Who was being xenophobic?
Everywhere on Internet (especially Facebook) and in the media, the headline event is the murder of the muslim woman inside a German court by a German citizen.
The German government is saying that this is a single case, the guy was an unstable fanatic, and full stop.
In Egypt however, the case is taken much more seriously and millions are feeling offended, they are screaming to the increasing islamophobia, called the murdered woman the "Headscarf martyr" and asking for maximum sanctions for the killer.
People are angry and saying that the sign of this "islamophobia" is the murder of the woman... I am of course sad and I feel compassion for her familly, (especially the husband and the little daughter), but I still think that it was a single incident...
Lunatics and psychos exist everywhere, and a few years ago, a German policewoman was stabbed in the neck inside a German police patrol car, she died centimetres away from her colleague.
Was there a xenophobic act that day? Yes!
Was it the murder of the woman? No!
What was it?
When the German police entered the court to save the situation, they saw a blond guy with a knife covered with blood in his hand, an agonizing woman (18 stabs)on the floor, and her husband, also stabbed and screaming from shock and pain,, first thing the German policeman thinks: looks arab = danger ! And he shot the victim in his leg, assuming that the blond guy can not be the bad guy, and it is the other who looks more like a terrorist who should be the criminal!!!
That was the revolting act that day, and that is THE proof of xenophobia (I don't want to use the term "Islamophobia").
There were two victims that day: the woman and the man. The death of the woman can be described as a single case, but the man who was 100% innocent and who was shot by the German police (dont tell me they are psycho or fanatics) is definitely a victim of negative stereotypes and xenophobiaa. And this is much much worse than the murder of the woman by the killer.
If we should be angry, AND WE SHOULD!, then we should be angry of the German police acts, and not of the unemployed psycho!!
If anyone is still mad at the blond criminal more than at the German police, then he definitely is shortsighted, not to say an idiot! People! please open your eyes wide and put your fingers on the right signals!!!!
3 Comments
July 7, 2009 9:23:00 PM GMT+03:00
you said (especially the husband and the little daughter),
just want to clarifying for u 'that she has a son not a daughter !!
thanks for ur words as u pointed for the most important issue , i mean the stupid police ,who makes me take off my shoes in airport b4 taking my flight , and they left a guy with a knife to enter a court
July 7, 2009 9:24:00 PM GMT+03:00
you said (especially the husband and the little daughter),
just want to clarifying for u 'that she has a son not a daughter !!
thanks for ur words as u pointed for the most important issue , i mean the stupid police ,who makes me take off my shoes in airport b4 taking my flight , and they left a guy with a knife to enter a court
July 8, 2009 9:46:00 PM GMT+03:00
The German police seems to be a moron-driven institute. In the infamous kidnapping of Israeli athletes in the 1972 Olympics, several of the hostages were shot by members of the police who were supposed to liberate them..
Still, I think that there was an act of islamophobia here. After all the 'psycho' didn't pick casually anyone to assault!
Maged
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