A brazen courtroom murder of a hijabi went nearly uncovered in Western media

Evidence

In July 2009, a thirty-two-year-old Muslim woman from Egypt named Mrs. Marwa El-Sherbini was publicly murdered in a German courtroom by a Muslim-hating fanatic who stabbed her eighteen times in front of a packed chamber of horrified witnesses. Marwa had been in the courtroom giving testimony against her attacker for having previously called her a “terrorist” and “Islamist whore” in public while she was pregnant. Adding insult, as she was being publicly murdered in front of the packed German courtroom by a white man; her distraught husband rushed to her side only to be shot himself by a German police officer in the courtroom. … Although she was hailed as the “headscarf martyr” in her native country of Egypt, the case of Marwa El-Sherbini received very little media coverage anywhere else in the world. For many Muslims, this clearly illustrated the growing racist ambivalence toward bias-motivated attacks on women who are visibly Muslim across the Western world. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 371

Categorization

• XREF: Media-silence theme links to later ‘see no evil’ chapters and to the New Zealand massacre coverage; supports the book’s argument about which Muslim deaths get covered.
• SEED: Angle: the unequally distributed attention to Muslim victims — El-Sherbini and Christchurch versus the Western gaze fixed on hijab.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 371