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| The Victims: Deah Barakat 23, (left) his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, (center) and Abu-Salha’s sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19, of Raleigh. |
No comment so far from Franklin Graham as to whether the murder, execution style, in their home of three Muslim Students in
Chapel Hill was a hate crime or merely a parking space dispute gone too far.
Chapel Hill
and North Carolina are home turf to America’s biggest Islamophobe and hater, the so-called rev. Franklin Graham, HQed in Boone North Carolina.
Franlin btw lives on the good will of the business created by his Religious TV Performer Billy Graham from days gone by.
Franlin btw lives on the good will of the business created by his Religious TV Performer Billy Graham from days gone by.
Franklin as you well know has his greasy K(KK)ristian
hand in just about every medieval, backward and just plain inhuman political
thing coming out of the State capital in Raleigh these days.
Not to mention constantly stirring the pot of hate locally in North Carolina hoping to break into a national market for his thing.
CHAPEL HILL
— The father of two of three students shot to death in Chapel Hill on Tuesday
says the shooting was a “hate crime” based on the Muslim identity of the
victims.
Chapel Hill
police said Wednesday morning that a dispute about parking in the neighborhood
of rented condominiums near Meadowmont may have led Craig Stephen Hicks to
shoot his neighbors, Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, and his wife Yusor Mohammad
Abu-Salha, 21, and Abu-Salha’s sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, of
Raleigh.
But the women’s
father, Dr. Mohammad Abu-Salha, who has a psychiatry practice in Clayton, said
regardless of the precise trigger Tuesday night, Hicks’ underlying animosity
toward Barakat and Abu-Salha was based on their religion and culture. Abu-Salha
said police told him Hicks shot the three inside their apartment.
“It was
execution style, a bullet in every head,” Abu-Salha said Wednesday morning.
“This was not a dispute over a parking space; this was a hate crime. This man
had picked on my daughter and her husband a couple of times before, and he
talked with them with his gun in his belt. And they were uncomfortable with
him, but they did not know he would go this far.”
Abu-Salha
said his daughter who lived next door to Hicks wore a Muslim head scarf and
told her family a week ago that she had “a hateful neighbor.”
“Honest to
God, she said, ‘He hates us for what we are and how we look,’” he said.
Karen Hicks,
the wife of Craig Hicks, said Wednesday afternoon that she does not think
religious bigotry was behind her husband’s actions.
“I can say
that it is my absolute belief that this incident had nothing to do with
religion or the victim’s faith, but in fact was related to long-standing
parking disputes my husband had with various neighbords regardless of their race,
religion or creed,” Karen Hicks said in a statement.
Ripley Rand,
the U.S. prosecutor for the Middle District, which includes Chapel Hill and
Durham, said federal authorities had not launched their own investigation of
the crime. Rand said that from the early details of the Chapel Hill
investigation, the killings Tuesday did not appear to be part of a targeted
campaign against Muslims.
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