Nabra Hassanen’s death wraps up an especially violent Ramadan for Muslim teenage girls

Nabra Hassanen didn’t have the chance to spend Father’s Day with the man who raised her. Hassanen’s remains were found in a pond in Sterling, Virginia, the Washington Post reported. She was 17.

Hassanen and her teenage friends — all wearing abayas, or traditional long dresses — were walking back after their pre-fast Ramadan meal at an IHOP early Sunday morning when they were accosted by a man in a red car.

The man, armed with with a metal baseball bat, then got out of the car. The girls all ran back to the All Dulles Area Muslim Society mosque in Sterling where they were making their nightly Ramadan prayers.

But Hassanen fell behind. She was beaten to death with the bat.

The Fairfax Police Department identified the man as Darwin Martinez Torres, and he was charged with murder.

The police said they had come across no indication that Hassanen’s death was motivated by her race or religion.

Recently, there have been a string of reported assaults and harassments in which Muslim teenage girls have been targeted. Read more (6/19/17)

Through a Buzzfeed blurb, I read the headline “A Muslim Teen Was Kidnapped And Murdered Outside A Virginia Mosque.”

The first paragraph of that story follows: “A man has been charged with murder after police found the body believed to be that of 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen, who went missing after leaving a mosque this weekend. Police said they currently had no information to indicate that this was a hate crime.”

This man drove up to a group of Muslim teenage girls with brown skin wearing hijab, swung a baseball bat around, and STOLE one of them. But there’s “no information to indicate this was a hate crime.” Are you kidding me, Virginia?

Horrifying instances of hate like this happen everyday. And I can’t understand why it isn’t on every news channel, in our faces, ‘round the clock. I can’t understand why for every Black Lives Matter shirt, there are twenty bumper stickers that say BLUE LIVES MATTER or TRUMP/PENCE. It just doesn’t make sense in my brain. Shame on us.

No matter how ignorant you are, no matter how much better you think you are than someone you look at and deem Other, it’s impossible for me to grasp how members of the human race can do easily gloss over this shit instead of standing up and saying this is not okay.

White man fatally shot Black woman after hitting her car.

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53-year-old Deborah Pearl, a mother of three, was shot by 29-year-old Matthew Ryan Desha after his jeep hit her own vehicle.

Black women went out of the car to assess the situation and saw a white man with 5.56-millimeter high-powered assault rifle. She put her hands in the air in attempt to save her life from the armed stranger, but it didn’t matter. Witnesses told that they heard at least 12 shots.

The media tries to shield Desha saying that he’s marine and suffered from PTSD. But, hey guys, check this out! He’s not more than a criminal and hater!

I do not accept excuses for the hate crimes.

#StayWoke

So, like, when we gonna regulate gun laws again? Why is a marine with PTSD allowed to just casually own a semi automatic weapon in the first place? This is bullshit.

I have ptsd and own .

This was premeditated murder .

He has a history of hate violence and has been arrested for illegal ownership before .
Of course because he’s white he gets the slap on the wrist .

He knew exactly what he was doing they are just pulling the white victim shit they usually do .

I’m sure they already cleared his social media page up and all .

He was check hunting . Don’t be fooled by old media tactics . Everyone who owns a weapon knows it takes time to think about what the hell youre going to do when you draw your weapon before you do it .

You gotta pick it up , exit your car and flip your shit off safety .

Ars have 3 clicks on the lever depending on build .

Safe , fire and semi .

You have to stick the buttstock in your arm pit , focus on target and aim .

He had time to think about what he was doing .

This was premeditated murder .

If you take a basic concealed carry course they tell you when you do shit like this it’s murder and you’re going to jail .

Her death after he rammed his truck in her car was intended.

12 shots was never an accident or a form of warning .