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Woman beaten in San Diego attack to be buried in Iraq
The body of an Iraqi-American woman who was found beaten unconscious in her home next to a note that said "go back to your country, you terrorist" will be flown to Iraq for her funeral, a local Muslim leader has said.
Shaima Alawadi, 32, was taken off life support on Saturday, three days after her 17-year-old daughter found her unconscious in the dining room of the family home in El Cajon, San Diego.
Investigators said they were exploring all aspects of her death, including the possibility that the attack was a hate crime.
Alawadi's father is a Shia cleric in Iraq, and the Iraqi government will pay to have her body sent back, a Muslim leader in Michigan told the Detroit Free-Press on Sunday. "Everybody is outraged," Imam Husham al-Husainy, of the Karbalaa Islamic Education Centre, in Dearborn, said. "This is too evil, too criminal."
The woman's daughter, Fatima Al Himidi, told KUSI-TV that her mother had been beaten on the head repeatedly with a tyre iron.
Police said the family had found another threatening note earlier this month, but did not report it to the authorities.
Himidi said her mother had dismissed the note, found outside the home, as a child's prank.
Flowers were piled on the doorstep of the housee on Sunday. A neighbour said the family had moved in only a few weeks ago. Friends said Alawadi wore a hijab.
Hayder al-Zayadi, a family friend, told the Free-Press Alawadi had moved to the US with her family in 1993 and was part of a wave of Shia Muslim refugees who fled to Michigan after Saddam Hussein cracked down on an uprising in 1991.
After living in Dearborn for a few years, she moved to the San Diego area in 1996, graduated from high school and became a housewife, raising five children.
Zayadi said Alawadi's brothers worked for the US army, serving as cultural advisers to train soldiers who were going to be deployed to the Middle East. Another family friend told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Alawadi's husband had a similar job.
El Cajon, north-east of downtown San Diego, is home to one of the largest Iraqi communities in the US.
14 comments:
It's a cruel, mindless world whereever a person looks. One muslim woman killed in San Diego; 8,000 muslims slaughtered in
Syria to maintain Bashar Assad's control in Damascus. - reb
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This is a tragedy and I hope they find the killer and arrest him/her soon.
That being said, I am not interested in Islam. I have my own religion that I am perfectly satisfied with. I respect individuals as human beings, but I am not interested in learning about their religion.
The latest appears that not only was she killed by a terrorist, but by a sexist as well;
http://ideas.time.com/2012/04/10/shaima-alawadis-murder-a-hate-crime-against-women/?xid=gonewsedit
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Hillary Clinton visits Egypt...
ahoes and tomatoes thrown
but no comment here.
reb
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July 20, 2012
Question: Will The Egyptian people allow Mohammed Morsi to destroy those wonderful Pyramids?
reb
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Mohamed - Someone just whispered to me that Egypt's new President Mursi just relieved Field Marshall Tantawi, Age76 from his military council position. Is this true?
reb
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reb,
He did that?!!!
Maybe. Just open your CNN and they will tell you everything you need to know. But take care that it maybe a "NeedNotToKnow" issue!
Regards from Egypt
Nice blog..! Keep blogging..!
Mr. Fadly
Would you report what's happening in Cairo this week? You are a trust-worthy, high integrity person. I do not trust CNN... there are too many silly commercials on our television.
reb
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reb,
Why don't you ask a CIA specialist?
Mohamed
Mohamed -
We still have legal free speech. Say anything you like, and I'll publish it. That's real democracy in action.
Fifty million died in WWII. Most of them were innocent civilians.
Russia lost 22 million, and Joe Stalin shrugged; he still wanted World Communism.
Nations learned nothing.
How many will perish in the next one, when thousands of nuke-tipped missiles fly across national borders, Mohamed?
"What fools we mortals be" - reb
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Suggestion:
I have just re-read your personal profile. It indicates your
profession is 'Law Student'...
Shouldn't that be Law Graduate?
reb
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It's a hour away from a great moment in American History on July 4th, 1776 Independence Day!
What's happening in Tahrir Plaza
in Cairo.. All those fireworks, and excited crowds.
What's your opinion? - reb
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Another woman murdered by Islam:
http://pamelageller.com/tag/shaima-alawadi/
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