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NYC: Community Decries “Assassination” of Revered Imam

HeadlineAug 15, 2016

In New York City, police say they’ve arrested a suspect in the killing of a revered imam and his friend in Queens on Saturday. Mosque leader Maulama Akonjee and friend Thara Uddin were walking home from prayers at the Al-Furqan Jame Mosque just before 2 p.m., when a man approached them from behind and shot them each in the back of the head at point-blank range. Akonjee was a father of three from Bangladesh. On Saturday, hundreds of people protested the killings. This is Zead Ramadan, the president of the Council on American-Islamic Relations of New York.

Zead Ramadan: ”CAIR New York views this as an assassination. Someone attacked—someone came from behind two imams of a masjid and shot them in the head, both of them. They both passed away this afternoon—one DOA, and one fought for his life, unsuccessfully, unfortunately. And our heart goes out to their families, and our heart goes out to the community.”

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