Jennifer Guilbeault, 23, shown on video assaulting Shohel Mahmud after he began reciting prayer in Arabic

Jennifer Guilbeault, 23, shown on video assaulting Shohel Mahmud after he began reciting prayer in Arabic

A New York woman who pepper-sprayed a Muslim Uber driver while he was praying has been indicted by the Manhattan district attorney on hate crime charges.

Jennifer Guilbeault, 23, is shown in a surveillance video repeatedly pepper-spraying her Uber driver, Shohel Mahmud. The assault took place in August on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, near the corner of east 65th Street and Lexington Avenue, shortly after Mahmud began reciting a prayer in Arabic.

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Guilbeault’s former employer, the public relations and marketing firm D Pagan Communications, wrote on X it is aware of her actions and “don’t condone this behavior”.

  • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
    223·
    15 hours ago

    Given the tone I might even take it as a threat on my life

    That is an unhinged and deranged level of xenophobia.

      • Sarmyth@lemmy.world
        28·
        8 hours ago

        Making shit up online is fun. Strawman arguments don’t convince anyone of anything though just makes you look like a tool.

        Islam is the 2nd largest religion on Earth. It’s not some piddly minority. When people are being weird Muslims it’s okay to call them out the same way there are hella weird Christians and Jews. I would say NOT doing so and handling a particular groups weirdos with kids gloves is just as xenophobic (but obviously not as harmful) as attacking someone for being different.

        You’re basically saying they are less human than you and therefor should be excused from behaving normally in the society they are a part of, like they were a small child.

        • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
          3·
          6 hours ago

          with kids gloves

          *kid gloves

          They’re called kid gloves because they’re made from baby goat.

          The leather from baby goats is soft and supple and gives you more dexterity than normal leather gloves. If you were handling something that needed great care, you might want to wear kid gloves to have greater manual control.

          Why would you handle someone with kids’ gloves? Are your hands very tiny?

          You’re basically saying they are less human than you and therefor should be excused from behaving normally in the society they are a part of

          There’s nothing abnormal about speaking a foreign language or praying. For all you know, he could have been praying for a safe journey.

          (Or praying for the endurance to put up with a shitty passenger.)