today by Mukul Kesavan. It is about an Egyptian lady, Marwa el-Sherbini (picture alongside with her family) who was killed in a German courtroom on 1 July 2009 because of a headscarf!!Marwa was a pharmacist and handball player from Egypt residing in Germany with here family. While with her son at the playground, there was an altercation with a German man about use of the swing for her son. He insulted Marwa for wearing a headscarf and called her, among other things, 'a terrorist'. Marwa brought charges for insulting behaviour and he was fined 780 € by the lower court. The Public Prosecutor appealed for a higher penalty because of the openly xenophobic character of the incident and since he openly said “You don’t have the right to live here” to Marwa in his statement.
At the proceeding of the trial on 1st July 2009, the man leapt from his seat and openly stabbed Marwa 18 times with a knife. Her husband was shot in the leg by the security guards when he tried to save her. And Marwa was three months pregnant at the time of here death. Amazing that we have cases like this even today!!
Also shocking is the way this news was ignored by the mainstream world media. As Mukul says "The moral of Marwa’s murder is that the Western hysteria around veiling is not about the emancipation of Muslim women; it’s about Europe’s visceral intolerance for visible difference" Read the full article here
Another article on Marwa says: "There was a shameful silence on the part of all the "liberals" and human rights activists who are so ready to condemn the misdeeds of Muslim extremists anywhere in the world...."
Is this a new hate trend in Germany? "European secular “liberalism” is being defined increasingly in terms of... racist bigotry that still pervades in Europe – only now the Muslims have replaced the Jews as the bête noirs....
Read this article here
Wikipedia's entry on the event is available here
A photo-essay of the event is available on youtube below:
