North Carolina: An Uber driver from North Carolina claims he was attacked by a passenger who took him as a Muslim.
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“I told him in the first place I was not a Muslim”.
“He asked me if I was a Muslim”.
“He hit me very hard from behind and then he choked me from behind, and then he hit me from behind and then he hit me over here repeatedly, and I was struggling to breathe”. But Woldemichael says when he arrived at what the passenger gave as his home address, the man started to threaten him.
In an interview with WBTV-TV, Woldemichael said he picked up the passenger from a bar in Charlotte and drove 10 miles to the destination.
Woldemichael told WBTV the man then got out of the auto, ran a short distance away and then turned around and launched into another tirade, this time keeping his hand behind his back as though he were armed. He was calling me too many bad word names… insulting me. “He told me I was a Muslim”.
A Florida man was arrested for threatening to bomb two Florida mosques, because the events in Paris made him “very mad”. “He told me I was a Muslim”.
It’s important, he said, for Americans to realize that people like him are “Americans in their hearts, and believe in America in their hearts”.
The passenger refused to comply and instead asked Woldemichael to get out right there.
“I started driving because I didn’t feel safe anymore to park there”, he said. “Thankfully I didn’t lose consciousness”, he said.
Following the global terrorist attacks in Paris and Lebanon conservative politicians and media outlets began stoking severe anti-Muslim sentiment blaming millions of peaceful Muslim men, women and children across the world for the acts of a handful of terrorists.
Woldemichael said he stopped and started honking his horn to attract attention, and he said the passenger jumped out of the vehicle and again threatened to shoot the driver.
Since the service is prepaid through a debit or credit card police should be able to locate the passenger after working with Uber to identify the assailant. “They love the country and they want to protect the system here”. “They love the system”.
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Wolde-Michael hopes other people who aren’t from America but who believe in it don’t fall victim to the same hatred.
