Cab driver stabbed because he is a muslim (nyc)

[HappySqurriel]

sapphi_snake said:

HappySqurriel said:

First off, you can't have a conspiracy involving 1 person ...

Beyond that, there have been reported cases of supporters of a cause performing illegal and immoral acts to make their opponents look bad. Typically these are act of vandalism, or astroturfing, but it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say that a troubled individual might be willing to commit a violent act for the same purpose.

The "conspiracy", if it existed involed what you said in your second paragraph.

You're not really familiar with the concept of a conspiracy are you ... A conspiracy requires multiple people to be involved by definition.

At this point in time, my hypothesis is simply a theory to explain the motivations of an individual’s actions. Being that his background shows no evidence of racism, and there is reason to believe that he is for the mosque and tolerant of Muslims in particular, the action of (allegedly) committing a violent hate crime against a Muslim begs the question "What was his motive?"