A man has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing a six-year-old boy to death in Illinois because the boy was Muslim.
Mourners gathered in prayer at an Illinois mosque and placed white and yellow roses at the gravesite of a six-year-old Muslim boy stabbed to death by a man who police say targeted him and his mother because they were Palestinian-Americans. Services for the boy, Wadea Al-Fayoume, took place at the Mosque Foundation in the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview, a community known as "Little Palestine" for its heavy concentration of Palestinian Americans.
It is a worst nightmare come true," Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago Council On American Islamic Relations office, said on Monday. "He was a lovely boy. Loved his family, friends. He loved soccer, basketball. He paid the price for the atmosphere of hate." Iman Negrete, a Palestinian-American who lives in Plainfield, is from the same town in the occupied Palestinian territories as the mother.
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