Sunday, May 4, 2014
NYC street won’t be renamed for cop killed by Muslims, will be for Muslim killed by Muslims
Posted on May 3, 2014 by creeping
Offending Muslims is essentially a crime in NYC, via Renaming street for slain Officer Phillip Cardillo could ‘open old wounds’ – NY Daily News.
A plan to honor a Harlem cop killed by
Nation of Islam radicals is drowning under a flood of racial tensions
created more than four decades ago, but no one wants to throw it a
lifeline — not even the NYPD’s new top cop.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is
distancing himself from the controversial push to get the street in
front of the 28th Precinct renamed in honor of Officer Phillip Cardillo,
who was shot and killed inside a mosque run by Louis Farrakhan in 1972 —
noting that the community should make the final decision.
“The Police Commissioner always welcomes
the honoring and memorializing of fallen NYPD officers,” Deputy
Commissioner Stephen Davis, the NYPD’s top spokesman, said when asked if
Bratton favored the street renaming. “However, the issue of street
naming is primarily a decision for the community board and other local
leaders.”
Cardillo’s family, friends, and former
police officers marked the 42nd anniversary of the cop’s death with an
annual motorcycle ride from his grave at Calvary Cemetery in Queens to
the W. 123rd St. cop shop — and were not shy about lashing out against
how Bratton sidestepped the issue.
“I don’t think it’s a good representation
of his brotherhood of blue,” said Christopher Cardillo, 46, the fallen
cop’s first cousin. “Why should the community’s vote have such a strong
presence when we are talking about renaming a street outside a police
station for a police officer? How could that be a bad thing for the
community?”
Manhattan’s Community Board 10 hasn’t
reviewed the proposal since last May, even though advocates pushing for
the renaming handed over thousands of petition signatures and Inspector
Rodney Harrison, the former commanding officer of the 28th Precinct,
made a personal plea to honor Cardillo.
Before the issue was shelved, board members voiced concerns that the street renaming would displease local Muslims and “open old wounds.”
The New York Daily News reported Monday
that “a police cadet who died helping World Trade Center victims on
9/11 was honored Monday at a Queens street renaming — 13 years after
being accused of involvement in the attacks. Residents and elected
officials came together to formally rename 204th St. at 35th Ave.
‘Salman Hamdani Way’ after Mohammed Salman Hamdani, the son of Muslim
immigrants from Pakistan who lived a block from the Bayside street.”
Endless concessions and accommodations to
Islamic demands only give way to more. Not to rain on anyone’s
proselytizing parade, but why this guy? Why does this first responder
get a street named after him? Because he’s a Muslim? What about the
other hundreds of first responders who died that day? Why don’t they
have streets named after them?
Is it because Mohammed Salman Hamdani is a
unicorn? Is it really so extraordinary that a Muslim helped people that
he gets singled out? Why is his sacrifice greater than that of all the
other first responders who were killed?
…
How many people did Salman Hamdani save?
He responded to an emergency. That was his job. Just like the other 2993
victims who went to work that day. They deserve streets named after
them, too.
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