Arab in NYC: On ‘Muslim Rage’
BY ALI HAZZAH The other day, I was sitting around in an ersatz Middle Eastern coffee shop in Little Egypt, Astoria, NY, with my good friend Mo. We were of course combing each others’ gray beards, smoking nargil, and eyeballing the undercover NYPD agents, who were taking pictures of us with their new super secure iPhone 5s. “Ya Ali,” said Mo, as his face turned into a barely concealed mask of twisted rage. “Did you see this new story in Newsweek on the Internet, by that strange woman whose last name is the same as your first?” “It’s not her…