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Corpse of Egyptian woman killed in Germany expected in Cairo
Jul 5, 2009, 15:52 GMT
Berlin/Cairo - The corpse of a pregnant Egyptian woman killed in a Dresden courthouse was expected to arrive in Cairo for burial on Sunday night, the Egyptian Embassy in Berlin said.
Dresden prosecutors have charged a German-Russian man with fatally stabbing Marwa al-Shirbini, 31, in a courthouse in Dresden on Wednesday.
She was there to testify against him on charges that he had called her a 'terrorist' on a playground in 2008 because she was wearing a headscarf.
Her brother and her 3-year-old son would accompany her body back to Cairo, the independent Egyptian daily al-Masry al-Youm reported Sunday.
Al-Shirbini's husband was still in hospital, recovering from stab wounds and an accidental gunshot he sustained while trying to help his wife, the paper said.
Speaking in an article to appear in Monday the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel, Stephan Kramer and Ayman Mazyak, the respective heads of Germany's councils for Jews and Muslims, said that would pay a visit to the victim's husband to express their condolences.
'We want make a statement against Islamophobia and against the fact that it is consistently underestimated and trivialized, as it has been in this case,' they said.
The attack 'was motivated by Islamophobia,' they wrote. 'But so far the reaction from politicians and the media has been strangely muted. That is why we want to show solidarity.'
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IAM very sad for this case as muslim person but we must know that what happen is individual terriorest act so now we should understand that terrorist is word can be related to any human on earth not related to all muslims as the united states media did before !!!!! or all christians or all jewish only for dangerous people like what happen in this case , every where in the world there is nice people and bad people so we must not to hate country or its people for individual act but we should follow the case and make sure that this case must be continued and the right punshmint to the killer and also punshment to police officers inside court which had lack of security !!!!!!!!!!! its really shame for country like germany to have security like this !!!!!!!!!!!!
message from me personally to all world we love you , Islam is peac.
what will be the reaction if that happened to a jew woman ?
how they allow people 2 have weapons in the courts?
how the police shooted the husband ? and why they didnt shoot the attacker ?
is that the fair of the west world?
who is the barbarian now?
im soo sorry for her family God bless us all
Hay Germany the head of Mistreatment in europ , france is also in the way, denmark as well the cross war leader are govern europ public right now,
how Germany court allow this terrorist to hold knife inside and hit her and her husband 18 times without involved. when they involved they shooted the husband two times , this is human rights criminal ,
DEAD GERMANY AND DEAD fascism PEOPLE YOU HAVE, TO HELL GERMANY
What media are you talking about! Compare this with the poor Brasillian youngman who was mistaken for a Muslim and shot dead by the UK Police. It was a healine news, the visctim was Christian mistaken for a Muslim, a poor guy who I totally sympathize with his family, but the morale of the story is, the inncocent Christian dies, and the terrorist Muslim gets a runaway. For our case, how can you think Western media will prioritize any news that can gain the Muslim victim any sympathy!! We have to face it, all this nonesense about impartiality of BBC and other western media is pure hipocricy. Don't assume freedom of speech and expression while you are still victims of your own racism and unobjectivity.
It is regretable that such things happen.This woman died as a martyr.May Allah rest her in peace and get her to paradise
I heard about this story this mroning. As a Christian person, UMChurch clergy, I am so angry at this act of torrorism in a German court. I cannot believe that someone who is accused of threating others' life is allowed to get in a court with a knife, are you kidding????? My prayers and thoughts are with her family, her friends, her faith community and the global comunity. I stand in solidarity with all Egyptians, Africans and Muslims as they mourn the life that was taken from them in such away.
I definately agree that the word 'terrorist' should not be used to refer to any country rather to those persons who commit act of terrorism. In this case, this German-Russian man is just as bad as others who kill because they hate others
Peace and grace to all who are touched by this story
As being sad and sorry for this terrible action taken against a muslim mother i wish that her rights are not going a way and this criminal will take the highiest punishment a way that she is a muslim but as human being lost her life because of an idiot.
