Brooklyn responds with love and vigilance to anti-Muslim flyer filled with hate
A now-viral online campaign encouraging attacks on Muslims seems to have inspired more love than hate in Brooklyn.
On Monday, April 2, Borough President Eric Adams joined members of the New York City Police Department’s Muslim Officers Society, colleagues in government and constituents at the Pakistani American Youth Society in Ditmas Park to denounce the hateful online campaign that was spread during the month of March and discuss the NYPD’s plans to keep Muslim-Americans safe on Tuesday, April 3 – a day the circular making its rounds online had dubbed “Punish A Muslim Day.”
The letter – which began circulating in the mail, physically, throughout the United Kingdom but quickly made its way to the states via social media – calls for violence against Muslims today and proposes “rewards” in the form of points for acts ranging from verbal abuse and assault to murder and bombings.