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By SEAN GARDINER And TAMER EL-GHOBASHY A drunken film student who spent time in Afghanistan this year and volunteered with a group promoting religious tolerance allegedly slashed a Muslim taxi driver Tuesday in Manhattan, screaming the Arabic greeting "Assalamu Alaikum" and "consider this a checkpoint" before the attack, police said. Pool Photo/Steven Hirsch Enright was charged with stabbing Muslim taxi driver Ahmed H. Sharif shown at Bellevue Hospital on Tuesday. Michael Enright, a 21-year-old student at the School of Visual Arts, was charged with a hate crime in the slashing of taxi driver Ahmed H. Sharif, 43, around 6:15 p.m. Tuesday after Mr. Sharif had driven his passenger from East 24th Street to East 42nd Street, police said.The attack comes amid tensions over a planned mosque near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Lower Manhattan, but police didn't link it to the simmering debate.According
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