What type of hate has to be manufactured
in the head of a man for him to stand
over a six-year-old boy and stab him 26
times?
The suspect's wife told detectives he
listened to conservative talk radio and
thought the mother and son would have
people over to attack them.
He apparently had been listening to
conservative radio for some time.
Joe listens to conservative talk radio
on a regular basis and has been heavily
interested in the events that have
recently occurred in Israel. She also
said he was concerned about the National
Day of Jihad and wanted Shaheen and her
son to move out.
We're here at the janaza
of the young six-year-old Muslim boy who
was stabbed 26 times.
stabbing her more than 26 times and he
was looking in his eyes.
I hear with some of the community
leaders. I'm still trying to wrap my
mind around this. The suspect knocked on
the door to her room in their shared
Planefield home and started an argument
about the Israel Hamas war, then
attacked her with a large knife. She
reported that she fought him off and hid
in the bathroom, but could hear the
suspect stabbing her son from another
room as she called police.
This child that we just buried, Wadia,
was about to go to school today on
Monday, but instead he was brought here
to the cemetery.
uh this ma this calamity is not only
limited to uh his family. It's not only
limited to uh uh Muslims or
Palestinians. This could happen to any
one of us, could happen to me and my
wife, could happen to you, could happen
to our neighbors. Uh we have uh to stand
all together in this very uh difficult
time to um uh stand for peace and
justice for all children and all free
people uh and everywhere. uh the message
of hate uh should stop immediately and
uh be replaced with a message of uh
peace and justice because without
justice and again we always talk about
peace but peace and justice has to go
together. without justice um it will be
very difficult to enjoy any peace. And
so um as an American Muslim uh who stand
for the values of uh uh justice and
peace, uh I ask everybody to uh join us
in protecting our uh our families and
our children. uh to enjoy uh uh our
lives here, but also to uh stand for
justice and peace for uh people in Gaza
and people everywhere because uh as
Martin Luther King said uh injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere and this is what we're facing
now.
It doesn't stop with just the uh
six-year-old boy. You have you were just
telling me the mother also got stabbed
12 times
the stabbing death of a six-year-old
Muslim boy. This happened over the
weekend, too, in a suburb south of
Chicago. Tonight, police are saying that
boy and his mother were targeted because
of the war in Israel. I want to show you
this right here. Wia Alfa Yumi just
turned 6 years old a couple weeks ago.
On Saturday, the sheriff's office says
the family's 71-year-old landlord,
Joseph Sububa, attacked the boy and his
mother. The boy was stabbed 26 times.
His mother stabbed over a dozen times.
He knocked on the door and that he
attempted to choke her and said, "You
Muslims must die." And attempted to stab
her and stabbed her.
The crime confirming for many in the
Palestinian-American community the fear
that's been building since the start of
the war in what they call an atmosphere
of hate.
It pains me that the sacrificial lamb to
this atmosphere was this beautiful young
six-year-old boy who had his whole life
ahead of him. Among those paying their
respects, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson,
Governor JB Pritsker, and Congressman
Jonathan Jackson.
Yeah. And my heart goes out to her
because she's the one that's most
affected from all of us. I mean, she
witnessed what happened to her son. He
was stabbed 26 times. The knife still in
his belly and he was taken to autopsy.
She herself was stabbed 12 times,
including in her face. She can't talk
and she's in, you know, basically very
serious condition in the hospital. And
on top of it, on top of the physical
injury, the mental trauma, she's alone.
in the hospital without this kind of
community support right now because of
security reasons and health reasons. So,
we have to remember her. Uh we're trying
to raise some money to assist her with
her hospital bills and everything else.
But she's in a very strong, very a place
where no one can envy her. And I just
want to add, you know, we've said a lot
about this, but I'll say one more point.
You know, as I was standing today and
looking at the thousands of people that
were there, um the dozens of television
cameras from all over the United States
and the world, we had the governor, we
had the mayor, we had, you know, this
elected official, that elected official.
And I thought to myself, how is our
beautiful martyr, our beautiful boy,
Wedia, any different from all of the
wadas, all of the beautiful martyrs in
Gaza, the 750 of them, he was stabbed in
heinous crime? Yes. But I ask you, do
you think a bomb that falls from the sky
does less damage than a knife that stabs
12 or 26 times? Do you think that's a
pretty image? Because it isn't. So what
is it about this situation that woke up
the conscience of our governor and our
mayor and our media?
We have to understand there is no
difference between this heinous crime
here
which we all must condemn and clearly
everybody gets that and the many and
this is the father's feeling this is not
just me he said my son is a
representation of what is happening and
to feel for him we have to feel for
everyone so I say to them can you get
your your humanity your intellect to
understand that what you see close to
home and you feel it isn't any different
if it's a little far
And we are contributing. We're not just
not feeling what's happening. We're
contributing $8 billion, warships, you
know, mor moral support, media support
to what's happening. So, I'll just close
by saying, you know, this boy has gone,
but not in vain. He is is waking up the
conscience of everyone around us, and we
need to keep that message, and may Allah
accept him, you know, as a bird of
heaven.
