This will be an uphill battle, as the idea that a Muslim could commit a hate crime against a rabbi goes against the prevailing political and media narrative that Muslims are always victims.
“Boston rabbi stabbing suspect denied bail as Jewish leaders urge hate crime probe,” by Louis Casiano, Fox News, July 2, 2021:
The 24-year-old man accused of stabbing a Boston rabbi multiple times outside a synagogue was ordered held without bail Friday.
A judge ordered a hearing for Khaled Awad, of Brighton, the Boston Herald reported. Awad is charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on a police officer.
The charges are connected to the Thursday stabbing of Rabbi Shlomo Noginski outside the Shaloh House Jewish Day School in Brighton. He sustained multiple non-life threatening wounds to his arm and is recovering in a hospital.
Awad allegedly drew a gun and told the rabbi to take him to his car and attempted to force him inside, Rabbi Dan Rodkin, executive director of Shaloh House, told Fox News. Noginski tried running across the street to a nearby park called Brighton Common and was stabbed eight times in the arm, he said.
“The victim and suspect walked toward the van and the suspect told the victim to get in the van. At this point, the victim began to flee. The suspect chased the victim across Chestnut Hill Avenue and into a park across the street. The pursuit continued into the park, where the suspect caught up to the victim and stabbed him several times with a knife,” according to court documents obtained by WCVB-TV.
Prosecutors said officers confronted Awad after the attack and drew their weapons on him after he pointed a firearm at one officer. After putting his weapon on the ground, he allegedly kicked an officer in the stomach.
The school was running a day camp at the time of the attack and went into a brief lockdown, Rodkin said. No one else was harmed.
A motive for the attack was not revealed.
In court, prosecutors said Awad does not have a criminal record in Massachusetts but faces charges in Florida for alleged battery and theft. He may also face civil rights charges, prosecutors said.
Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was stabbed multiple times Thursday outside a Boston synagogue, authorities said. He is recovering from his wounds.
Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins was in the courtroom Friday and is facing calls from Jewish leaders to investigate the stabbing as a hate crime.
“This was an act of hate, of darkness,” Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston spokesperson Shira Goodman said, according to WBUR. “We will continue to live Jewish lives. We’re going to continue to pray at our synagogues, to attend our schools … and double down on social justice for all. That is light and that is love.”
Noginski, a father of 12, experienced anti-Semitism as a child in the Soviet Union when he was badly beaten in one attack, Rodkin told Fox News. In response, his mother put him in martial arts classes and he is now a black belt in judo, Rodkin said.
The family eventually moved to Israel where Noginski became a successful businessman and was a city councilman at one point. He moved to Boston to serve the city’s Russian-speaking Jewish community, Rodkin said.
“He dropped everything in Israel to come here to be a rabbi,” he said. “It’s hard to find a person who’s more kind, more gentle, very sincere, very humble.”
The case has renewed fears of anti-Semitic behavior following a series of attacks and vitriol against Jews that have gone viral in recent months.
In a tweet Friday, Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Nachman Shai, said the attack on Noginski was reminiscent of 1930s Europe and that “anti-Semitism is on the rise in the United States.”…
Mike says
If Muslims are not held accountable for the crimes they do to non believers!
Muslims want to fix Islamophobia this is the tip of the ice burg
They can NOT go around terrorizing the world with no consequences because they think they are better then everyone else
NOT
mortimer says
We need to fix ‘KAFIR-O-PHOBIA’. This can only be done by convincing Muslims that the Koran is of human origin.
wpm says
I am sure this jihadist,s lawyer will claim “mental illness” so no hate crime charges will be added to the charges. The MSM will give little attention to this crime it does not fit their “white supremist agenda “.
maria says
Well the only way is to deport them but the US must have President Trump back and indict thall the demonRats fraudster who rigged the elections.
Biden/Harris are fraudster and should be immediately indicted and sentenced to life in jail
mortimer says
HATE CRIME?? Well, yes. Islam encourages ‘HATE’ to be directed from Muslims against the disbelieving KUFAAR ‘for the sake of Allah’.
Osama bin Laden explained jihad like this: “Battle, animosity, and hatred…directed from the Muslim to the infidel (kafir)…is the foundation of our religion. And we consider this a justice and kindness to them.”
Islam’s canonical, compulsory teaching of HATRED towards disbeievers is called ‘AL WALAA WAL BARAA’ (comradeship with Muslims versus apartheid from non-Muslims).
Koran 40:35 “They who dispute the signs (verses) of Allah without authority having reached them are GREATLY HATED by Allah and the believers.” (Note: not just “hated”, but “greatly hated”.)
Koran 28:86 “Do not support the kafireen in any way.”
Koran 5.51 “He amongst you who turns to them (for friendship) is of them.”
Koran 48:29: “Muhammad is God’s apostle. Those who follow him are VIOLENT to the unbelievers, but compassionate to one another.”
Koran 4: 101 “The kuffar are for you a CLEAR ENEMY.”
Koran 8:60 “TERRORIZE the ENEMY of Allah and your enemy”
Koran 3: 118 “O you who believe! Do not take into your intimacy those outside your ranks. They will not fail to corrupt you.”
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– Interpretation of K.60.4: “Indeed you have a good example in Ibrahim and those with him, when they said to their people: We are free of you and all that you worship beside Allaah…” (free from the ‘disease’ of the dirty kafirs)
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So, kill the apostates wherever you find them, because whoever does so will be rewarded on Judgment Day.” -Sahih Bukhari 9,84,64
Michael Copeland says
Koran 60:4 continues with the “excellent example” of Ibrahim when he said,
“between us and you enmity and hatred forever….”
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
I hope the charges include attempted kidnapping. This guy needs to stay off
the streets. Was he born here? What’s
his family’s story?
Donovan Nuera says
Strange that he is not being charged with ATTEMPTED MURDER! It sounds to me that if not for the cops showing up, the Rabbi would have been another statistic and he would have fled. Does Awad have the right to own a gun? If not, that is another charge (especially in Massachusetts). Perhaps the terror mosques in Cambridge and Newton can protest in support of him!
Goofy says
Islam in itself is a hate crime!
Islam without anti-Semitism is simply not possible.
So either Islam with its terror and murders has to be dealt with as hate crime or we will have to decide whether its criminal acts deserve protection as expressions of religious freedom.
The time has come for making real decisions.
somehistory says
He should be charged with attempted murder, but because he was unsuccessful in mortally wounding the Jew, he gets let off that charge and it’s only “assault.”
And it won’t be a hate crime charge if i elmi, alias i omar, has a say. The snake rep would have it a case of “phobia” that the Jew would not allow himself to be made to get inside his car with the murderous mozlum.
This is a lesson for all who are ever accosted by someone and that person demands that the victim get in their car…even if the perp has a weapon, threatens to use it, etc. because the victim is safer where there are other people moving about than they are when taken who-knows-where and victims are often murdered.
gravenimage says
Boston: Muslim who stabbed rabbi denied bail, Jewish leaders urge hate crime investigation
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Good for them–but I doubt they will be able to make much headway.
Anne Smith says
The US law enforcers do not appear to have learned much from the Boston marathon bombing.