Gee, and one thought the victims were the people stabbed?
Via Think Progress:
An attack by a Somali-American Ohio State University student on Monday has raised tension in an American community already facing demonization from figures as powerful as the president-elect.
Before Monday’s bloodshed, the Somali community was already on edge. Members of the community are double minorities — Black and Muslim — and their status as the “most visible Muslim community in America” has left them in a vulnerable state, despite denunciations of the OSU attacker from Somali-American community leaders.
“The timing is not good,” Omar Hassan, president of the Columbus-based Somali Community Association of Ohio, told USA Today. “We are black. We are Muslim. We are Somali. We are all the negative stigmas.”
There are concerns that the attacker’s heritage will impact the Somali community at whole. “We do know of his Somali heritage, and that will be enough for some people to falsely link this tragic incident to the faith of Islam and the Muslim communities,” Roula Allouch of CAIR International, told an Ohio ABC affiliate.