El-Sayed jumped to wrong conclusion on Iraqi Refugee Murder

Abdul El-Sayed pushed a false hate crime narrative in 2012 — and never corrected the record

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed published an essay blaming the murder of an Iraqi refugee on anti-Muslim bigotry, even after police warned the case wasn't a hate crime, and her husband was later convicted of killing her.

In March 2012, Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi refugee and mother of five, was bludgeoned with a tire iron at her home in El Cajon, California. A handwritten note left at the scene read, "Go back to your country, you terrorist." Within days, activists and commentators seized on the killing as proof of rising anti-Muslim hatred in America. El-Sayed was among the loudest voices.

On March 28, 2012, one week after Alawadi's death, El-Sayed published an essay in Mic, a liberal digital outlet, tying her killing to the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida. He cast both deaths as products of American racism and xenophobia.

By that point, local police had already cautioned the public against jumping to conclusions about the motive, stating they were not at the point of calling the death a hate crime. El-Sayed published his essay anyway, as the Washington Free Beacon reported.

El-Sayed blamed a hijab for a murder her husband committed.

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