"Martyr of the Head Scarf"

Last week an Egyptian woman named Marwa El Sherbini was stabbed to death 18 times by a German man who was guilty of verbally abusing her 8 months ago….and did I mention that this occurred in a court room? And her husband was stabbed AND shot?
Seriously, how could such a thing like this happen in a courtroom where there should be a handful of police and authorities present to handle such a situation? Well let us back it up and start from the beginning.
Marwa who is a respectable woman of Muslim faith was called a ‘terrorist’ and ‘Islamist’ and ‘bitch’ by some lowlife, ignorant jerk in Berlin, Germany just 8 months ago in a park. He verbally attacked her because she was wearing a hijab, and of course to this guy any woman who religiously and strictly follows Islam and wears a veil is considered a ‘terrorist’. Uh, I don’t think so. Like any woman with dignity she took his punkass to court so he could be punished for calling her such discriminating names in a public place. While in court he was found guilty of the hate crime charges and he was meant to pay 2,800 Euros as a fine when he lashed out by attacking Marwa who was 3 months pregnant at the time, with a knife and stabbing her 18 times. He continued by stabbed her husband twice and had time to stab another person all in the courtroom. While this was happening the police ‘accidentally’ shot her husband while they were aiming for the attacker. How in the world did this man have enough time to stab people 20+ times until he was stopped? And how many times are we going to let outright racist incidents such as these to happen under our watch?
This story makes me sick and makes me wonder how so many people around the world still have these prejudices against those who practice Islam. If any of these mindless idiots took 5 minutes to learn something about the faith, I think they would realize that there is nothing ‘extremist’ or ‘terrorist-esque’ about Islam. I blame the media (along with the past administration) for putting such thoughts into the heads of Americans at least. Just today I was watching a video on CNN about child suicide bombers in the Taliban. And a good 30 sec of the video showed a group of young Muslim men and boys (supposedly in a Taliban camp) praying. Its things like these that you don’t realize are consistently casting a negative light on the Islam faith.
At least the media is getting this story some publicity as things like this happen often without the world knowing. What if this had happened to a westerner in the Middle East? It would be on the news in a hot second. And what makes me annoyed is that Egypt and the rest of the Muslim World most likely won’t do much about this so that attacks like these on Muslims will one day stop. President Mubarak needs to take a stand on this issue NOW so other nations will understand that such situations are completely unacceptable, racist, unnecessary, and demeaning. How many innocent men and women who simply practice their religion have to be publicly defamed or killed before someone will really start doing something about it?
…All because she was wearing a hijab.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/06/egypt.woman.killed/index.html