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Marwa Sherbini Cairo Funeral: Thousands Remember Headscarf Martyr
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by alia_d | July 6, 2009 at 03:43 pm
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Thousands of Egyptians attended the funeral of Marwa Sherbini in Cairo today, July 6, 2009. The 31-year-old 'headscarf martyr' was stabbed to death last week in a German courtroom, where Axel W, the attacker, was appealing a fine of 750 euros for calling Sherbini a 'terrorist' in 2008 because she was wearing a headscarf.
28-year-old Axel W, a xenophobic German, stabbed Sherbini, who was 4 months pregnant, 18 times in a German courtroom in front of her 3-year-old son, Mostapha, on Wednesday, July 1. The attack happened just before Sherbini was about to take witness.
Sherbini's husband, Elwi Ali Okaz, who tried to defend his wife, is in critical condiction in a German hospital. He was stabbed by Axel W and shot in the leg by a security guard who initially mistook him for the attacker.
Sherbini's tragic death struck a chord with the Egyptian public. Newspapers named her 'the martyr of the hijab' and thousands mourned her death at her funeral.
"There is no god but God and the Germans are the enemies of God," chanted the mourners for 32-year-old Marwa al-Sherbini in her hometown of Alexandria, where her body was buried after being flown back from Germany.
According to the World Bulletin, German authorities delivered Sherbini's 3-year-old to an orphanage and may have refused to send him to family members via the Egyptian embassy. They also failed to inform Marwa Sherbini's family or the Egyptian embassy about the death. The family found out 24 hours later from a family friend.
Many Egyptians view the muted response of the German government as anti-Muslim sentiment.
[However, the] German embassy in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, said that the attack was not a reflection of German attitudes towards Muslims.
"It is a criminal act. It has nothing to do with persecution against Muslims," Magdi al-Sayed, a press officer, told the state-run Egyptian Gazette.But Sulaiman Wilms, the head of communications at the European Muslim Union, said that the incident was at least partly representative of the situation faced by Muslims across the continent.
Tarek el-Sherbini, Marwa Sherbini's brother, also saw his sister's murder as an act of racism.
"If she was just stabbed once, I would have said this is a mad man, but the number of times she and her husband were stabbed reflects the extent of racism this man had in him," Tarek Sherbini, the victim's brother, said. "Here in Egypt, we believe in 'an eye for an eye'. The least we expect is the death penalty for the murderer."
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at 01:43 on July 7th, 2009
How many Germans were killed in Egypt durning the last five years, and how many Egypts were killed in Germany during the same period? Start thinking.
at 06:16 on July 7th, 2009
I didn't know it was a contest of numbers?
Why is it that when a westerner is hurt, or God forbid murdered for one reason or the other, the press does not rest until the story is blown on every cover, and is the talk of town for months to come? but when it comes to us.. to Muslims, we're ignored? or made to look bad in eyes of the west.. no wonder the German/Prussian murderer saw it fit to kill a pregnant woman, if the media and western governments discouraged any anti-Islamic acts from the start non of this would be happening now!! if the west did not over step our basic human rights, they wouldn't have ended up creating enemies from infancy in every corner in the Middle East.. your people would've been safe and happy if you left us alone, but no. in the name of terrorism you ripped apart our world and then to top it off you made us look bad to justify your own actions. just the like the Jews back in Europe, murdered at the hands of a nazi, Muslims are murdered at your government's hands every day, and one day you'll look back at your own history and regret your own actions, much like you do today, when looking back at what your ancestors did to annihilate the Native Indians. you've exploited their riches and murdered them for their land, much like what is done to us today. one day you'll hate what your government has done to us, but by then it'll be too late to fix anything.. so thank you very much westerners for allowing our murder each day.. sometimes at the hands of our american-israeli-bought arab presidents and half the other time at america's or israel's hands.. i'm out and off to mourn a 32 year old innocent woman, who wanted nothing but to love and obey her God.. much like you do in a church.
