Mohammad Habibzada, Shafiq Hashemi and Sayed Bassam, all counsins and aged 24, thought it’d be hilarious to shoot their BB gun at a gay man during a drive-by. And videotape it. Hello, hate crime charges. “The victim of Friday’s attack was walking on the 3200 block of 16th Street near Guerrero Street about 10 p.m. when a car pulled up and someone inside opened fire with a BB rifle, police said. The man was hit in the face but refused medical treatment, said Lt. Lyn Tomioka, spokeswoman for the Police Department. He reported the shooting to police, who pulled over a car that matched the assailants’ vehicle a short distance away and arrested the three Hayward men. Investigators believe the assailants chose the victim because he appeared to be gay. When the men were pulled over, police found a video camera that was used to film the shooting, investigators said.” [SF Chron]
UPDATE 3/15: The videos shows eleven other attacks that same night.
Mr. Enemabag Jones
Fucking Muslims.
It’s going to be like the eighties all over again, when skinheads and neo-Nazi’s were running around doing gay bashings. And of course Muslims will get away with it, because white, straight liberals so fucking afraid of hurting their precious little feelings.
ionos
@Mr. Enemabag Jones: Little bit of racism early on Friday morning, Mr. Doucebag … err, “Enemabag” Jones.
sal(the original)
three one way tickets to iraq for these poor souls,no one in america can get them obviously
john
I remember when thugs would pull up in a u-haul truck and the back door would roll up and 6 to 8 guys would jump out with baseball bats.
terrwill
@ionos: Considering it is perfectley acceptable in the cesspool nations the islamic fundamentalists come from where hanging two Gay teens is cheered on by thousands I think Enemabag was fairly restrained in his comments.These subuman scumbag savages would kill you in a heartbeat……Or maybe you are the type that wants to “reach out and find common ground”…………
Joseph
If only all gay bashers were this stupid!! So stupid as to video tape it!!!
alejandro
wow. i hate reading the comments on here. so much disgusting racism. “fucking muslims.” could u make a more horrible sweeping statement of an entire group of ppl. like come on. fuck you asshole.
and i’m not even religous or nothing.
Michael
The ragheads should have been pulled from the car, tied to light poles and torched. That would quickly put an end to that sort of nonsense.
B
No. 5 · terrwill wrote, “@ionos: Considering it is perfectley acceptable in the cesspool nations the islamic fundamentalists come from where hanging two Gay teens is cheered on by thousands I think Enemabag was fairly restrained in his comments.”
… very bad assumption. I’ve had co-workers with Middle Eastern first and last names who were either born here or moved here as infants, and who were completely “americanized” – not even a trace of a foreign accent and with interests indistinguishable from others who grew up here.
ewe
@alejandro: Even if you do have a point, don’t blame the victims at the expense of what you deem to be politically correct speech. These monsters are shitheads, creepy little nobody bullies who deserve to be incarcerated for targeting gay people. They are free and open game.
alano
Since when are Muslims a “race”? Islam a religion – not an ethnic group.
If claiming that Muslims as a group are hateful and homophobic amounts to “racism,” then saying bad things about Nazis or Republicans or Catholics or Mormons or any other ideological group is equally racist.
If anything, comments #2 and #7 are racist. The posters must be assuming that all Muslims are non-white. Or they could be assuming that Islam is both a religion and an ethnic group (similar to Judiasm), which is false. Either way, comments #2 and #7 are quite ignorant.
fredo777
@terrwill: The problem, as was adressed by Alejandro, was that “Fucking Muslims” is such a generalized, sweeping statement which is offensive + also attacks those Muslims who might not go around shooting people in the face. I’m sure there are at least a few.
fredo777
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Mr. Enemabag Jones
@ionos:
Little bit of racism early on Friday morning…
@alejandro:
so much disgusting racism.
Not racism; bigotry. There’s a difference.
@B:
I’ve had co-workers with Middle Eastern first and last names who were either born here or moved here as infants, and who were completely “americanized” – not even a trace of a foreign accent and with interests indistinguishable from others who grew up here.
And those people are called “sleeper cells”. That’s what makes them so dangerous.
@fredo777:
The problem, as was adressed by Alejandro, was that “Fucking Muslims” is such a generalized, sweeping statement which is offensive + also attacks those Muslims who might not go around shooting people in the face. I’m sure there are at least a few.
Sometimes stereotypes are true. Bikers are stereotyped as being violent gang members. Some are and some aren’t. But I wouldn’t test the theory by slapping a biker in the face, and calling his mother a slut. By avoiding all bikers, I reduce my risk of a chain beating.
The only intelligent comment Ann Coulter has ever made was, “Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim.”
@terrwill:
Please don’t point out the cruelty that Muslims do, terrwill. They deserve our compassion and love. After all, they’re not Catholics, or Christians, the people we’re really suppose to hate. They hanged a couple of gay teenagers. They stoned two lesbians to death. Big deal! Did you know the Catholic church in D.C. has cut spousal benefits for all new employees? How dare they!
Mr. Enemabag Jones
@Mr. Enemabag Jones:
And let’s not forget Uganda and their “Kill The Gays” bill.
Fucking Muslims.
Aaron
@Mr. Enemabag Jones
See, I was going to say fuckin’ East Bay trash, not fucking Muslims. Most all of the assholes who come into SF and pull shit like this are from the East Bay.
gomez
@ no. 15
er, actually in uganda, it’s the fucking xians.
terrwill
@Mr. Enemabag Jones: Our society has become so taken over by the PC police that lunacy is now the norm. Groups can kill, attack, hurt, and murder us, yet one can not make any disparaging remarks about the offenders so long as they are members of a minority or group. At a school where four kids have been shot by Latino gang members the superintnedant made a statement that “the mafia would have never been taken down without assistance from the italians” and then asked for help from the Latino community in turning in gang members to stop the killing of innocent children. Someone attempted to wrest the microphone from his hand and he was booed off the stage. There are now calls for his resignation………….sickness abounds
WiseUp
San Fransilly gays just do not like stories like this. If it’s not white hetero males as the villains, they don’t want to report it.
fredo777
@Mr. Enemabag Jones: That Ann Coulter quote only goes to further prove how much of an asshat she is, actually.
fredo777
@WiseUp: I have no problem with calling a duck a duck, but “not wanting to be overly PC” is still not an excuse to make derogatory generalizations. I’m sure we love it when such generalizations are made about members of the LGBT community.