Man angry over Boston bombings breaks jaw
of ‘f*cking Muslim’ Iraq war veteran
By David Edwards
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 15:35 EDT


A 39-year-old Muslim cab driver who served in the Iraq war says that an
executive from an aviation company accused him of being a jihadist and
broke his jaw in what activists are calling a hate crime.

Mohamed A. Salim told The Washington Post that Emerald Aviation
President Ed Dahlberg attacked him after he picked him up at Country
Club of Fairfax in Northern Virginia at around 2 a.m. on Friday.
Dahlberg had been drinking and was told that he would have to finish his
open beer before getting into the cab.

Salim recorded audio of the encounter on his cell phone.

Dahlberg can be heard asking Salim, who emigrated from Somalia, to
define “jihad” and then lumping him in with “radical ****ing Muslims
blowing people up all over the world.”

“Denounce those mother****ers now!” Dahlberg demands. “If you’re a
****ing Muslim flying jets into the ****ing World Trade Center then ****
you. I will slice your ****ing throat right now.”

After Salim threatens to call 911, Dahlberg can be seen grabbing for the
cell phone.

Salim said that Dahlberg left the cab, but then returned and broke his
jaw before running into the woods.

Dahlberg was charged with misdemeanor assault and police are determining
if charges should be elevated to a felony hate crime. The
Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Monday
said that medical records and the 11-minute cell phone recording were
being used as evidence in the case.

In a statement, Dahlberg’s attorney, Demetry Pikrallidas, admitted that
his client “became rather emotional as the discussion turned to jihad
and 9/11, and especially heated on the subject of jihadists who want to
harm America.”

Pikrallidas insisted that Dahlberg did not assault Salim.

The website for Dahlberg’s company, Emerald Aviation, was offline for
four days of “scheduled maintenance” as of Wednesday afternoon. A cached
copy of the website listed him as the president and said he had “20
years experience in the field of business and commercial aviation” and
was known for “transparent business transactions and always effectively
representing the best interests of his clients.”

Salim is a naturalized U.S. citizen and is an Army Reserve sergeant who
has worked in intelligence and as a linguist. He served in Iraq and at
the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

“I sacrificed for this country,” Salim told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on
Wednesday. “And I myself was fighting the terrorists and I’m against
acts of violence. I’m not a terrorist. I’m not a jihadist. I’m American
like you.”

“Whether he’s guilty of assault or not is up to a jury to decide, but
the video makes it clear that the guy is a bigoted asshole,” Jalopnik’s
Patrick George observed on Wednesday. “There’s no excuse for treating
someone else this way.”

Watch this video from The Washington Post, broadcast April 30, 2013.

http://tinyurl.com/bqll2b3

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Until I got into the article, I thought perhaps one of our bat**** crazy
righties here had assaulted the cab driver.