Iraqi woman severely beaten in Calif. home dies

[rhodanum]

EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) - A 32-year-old woman from Iraq who was found severely beaten next to a threatening note saying "go back to your country" died on Saturday.Hanif Mohebi, the director of the San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said he met with Shaima Alawadi's family members in the morning and was told that she was

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[jessyryan]

I'm crying. Fuck everything. This should be EVERYWHERE on the news and the pos needs to rot in prison. Shit like this makes me ashamed of America tbh.

[deevee45]

This is truly horrifying... but I would not be surprised if it turned out to be something else and the note was made up. I think the thing that struck me was that she had a child who was 17, and she was 32, and that she already has five children. Maybe I'm off base... no matter what, truly heartbreaking that she died a horrific death.

[spyral_path]

Two of my friends were married with children by the time they were sixteen and all three of my father's sisters married in their mid teens. Stuff happens. It doesn't always mean the woman is the victim of abuse or forced into a marriage. If it was "something else" I don't think there would have been a made up note because that only brings more scrutiny.

[girly123]

Or it could just be Islamophobia.
That does happen.

Seriously, does every post about someone dying horribly at the hands of a racist need a comment like this?
(Edited because Islamphobia=/=racism, but still.)

[mystika387]

seriously, what? are you trying to say that she's a muslim woman who married young and had a number of children so she's likely in a abusive marriage? you need to check what you're saying here.

why are people so reluctant to accept that islamophobia kills?????

[kittymink]

WAT.

[astridmyrna]

Oh my god. Just oh my fucking god.

[tenaciousrei]

I'm just so upset right now. I have been praying for her and her family all night.

I'm a Black Muslim woman with three sons. After Trayvon, Rekia and now this? I'm really thinking about getting out of the USA in the next few years.

[vanillakokakola]

shit, i'm white and i want to get out of the USA. i can't imagine how difficult it would be to have the issues i'm frustrated with compounded by the fact that our country gives zero fucks about racism (and that we have legitimate candidates for the presidency who are OPENLY RACIST)

it sucks, and i'm sorry :(

[tenaciousrei]

It does and thanks. I hope it gets better here for everyone but I am not holding my breath.

[mystika387]

Rabbi yassir wala tu'assir, inshaAllah. <3 <3