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How New York’s Muslims Are Responding To Manhattan Truck Attack : NPR

November 1, 2017 islamoyankee

How New York’s Muslims Are Responding To Manhattan Truck Attack : NPR.

NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks to Hussein Rashid, a professor in the religion department at Columbia University and a native New Yorker, about how the Muslim community in New York is reacting to Tuesday’s terrorist attack.

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