| I think there is a horror in people being murdered in ways that feel "avoidable". Our brains say, what if? What if shed walked down a different road? What if this murderer were not in our country to intersect with her? |
Think for a minute yourself. She was out at 3am becuase it is Ramadan. She was fasting from 5am to like 9pm because it is June. Be a little sensitivity the circumstances before you issue a blanket judgment. |
The first reports were that a group of Muslim youth walking from a mosque were inexplicably attacked by a man swinging a bat and one girl was assaulted, abducted, and killed. That sounds very much like a hate crime and I think people could be forgiven for jumping to that conclusion. There has been very little argument that this was an anti-Muslim hate crime since more information has come out. Most of the discussion has been about immigration or arguing that it wasn't a hate crime and that religion should even be mentioned. You are free to post about any of the other 40 murders, but expecting people to stop talking about this one won't do anything about the others. |
If people are being killed because of what they look like, the public needs to know the truth. |