickedness and their outbursts at any time. On the contrary, the more we suffer and choose to conciliate them, the more they choose to act belligerently toward us…”
Maimonides did not think that APPEASING MUSLIMS was effective.
Keys says
Thanks for the Maimonides (1135? – 1204) quote, mortimer.
Things have not changed ! The sacred texts upon which Islam is based are not only immutable, but the perfect word of Allah. And Allah’s “perfect man” hated Jews most of all kafirs.
Mohammad committed many “hate crimes” that Allah considers virtuous and big ticket rewardable.
gravenimage says
Important quote from Maimonides, Mortimer.
CogitoErgoSum says
So this Muslim cab driver was angry because he thought this Jewish man was someone else who had stepped into the path of the Muslim’s cab earlier? Well, now it all makes sense. Since the Muslim was deprived of the pleasure of running down a Jew, the Muslim decided to get out of his car and beat up a Jew. How dare some Jew get in the way of a Muslim. That shows a complete lack of respect from an Infidel towards his superior. Submission is the name of the religion and humble submission is what it demands …. and Muslims are supposed to fight to make sure the infidels know their place (Quran 9:29).
gravenimage says
+1
CL North says
It all points back to demanding one rule of law for everyone! Too many excuses and double standards exist today!
In America, if you are Caucasian little or no hate crimes are charged against “minorities” of any group who attack you! Mental illness is often seen as the underlying culprit, “go to” explanation. Or road rage as seen here! Anything to avoid calling it a hate crime against the underprivileged! Remember they are the oppressed ones.
One day soon, Caucasians will be the minority in Western nations. Very few politicians will stick out their necks to defend us. It’s already happening in South Africa, Europe, Canada, America, etc. Just a matter of time until we become the despised, hated group shown no mercy.
Guy Forester says
I told you so when this story first appeared.
And now we have an Hasidic Jew giving another one the proverbial bird. I wonder, was she concerned that she would be the target of a similar or worse attack? Was she trying to prove that she was far more tolerant and noble than the attacker? Who will be the next victim of this violent and lousy excuse for a human being? An elder or child? A pregnant woman? He apparently goes after people that he thinks are unable to defend themselves. New York City and State make it impossible for the weaker to defend themselves, and are enablers of this kind of violence.
BTW, remember the severe punishment that was dished out to Al Sharpton for his role in inciting violence a few years back at the Jewish enclave in NYC? Gee, neither do I.
WPM says
The judge must bow before here democrat party overlords who appointed her to grant bail. Sharpton is in close with the overlords, from the rioting and killing at Freddy record store in upper Manhattan {Sharpton publicly egging the rioters on that the Jewish landlord were pushing the record store to close he personal called for violence} , to the rioters he egg on in Brooklyn screaming kill the Jews over a car accident involving a Rabbi,s car ,the rioters killing a Hasidic Jewish youth from outside of Brooklyn visiting family members in Brooklyn.
11B40 says
Greetings:
Didn’t there use to be an “enhancement” to criminal charges when the elderly were attacked ???
gravenimage says
NY: Muslim who brutally beat Jewish man released on bail
…………………….
Indefensible.
Andy says
+1
Rufolino says
Outrageous. A scandal. Shameful.
lisalles says
The judge is a democrat. Obviously, a very liberal one. She should be removed from the bench. If that was not a hate crime, i do not know what is.
gravenimage says
The judge herself is Hasidic, so probably not all that liberal–culturally, at least.
That makes her decision here–where the victim was also Hasidic–all the more ironic.
David says
Where is Kavanaugh when you need him?
infidel says
I had the misfortune of seeing that video…. The Muslim behaved true to his calling.. like a savage barbaric possessed animal.. I wish there was a huge bikie in the place of that hapless victim… giving this animal a piece of its own medicine..
WPM says
The cowardly Moslems pick fighters with old men young girls ,they attack in cowardly packs. This cowardly Moslem would not pick a fight with six foot tall,200+ pound fit young man who would stomp his guts out. He pick a humble old man ,signed out by his clothes as a Jew on his way to worship peacefully.
Linde Barrera says
I am of the opinion that the female Hasidic judge was paid off.
Guy Forester says
Either that or threatened.
UltraSkeptic says
I don’t understand the idiocy presented here in this raging objection to bail. We ARE a nation of LAW. The law permits bail for most criminal accusations. And it wasn’t up to the judge to determine the charges presented. Yeah, perhaps this was a hate crime. If so, why aren’t you raging about the prosecutors? Bail is a RIGHT. Even for Mohammedans. Get a grip on one of the more humane aspects of our “innocent until proven guilty in a court of law” system. Or, I suppose, you’d prefer to lynch the guy, even though this wasn’t a capital crime? Sounds like a bit of counter-bigotry to me.
Troybeam says
A nation of law is only as good as the judge that UPHOLDS the law no matter who is in front of the bench.
spanish judge says
The case was assigned to a Spanish Judge, Raymond Rodriguez who upheld Judge Freier’s decision to keep the Bail at $15,000 despite that the DA upgraded the charges from a 3rd degree Attempted Assault to a Hate Crime & Attempted Murder, because it’s a high bail amount, so he will remain in Jail until his trial.
Vicky says
HEY, HOMELAND SECURITY! So you allow a muslim terrorist to go free in our society after he savagely beats a elderly Jewish citizen in the middle of the street, in the middle of the day, while screaming alah alah I want to kill all Jews???? We must FIRE the inept leaders of this defunct agency for NOT doing their job!!!!!!!!!!