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| CAIR wants BMW plant incident investigated as hate crime |
| 2007-04-05 |
| A Muslim man at the BMW plant in Greer told authorities a co-worker threatened to cut his throat. Sixty-five-year-old Abdulwahab Ahmed has filed a complaint with the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office. His report has prompted a national Islamic group to ask that the incident be investigated as a possible hate crime. Ahmed says a man approached him in a restroom at the plant and held a box cutter to his throat. The Council on American-Islamic Relations says Ahmed also claims other plant employees repeatedly made anti-Muslim comments, including a statement that Muslims "should all be killed." Spartanburg County sheriff's spokesman Major Dan Johnson says authorities are not calling the incident a hate crime at this point, but are investigating. BMW says it's cooperating with authorities in the case. The company says the two men involved in the bathroom incident were employees of a plant subcontractor, were business partners in the past and had a long personal history. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #6 BMW restrooms, why do they hate us? |
| Posted by: Grusomp Hapsburg6256 2007-04-05 21:00 |
| #5 Subcontractors, why do they hate us. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-04-05 08:39 |
| #4 Why is disagreeing with Islam a hate crime? The company says the two men involved in the bathroom incident were employees of a plant subcontractor, were business partners in the past and had a long personal history. Sounds like he made it up to get revenge. And CAIR is using it to advance their anti-free-speech agenda. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2007-04-05 08:31 |
| #3 Hate crime? "Only us Muslims can cut people's throats! We're being oppressed!" |
| Posted by: Raj 2007-04-05 08:15 |
| #2 Keep us posted. I'm guessing someone wants out of a debt or wants to settle a score. And if he was serious, he'd have used a carpet knife. |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-04-05 04:00 |
| #1 Suspicious that Ahmed made it up, or used a creative interpretation of some innocent event. other plant employees repeatedly made anti-Muslim comments, including a statement that Muslims "should all be killed. Either Ahmed made it up too, or it's a sign that people are starting to be fed up. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-04-05 03:31 |