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Antigay BB Gun Attack in San Francisco


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Three 24-year-olds in San Francisco have been charged with firing a BB gun at the face of a man they believed was gay. The attack was captured on a videotape found by police.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Mohammad Habibzada, Shafiq Hashemi, and Sayed Bassam are scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in San Francisco superior court. They are free on $50,000 bond apiece.

“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 Chronicle reported.

The victim, who refused medical treatment, reported the attack to the police, who pulled over a car matching his description. A video camera was found inside the car. Police say there is evidence to show that the men targeted additional people for shootings because they too were believed to be gay.

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  • Name: matt
    Date posted: 3/10/2010 9:21:48 PM
    Hometown: seattle

    Comment:

    don't worry the democrats will sell you people down the road so fast, because in the end you are the weak and muslims are the strong

  • Name: winoceros
    Date posted: 3/5/2010 5:28:19 PM
    Hometown: Twin Cities, MN

    Comment:

    Christians' New Testament makes the retributions and punishments of the Old Testament moot. No Christian goes around killing gays, or worse, organizing their societies with laws that require gays to be killed. LGBT's should never have a fear of violence from Muslims or anyone else. Islam and the Qur'an, however, are immutable. Those who don't act on the Quranic scriptures are just not doing so out of personal desire not to, not because Islam tells them not to. Know any "out" Muslims? (Don't tell me Freddy Mercury...he was Zoroastrian...another faith community that was decimated and dominated and destroyed by the Muslims over the centuries.) Check out Bruce Bawer's revelations in his writings after he and his partner moved to Amsterdam. Do your best, to not advance Muslim causes. It will only bite you in the end.

  • Name: Bobby
    Date posted: 3/4/2010 9:37:03 PM
    Hometown: Miami

    Comment:

    Look Danielle, the reason some Muslims are so radicalized is because the "mainstream" media is afraid of criticizing them and endure the label of "Islamophobia." When the killers of Mathew Sheppard were arrested, the Mormon church removed them from the book of life, in other words, they were excommunicated. Get it? The Mormons who are no friends of gays had enough sense of shame to want to distance themselves from gay bashers, yet do you see any Muslim organization condemning the hate crimes committed against our own community? Of course you don't, why? Because Muslims are self-righteous, they see themselves as victims and never as victimizers. So please, stop treating them like they're special. If they do wrong, you must speak against them until they apologize.

  • Name: melvin
    Date posted: 3/4/2010 9:10:57 PM
    Hometown: South Dakota

    Comment:

    Gives credence to the necessity of the 'hate crimes' act. Throw the good ole American book at them.

  • Name: Edwin Rowe
    Date posted: 3/4/2010 9:01:20 PM
    Hometown: Chicago

    Comment:

    Where this anti-gay hatred comes from and ritual torture of gays: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/13/iraq-gays-murdered-militias

  • Name: melvin
    Date posted: 3/4/2010 8:47:41 PM
    Hometown: South Dakota

    Comment:

    This gives credence to the necessity of the 'hate crimes' act that is now federal. Throw the good ole American book at them.

  • Name: Edwin Rowe
    Date posted: 3/4/2010 8:24:27 PM
    Hometown: Chicago

    Comment:

    Let's not be ignorant. Islam demands the death penalty for homosexuality and it is actually CARRIED OUT in the Islamic countries. Muslim neighborhoods in Europe are no-go zones for gays. They will be beaten if they walk there. Some have been killed. This is far from the first incident in the U.S. If the Muslim population in the U.S. grows gays will be singled out for "punishment". So will Jews and "inappropriately-dressed" women. This is not racism. It is fact. Of course, not every Muslim supports this, but when the Muslim population grows large and dominant in an area this has been the result.

  • Name: anti alla
    Date posted: 3/4/2010 8:12:44 PM
    Hometown: New York

    Comment:

    Quote: Name: Danielle Date posted: 3/4/2010 4:00:21 PM Hometown: NY Comment: Why is it anytime a minority group is involved in a crime we must resort to racists comments on this site? What made you think that the victim was a white man? There are plenty of minority LGBT folks out there. You don't fight hate with hate. When you learn that??? You sound ignorant and foolish when you resort to such inflammotary language such as calling a muslim a terrorist becasue you are angry. Be better than that! End quote Hmmm.. I've never ever heard gays use angry language when it comes to Christians or just regular conservative Americans! But when moslems SHOOT VUNS at gays, then the language should be one of restraint. You and Rosie "Taliban are family men" O won't rest until everyone in the USA is dangling from a noose at the end of a crane.

  • Name: anti alla
    Date posted: 3/4/2010 7:53:42 PM
    Hometown: New York

    Comment:

    . Where does Barack HUSSEIN Obama stand on this moslem violence against Americans right here at home? How many more does he want to allow in? .

  • Name: iliya
    Date posted: 3/4/2010 7:06:31 PM
    Hometown: washington dc

    Comment:

    Right Daniella I agree completely with you. We should never ever name or identify any person who attacks and wounds gays. Let them attack all they want . We can take it. I see the names of the attackers have been printed and they are muslim names. This is wrong. Now muslims all over the world will be typecast as gay haters. We don't want that to happen. As we know muslims love gays. In fact muslims love gays so much that the president of Iran doesn't even recognize them as existing cause they are so part of their society in fact I wouldn't be surprised if they were a lot of gays there specially the ayatollahas.

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