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A homeless Muslim in Rome who saved the life of an Israeli woman is being hailed as a hero in Italy, Haaretz reports.

Last Tuesday, Sobuj Khalifa, 32, from Bangladesh, spotted the woman drowning in the Tiber River from the bridge under which he had found refuge, and he quickly dove into the polluted water to save her. Police believe it was a suicide attempt that may have been triggered by a failed love affair.

A video of the rescue shows Khalifa holding onto the woman with one arm and swimming towards the riverbank with the other, while rescuers arrived on the scene and people atop the bridge were clapping and shouting “bravo!”

“I saw her fall from the bridge. I thought she was dead,” he told police officers in broken Italian. “But [when I reached her] I saw her eyes moving. I thought she could be still alive.”

The 55-year-old Israeli was taken to hospital and is in good condition, a police spokesman in Rome told Haaretz.

The rescue was widely reported across Italy. “I am not a hero,” Khalifa told Italian television station TV2000. “God wants us to help everybody.”

Authorities rewarded Khalifa for his courageous act by granting him a permit to stay and work in Italy. He had been living there illegally for eight years and was homeless for the past four.

Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino wrote on his Facebook page that he had spoken to Khalifa to thank him for his “heroic and humane” act.

On Friday afternoon, as a string of terror attacks roiled France, 24-year-old Mali citizen Lassana Bathily was at work in the underground stockroom of a kosher market named Hyper Cacher near the Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris. He heard gunman Amedy Coulibaly enter the store and open fire, killing four customers, it was later learned. Then, according to witnesses interviewed by the Associated Press, Lassana Bathily ushered more than a dozen customers downstairs. He then killed the lights and turned off the stockroom’s freezer.

“We were locked in there,” Lassana Bathily told French channel BFMTV, as the New York Times reported. “I told them to calm down, do not make any noise, or else if he hears that we’re there, he can come down and kill us.”

So the customers shivered inside the freezer for hours. “We’re very afraid, and we’re very cold,” one woman told a friend in a phone call that evening around 5 p.m., reported The Washington Post’s Griff Witte. “Tell the police to hurry.”

Bathily came up with a plan. He said they could get out through a fire escape to speak to police. According to Bathily, he asked others to come with him, but they declined, worried the gunman would hear them.

Bathily slipped out of the basement and walked out of the building to meet police, who initially thought he was perhaps an accomplice. They ordered him to lie down and put his hands behind his head.

Bathily spent the next 90 minutes in cuffs before he managed to convince authorities he was who he said he was. He told the cops he wasn’t alone. There were more than a dozen other hostages locked inside the store’s freezer. And what’s more, he said, he had something that could help French forces break into the kosher mart: a key to unlock the supermarket’s metal blinds. That key and information about the store’s layout he provided to police would prove invaluable, police officials told the Associated Press. They could barge through the market’s front door without putting the hostages in more danger, he told them.

And that’s exactly what the police did, soon killing the gunman.

Following the melee, praise for the Malian Muslim’s heroics came from all quarters. “They were saved thanks to the Muslim employee of the supermarket,” Albert Guigui, the chief rabbi of Brussels and a relative of one of the hostages, told the Sunday Times. “He pushed them towards the back of the shop and down the cellar. It’s thanks to him that they were saved.” One of Bathily’s former co-workers got the newly minted hero on the phone an hour after the hostage crisis ended, and was in awe of his friend. “The guy was so courageous,” Mohammed Amine, 33, told the Associated Press.

Bathily was more taciturn about what he did. When the hostages finally emerged from the basement, he told French media, they thanked him. “They congratulated me,” the New York Times quoted him saying. “They said, ‘Really, thanks for thinking of all these ideas.’ I said, ‘It’s nothing. It’s life.’ ”

Lassana Bathily. He’s a hero. 

(This happened in January but it did not get the recognition that this young brave man deserved. I included (and bolded) his name and added his picture, because he is important) A young muslim man, who risked his life for others, and especially those who the media convinces we are the sworn enemies of. 

I think that its important. One of my last posts included the top 20 muslim inventions that shaped the world and a lot of the comments on it included “wow I never knew this”. A lot of our achievements and good deeds never get the proper recognition it deserves, which is why I'm doing this. 

We are worth more than “muslim terrorist” headlines.