TexasDevilDog
03-06-2006, 06:35 PM
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lishia06,0,5819109.story?coll=ny-top-headlines
'We never thought it could happen in NY'
Istafa Naqvi of Dix Hills was stunned to see the small knot of angry young men waving placards as he and several thousand fellow Shia Muslims walked along Park Avenue in midtown last month in their annual religious procession.
"Enemies of Islam!" one man shouted at the group. "Kaffir," yelled another, using the Arabic word for infidel.
Many of the Shia flinched as they got close enough to read the signs carried by members of a fringe Sunni group called The Islamic Thinkers Society. "Shia are NOT Muslims!" said one. "Shia is made of superstitious elements of Judaism," declared another. Police moved in to break up a shoving match.
'We never thought it could happen in NY'
Istafa Naqvi of Dix Hills was stunned to see the small knot of angry young men waving placards as he and several thousand fellow Shia Muslims walked along Park Avenue in midtown last month in their annual religious procession.
"Enemies of Islam!" one man shouted at the group. "Kaffir," yelled another, using the Arabic word for infidel.
Many of the Shia flinched as they got close enough to read the signs carried by members of a fringe Sunni group called The Islamic Thinkers Society. "Shia are NOT Muslims!" said one. "Shia is made of superstitious elements of Judaism," declared another. Police moved in to break up a shoving match.