Mosque Scare Turns Political Firestorm After Dems Leave Out One Key Detail
A masked man holding a BB gun at a Queens mosque touched off a political controversy over the weekend after top New York Democrats rushed to frame the incident as an anti-Muslim hate crime — only for it to emerge that the suspect himself may be Muslim.Police say Sheikh Haque, 33, of Buffalo, burst into the Muslim Center of New York during Friday prayers on July 3, brandishing what looked like a real firearm in front of dozens of worshippers gathered for services around 1:30 p.m. A congregant quickly wrestled him to the ground, and he was held down with help from an off-duty MTA worker, a cab driver, and an NYPD officer until police arrived. The weapon turned out to be a BB pistol. No shots were fired and no one was hurt.Haque was charged with weapons possession and menacing. Police have not filed hate crime charges, and it remains unclear what prompted the disturbance.That didn’t stop a wave of elected officials from immediately casting the episode as an act of bigotry against Muslims. Democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted on X that a “terrifying situation” had unfolded...
By: dailywire.com
