Alex Malloy, 23, described "one of the most heartbreaking moments I've ever experienced in my whole life" when he got into a Muslim taxi driver's car only to find he was his first customer in two hours- blaming the people of New York being too scared to get into his cab.
A conversation with a driver inspired him to speak out out against Islamophobia, following the horrific attacks in French capital on Friday night that left 129 people dead.
"He cried the whole way to my apartment and it made me cry too. He kept saying, 'Allah, my god, does not believe in this. People think I'm a part of this and I'm not'," Malloy wrote on Twitter.
"My cab ride home, was the saddest moment I've experienced as apart of the human race. Please, stop generalizing ppl," he tweeted.
"Nobody wants to drive with me bc they feel unsafe. I can't even do my job," he wrote. "These are not our enemy's. These are our friends, neighbors and allies...And they deserve nothing more than our respect and attention."