Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in custody for the recent attack\u00a0in New York City,\u00a0is a 29-year-old former Uber driver. Originally from Uzbekistan,\u00a0he reportedly was inspired to commit the attack after watching by ISIS propaganda videos. After the tragedy, far-right activist Laura Loomer\u00a0responded with this tweet criticizing the ride-share company.<\/p>\n
\nLoomer followed up with more anti-Muslim tweets, including\u00a0\u201cSomeone needs to create a non-Islamic form of Uber or Lyft because I never want to support another Islamic immigrant driver.\u201d She also criticized people wearing hijabs near the scene of the crime, saying they were \u201crubbing it in.\u201d Loomer\u2019s disgusting response to the tragedy was criticized across the media.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nAfter Loomer\u2019s outburst, both Uber and Lyft informed Business Insider they had canceled Loomer\u2019s accounts for violating the community guidelines. Loomer\u2019s (somewhat predictable) response: \u201cUber will literally hire an Islamic terrorist, but they will ban a conservative journalist for addressing legitimate safety concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last June, Loomer made headlines after disrupting a performance of \u201cJulius Caesar\u201d in New York City. In this interpretation of the Shakespeare play, the assassinated Roman dictator resembled Donald Trump and had a Slovenian wife. While being escorted off the stage,\u00a0she shouted, \u201cStop the normalization of political violence against the right! This is unacceptable!\u201d Loomer is also a former writer for Project Veritas, a group affiliated with right-wing provocateur James O\u2019Keefe known for making deceptive videos.<\/p>\n
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Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in custody for the recent attack\u00a0in New York City,\u00a0is a 29-year-old former Uber driver. Originally from Uzbekistan,\u00a0he reportedly was inspired to commit the attack after watching by ISIS propaganda videos. After the tragedy, far-right activist Laura Loomer\u00a0responded with this tweet criticizing the ride-share company. Loomer followed up with more anti-Muslim tweets,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}