I am a Christian. More then that,I am a human! My thoughts and prayers are with this poor husband,his and his wifes families,and their friends. I learned of this story from my Egyptian,Muslim FRIEND. There is NO excuse why a weapon should show up in ANY courtroom. I hope this animal receives the highest punishment allowed by law. I am also dissapointed with the media in this country. They only tell us what THEY think is newsworthy. I understand they can't report EVERYTHING. But THIS is newsworthy. It helps us understand more about what a 'terrorist' is!
I was shocked of such inhumanumanly way this muslim martyre had to go to her rest and her baby who is not born yet and the crime seen full blood shed of the 3 victims.
Now what did this terrorrist killer gained from that and those who follow his bahaviour too?
We as the whole Muslim world and those who beleive that this is a horrible crime and should not happen and should not go without strict punishment share our condolances with the family of the martyre and express our sympathy for all of those who have been hurt from such terrible crime by this none human being.
We all have to learn a lesson that we will never allow racism to take place in our world.We should use the day of her death as a celebration of the end of racism.
I would like to ask how in the world someone goes to court room with a weapon? What is the security guard's roll in the court? Was he really there when the killer started to attack her? Why he did not interfere before her husband did and as a result he became a third victim after the wife and her Fetus? How did he miss his target twice? sorry for the family and for the muslim world we should know that the majority of the German people do not support this it is an individuale case.
I realy feel sad when I hear and read this story . I would like to know where is the Human Rights.
Few days before France said that Egyptian are tough people and they wanted to stop the French peole of going to egypte because the kiled some dogs.
But this is a human spirit where is world where are the muslims where are the kind french peole and there kind government
Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun, my deep condolences to those who left behind.
I believe that 'moron' is quite word for describing the stabber as the same as to those who blown 2 hotels in Jakarta few days ago.
I realize that, even though it's a person or a group of people, who could done such a barbaric act is because they are fools or idiots who think they are smart.
All of this shouldn't be happen if the government could educate their citizen properly. Not just giving them with academic lectures or religious activities, but it should be both of them and balanced them with moral education...telling them to use their reasons and hearth to distinguish what's good or bad.
But unfortunately, most of the governments (bureaucrats, teachers) or educators (parents) only prioritized in one side only and forget that neither one of them is sufficient enough to make a human being.
You can teach animals to do math or sing, but they never understand what is God; and angels or demons already understand a religion perfectly, but they don't have any reason to use, they just simply following orders or doing what they want.
So, I'm sorry if my comments is way out of the line here, but I just want people to know one thing, especially for those who think you have right to do anything as long as you put God's name for your cause; that God or your prophet FORBID YOU to kill yourself or other human being, because that is God's privilege!
'Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.'
(Albert Einstein)
'There's no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.'
(Ali bin Abi-Thalib)
It is an Open Terrorism in Germany of Killing a Muslim Woman by a German Jewish Terrorist. And no action has Taken by German Government against this Jewish Terrorist.
Where were the International Human Organizations at that Incident.
It shows that the real terrorists are westren peoples+Governments. & remember that muslims are not Terrorist ever, it is a propaganda against Muslims & muslim Countries.
From,
Pakistan.
it seems that germans are still live in fascism decade otherwise what would it means to kill a human just for religous behavior and for islamic-scarf?????? its funny germans are stupid and freaks.
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Dr. Ahmed, EgyptJul 6th, 2009 - 10:14:23
I wish to ask anyone who read this article to close his/her eyes and think what if the scenario was totally the opposite?
a christian woman with her kid in a playground in a moslem country,
she wanted a share with a moslem kid, his father who has a beard called her:- 'go away with ur cross over ur chest, crusader!'
then, the police, the court, testimony,, he killed her,,,,,the 'moslem' police 'accidentally' shooted her husband,,,,
exactly the same scenario in the opposite way!
as in the movie 'Time to Kill'; 1996
please watch that movie and try to 'FEEL' how the 'others' feel!!
western world are not full of angels and we- moslems- are not the daemons!
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