Muslim hero honored by NY mayor

NEW YORK,NY–The Muslim employee who saved Jewish shoppers during a terrorist attack at a Paris kosher supermarket was honored last week in New York by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Lassana Bathily was presented with an official city proclamation on Friday by Mayor Bill de Blasio for his actions in the Hyper Cacher siege on Jan. 9. The presentation took place during the annual scholarship dinner of the New York Police Department’s Muslim Officers Society held at the Islamic Center of Brighton Beach in Brooklyn.

De Blasio called Bathily a “real hero” who “stood up to protect human life even when his own life is in danger,” the New York Daily News reported.

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