Now this is exactly what Islam deserves. No respect at all. Why? Because I don’t consider it a religion but a hostile political ideology. One that does not belong in America. Because respecting Islam as a religion is a 1400 year-old proven cultural suicide.
The police department, which is supposed to play a secondary role in vendor enforcement, wouldn’t say what triggered the raid just before the busiest selling season of the year.
For the past two decades, Bangladeshi street vendors in Jackson Heights, Queens, have looked to Ramadan as prime time for selling and connecting with the local Muslim community.
But the busy strip where about a dozen of them usually sell Islamic items on 37th Avenue, between 73rd and 74th streets, was unusually void of crates and tables full of religious texts, prayer mats and hijabs on Thursday after police officers ordered them to leave on March 8 — just two days before the beginning of the holy month.
I am not sure why the NYPD made this raid, but this is what exactly needs to be done. A lawful backlash against Islam in America. Sending the message to Muslims that they are not welcome in America.
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The roughly dozen vendors who usually sell Islamic goods on the block gathered near “Bangladesh Street” Thursday after an early afternoon prayer in a nearby mosque, and said they have been afraid to return. Many have since lost their incomes entirely, and are struggling to pay for rent and groceries.
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“I want to be able to go back there to sell,” Zabber said in Bengali. “When the police came, I was thinking, ‘If this is my only business here, is it over? Is street vending on 37th Avenue over?’”
Let’s hope so.
