INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
An Illinois landlord accused of fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Muslim boy and seriously wounding his mother was charged with a hate crime
after police and relatives said he singled out the victims because of their faith and as a response to the war between Israel and Hamas, AP
reported.In recent days, police in U.S
cities and federal authorities have been on high alert for violence driven by antisemitic or Islamophobic sentiments
FBI officials, along with Jewish and Muslim groups, have reported an increase of hateful and threatening rhetoric.In the Chicago-area case,
officers found the 32-year-old woman and boy late Saturday morning at a home in an unincorporated area of Plainfield Township, about 65
kilometers southwest of Chicago, the Will County Sheriff&s Office said in a statement on social media.Relatives and a Muslim civil liberties
and advocacy group identified the slain boy as the wounded woman&s son, read the report.The post Muslim boy killed in Chicago hate crime
motivated by Israeli-Hamas war first appeared on Ariana News.
