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Vol. 80/No. 32 August 29, 2016
Actions denounce attacks on Muslim women in Chicago
BY DAN FEIN
CHICAGO — Forty people rallied here Aug. 14 to protest an assault on two
Muslim women in Rogers Park three days earlier. Video footage shows the
attacker yelling obscenities, kicking the women’s car and smashing a
side view mirror while they sit locked inside.
Suzanne Damra told the protesters she and her mother were targeted
“because we are Muslim and wearing hijabs.” The woman who attacked them
“called us ISIS.”
Imam Malik Mujahid also spoke, connecting the attack to the Aug. 13
killing of an imam and his assistant in New York.
This protest followed an Aug. 11 news conference at the offices of
Council on American-Islamic Relations where Itemid Al-Matar announced
her suit against the Chicago Police Department for excessive force,
false arrest, violation of freedom of religious expression and malicious
prosecution.
A Chicago Transit Authority video shows that Al-Matar, who is from Saudi
Arabia, was approached by five cops while walking to the subway on July
4, 2015. They threw her to the ground, handcuffed her and ripped off her
headscarf and veil. Al-Matar was strip-searched at the police station
and charged with obstructing justice and reckless conduct. She was found
not guilty in June.
The cops’ report says they thought Al-Matar showed “suspicious behavior”
because she was walking at “a brisk pace, in a determined manner.”
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