Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Chuck Ross published a piece exposing the hate crime hoax pushed by a man who now wants to be a senator in Michigan.
The beating death of Iraqi refugee Shaima Alawadi in California was not because she had the “courage to wear a Hijab,” as Abdul El-Sayed said in a 2012 essay. It was a horrifying domestic violence incident that was staged to look like a hate crime by the victim’s own husband
“Having been repeatedly clubbed with a tire iron, her 17-year old daughter found her in the dining room of their home with a note by her side: ‘Go back to your country, you terrorist.’ Her crime? Having the courage to wear a Hijab in a society where Muslims are openly vilified for the crimes of others,” El-Sayed wrote at the time, claiming she was targeted because she fit the archetype of being “foreign, dangerous and evil” in America.
Police urged caution as the investigation into Alawadi’s death and the suspicious note left near her lifeless body unfolded. This didn’t stop people like El-Sayed from using it to push a political narrative, but the facts of the case ultimately led to the arrest of Kassim Alhimidi, who was busted after authorities “uncovered incriminating text messages and evidence that Alawadi planned to divorce her husband and flee to Texas.”
“Alhimidi, an Iraqi refugee who trained U.S. soldiers to fight in the Middle East, was convicted of murdering his wife in April 2014 and sentenced to 26 years in prison,” Ross writes.
Tellingly, Ross notes that there is no indication El-Sayed ever corrected his claims about the incident being “hate” related.
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El-Sayed published a CNN essay on Sept. 11, 2012, that claimed the health of Muslims and Arabs was “another victim of 9/11.” In the piece, El-Sayed cited a California study that purportedly found a 34 percent spike in premature births for Muslim women after 9/11, which El-Sayed attributed to the “discrimination and marginalization” Muslim women faced after the terrorist attacks. But El-Sayed curiously omitted his own study that found no such increase, the Washington Free Beacon reported. El-Sayed wrote in his study that his “findings contrast with the only other published study that has assessed the relationship between mass trauma and birth outcomes of a specific group.” El-Sayed further found that Muslim and Arab women had lower rates of premature births than black or white women.
His shaky claims in the 2012 essay were notable in that the previous year he had completed a doctorate in public health and would go on to work as an epidemiologist.
It remains to be seen if El-Sayed will address this error during his campaign.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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