Headscarf Martyr Marwa Sherbini Mourned In Egypt

by Adeel Ayub on July 12, 2009

420marwaelsherbini-420x0The whole western media is quite like nothing is happened, but if there was any non muslim (christian or Jew) was killed in the court room then the whole world will start condemning, and come up with rallies and banners and protest all this, but when it happens with any Muslim then the whole world become blind.

Few days back a young 32 years old, four month pregnant Muslim woman who was stabbed to death in a German courtroom as her young son watched. And police open fire on her husband Elwi Ali Okaz who was trying to save his wife and now he is in hospital under serious condition.

Some thousands of Egyptians surround the coffin of 32-year old pregnant Egyptian woman Marwa el-Sherbini, Monday July 6, 2009, who was stabbed by a German man in a courtroom in eastern Germany last week, during her funeral in Alexandria, Egypt. The woman was to testify against the man in court after he allegedly called her an Islamist and a terrorist in 2008. German prosecutors say a 28-year-old man who fatally stabbed Marwa was driven by a deep hate of foreigners. (AP Photo/Nasser Nouri)

Mideast Egypt Germany Court Stabbing

The attacker stabbed Sherbini “shortly before she was to give evidence in an appeal lodged by the man against a conviction for insulting her over wearing the Hijab,”. The act has been strongly condemned by Muslims all over the world. Racial discrimination for Muslims should end now and West should respect Muslims. The murderer should not only be punished but punished hard enough to be a lesson for others.

At its regular news conference on Monday, a German government spokesman Thomas Steg said if the attack was racist, the government “naturally condemns this in the strongest terms.”

The killing has dominated Egyptian media for days, while it has received comparatively little coverage in German and Western media.

A German Muslim group criticized government officials and the media for not paying enough attention to the crime.

“The incident in Dresden had anti-Islamic motives. So far, the reactions from politicians and media have been incomprehensibly meager,” Aiman Mazyek, the general secretary of the Central Council of Muslims, told Berlin’s Tagesspiegel daily.

Egyptian commentators said the incident was an example of how hate crimes against Muslims are overlooked in comparison to those committed by Muslims against Westerners. Many commentators pointed to the uproar that followed the 2004 murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Dutch-born Islamic fundamentalist angry over one of his films criticizing the treatment of Muslim women.

Abdel Azeem Hamad, chief editor of the independent Egyptian daily el-Shorouk, said that if the victim had been a Jew, there would have been an uproar.

“What we demand is just some attention to be given to the killing of a young innocent mother on the hands of fanatic extremist,” he wrote in his column.

An Egyptian blogger Hicham Maged, wrote “let us play the ‘What If’ game.”

“Just imagine if the situation was reversed and the victim was a Westerner who was stabbed anywhere in the world or _ God forbid _ in any Middle Eastern country by Muslim extremists,” he said.

The Egyptian Pharmacists’ Association called for a boycott of German drugs. The victim was a pharmacist. 

huffingtonpost.com

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