Um these places obviously as as the sheh
was saying um
these are sacred places. The graveyard
is a is a is a place that we have to
observe certain sanctities. But um I
think that you know the ending is all
the same which is at the end of the day
when you put people in the ground when
the grave is all covered it all looks
the same but we know from our dean that
the stories under those graves are very
different and we pray that Allah subhana
wa ta first and foremost accept as as a
shahid as a martyr and that the cruelty
that he faced in this life uh is met
with the mercy of Allah subhana wa
ta'ala in the next and that all he faces
now is the expanse of Allah's garden. I
often think about when I see these
tragic situations because we've had a
lot of them over the years. Um those
that we know and and those that we don't
know but we love and we we certainly
make dua for. I think of Assa
when the dropped the uh the stone on her
and as she was being tortured she
laughed and uh spoke about her as as a
mad woman and mocked her. But uh Allah
showed her her place in Jenna when she
was struck. Now I think what we have to
balance as Muslims is both the the hope
in Allah's mercy when these situations
happen that we know that Allah subhana
wa ta'ala
Your lord does not forget. Your lord
Allah does not let the reward of the
gooddoers go to waste. Nor does Allah
let the crimes of the criminals go
unpunished. So we have to sort of
balance our outrage with what has
happened in the material world with the
hope that what Allah subhana t offers in
the afterlife and that which is
immaterial to us right now or what we
can't sense and perceive right now uh is
greater and is restorative. And I want
to say, you know, we've been talking
about Palestine. People need to see the
stories. People need to hear the
stories. People need to see the human
the human side of these babies. Uh one
wad can be more effective in waking up
the conscience of people than a number
800 900. Allah knows what it will be by
the time we by the time we leave the
cemetery. One wad can be more effective
uh in waking up the conscience of
people. And we hope that that will be
the case inshallah. And so it's
important to just remember that these
are kids, that they have stories, that
they have families. Um, part of the the
way that we maybe unintentionally become
a part of the dehumanization is we only
show charred, burned uh, you know, uh,
corpses and we don't tell stories. And
our Quran is full of the stories of
people that uh, have have full stories
of dua and pain and and and and victory
after defeat. So we need to tell their
stories and then we need to ask allahel
to make our story uh a good one and let
our ending be good. I remind everyone um
you know it's very hard when you when
when you kind of witness the unspeakable
um to speak it's called the unspeakable
but what distinguishes us is that we
have im we have faith we believe in
Allah and we believe in the hereafter.
You believe in Allah and you believe in
a paradise and you believe that every
single one of these every single one of
these souls is in a better place. So
while you try to fight back on the hell
on earth that's being created for them
here have faith that allahel will admit
them into the paradise that we all hope
to go in the night.
You can see
the power of the propaganda media
pushing lies. one, 40 babies were
beheaded. This is completely false. No
evidence has been provided for this. The
claim comes from this journalist during
a walk-in talk. She makes the claim
saying,
"I see in the distance more bodies being
covered, babies, their heads cut off."
Later in a tweet, however, she admits
that she did not see bodies, but heard a
soldier talking about. Why? Because they
are the ones planning to commit
atrocities themselves. To do this, they
need to convince you that Palestinians
are barbaric animals that rape, torture,
and had babies.
Pushing the dehumanization
of the Muslims and this is the direct
result of that. So, we need our friends,
our brothers and sisters in humanity,
those who are out there that have God
consciousness, who
have a heart, who can put themselves in
this situation. You have children.
You have an obligation to speak up, to
speak to your community so this doesn't
spread like a cancer and more people
don't follow the footsteps of one evil
man. You notice his religion is not
mentioned. Imagine if this was flipped
again. We hear we know how the scenario
goes. But we don't blame the religion.
We blame the individual. And then we got
to look to the hate provocator. Joe
listens to conservative talk radio on a
regular basis and has been heavily
interested in the events that have
recently occurred in Israel. She also
said he was concerned about the National
Day of Jihad.
Those who are pushing and pedalling much
of this hate, this atrocity propaganda.
We urge the media to exercise
responsibility
and balance its reporting recognizing
that it plays a pivotal role in shaping
public perception who promotes debunked
lies as in the case of the beheaded
Israeli children.
And when you have a media
supposedly mainstream media
that also refers to debunked lies as in
the case of rabbing Israeli woman.
I have seen children under the rubble.
I have seen children
torn to pieces from war. I have never
thought I will see this here in America.
I have never thought I will see this
barbaric action here in our land.
And our hearts ache because of that.
Because we as me as a physician, I have
never imagined that we will lose our
humanity to that degree and treat
children where we are supposed to heal
them and take care of them. saying that
we reject hate, we reject
discrimination, and we stand for one
playing field for all, one America for
all.
Sorry, it's a little
it's kind of throwing me off a little
bit cuz I have a 5 and a half
yearear-old. She'd be in the same class
and it's
my wife and I have been talking about it
all weekend and we couldn't couldn't
imagine
So
honestly, forget the politics. I don't
care about the politics. I'm getting
sick and tired of this crap going on
around the country, in the state,
anywhere.
Kids are kids. Let kids be kids.
Hold people accountable. Make sure that
this doesn't happen anywhere else. Too
much has happened throughout this
country. Too much hate. And I think
about my daughter all the time and this
is you want to think that this is an
isolated situation but there's there's
so much hate out there and we need to
stop from everywhere.
I have no doubt that it will be a
successful project inshallah. I've had
the blessing of knowing brother Eddie
since he started the dean show and he's
one of the most sincere and most
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