at 03:55 on July 11th, 2009
Guess what..this is just the begginning for us..they are wild beasts..they are gonna kill us just like that for no reason at all...like they`re doing with Dr. Aafia Siddique.. :S...all of this is mentioned in sahih hadith...so its time for all us muslims to LEAVE their countries...stop paying taxes to them which they use against us and unite...trust me...a very bad time is about to come for all of us to witness.
at 22:30 on July 7th, 2009
gimme the facts dude!!
at 12:45 on July 8th, 2009
u r such an ignorant , i pity u.hahahahhaaaaaaaaa
at 06:48 on August 14th, 2009
BALDONE DON'T POST COMMENTS YOU INBREED
at 03:56 on July 7th, 2009
yes let's start thinking for once and putting aside prejudice instead of looking for ways to justify this horrific act of terror. the fact is the husband was shot by a security guard. how can he have been mistaken when it occurred in a court room. the security guard failed at his job. 18 stabs wounds. 18! something is wrong there. was security waiting for her death before intervening? son was taken to an orphanage without informing family members. was the egyptian embassy informed? too many mistakes. it's easy to believe that xenophobia had an affect on the whole issue especially when you are dealing with germany, a country historically hateful towards minorities. so when was the last time a german pregnant woman was stabbed 18 times in an egyptian court room and her husband's leg shot at "Accidentally? start thinking. stop hating.
at 04:12 on July 7th, 2009
baldone, it's people like who make u who promote violence. people like you complain when msulims defend them selves or islam with their hands. when in this case, a pregnant woman fights back legally, you justify the attacker by making stupid comments. in other words, no matter what we do, you haters will not be pleased. you and your ilk don't have the ability to think bcos your mind is filled with so much hate thanks to the anti-muslims brainwashing in your society. given your statement, this matter should not have been dealt in a civil manner by a muslim women. should have been taken care of outside the court room and now an innocent woman and her unborn child would still be alive whilst the german terrorist would have been served with big dose of vigilante justice.please start thinking. words and actions have consequences. you may have no hair but i refuse to believe that you have no brain. just need to activate it. peace be with you.
at 09:44 on July 7th, 2009
Baldone, noone with brains in egypt accepts the killing of these germans or any other foreigners. Yet, you forgot to mention that among those killed were also egyptians.
But please tell me, how & why this cruel way of killing?? 18 STABS in a COURTROOM. She was PREGNANT. It was all in front of her 3-YEARS OLD SON, who was suddenly taken away after seeing BOTH his parents stabbed & drowning in a blood bath.
How can any HUMAN being defend or even accept such a cruelty?
SHAME ON YOU , SHAME ON HIM, THE REAL TERRORIST & SHAME ON ANYONE WHO ACCEPTS SUCH A DEED.
at 03:14 on July 8th, 2009
Hahaha,,,, how many germans were killed in Egypt and how many Egyptians were killed in germany at same period??!!
Things are not counted that way,,, you gotta say;;;; how many Muslims the westerns/non-Muslims killed and how many westerns/non-Muslims the Muslims killed at same period....
Count right darling!!! in Iraq, Bosnia, Palestine, Indonesia ( West induces the christains there in Indonesia to kill Muslims ) and most recently in China, about 180 Muslims were killed just because they stood for themselves and asked for some very normal rights of human beings.
IT'S A FACT, BELIEVERS ARE ALWAYS HATED, that is since ever. I am not stunned from SHERBINI's murder.
Now You start thinking.... why Islam is hated???why is all that noise about Islam,Muslim countries, why? you know why>?? cause it is the RELIGION OF GOD, the religion that narrows the horizons on the sinners (disbelievers who want to live life their own rules), make God equal to Human (as Chirstians making prophet Jesus, and Jews making Prophet Uzair) Alright,, ha and some Humans go to worship a cow ok!, others are just living their life, when u ask them who created all this they reply saying "the mother nature" really LOL....have adultry what a day!, swear to Prophets yahoo!, drink wine fine!,
Islam is the religion that brings an inside peace to the human's heart and soul, that even if you or someone else threatned my life to let that religion go, i will say NO..even if i knew for definite that my final destiny will be as SHERBINI's destiny ( 18-stabs ) , I WON'T OR ANY OTHER MUSLIM LET OUR RELIGION GO, AFTER WE HAD TASTED THE SWEETNESS OF FAITH.
