The killing of six year old Wadea Al-Fayoume, whose mother remains in critical condition, is being called an Islamophobic attack by local and federal officials.
Over the weekend, as reported by outlets including the Washington Post, a Palestinian American six-year-old, Wadea Al-Fayoume, was killed in a stabbing rampage by his family’s landlord, who apparently had grown more and more radicalized into Islamophobia while watching coverage of the ongoing warring in Israel and Palestine. The boy's mother, Hanaan Shahin, was also stabbed and remains hospitalized in critical condition.
Al-Fayoume and Shahin’s family members told the media they had already been fearful over the attacks on Gaza, but they hadn’t realized it might impact them closer to home. But law enforcement in cities across the country — and now, the Illinois State Police — have been on alert for days, anticipating Islamophobic and antisemitic attacks in the wake of the situation in Gaza; advocacy groups told the AP they’ve noticed an uptick in “hateful and threatening rhetoric on social media.
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