Year: 2009
German on trial for Muslim woman Marwa al-Sherbini’s murder — Alex Wiens
— The Local: Egyptian stab victim’s husband describes attack
On the first day of the trial of Russian-born German defendant Alex Wiens in the eastern city of Dresden amid tight security, the victim’s husband Elwy Okaz gave wrenching testimony in the same courthouse where his wife was killed.
Some 200 police officers were on hand after reported Internet death threats against the accused, who appeared in court behind bulletproof glass.
Okaz said Wiens plunged an 18-centimetre kitchen knife repeatedly into the veiled Marwa al-Sherbini, 31, who was three-months pregnant at the time with their second child.
When Okaz tried to come to his wife’s aid, he too was stabbed several times.
Sherbini had just testified against Wiens at a defamation trial for calling her a “terrorist”, an “Islamist” and a “whore” in a playground dispute. She bled to death at the scene in front of her son Mustafa, then three-and-a-half.
Describing the events of July 1, Okaz said neither he or his wife had any sense they were in danger.
“The perpetrator suddenly attacked my wife. He hit her several times and when I tried to help he hit me too. It was only then that I noticed he had a knife and that he had stabbed her,” Okaz, a 32-year-old geneticist, told the hushed courtroom. “Then he began stabbing me too.”
Prosecutor Frank Heinrich said the attack was driven by racism.
“He stabbed them out of pure hatred of non-Europeans and Muslims. He wanted to annihilate them,” he told the court, where many, including Okaz, were wearing pins with a picture of Sherbini’s beaming face.
Spinning Out Of Control: Honor Killings and Media Bias — by Phyllis Chesler
Manassas, Virginia: Sod Swastika-KKK Symbol Brings Tough Penalty
UK: Ending the silence on ‘honour killing’ — at least a dozen “honor killings” in UK a year
Ending the silence on ‘honour killing’ — at least a dozen “honor killings” in UK a year
Florida: Judge orders Fathima Rifqa Bary to return to Ohio
Florida: Judge orders Fathima Rifqa Bary to return to Ohio
— Judge Orders Christian Convert Runaway to Return to Ohio
Somalia: Rapists, hunger and hyenas attack Somalia’s displaced women
North Korea’s ‘disregard’ for citizens starving eight million
North Korea’s ‘disregard’ for citizens starving eight million
— Daily Telegraph: “At least 8 million people are facing food shortages in North Korea because of the “callous” disregard of its Stalinist military dictatorship for the wellbeing of ordinary citizens, a UN human rights investigator has warned.”
— “Visit Muntarbhorn, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the North, said that Pyongyang’s “military first” policy, which places military prowess over meeting basic needs, had left millions hungry.”
U.S.: Nation of Islam Hate Group Leader Louis Farrakhan speaks on the Taliban
Multiple media sources have reported on the Nation of Islam hate group’s leader Louis Farrakhan speaking about the Taliban at Memphis, Tennessee public meeting where local Memphis officials attended. In the public meeting in Memphis, hate group leader Farrakhan explained America’s war against the extremist Taliban as based on an oil deal gone sour.
— Tri-State Defender reports: “Farrakhan is a self-described teacher. And while in Memphis, his subject lessons included: the history of the Taliban and how the war got started; how men and women should view and treat themselves and each other; what can be done to help children; and how the definition of terrorism should include those in Washington who vote their self interest even when their position is not in the best interest of America.”
— Commercial Appeal reports:
— “He said the U.S. government invited the Taliban to Washington in July 2001 to ask the extremist Islamic group’s permission to build a pipeline through the Middle East to get oil to the Persian Gulf.”
— “‘You either accept a carpet of gold or a carpet of bombs,’ he said American leaders told Taliban leaders, but the Taliban would not approve.”
— “President George W. Bush’s administration then used the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as a reason to invade Afghanistan, Farrakhan said.”
— “‘It has nothing to do with anything but oil,’ he said, and the American government used Osama bin Laden as a ‘patsy’ to make Americans hate Islam.”
— Reported in the NOI’s “Final Call,” Farrakhan also claimed that American cities would resemble Gaza and Lebanon: “What you saw in Gaza and Lebanon you will soon see in the inner cities of America. You have become toxic waste and the people at the top are planning our destruction as I speak.”
See also:
— September 22, 2009: Louis Farrakhan: “The Nation of Islam Welcomes Muammar Gadhafi”
