The Council on American-Islamic Relations says the incident was part of an increase in anti-Muslim hate since October.
Two kids hold signs reading"STOP KILLING CHILDREN" and"FREE PALESTINE" during an outdoor protest in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 1, 2024.
“My country is facing a war, and we are facing that hate here,” the 3-year-old’s mother, identified only as Mrs. H. due to safety concerns, said in afrom CAIR’s Texas chapter. “My daughter is traumatized. Whenever I open the apartment door, she runs away and hides, telling me she is afraid the lady will come and immerse her head in the water again.”
A reminder that violent Islamophobia cannot be allowed in a decent society. There is no excuse or justification for trying to drown a 3-year-old.According to CAIR’s account and media reports of the May 19 incident, Elizabeth Wolf, a 42-year-old white woman, allegedly approached Mrs. H. making racist interrogations about what country the family was from and the foreign language they were speaking. Mrs. H.
Wolf jumped into the pool and tried to drag the two children to the deep end. The elder of the two escaped, but Wolf allegedly held the 3-year-old child’s head underwater. When Mrs. H. tried to intercede, Wolf allegedly took the hijab and tried to beat Mrs. H. with it, and also kicked her to keep her away as she attacked the child. A man then rescued the child.Wolf was initially arrested for public intoxication and was released on bond the next day.
“We ask for a hate crime probe, a higher bail bond, and an open conversation with officials to address this alarming increase in Islamophobia, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian sentiment,” Shaimaa Zayan, a CAIR operations manager, said in the CAIRdocumented a marked surge in complaints of anti-Muslim hate in late 2023, as the war in Gaza began. Anti-semitic incidents in the U.S. also spiked during the same period, according to the Anti-Defamation League, a pro-Israel advocacy group,.
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