Shock waves from Sunday’s Pakistan terror attack reverberated all the way to Brooklyn’s “Little Pakistan.”
Brooklynites mourned the more-than 70 people killed in Sunday’s terror bombing in Pakistan during a candlelight vigil at Makki Masjid Muslim Community Center in Midwood on March 28. Radical Islamic terror group the Pakistani Taliban claimed credit for the horrific attack and was reportedly targeting families celebrating the Christian holiday Easter. But in Brooklyn, the vigil unified the two faith communities, one mourner said.
“I think the vigil definitely brought together the Muslim and Christian community,” said Coney Islander Tayab Iftikhar, who was born in Pakistan and still has family there. “We were there to show respect to the victims, and not only them, but the victims of all recent acts of terror.”
The Coney Island Avenue corridor boasts one of the highest concentrations of Pakistani-Americans in the country, earning it the informal nickname “Little Pakistan.”
Borough President Adams organized the vigil and called for the county’s many religious communities to unite against hatred — a struggle Iftikhar was more than ready to get behind.
“I believe every religion should come together to protest these acts of terror,” he said.
