Simple timeline for the past few weeks in 2016:

Earlier today at about 1:50pm, E.S.T., in Queens, New York, Imam Maulama Akonjee, and Thara Uddin, were fatally shot within a few blocks of Masjid.  The location of the shooting where they were approached from behind was about at 79th and Liberty in the Ozone Park area.  The nearby Masjid, Al Furqan Jame [pronounced closer to Jami'ee], is very near Glenmore and 77th.  The likelihood that some kind of videos, photos, or footage of the incident will emerge is present, especially considering the popularity of New York.

Both victims were men over 50.


At the basketball court of the Abu Bakr Islamic Center on International Boulevard in Tukwila, Washington, somewhere between about 8:30pm to 8:45pm local time, August 7th 2016, Sunday evening, an altercation wound up in the stabbing of a security guard.

Abu Bakr Center is near Route 5 and 599 Intersection, 3 miles south of the major airport, and about 5 from Seattle.

The security guard is in somewhat stable condition.  The incident is a bewilderment as to how it escalated to that level.


In New York, outside the Muslim Community Center in Brooklyn, Sunset Park area, Sunday July 3rd, 2016, at least one teenager suffered a horrendously bad eye injury after being beaten.  What all the circumstances were for that particular event, we do not have all the details at this moment.  Whether there was direct provocation or insinuation from the teens is being looked into by authorities.  Nevertheless, the teens did not have an upper-hand, as the man that struck them had about 20 years in age on them.


Madrasah Islamiah in Houston Texas, right down the street, a doctor was ambushed by 3 persons and shot in the yard of his house, Sunday morning, July 3rd 2016.


Fort Pierce Islamic Center, Florida, after late night prayers and opportunity for such Friday July 1, 2016 which might have carried over to early Saturday morning, near the last 7 days of the month of Ramadhan, popularly known as a month of fasting in Islam, in the wee hours of the morning, perhaps about 3am to 4:30am, a man was punched at least once causing bodily injury outside the Masjid,  It is a known practice for Muslim worshipers to spend longer hours in the Masjid during Ramadhan.  The affront comes when young men in their early or middle twenties attempt to seize the opportunity to predate on worshipers.  One of them had a stable-minded rationale for being at the Masjid, and one of them was behaving in an unusual manner in sitting in a vehicle at 3am then in sequence exiting the vehicle to exacerbate a misadventure through use of violence for someone attending the Masjid.
It is also a known fact that the United States is a country where you are free to practice your beliefs, as the behavior you engage in is in acceptable limits.  Praying in a Masjid is clearly within acceptable limits.  There are extremes that have existed in cult groups practicing religions like 'Satanism', where members go so far as to ritually slay another human being, then claim it was done in the name of religion; obviously that is not acceptable.  There is no excuse, not take prayers back to one side of the Atlantic, that allows for brazen assaults to someone that has not done anything to you.