United Nations – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday praised three young Muslims killed in North Carolina as representing the best values of global citizenship and said he was deeply moved by scenes of thousands of people mourning their deaths.
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Deah Barakat, 23, a University of North Carolina dental student, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19, a student at North Carolina State University, were gunned down on Tuesday in Chapel Hill.
All three were involved in humanitarian aid programs.
Police charged the couple’s neighbor with murder. They say initial findings indicate a dispute over parking prompted the shooting, but they are looking into whether Hicks was motivated by hatred toward the victims because they were Muslim.
“At a time of troubling tensions stoked by those who seek to twist the teachings of faith and sow division, these three young people represented the best values of global citizenship and active community compassion to build a better world for all,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters on Friday.
This he pays attention to?
The PC world is so backward. An apparent dispute with neighbors leading to murder, gets international attention as a hate crime. However, Jews killed in a Jewish establishment is called arandom…
SICK!!!
Did the president condemn the killing of the the boys in Hard Nof this past summer? One of them was an American citizen.