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Diego.
A friend of Alawadi's family, Sura Alzaidy, told the San
Diego Union Tribune newspaper the note found near
Alawadi read: "Go back to your own country. You're a
terrorist."
Alawadi and her husband arrived in the United States
in 1993 after spending years in a refugee tent camp
next to Majed al Hasan, who later became their
neighbor in El Cajon.
The Iraq they fled was terrifying, with secret police
torturing and killing perceived enemies of the state,
Hasan said. Alawadi, Hasan, and thousands of other
Iraqis were eventually granted asylum in the United
States, where they mostly settled in the San Diego and
Detroit communities.
"They come from a war-torn country," McKay said. "To
think that you're not safe, still, after coming this far is
scary."
HOODIES AND HIJABS
On one recent night, hundreds of mourners stood in
front of Alawadi's house in a quiet cul-de-sac nestled in
the hills as the sun set, lighting candles for a vigil in
her honor.
The crowd quietly murmured about the case until
Alawadi's mother arrived and her cries of sorrow
pierced the air, silencing those gathered before wails
erupted around her as she walked through the crowd,
sobbing and beating her chest.
Some mourners wore the traditional black cloak and
scarf worn by many devout Muslim women. Others
wore T-shirts that said "Justice for Shaima Alawadi"
above a silhouette of a woman wearing a Muslim
headscarf.
Alawadi wore such a headscarf, and advocates for the
Arab and Muslim community have suggested that her
scarf may have been a factor in drawing attention to
her as a perceived outsider, if indeed her killing was a
hate crime.
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"We're not going to cry, if that's what you wanted.
We're not going to take off our scarf, if that's what you
wanted," Alawadi's eldest daughter, Fatima, said at the
vigil, addressing her mother's killer.
Alawadi was buried in the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf,
roughly 100 miles south of Iraq's capital Baghdad, on
Saturday.
For many in El Cajon, the case has drawn parallels to
that of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager
shot in Florida last month by a Neighborhood Watch
volunteer in a killing that has also drawn outrage
because of its racial undertones.
"My condolences go out to the family of Trayvon,"
Alawadi's 15-year-old son Muhammed said at the vigil,
as tears welled up in his eyes. "My candle goes out to
you as well."
Some activists have begun linking the two cases on
social media, spurring a popular hoodiesandhijabs
hashtag on Twitter. Martin was wearing a hoodie when
he was killed.
Students at several college campuses from the
University of North Carolina-Asheville to the University
of Southern California held "Hoodies and Hijabs" rallies
on Thursday.
The two cases, despite their differences, highlight
broader questions of discrimination against black and
Muslim communities in America, said Abdulrahman
El-Sayed, a fellow at think tank Demos and an
epidemiologist at Columbia University.
As darkness fell in El Cajon at the recent vigil,
mourners raised their candles in the air and chanted
"We want justice."
(Editing by Dan Whitcomb, Cynthia Johnston and Greg
McCune)
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