Süddeutsche Zeitung 10.07.2009
On July 1, an Egyptian woman was stabbed to death in a court in Dresden by the Russian-German defendant. Marwa el-Sherbini was killed while giving evidence about how the man had insulted her for wearing the hijab. The Egyptian writer Alaa Al-Aswani is angered by the double standards of the Western media which clamours in outrage when a woman is killed during the demonstrations in Iran but ignores the death of an Arab woman at the hands of a white man. “The reason being that the murder of Neda was the fault of the Iranian regime, whereas the murder of Marwa shows that terrorism is not solely an Arab and Muslim domain. A white German terrorist kills an innocent woman, a stranger, and makes an attempt on her husband’s life – and for the simple reason that she is Muslim and wears the hijab. The Western media couldn’t give a damn. The West, its politicians and its media, always take a standpoint which is hostile to the Arabs and Muslims. This is an undeniable fact.”