{"id":188604,"date":"2010-08-25T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/25\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-35\/"},"modified":"2010-08-25T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T00:48:00","slug":"whiskey-tango-foxtrot-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/25\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, I hear news that some guy flipped out and allegedly stabbed, Ahmed Sharif, a cabbie in New York because the drive was Muslim, and now we discover that this guy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2010\/08\/piecing_it_together_1.php\">worked for a multicultural organization promoting peace and tolerance<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>As you&#8217;ve seen in our earlier reports, we have what appears to be a straight-up hate crime, in which an NYC cabbie picks up a fare, passenger asks him if he&#8217;s Muslim and then stabs him in the neck. The NYPD says Michael Enright, 21, is going to be charged with 2nd degree attempted murder and a hate crime. (See the statement from the victim here.)<\/p>\n<p>Only then things get a little weird. Enright is not who you&#8217;d expect. He&#8217;s a film student who&#8217;d recently been either volunteering for or employed by Intersection International, a multifaith and multicultural effort which seeks to promote justice and peace. And the group has very publicly come out in favor of the Cordoba House project, what opponents call the &#8220;Ground Zero Mosque.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, that&#8217;s a bit difficult to figure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is just freaky, and I just don&#8217;t get it, though reports indicate that a significant amount of alcohol was involved.<\/p>\n<p>But if you are talking about this tomorrow, note that the &#8220;New York cabbie&#8221; has a name, Ahmed Sharif, and remember his name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, I hear news that some guy flipped out and allegedly stabbed, Ahmed Sharif, a cabbie in New York because the drive was Muslim, and now we discover that this guy worked for a multicultural organization promoting peace and tolerance: As you&#8217;ve seen in our earlier reports, we have what appears to be a straight-up &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1052,1021,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-crimes","category-religion","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}