Students don hijabs and hoodies in solidarity with slaying victims Shaima Alawadi and
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The Los Angeles Times reports:
Reporting from San Diego— El Cajon police are asking for the public’s help in its investigation into the fatal beating of an Iraqi immigrant and have not ruled out the possibility that Shaima Alawadi was the victim of a hate crime.
“We’re investigating all aspects of this crime,” Lt. Mark Coit said Sunday. “The minute you rule out a possible motive, you start to get tunnel vision. As of now, we have not ruled out any of the motives for why people kill people.”
Near the body of the 32-year-old Alawadi, police found what has been described as a threatening note. Police have declined to release the text, but relatives and friends say the handwritten note warned Alawadi to “go back to your own country” and labeled her a terrorist.
The family told police they had received a similarly threatening note several days earlier but considered it a prank by teenagers.
Alawadi was found unconscious Wednesday morning in the dining room of the family’s home by her 17-year-old daughter. She was taken to a hospital, where she was diagnosed as brain-dead. Her family decided on Saturday to discontinue life support.
Police said that whatever the motive, the attack appears to be “an isolated event,” not part of an overall pattern of violence toward immigrants.
Justin Raimondo offers some more details and context at Antiwar.com:
On Wednesday, in the quiet San Diego suburb of El Cajon, California, the teenage daughter of Shaima Alawadi returned home to find her mother drowning in a pool of blood. There were signs of forced entry at the back of the house. Someone had broken in and beaten her mother nearly to death with a tire iron.
Next to her body was a note: “Go back to your own country, you terrorist.”
A similar note had been found tacked to the family’s door a few weeks earlier, but Shaima had dismissed it as a kid’s prank.
This kind of hate is nothing new for San Diego. In 2010, a plan to build a mosque in nearby Temecula resulted in a series of protest demonstrations by local nut-jobs. A woman in a hijab was hauled off a Southwest Airlines flight in at San Diego airport in 2011 by TSA agents, and told the captain didn’t “feel comfortable” with her on the flight: this was around the same time braying demagogue Peter King (R-New York) was holding hearings on the “Muslim fifth column in America.” Last year, a similar“go back to where you came from” message was delivered by someone who repeatedly punched a Muslim cab driver, who had been observed praying. See here, here, and here for more evidence of the climate of hate darkening the otherwise sunny skies of this California redoubt of bigotry and military families.
If you want some idea of what’s going on in Southern California, these days, take a look at this video of a demonstration in Yorba Linda, where an inter-religious charity event for the homeless was surrounded by hundreds of screeching banshees, screaming their hatred of Muslims. And lest you think this is just a fringe phenomenon, note that no less than three elected officials addressed this hate-fest: congressmen Ed Royce and Gary Miller, and Villa Park councilwoman Debra Pauly – all three of them Republicans, naturally.
As children and women in hijabs walk with quiet dignity into the charity venue, the crowd unleashes its fury of hate: “Go home, go home, go home!” they yell. Is it a coincidence that this is the very same message in the note from Shaima’s killer?
(h/t Dan Crowther)
RE: “El Cajon police are asking for the public’s help in its investigation into the fatal beating of an Iraqi immigrant and have not ruled out the possibility that Shaima Alawadi was the victim of a hate crime.” ~ L.A. Times
MY COMMENT: There is nothing to suggest the involvement of the Jewish Defense League or the Jewish Defense Organization in Alawadi’s death, but I can’t help but be reminded of the murder of Alex Odah in Santa Ana, CA about 25 years ago. Alawadi was involved with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Odeh was involved with the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC).
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
SOURCE – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Odeh
Typo: it should be “Justin Raimondo.”
Folks, it has got to be said. There is a strong Jewish/Zionist presence in the organized anti-Muslim/clash of civilizations outpourings. Check out Justin Raimondo’s link to the anti-Muslim demonstration at Yorba Linda, promoted by Rabbi David Eliezrie of Chabad-Yora Linda, Pamella Geller, the Tea Party and Republican “conservatives.” Listen to the remarks of Villa Park Councilwoman Debra Pauly. Check out this link of “Conservative political commentator, radio talk show host, columnist, and attorney” and anti-terrorism “expert” Debbie Schlussel defending Pauly from the “bullying” Muslims who would silence her. http://www.debbieschlussel.com/34766/muslim-bullies-try-to-silence-councilwoman-on-islam/ Be sure to check out her bio, this “attorney and a frequent New York Post and Jerusalem Post columnist,” who “went undercover, dressed as a religious Muslim woman, to the Islamic Center of America, North America’s largest mosque, and reported, in The Detroit News on its support for terrorism, and anti-American, anti-Semitic hate.”
“A frequent speaker at conservative, pro-Israel, and Jewish conferences, gatherings, college campuses, and events around the U.S. Schlussel was a featured speaker at the 2004 National Board Meeting of JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs), 2004 National Conference of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), 2001 and 2002 NRA Annual Meetings, 2002 Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) Fraternity National Convention, and 2000 Toward Tradition Conference.”
The point of all of this is that with this much organized Jewish anti-Muslim activity, and anti-Muslim hatred in the US, I have little patience with those who continually search out examples of anti-Semitism which pale in comparison with what is going on here.
Who would do this? Do the neo white supremist nazis concentrate on Muslims as they do blacks and Jews? We know some Jewish/Zionist Israeli supremacist do incite against Muslims specifically. But it could also be any lone nutcase taking messages thru his tin foil hat like the one that shot Giffords. Or it could be a PTSD ex military member like the one that killed the 16 Afghans.
The hate -o- meter in this country is going up alarmingly.
Stark contrasts exist between the killings in Toulouse, and the killings of a young Black man in Florida and an Iraqi Muslim in California.
The Jewish children in France were killed in outraged retaliation for the killings of Palestinian children.
Please don’t construe this as a justification; it is not; it is a differentiation of of the motivations.
The Jewish children were killed because they were Jewish and because Jewish people had killed Palestinian children.
Trayvon was killed because his was Black.
The Iraqi woman was tire-ironed to death because she was from Iraq, and Muslim.
No other form of grievance against either Trayvon or the Iraqi woman were noted; they were killed for who they are, not what they did.
Pure racism.
This may not be articulated as deftly as some would demand; it’s the best I can do. I think there’s a huge difference between the French killings and the two American killings. The French killings were not racist, the American killings were.