Outburst of Caring
Umm Zaid pointed out that Alia Ansari, a mother of six, was shot and killed on her way to pick up her children from school last week by some deranged lunatic.
The Fremont, CA community is showing a lot of neighborly love and respect to her family:
Though no one can fix what happened, people are doing what they can: dropping off flowers, sending up prayers, baking casseroles, donating plane tickets and money.
Some just gave of their time.
Over the weekend, Fremont Mayor Bob Wasserman visited the Ansari home, a sparse two-bedroom apartment on Glenmoor Drive, to pay his condolences.
“There’s not a lot to say,” Wasserman said. “I tried to reassure them that the community shares their grief. That this is just unimaginable.”
Many of Ansari’s siblings, and her husband, Ahmad, a mechanic, were too distraught Sunday to speak publicly. On Thursday, Ansari was shot at point-blank range as she walked with her 3-year-old daughter, Latifa, to pick up her older children from Glenmoor Elementary School.
I am glad to see that the Fremont community is rejecting the LGF-style hatred and instead showing lots of compassion to the grieving family in this situation. It is very nice to see.
A fund has been established for her children. To donate, checks can be made to the “Ansari Family” at Washington Mutual, account No. 3091558830, and Fremont Bank, account No. 55041477
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Filed under: Changing World
Salam Tariq, while people are quick to exploit this as a hate crime, the details just don’t add up for now. It all looks like a serious hit: single shot to the head, on a street, a getaway car running… who knows, maybe this is one ofthose honor killings or a mob hit? Most hate crimes are a situation of punks bumping into someone they hate or punks deciding to hit an ethnic store, mosque, synagogue or other fixed, large and imovable targets. Stalking a women to figure out her patterns in getting her kid from school is something that takes lots of planning and forethought = not your typical hatecrime.
Omar
Yes, I stayed away from the hate crime angle until more is known about the lunatic who murdered her. I am still glad to see the community rally regardless. This sort of kindness is what the LGF crew call ‘dhimmitude’