years ago and worked as a yellow cab driver for 15 years, has four children, all born here in the u.s. and tuesday came close to losing his life on the job. he has murders, a six inch gash to his neck and cuts on his arms and face and is recovering, very weak but he will be the guest today of mayor bloomberg, at city hall. the mayor of new york city inviting him to express outrage over the vicious attack, and, to tell everyone that new york will not tolerate religious hatred. the hate-filled attack happened on tuesday, sharif was driving his taxi and picked up a mass jer, michael enright, who made a brief conversation with him and exchanged the muslim greeting and then asked him if he was muslim and the cab driver answered that he was, in fact, a muslim and, then, says that this passenger went berserk, saying,