Italy: Young Muslims Condemn Woman's Murder in Germany
-- Young Italian Muslims have joined an emotional international debate, condemning the murder of an Egyptian woman in Germany.
Young Muslims of Italy, or Giovani Musulmani d'Italia (GMI), said the attack raised serious questions about whether Muslims were safe in Europe.
"The perception now is that Europe is not a very safe place for those who practice a different faith and for Muslims in particular who feel it more than ever," said the group in a statement released on Monday.
"The association of Young Muslims of Italy denounces for the umpteenth time the spread of Islamophobia which is now found throughout Europe," read the statement.
The GMI said that this kind of crime "sows the seeds of racial hatred" and provokes further misunderstanding about Muslims and Islam.
Thirty-two year-old Egyptian national Marwa Sherbini died when she was stabbed multiple times by a German man in a courtroom in the eastern German city of Dresden on 1 July.
She was four months pregnant and killed in front of her husband and three-year old son in a crowded courtroom.
Sherbini had accused the man of racism in 2008 for allegedly calling her a terrorist, apparently because she wore the Hijab, or Muslim headscarf.
She made a complaint to police and was taking legal action in court when the man murdered her.
The murder has provoked widespread protests in Egypt and elsewhere. Following Sherbini's funeral, an angry mob gathered outside the German embassy in Cairo and called Western civilization "brutal and anti-Islamic".
In Iran there were protests outside the German embassy in Tehran at the weekend as Berlin's ambassador to Iran was asked to step up efforts to protect rights of minorities in Germany.
The Dubai-based TV network, Al-Arabiya, has called her a "veiled martyr" or "Hijab martyr" following her death.
Source: Adnkronos
"The perception now is that Europe is not a very safe place for those who practice a different faith and for Muslims in particular who feel it more than ever," said the group in a statement released on Monday.
"The association of Young Muslims of Italy denounces for the umpteenth time the spread of Islamophobia which is now found throughout Europe," read the statement.
The GMI said that this kind of crime "sows the seeds of racial hatred" and provokes further misunderstanding about Muslims and Islam.
Thirty-two year-old Egyptian national Marwa Sherbini died when she was stabbed multiple times by a German man in a courtroom in the eastern German city of Dresden on 1 July.
She was four months pregnant and killed in front of her husband and three-year old son in a crowded courtroom.
Sherbini had accused the man of racism in 2008 for allegedly calling her a terrorist, apparently because she wore the Hijab, or Muslim headscarf.
She made a complaint to police and was taking legal action in court when the man murdered her.
The murder has provoked widespread protests in Egypt and elsewhere. Following Sherbini's funeral, an angry mob gathered outside the German embassy in Cairo and called Western civilization "brutal and anti-Islamic".
In Iran there were protests outside the German embassy in Tehran at the weekend as Berlin's ambassador to Iran was asked to step up efforts to protect rights of minorities in Germany.
The Dubai-based TV network, Al-Arabiya, has called her a "veiled martyr" or "Hijab martyr" following her death.
Source: Adnkronos
