Toggle Menu

Rap Sheet

Links on R&P from around the web

Killing of Iraqi Refugee Has Texas Muslims on Edge

posted on March 10, 2015

At The Washington Post, Sarah Kaplan reports on the killing of Ahmed al-Jumaili last Wednesday at his home outside of Dallas. A recent émigré to the United States, al-Jumaili fled the violence of Iraq, but it’s still unclear if he was actually targeted in the U.S. Kaplan writes, “But the shooting death of a Muslim man just three weeks after the slaying of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, N.C., made national news—and amid a wave of antagonism toward Dallas’s Muslim community—has sparked unease in the region.”

Read at The Washington Post