Muslim cabbie slasher, age 21, has prior arrests

• 8/26, "Best of the web today, Who is Michael Enright?," Wall Street Journal, James Taranto
  

Michael Enright, age 21, "has some previous arrests for minor crimes," (WSJ quoting from the NY Times) is an art student, a volunteer for a group that has promoted the building of the Ground Zero mosque, and

• is the suspected slasher of the NY city cab driver.

"As the Associated Press has reported, "the (Ground Zero mosque) center's association with 9/11 is intentional and its location is no geographic coincidence."

• And when Intersections International "deplores those who would use this project to promote fear and vitriol for personal gain or partisan politics," it adds its voice

to those who falsely claim that anti-Muslim bigotry is pervasive and

• is the prime or only reason

• for Americans' opposition to the mosque's siting."...

As Mr. Taranto expressed on the John Batchelor show tonight,

• NY Mayor Bloomberg's words

• have not been helpful to either side on this issue
  

• and must stop. ed.

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