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Wadea Al-Fayoume
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Six-year-old Palestinian American boy in suburban Chicago killed in alleged hate crime

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has opened up a federal hate crimes investigation into the attack.

   

A Palestinian American boy and his mother were stabbed by their landlord, in their home on Saturday, October 14. The boy died and the mother is in critical condition. The accused killer yelled anti-Muslim epithets and stabbed the child 26 times. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that he had been listening to conservative talk radio about the Israel-Hamas war and had become concerned about his Muslim tenants.

Reset hears how media and political rhetoric of the Israel-Hamas war may have played into this attack.

GUEST: Ahmed Rehab, executive director, CAIR-Chicago

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