{"id":711,"date":"2009-10-08T12:44:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T07:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mohamediqbalp.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/08\/egyptian-pregnant-doctor-murdered-in-german-court-for-wearing-hijab\/"},"modified":"2009-10-08T12:44:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T07:14:11","slug":"egyptian-pregnant-doctor-murdered-in-german-court-for-wearing-hijab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/egyptian-pregnant-doctor-murdered-in-german-court-for-wearing-hijab\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Pregnant Doctor Murdered in German Court for Wearing Hijab"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>German courtroom killer allegedly driven by hate of Muslims<\/h2>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:25px 0 0 15px;\" width=\"1%\" valign=\"bottom\"><a id=\"linkImgRelatedPhotos\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia4.msn.com\/j\/ap\/d3175851-b7e3-4671-9375-14356d975167.hmedium.jpg\" style=\"border:1px solid rgb(0,0,0);\" title=\"Image: Crowds at Egyptian funeral procession\" alt=\"Image: Crowds at Egyptian funeral procession\" vspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"99%\" valign=\"bottom\">\n<div class=\"caption\" style=\"padding:25px 10px 0 15px;\">Thousands<br \/>of Egyptians surround the coffin of a 32-year old pregnant woman who<br \/>was stabbed to death in Germany as she was about to testify against&nbsp;a<br \/>man who allegedly called her an Islamist.&nbsp; <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"credit aR\">Nasser Nouri \/ AP<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div><\/p>\n<div class=\"textTimestamp\"><span id=\"udtD\">updated <span class=\"time\">3:37 p.m. ET <\/span><span class=\"date\">July 6, 2009<\/span><\/span><br \/>\t\tfunction UpdateTimeStamp(pdt) {<br \/>\t\t\tvar n = document.getElementById(&#8220;udtD&#8221;);<br \/>\t\t\tif(pdt != &#8221; &amp;&amp; n &amp;&amp; window.DateTime) {<br \/>\t\t\t\tvar dt = new DateTime();<br \/>\t\t\t\tpdt = dt.T2D(pdt);<br \/>\t\t\t\tif(dt.GetTZ(pdt)) {n.innerHTML = dt.D2S(pdt,((&#8221;.toLowerCase()==&#8217;false&#8217;)?false:true));}<br \/>\t\t\t}<br \/>\t\t}<br \/>\t\tUpdateTimeStamp(&#8216;633825058418130000&#8217;);<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>CAIRO<br \/>&#8211; Egyptians are horrified by the brutal slaying of a pregnant Muslim<br \/>woman stabbed repeatedly inside a German courtroom, calling what they<br \/>see as a lack of outrage in Germany evidence of racism and anti-Islamic<br \/>sentiment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>On<br \/>Monday, thousands of mourners marched behind the coffin of Marwa<br \/>al-Sherbini, 32, in her Mediterranean hometown of Alexandria where her<br \/>body was buried after being flown back from Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>&#8220;There<br \/>is no god but God and the Germans are the enemies of God,&#8221; chanted the<br \/>mourners, while others carried banners condemning racism. Her brother Tarek el-Sherbini told The<br \/>Associated Press by telephone from the mosque where prayers were being<br \/>recited in front of his sister&#8217;s coffin. &#8220;In the West, they don&#8217;t<br \/>recognize us. There is racism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span><b><strong>Courtroom erupts into violence<br \/><\/strong><\/b>Al-Sherbini,<br \/>who was about four months pregnant, was involved in a court case<br \/>against her neighbor for calling her a terrorist and was set to testify<br \/>against him when he stabbed her 18 times inside the courtroom in front<br \/>of her 3-year-old son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>Her<br \/>husband, who was in Germany on a research fellowship, came to her aid<br \/>and was also stabbed by the neighbor and shot in the leg by a security<br \/>guard who initially mistook him for the attacker, German prosecutors<br \/>said. He is now in critical condition in a German hospital, according<br \/>to al-Sherbini&#8217;s brother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>&#8220;The<br \/>guards thought that as long as he wasn&#8217;t blond, he must be the attacker<br \/>so they shot him,&#8221; al-Sherbini told an Egyptian television station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>The<br \/>man, who has only been identified as 28-year-old Alex W., remains in<br \/>detention and prosecutors have opened an investigation on suspicion of<br \/>murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span><b><strong>Driven by a deep hatred<br \/><\/strong><\/b>Christian<br \/>Avenarius, the prosecutor in Dresden where the incident took place,<br \/>described the killer as driven by a deep hatred of Muslims. &#8220;It was<br \/>very clearly a xenophobic attack of a fanatical lone wolf.