Locally, many have reported verbal harassment, but no violent incidents have been recorded by police, and several members of these communities say their neighbors have been mostly respectful.
Nobody gives anybody a hard time.
Abu Taher Rizvi, the imam, or spiritual leader, of the North Bronx Islamic Centre in Norwood, agreed. Rizvi and others at the mosque were pleased that the 52nd Precinct has regularly stationed officers on Perry Avenue, where the mosque is located and where many Bangladeshi Muslims live. Still, some problems have surfaced. A Bangladeshi-American said teenagers on her block taunt and curse at her, and on one occasion threw a rock at her. Basharath Ali, also originally from Bangladesh, was heckled as he boarded a bus near Fordham Road.