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Thousands attend funeral for Palestinian American boy killed in Plainfield Township
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 10-16-23 | Mary Norkol, Nader Issa and Emmanuel Camarillo

Posted on 10/17/2023 1:28:31 PM PDT by AirForceVet1988

Thousands of people gathered at the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview on Monday to mourn Wadea Al-Fayoume, the Palestinian American boy who authorities said was fatally stabbed because of his Muslim faith. He had turned 6 this month.

Mourners filled the Mosque Foundation, which holds 3,000 people, as they packed into prayer rooms, spilled out into hallways and bowed in prayer. They conducted a traditional mourning prayer called a janazah on behalf of Wadea, asking Allah to bring him to his kingdom in the afterlife, mourner Hadeil Abdelfattah said.

“I want to tell the world that Wadea was a 6-year-old kid, and he thought he was going to grow up,” said Mahmoud Yousef, Wadea’s uncle, at an evening service. “He thought he had a future. But unfortunately, that was taken away too early.”

Wadea’s death comes as many in the Chicago area struggle to deal with the impact of the war, responding with protests and prayers and expressing fears for loved ones in the region.

He died Saturday morning, when landlord Joseph Czuba, 71, entered the home he shared with his mother, Hanan Shaheen, in Plainfield Township and allegedly attacked them with a knife, authorities said.

Prosecutors said in court Monday that Czuba had listened to conservative talk radio about the situation in the Middle East before the attack.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: funeral; illinois; killed; palestinian
A bit of an overreaction to a talk radio program.
1 posted on 10/17/2023 1:28:31 PM PDT by AirForceVet1988
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To: AirForceVet1988

Killer was a crackhead.


2 posted on 10/17/2023 1:29:16 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: AirForceVet1988

A very convenient murder. Amazing how the motive was found within seconds.


3 posted on 10/17/2023 1:29:56 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

And we know little about him except what they want us to believe


4 posted on 10/17/2023 1:31:00 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: montag813

Another false flag event to start chaos here?


5 posted on 10/17/2023 1:35:36 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: AirForceVet1988

Deport.


6 posted on 10/17/2023 1:36:14 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: AirForceVet1988

He stabbed the kid twenty-six times. Twenty-six. Whatever his motive was, there ought to be a rope in Czuba’s future and soon. Unfortunately, this is in Illinois.


7 posted on 10/17/2023 1:40:05 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: AirForceVet1988
Joseph Czuba

The first reports on local news in Chicago area, he had a different first name. Not sure what the ethnic background is, but Joseph must be the Americanization of his given name. Probably sounded too foreign, so it had to get localized. The guy also looks like a derelict. Hard to figure out how he became a landlord in the first place, unless the property was inherited.

No excuse for what he did, but still. Also, every report sounds like this all happened in a vacuum, with no coverage of how the whole thing started.

8 posted on 10/17/2023 1:45:18 PM PDT by Bernard ("No matter where you go, there you are." (Buckaroo Banzai))
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To: Bernard

The last report I read on this claimed that he was Polish.


9 posted on 10/17/2023 1:47:36 PM PDT by Dr. Marten (Cogito ergo armatus sum.)
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To: Dr. Marten

The Polish phrase for “lone wolf” is “samotny wilk”. I have not heard that on the local news yet.


10 posted on 10/17/2023 1:55:45 PM PDT by Bernard ("No matter where you go, there you are." (Buckaroo Banzai))
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To: AirForceVet1988

Thousands? I doubt it. The MSM wildly inflates numbers whenever it suits them.


11 posted on 10/17/2023 2:01:08 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

No one should kill a child on purpose. Execute the killer, period.

However, I wonder how many of these mourners including the child’s father, have condemned Hamas’ mass killing of scores of Israeli children at the music festival, in cars, and in their homes?

How do you spell ZERO?

How many Palestinian children are shown/trained to be suicide bombers? So much forgiving their children!!

Nuff said!!!


12 posted on 10/17/2023 2:09:49 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: toddausauras

Yes, deport. I’m tired of all the crying that the muzzies are deserve a country the same as other people. That is laughable. Don’t the Jews deserve a country? Their small piece of land is hard won over many years, while the Muslims have continuously tried to erase them from the world. Muslims have almost a dozen Muslim large countries. They should pick one and go there.


13 posted on 10/17/2023 2:12:20 PM PDT by WVNan (YO)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

12. Spellcheck screw up. Line should be “So much for loving their children”.


14 posted on 10/17/2023 2:12:55 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: AirForceVet1988

3 ADULTS to WRITE this.


15 posted on 10/17/2023 2:33:28 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: AirForceVet1988

Kill. Them. All.


16 posted on 10/17/2023 2:35:07 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: AirForceVet1988

Thousands gathered at a mosque.

Someone should be using facial recognition software to find the terrorists in the crowd, and save the rest for when identifying later terrorist attacks.


17 posted on 10/17/2023 2:39:14 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: montag813

Thousands ?

Sickos dancing on this poor kids grave

and useing him for a Gaza PR prop

I don’t beleive anyof those 1000s gave a crap about this child.

If he has “died suddenly” after a vac would all these 1000?s beathisfuneral ?

No.

And everyone knows that.

Palis murdered, burn, beheaded and kidnapped how many kids in israel ?

How many of these “ mourners” gave a crap about that ?

None.

And everybody knows it.

Poor kid(s)

Utterly disgusting all around.


18 posted on 10/17/2023 3:23:13 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Children are often the collateral damage of the failed world adults give them.


19 posted on 10/17/2023 3:38:18 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: AirForceVet1988

From what I read he wasn’t Palestinian.


20 posted on 10/17/2023 5:09:19 PM PDT by roving (👌⚓Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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