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>He<br \/>added that the attacker was a Russian of German descent who had<br \/>immigrated to Germany in 2003 and had expressed his contempt for<br \/>Muslims at the start of the trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>At<br \/>its regular news conference on Monday, a German government spokesman<br \/>Thomas Steg said if the attack was racist, the government &#8220;naturally<br \/>condemns this in the strongest terms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>The<br \/>killing has dominated Egyptian media for days, while it has received<br \/>comparatively little coverage in German and Western media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span><b><strong>&#8216;Meager&#8217; response from government, media<br \/><\/strong><\/b>A German Muslim group criticized government officials and the media for not paying enough attention to the crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>&#8220;The<br \/>incident in Dresden had anti-Islamic motives. So far, the reactions<br \/>from politicians and media have been incomprehensibly meager,&#8221; Aiman<br \/>Mazyek, the general secretary of the Central Council of Muslims, told<br \/>Berlin&#8217;s Tagesspiegel daily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>Egyptian<br \/>commentators said the incident was an example of how hate crimes<br \/>against Muslims are overlooked in comparison to hate crimes committed<br \/>by Muslims against Westerners. Many commentators pointed to the uproar<br \/>that followed the 2004 murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a<br \/>Dutch-born Islamic fundamentalist angry over one of his films<br \/>criticizing the treatment of Muslim women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>Abdel<br \/>Azeem Hamad, chief editor of the independent Egyptian daily el-Shorouk,<br \/>said that if the victim had been a Jew, there would be have been in an<br \/>uproar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>&#8220;What we<br \/>demand is just some attention to be given to the killing of a young<br \/>innocent mother on the hands of fanatic extremist,&#8221; he wrote in his<br \/>column.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>An Egyptian blogger Hicham Maged, wrote &#8220;let us play the &#8216;What If&#8217; game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>&#8220;Just<br \/>imagine if the situation was reversed and the victim was a Westerner<br \/>who was stabbed anywhere in the world or \u2014 God forbid \u2014 in any Middle<br \/>Eastern country by Muslim extremists,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>The Egyptian Pharmacists&#8217; Association called for a boycott of German drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>According<br \/>to numerous interviews in Egyptian local papers with el-Sherbini<br \/>family, the man who stabbed al-Sherbini used to accuse her of being a<br \/>&#8220;terrorist,&#8221; and in one incident, he tried to take off her headscarf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><b><strong>Victim couldn&#8217;t find work<\/strong><\/b><br \/>Laila<br \/>Shams, al-Sherbini&#8217;s mother, told the el-Wafd daily that her daughter<br \/>said she&#8217;d difficulty finding a job in Germany because of her head<br \/>scarf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>&#8220;One (employer) suggested she remove her head scarf to get a job. She said no,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\"><span id=\"byLine\"><\/span>Officials<br \/>from a German Muslim group and the country&#8217;s main Jewish group made a<br \/>joint visit Monday to the Dresden hospital where the victim&#8217;s husband<br \/>is being treated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\">&#8220;You don&#8217;t have to be a Muslim to act against anti-Muslim behavior, and<br \/>you don&#8217;t have to be a Jew to act against anti-Semitism,&#8221; said Stephan<br \/>Kramer, the general secretary of the Central Council of Jews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German courtroom killer allegedly driven by hate of Muslims Thousandsof Egyptians surround the coffin of a 32-year old pregnant woman whowas stabbed to death in Germany as she was about to testify against&nbsp;aman who allegedly called her an Islamist.&nbsp; Nasser Nouri \/ AP updated 3:37 p.m. ET July 6, 2009 function UpdateTimeStamp(pdt) { var n [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iqsoft.in\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}