Posted on 08/13/2016 4:30:13 PM PDT by mandaladon
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — An imam and another man are dead following a double shooting in Queens on Saturday afternoon.
CBS2’s Valerie Castro reported Imam Maulama Akonjee, 55, and a 64-year-old associate from his congregation were each shot in the head while on their way home from a local mosque by a man who came up behind them. The shooting took place near Liberty Avenue and 79th Street in Ozone Park around 2 p.m.
Witnesses said the imam from the Al-Furqan Masjid mosque had just delivered an afternoon service and was walking home with another member of the mosque when both men were gunned down.
The motivation behind the violence is still unclear, but many from the surrounding community who attend the mosque are calling this a hate crime.
“After prayer, he taught us how to live peacefully and how to help each other,” said Nazrul Islam of Ozone Park.
“A family man has been lost and a scholarly imam has been lost and we are devastated and we want … peace,” said Kobir Chowdhury of Ozone Park.
“We feel really insecure and unsafe in a moment like this,” said Millat Uddin of Ozone Park. “It’s really threatening to us, threatening to our future, threatening to our mobility in our neighborhood, and we’re looking for the justice.”
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And, since they were shot in the back, and nothing was stolen, in the spirit of Seth Rich, it must have been a robbery.
Who cares. I want more pork rinds.
2 down...
Noticed the similarity to the seth rich hit/arkancide
Yelling about unjust murders? Do they know the word “irony”?
A robbery where several hundred dollars were left in the victim’s wallet.
I wonder what this imam would have said about that priest in France who was muslimized?
Asked this on another thread: Isn’t Ozone Park where John Gotti and the Bonnano mob used to operate? Maybe this a warning.
So where can I make a donation to the mob?
Nonsense. The more they are denigrated the better.
Yeah, except Gotti was Gambino.
I used to live underneath the A train a block away from where this happened and then after that across the street from Gottis club on 101st Ave.
Demographics in NYC neighborhoods change quick, all the Ozone Park Italians have retreated to Howard Beach and are holding the line against the mooselimbs at Liberty Ave and Cross bay Blvd.
Quick, what do you call 2 gun downs imams outside a mosque Queens??......Oh you get the punch line.
Thanks for the information. Be interesting to see if the Italians push back.
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