Ashan Khan (right) poses with some of his children, (from left) Asif, Irfan, Bilal and Kaynat, in Santa Clara where they now live.
Posted on 12/10/2007 7:38:55 AM PST by SmithL
A family of Pakistani immigrants living in San Francisco public housing was improperly denied an emergency transfer to another apartment after someone broke into their home, desecrated their Quran, defaced their passports and shredded their traditional clothing, according to a federal court lawsuit.
After the August 2005 incident - which took place during a time of intensified anti-Muslim sentiment in the country and while the San Francisco Housing Authority was under court order to better protect tenants from hate-motivated crimes - agency officials ruled that the break-in at Ashan Khan's apartment was a simple burglary and didn't qualify the family for an emergency apartment transfer, the family says.
According to the suit, which was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Housing Authority officials also were slow to secure their apartment in the Potrero Terrace/Annex project after the incident to protect the Khans against future break-ins.
"I was really upset," said Khan, explaining - with the help of a translator - that he and his family were harassed from the time they moved in to the Potrero Hill housing development, first by neighbors who accused the Khans of being terrorists, then by threatening graffiti painted next to their front door depicting a man dressed like Khan with a gun to his head.
"We were afraid somebody was going to come back and hurt us," he said of the days and weeks after the Aug. 28, 2005, break-in and vandalism.
Gregg Fortner, the Housing Authority executive director, said he couldn't comment on the specific allegations, saying he had not seen the lawsuit and wasn't familiar with the incident or the Khan family's dealings with the agency in its aftermath.
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Ashan Khan (right) poses with some of his children, (from left) Asif, Irfan, Bilal and Kaynat, in Santa Clara where they now live.
A couple of weeks from now, it will be discovered that they did it themselves, and the whole story will quietly drop off the radar.
Sooooo, someone breaks into your apartment, you get to move into ANOTHER apartment? Is it a burgler free apartment?
He should let it be known that he is an incestual, pedophilic, crossdressing gay.
The Poofters in Sanfran would leave them alone then
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The Potrero Hill projects are not filled with poofters. They are filled with, among some others, ignorant, violent racist thugs. That said, these immigrants are almost certainly committing jihad.
Ok, sooo.....a book was messed up, some papers were torn & some clothes got destroyed. Most men have a crazy “ex” story that tops that.
Just why *are* immigrants in public housing? Under what status were they allowed in?
That’s pretty much what happened last year when a mosque near my house was vandalized. The media dropped the story when it became obvious that it was an inside job.
Gee whiz, he might feel safer in, say....Pakistan...
Public housing is an improvement to the usual SF circumstance of living in civic center park. Now if we can just remove inentives so that they will go to work.
That was my very first thought.
I know anything’s possible but to go to all that trouble...trashing the Koran, tearing up their special clothing....it just don’t ring true.
A burglar, or evil-doer in this case, breaks in and spends time finding all this stuff then wrecking it? Like I concur, your analysis that they did it themselves is likely correct or hey, maybe they hired someone to do it.
They’ve got a big TV. Poor immigrants.
If things are going bad for you...just sue!
When was this? Did I miss it? Am I a bad conservative for not finding a mosque to desecrate? Are my credentials getting a black mark? Oh, dearie me!!!
They have got a big TV because taxpayers are picking up a portion of their housing costs.
How did the invader find their passports and koran? I doubt they were next to each other or even in the same room.
How do you even establish where all of the damage occurred? Don’t you only check your passport when you get ready to travel internationally?
There was intensified anti-Christian sentiment on 06-06-06, when churches across the country were desecrated but we aren’t supposed to point it out.
Do I smell a hoax in here?
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