#justice for nabra

[vintagecydney]

Thank you god for delivering justice for Nabra Hassanen🙏🏽

[diaryofanangryasianguy]

10/17/17

An already disturbing case about a 17-year-old Muslim girl killed as she walked to her mosque took another unsettling turn after an indictment alleged the victim was raped as well.

The indictment Monday includes capital murder and rape charges and will allow prosecutors to pursue a death-penalty case against Darwin Martinez-Torres, 22, of Sterling.

He is accused in the slaying of Nabra Hassanen of Reston, whose death back in June rattled northern Virginia's Muslim community.

[18mr]

For whom do you proclaim #NoMuslimBanEver? For Ching-In Chen, it’s Nabra Hassanen.

[daughterofdessalines]

Lynching still exists.

[aishanoorpoetry-blog]

There is no humanity. There is none left at all

A. Noor 

[chicagoreporter]

A crowd of around 200 people gathered in Chicago's Federal Plaza on Thursday, June 22, 2017, in honor of Nabra Hassanen, a Muslim teenager who was murdered while out with her friends near her mosque in Virginia during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Attendees wrote messages to her family and Muslims worldwide on an illustration of Hassanen, and speakers called for an end to violent anti-Muslim rhetoric. It was one of many vigils to take place across the country last week for the slain teen. (Photos by Theresa Campagna)

[demondn]

Adding insult to injury. Memorial for Nabra set on fire. This is horrible. #JusticeForNabra Video by The Young Turks

[senseysamia]

NABRA

[virtuallystable]

just a lil reminder:

the world is an incredibly messy, angry, hate filled place right now. stay true to your roots and don’t stray far from those who love you the most, you are going to need them now more than ever. whether you’re a person of color, LGBTQ+, or even muslim, sticking together in this time of hate is crucial. know your real friends and drop the ones who don’t accept you.

you have people who love you. 

[pleasantlytransparentunknown]

The judicial system and police are a pathetic joke that don’t know how to do their jobs without killing someone or using common fucking sense. The police really ruled the death Nabra Hassanen not a hate crime ;meanwhile even when she is dead and her memorial is burned,defaced and destroyed, the police still won’t rule it a hate crime.

[sentinelleblr]

“ The fear of Muslim women in their day-to-day lives is palpable,” Barakat said. “Muslim lives matter. Nabra’s life mattered. Your lives matter.”

[daughterofdessalines]

Don't let them take your Mind

Watching Minneapolis fall all over themselves to get justice for a White Woman who was shot by police ....while learning that the racist killer of Bowie State student Richard Collins III will NOT be charged with a hate crime. This is the same for 17 year old Nabra Hassanen who was beaten to death while her killer shouted racial slurs. This Country supports mind - numbing disparities for the purpose of psychological warfare. They want to re-enforce your feelings of inferiority and powerlessness. DONT LET THEM TAKE YOUR MIND ~YOU ARE POWERFUL~ #BeingBlackinAmerica #psychologicalracism #NabraHassanen #RichardCollins #hatecrimes #endislamaphobia

[art-is-my-drug97]

May Allah grant you the highest of jannah💕

[mattwardpictures]

Click above to jump to The Guardian, my thoughts below:

What happened to Nabra Hassanen would have been an unspeakably nauseating and infuriating tragedy anywhere in this country. That it happened somewhere I thought I knew like the back of my hand—my former home, cushy, liberal (for the most part) Northern Virginia—leaves me feeling that much more wounded than I already would be, as a human being, or even as a secular humanist. 

This place, both through the microcosm of my own circle of friends with whom I grew up, and viewing the machine of society run in daily life, taught me, whether intentionally or not, that coexistence is not only possible, but that the practice of it makes for an infinitely more interesting and fruitful civilization. 

Virginians and Washingtonians are capable of looking out for one another. In 2002, my friends and I staged and filmed a beating (with baseball bats) as part of an assignment for a filmmaking elective course. Granted, this was in front of the entrance to the Clarendon metro rail station at rush hour, but in spite of my yelling “Action” and “Cut” every ten seconds or so, a few bystanders enquired about what the hell we were doing and is that guy on the ground okay?

This culminated in about eight police cruisers and a fire engine pulling up to our filming location, just as our crew (then on the opposite end of the block) hustled into the back of my friend’s nondescript Volvo and made like hell for Georgetown.

I don’t mean to take away from the issue of Nabra’s murder with this comic anecdote, but our nearly Blues Brothers-style swarming was a response to a non-realistic presentation. While we can’t all be unlucky enough to have bad things happen to us in such panoptic surroundings, the takeaway was that a scrum of busy commuters saw something they thought was horrible going down, and at least one middle-aged man was brave enough to literally get in our faces.

It’s an instinct I wish was more prevalent and exercised, no matter what the victim is wearing or what they happen to believe.

Excerpt from article:

Nabra Hassanen, 17, was remembered as a shining example of kindness and openness during the services. Some attendees left their cars as traffic overflowed and walked more than a mile to reach the mosque on Wednesday.

“There is nothing like losing a child, especially in the way that we lost Nabra,” said Imam Mohamed Magid, the religious leader of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society. He stood before Hassanen’s closed coffin, covered by a black shroud decorated with quotes from the Quran.

Police said Hassanen was bludgeoned with a baseball bat early on Sunday by a motorist who drove up to about 15 Muslim teenagers as they walked or bicycled along a road. Police said the driver became enraged after exchanging words with a boy in the group. A Hassanen family spokesman said the girls in the group were wearing Muslim headscarves and robes.

Magid said he sought to comfort the victim’s mother by telling her that a person who dies in such a manner will enter paradise with no questions asked.

He acknowledged that the slaying had people grieving and fearful, but he praised the many people who turned out “in a fever” to search for the teen before police discovered her body on Sunday afternoon.

While waiting for a vigil after the teen’s funeral and burial, Fairfax county police chief Edwin Roessler Jr spoke with the Associated Press about the community’s concerns.

Roessler said police had “absolutely no evidence” that her killing was motivated by hate but he acknowledged that many people still strongly felt it must have been a hate crime. Virginia law defines these, in part, as crimes that try to intimidate or instil fear in people targeted for their race or religion. “That’s the myth, isn’t it?” the chief said.

He urged anyone with evidence that Hassanen’s killing was motivated by hate to come forward, and “if evidence develops of a hate crime I promise we will charge to the highest levels”.

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And then this happened:

[iamnoivas]

As if kidnapping Nabra Hassanen and literally murdering her during a very sacred month for the Muslim community as she was on her way to the Mosque with a group of her friends wasn’t inhumane enough. Her family intentionally organizes a vigil in Reston to raise awareness, find justice and consolation for her daughter and the kicker is to disrupt their peace and SET IT ON FIRE ?