No. Oh, no. You don't get to blame this on political parties.
This wasn't anyone's fault but the crazy old man who just stabbed a six-year-old boy twenty-something times in front of his mother. Hopefully he'll rot in prison.
No, no, no, no, no...
Hate has consequences. Read the vile posts here suggesting and some outright calling for Palestinians /Arabs to be wiped out.
This kid and his family ARE AMERICANS! Not Israeli's, no residents of the GAZA Strip. Americans!
The family of Wadea Al-Fayoume, 6, was set to mourn him at a funeral in suburban Chicago. The man accused in the boy’s death was scheduled to appear in court.
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A Palestinian American family in Illinois was preparing on Monday for the funeral of a 6-year-old boy who the authorities said was stabbed to death in an attack motivated by hate for Muslims and the fighting in Israel and Gaza.
A funeral for the boy, Wadea Al-Fayoume, was scheduled for Monday afternoon at a mosque in suburban Chicago. The killing of Wadea on Saturday drew condemnations from President Biden and Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, as well as outpourings of grief from Muslim leaders across the country, many of whom saw the attack as an outgrowth of overheated rhetoric about the fighting overseas.
Wadea’s mother, who was seriously injured in the attack, was still recovering and would not be able to attend the funeral, a local Muslim leader said.
“This is a heavy day that we hoped would never come. As they say, the smallest coffins are the heaviest,” said Ahmed Rehab, the executive director of the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The boy’s mother, he added, “will be feeling Wadea’s loss more than anyone, but she is forced to mourn alone rather in the warm embrace of family and community at this time.”
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