In Illinois, a 71-year-old derranged landlord stabbed a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy 26 times, resulting in his death and injuring his mother due to their Muslim faith.
From The New York Post:
Will County sheriff’s deputies responded to a call in Plainfield Township, Ill., late Saturday morning and found suspect Joseph Czuba sitting in front of a home near South Lincoln Highway and Lily Cache Road.
Czuba was bloodied from a cut on his forehead, and inside the home, police discovered the body of little Wadea Al-Fayoume, a Palestinian-American boy who had recently celebrated his sixth birthday.
The boy suffered 26 stab wounds from a large military-style knife, according to the autopsy, while his mother, Hanaan Shahin, 32, survived being stabbed more than a dozen times.
Czuba allegedly shouted, “You Muslims must die!” at the family ahead of the stabbing, according to text messages sent to the boy’s father.
“Detectives were able to determine that both victims in this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the on-going Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis,” the Will County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Officials said the victims were rushed to the hospital, with Al-Fayoume declared dead and Shahin in critical condition but expected to survive.
The mother and son had lived on the ground floor of Czuba’s home for about two years, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Chicago chapter, who condemned the violence.
This is a disgusting and deranged individual, and one hopes and prays that this type of incident remains isolated.
Unfortunately, the situation in Israel is unlikely to ease up anytime soon, but there is no reason why all the death and destruction needs to spread any further.
