'I'd encourage you to stay vigilant,' said FBI Director Christopher Wray.
October 16, 2023, 2:15 PMWadea Al-Fayoume, 6, a Muslim boy who, according to police, was stabbed to death in an attack that targeted him and his mother for their religion and as a response to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, poses in an undated family photograph obtained by Reuters on Oct. 15, 2023.
"This horrific act of hate has no place in America, and stands against our fundamental values: freedom from fear for how we pray, what we believe, and who we are," Biden said. The killing happened Saturday morning in the unincorporated community of Plainfield Township, Illinois, when Wadea's 32-year-old mother, Hanaan Shahin, answered a knock on the door of her ground-floor apartment and was confronted by her landlord, Czuba, allegedly yelling hateful comments and wielding a military-style knife, according to Will County Sheriff's Office investigators."He knocked on the door and ...
"There is no humane world that can and should tolerate the murder of an innocent child because of his identity," Mayorkas said. "The tragic events in the Middle East, begun by the brutal, have brought ideologies of hate to the fore across the world -- notably antisemitism and Islamophobia. This must end. The diversity and inclusiveness that define America must prevail."
The New York Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations condemned alleged anti-Palestinian attacks that occurred in Brooklyn last week, and called on public officials and the media to end anti-Palestinian incitement.
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