Michael Enright Charged with Attempted Murder in the Stabbing of NY Cab Driver Ahmed Sharif

White man, Michael Enright, charged with attempted murder & assault in stabbing of Ahmed Sharif, NY cab driver, after asking him if he was a Muslim.

New York police arrested Michael Enright, a white film student, for stabbing a cab driver, Ahmed Sharif, asking asking him if he was a Muslim. According to the NY Daily News, Sharif said he pleaded for his life as knife-wielding suspect Michael Enright launched a bloody attack Tuesday after hailing the yellow cab in Kips Bay.

Sharif said the blond-haired Enright told him, "As-salaam alaikum" - which means "peace be unto you" in Arabic - before committing the crazed assault.

"I begged him, 'Please don't kill me,'" Sharif, 43, told the Daily News. "I was thinking about my four kids. If I'm gone, there is no one to care for them."

Enright, 21, a film student from upstate Brewster, was arraigned yesterday on charges of attempted murder and assault, both as hate crimes. He was ordered held without bail pending another hearing Monday. Source

Enright had reportedly recently returned from Afghanistan in May after 35 days of filming a documentary about front-line troops. What's even more disturbing is the fact that in his journal he equated Muslims with "killers, ungrateful for the help they were being offered, filthy murderers without a conscience," the Daily News says. I am amazed at how silent people like Sarah Palin, John Boehner, Rush Limbaugh and Mike Savage are on the attack on an innocent man by a white man.I guess my parting question is if Muslim is the new N-word? It is a shame that someone could engage in such hateful acts against an innocent person. This isn't what America is all about.