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Diversity is our strength and all that, and we all saw it in our social studies books back in seventh grade: smiling children, all carefully chosen to represent a smorgasbord of races and ethnicities, happily playing together without a care in the world. A recent incident in Queens, N.Y., however, shows how our indefatigable commitment to diversity really works in practice.
The New York Post reported Saturday that “a NYC taxi driver was hit with a hate crime [charge] for allegedly beheading a statue depicting a young Jesus outside a Queens Catholic church, prosecutors said.” The iconoclast who did the deed was one Jamshaid Choudhry, who lives in Hollis, Queens. “Jamshaid” is a Persian name that is common among Muslims in central and south Asia. Choudhry “was arrested Thursday night and charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime and other related crimes for allegedly decapitating the statue outside of the Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in Fresh Meadows on June 30.”
Now why would anyone want to do something as bizarre as beheading a statue? The most obvious answer would be that the perpetrator hated the person who was depicted, and that is likely true in this case. The Qur’an says that Jesus is a prophet but denies the central Christian tenet that He is God become man. In fact, it states that those who believe such a thing aren’t believers at all: “They indeed have disbelieved who say, Indeed, Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary” (5:17).
The Qur’an even depicts Allah asking Jesus if he told his followers to worship him as God, and Jesus denies having done so. The passage contains a misunderstanding of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity as consisting of Allah, Jesus, and Mary, but its denial of Christ’s divinity is unmistakable: “And when Allah said, O Jesus, son of Mary, did you say to mankind, Take me and my mother as two gods besides Allah? He said, Be glorified. It was not for me to say what I had no right to say. If I said it, then you know it. You know what is in my mind, and I do not know what is in your mind. Indeed, you, only you, are the knower of hidden things” (5:116).
The Qur’an adds that those who say Jesus is the Son of God are under the curse of Allah: “And the Jews say, Ezra is the son of Allah, and the Christians say, The Messiah is the son of Allah. That is their saying with their mouths. They imitate the statements of those who disbelieved before. May Allah curse them. How perverse they are” (9:30).
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Hoi Polloi says
Why should a muslim allow a statue of any woman to keep her head? Let alone the Mother of the Son of God? Women aren’t even allowed to laugh, they say, and if their owners don’t immediately succumb to murderous rage, they aren’t men: https://x.com/ImtiazMadmood/status/1813151589550727272
Nabil Bissada says
The Muslims cab driver must be deported immediately back to any Muslim countries.
The only way to make Muslims to stop their crimes in the western countries is to deal with them by the same way Muslims countries are dealing with them.
Islam the religion of the Muslims does not believe on democracy, human rights and freedom.
In the western countries they are hundreds of religions and races, Buddhist, Christians, Jewish, Hindu, etc.
Why only the Muslims who believe in Islam whenever you found them are making trouble and crimes and do not respect the flag and the constitution?
Western leaders especial in Europe and Canada are giving their countries to the Muslims.
Remember in the time Muslims will have the power all these leaders will be the first who will be punish by Muslims. They will never trust them.
We must make the correct decision before it will be too late.
Again, forget democracy, human rights and freedom when you deal with Muslims terrorists.
OLD GUY says
Any migrant who commits a crime should be automatically deported.
The beheading of that statue was a direct assault on America and a senseless act of violence against Christians.
somehistory says
Send him someplace where he’ll not see any statues of people he hates. Just don’t send him to nigeria or another African nation, because there, he would be free to go about murdering Christians and not symbols of a faith.