LIFE!!!!
"And if there is a party among you who believes in the Message with which I (God) have been sent , and a party which does not believe, hold yourselves in patience until Allah doth decide between us: for He is the best to decide". (Holly Quran: Sura A'raf: Verse:87).
Yes patience patience...................................
at 10:19 on July 8th, 2009
They are blinds
They are deaf
They are permanently squated by the breath of Satan
This crime will not remain unpunished
Who laughs last laughs better
I would like to dedicate the following blog in memory of our sister Marwa :
http://noor-wa-naar.blogspot.com
at 12:42 on July 8th, 2009
Baldon, u r telling us start thinking!!! when u do we will. ignorant.
at 10:55 on July 10th, 2009
Inna Lillah-e-Wa-Inna-Ilaeh-e-Raaji-oon.
"And say not of those who are slain in the way of Allah: 'They are dead.' Nay, they are living, though ye perceive (it) not. (The Noble Quran, 2:154)"
at 10:22 on July 13th, 2009
It is so strange to see the world headed in such a direction. And just over Hijab or headscarf. We obviously know there is more to this. It is pretty much a media issue, along with the long stance of hate over the crusades buried deep inside. The media especially. The only shown information here in the west is when something goes wrong in the middle east. So the the only view the world has on Islam is bad, bad, and bad. Maybe the media needs to show more good things. For example. We won't see too many hate crimes against Buddhist or Hindus. Why? Because the media today isn't showing the bad parts of these countries. So world hate against them is now at a ZERO. So it seems this is a era to pick on Muslims. So Europe and USA have a new escape goat as we say. Maybe this is part of the so called "New World Order" Bush always talked about, who knows. He's gone and almost dead. I can only say this sediment is big now in Europe against Muslims. More so in places like Greece and Germany more then anywhere. Italy and Spain seems more to be Arab. So there really is no hate there. But take Greece, Germany, and throw in a dash of Britain and France for flavor, you have a bad tasting soup of hate. No to mention the Old Nazi groups that still exist in Germany who hate anyone from the outside. I am sure the Russian decendent who did this, was relating to Jewish Russians who now rule all of Israel. The so called fake Jews of today that make up 90% of Israel. And aren't Jewish by blood at all, but converts during the time of the Kazars in Russian lands. I am so sorry Marwa this happened to you. Your deserved better then a guy attacking a girl. What a back stabbing looser.
at 06:02 on July 16th, 2009
salam .....is that the same goverment that is defending about peace and justice before they speak about it try to make some justice for our sister that died in their land and i guess that criminal is in a nice jail or maybee out with his family .. one thing is confusing me how could he entered a knife to a court house damn the goverment knew that what kind of justice they have ....yew alll muslim wake up wake up wake up is that what our profit MOHAMMD alayh al salam teached us is that what salah al dein tolled us is that what ALI ibn abi taleb radiya allah anho teached us about justice wake up alll muslim and take revenge for our dead sister not a blood revenge cause our relegion doesnt teached us to be criminals our revenge came when we all muslims unite and stand up for our rights ( peace with u )
at 05:03 on August 13th, 2009
I'm really sorry for you Mostafa you poor baby you didn't deserve to witness what you did your mother stabbed to death infront of you by a madman, Your mum was defending her RIGHT OF FREEDOM to wear a scarf on her head her dignity to be killed for it i have no words to describe what i feel it's disgusting, The guy should be given life that's not enough for taking 2 LIFE Marwa and her Unborn!!! I'm sorry Mostafa that your dad got shot because the security guard got mistaken I'm pretty sure the guard had watched your mother being stabbed by the same guy who had shot your father so im not sure how he made such a big mistake!!?!!! He should be suspendid from the job that's the least they should do he obviously is TOO BLIND TO SEE!!!!! I'm also very sorry you have been whisked away to an Orphanage i'm sure you have alot of family back in Egypt I think you should be given to your immediate family straight away so they can take BETTER CARE OF YOU than stay in the Country Where you have lost your Nearest and Dearest!