Wadea Al-Fayoume was a six-year-old Muslim boy who was stabbed to death by a deranged individual solely because he was Muslim. Al-Fayoume was innocent. This is not a controversial statement in any way, and, despite the emotional turmoil fueled by the Hamas-Israeli conflict, no matter what side one supports, everyone should agree that Wadea Al-Fayoume should still be alive today.
There is absolutely nothing a six-year-old boy ever did to deserve being stabbed to death.
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Joseph Czuba, 71, killed Al-Fayoume by stabbing him 26 times. He also attacked the boy’s mother, stabbing her more than a dozen times. She will survive and spend the rest of her life knowing her six-year-old was killed because of events that happened thousands of miles away and had nothing to do with him.
“Detectives were able to determine that both victims in this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis,” according to a news release from the Will County Sheriff’s Office.
Law enforcement officials labeled the attack as a hate crime, and rightfully so. They called it a “senseless and cowardly act of violence.” And it’s the type of violence fueled by legacy media that covers stories to stir up emotion instead of spreading information. It’s the type of violence that happens when Congressional Democratic Representatives like Rashida Tlaib spread lies about tragic events in the war. It’s the kind of attacks that happen when the left-wing media rush to write headlines that appease their ideological pursuits instead of adhering to facts.
It’s also the kind of tragic life loss that didn’t need to happen.
Al-Fayoume was killed because of Czuba’s hatred for Muslims. It’s this same kind of hatred that led to the reported deaths of many innocent Israeli children. The attacks on young Israeli kids prompted worldwide condemnation, but so should the attack on Al-Fayoume. And unfortunately, sympathy for these victims is regularly guided by media narratives. Hamas killing Israeli children is just as tragic as Czuba stabbing Al-Fayoume and his mother and vice versa. But that’s not a sentence one will most likely read in worldwide news publications.
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Muslim people are not Hamas; Jewish people are not the Israeli government. No innocent civilian deserves to be grouped in and killed for the actions of Hamas or the Israeli government. The Israeli children reportedly murdered by Hamas had nothing to do with the decadeslong conflict between Hamas and Israel. Wadea Al-Fayoume had nothing to do with the conflict between Hamas and Israel.
Six-year-old Muslim boys shouldn’t be stabbed to death because of foreign conflicts. The same goes for the Israeli children killed by Hamas. There is no need for any children to be murdered, ever, let alone over religious, political, territorial, and ideological differences. Children are not sacrificial pawns whose deaths are meant to be weaponized during war. Neither are innocent civilians.