{"id":13524,"date":"2016-06-16T17:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=13524"},"modified":"2018-02-19T15:08:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T15:08:35","slug":"who-was-imran-yousuf-who-saved-people-during-orlando-pulse-nightclub-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/who-was-imran-yousuf-who-saved-people-during-orlando-pulse-nightclub-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Yousuf, a New York Resident of Indian Origin, Saves People during Orlando Nightclub Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>It is rightly said, \u201cEvery dark cloud has a silver lining.\u201d An Indian-origin war veteran came to the rescue of many when an American citizen was on a killing spree at Pulse LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida.<\/strong> Donald Trump, who has become extremely critical of the Muslims in America after the Orlando nightclub shooting by an American Muslim on June 12, should know that the rescuer is a Muslim too, with his roots deep in India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Imran Yousuf, a former US marine war veteran and a bouncer at Pulse nightclub, saved over 70 lives whereas Omar Mateen gunned down 50 people and injured more than 53.<\/strong> Imran Yousuf, the American hero of the hour, has stolen the show from <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/american-jobs-first-act-of-2015-impact-on-us-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong><\/span> whose has upped his voice with lots of vigor in demand of ban on Muslim entry to the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Indian-origin-American-Imran-Yousuf-who-saved-people-during-Orlando-nightclub-shooting.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13532 size-full\" title=\"Imran Yousuf, a New York Resident of Indian Origin, Saves People during Orlando Nightclub Shooting\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Indian-origin-American-Imran-Yousuf-who-saved-people-during-Orlando-nightclub-shooting.jpg\" alt=\"Orlando nightclub shooting, Pulse LGBT nightclub, Imran Yousuf war veteran, Indian Americans\" width=\"658\" height=\"483\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>24-year-old Imran Yousuf, a <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/cheap-flights-from-new-york-jfk-to-hyderabad-hyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York<\/a><\/span> resident, joined Orlando\u2019s gay nightclub Pulse as a bouncer after one month of his return in April from the military service at war-fronts in Afghanistan.<\/strong>\u00a0The death toll would have been more alarming if Yousuf were not there to instantly recognize the shots from Omar Mateen\u2019s high-caliber weapon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Yousuf whose family had immigrated to Guyana from India four generations ago knew that the club had a back door for safety in emergency cases.<\/strong> He shouted \u2018open the door\u2019 to some partygoers who were standing near the back door but they were so frozen in fear of the gunfire that nobody moved. He took a leap to unlatch the door without a delay and pushed as many as 70 people out. <strong>\u201cI wish I could have saved more,\u201d he said ruefully.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Imran Yousuf, who worked as an electrical equipment technician in the US Marine Corps for six years, joined the US military at a very young age.<\/strong> He proudly treasures a few military awards including the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, the Korean Defense Service Medal and the Afghanistan Campaign Medal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>He belongs to both ethnicities, Hindu and Muslim,<\/strong> since his grandfather is a Muslim and his grandmother and mother are Hindus. He is a graduate from Niskayuna High School in New York.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The US team of investigators might be in two minds whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/cheap-flights-from-orlando-mco-to-mumbai-bom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Orlando<\/span><\/a> nightclub shooting&#8217;s gunman Omar Mateen was a political extremist or repressed homosexual, but there is no doubt that Indian-origin Imran Yousuf is a real life hero.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is rightly said, \u201cEvery dark cloud has a silver lining.\u201d An Indian-origin war veteran came to the rescue of many when an American citizen was on a killing spree at Pulse LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida. 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