Alwaght-Craig Hicks, who martyred three Muslim college students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, earlier this year, can face the death penalty, a judge ruled Monday.
Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson Jr. ruled that Hicks' case is "death penalty qualified.
Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, shot dead Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus on Tuesday afternoon.
Although police and media tried to show that murders were motivated a dispute between Hicks and his victims over parking spaces led to the killings, the father of the two female victims' said the killings were motivated by hatred against Muslims.
"This was not a dispute over a parking space; this was a hate crime," said Mohammad Abu-Salha, the psychiatrist father of the two young Muslim women.
"This man had picked on my daughter and her husband a couple of times before, and he talked with them with his gun in his belt," he added.
He told the local News & Observer newspaper his daughter had voiced concerns about the shooter last week.
"Honest to God, she said, 'He hates us for what we are and how we look,'" said Abu-Salha
People on social media quickly reacted to the shooting, posting pictures of the victims and claiming they had been “murdered execution style.”
There is no doubt US is the main producer of Islamophobia in the whole world, and this falls in its interest to keep its neo-empire intact from any righteous resistance that may threaten its entity. The US realized that Islam is a religion that does not allow the oppressed to stand still without any action towards the oppressor, and thereby it will be from US benefit to create a monster from this religion in order to turn public opinion against every Muslim.
Muslims in the US and worldwide face this challenge of Islamophobia and must clearly present to the public opinion that the real Islam has nothing to do with the extremist monster that US and the West created such as ISIS in order to freak their people from Islam. The Western people from their side should not look at the media with one eye concentrating on what their devious masters are trying to show in order to wash their brains, they must keep their view more open and unbiased towards Islam and take a look at its original resources as did Iran's Supreme Leader advised Western youths recently with his open letter.
