"Hate crime victim’s family now citizens" Associated Press, March 17, 2012
WEST WINDSOR, N.J. - The widow and daughters of a Pakistani immigrant killed by a white supremacist in a 9/11 revenge attack became US citizens Friday in a ceremony that one daughter described as the fulfillment of their father’s dream for his children.
“Obviously, he’s in our thoughts every day but especially today,’’ Usna Hasan said about her father, Waqar Hasan, who was fatally shot at a Dallas convenience store four days after 9/11. “It was his dream come true today; it was his dream that became our dream, and it’s an extreme sense of accomplishment, of overwhelming joy and gratitude.’’
Durree Hasan and three of her daughters took the oath in a ceremony at the New Jersey office of US Representative Rush Holt. A fourth daughter became a citizen last week in New York.
Waqar Hasan was shot and killed on Sept. 15, 2001, as he grilled hamburgers in a store he had opened that year. A white supremacist admitted killing the 46-year-old Hasan, thinking he was an Arab, as part of a series of revenge attacks for 9/11.
Mark Anthony Stroman, who was executed last year in Texas for another killing, was charged but never tried in Hasan’s murder. He told officials he shot Hasan and two other Asian men: “I did what every American wanted to do but didn’t. They didn’t have the nerve.’’
Don't count me in your delusional view of the world steeped in Jewish narrative.
Durree Hasan and her daughters, Nida, Usna, Anum, and Iqra, faced possible deportation when Hasan died.
The family, who emigrated legally, had been living in Milltown, in central New Jersey, when Hasan moved to Dallas in 2001 to search for a home and open a store in hopes of eventually relocating the entire family.
He had applied for a green card, but the application became invalid when he died.
But instead of wanting to leave, the family embraced their new home - and the New Jersey community embraced them in return. Their neighbors and a congressman viewed them as victims of 9/11, came to their aid, and offered support.
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I hold the mouthpiece media responsible for the Islamophobia in this country. The endless repetition and reinforcement of the official narrative is criminal at this stage.
Related:
Pakistan nabs French man with reported 9/11 links
Five defendants in 9/11 attacks disrupt tribunal
Confessions under torture can be tossed out of court.
As for 9/11, it turns out Muslims didn't do it; Israel and her helpers in various western governments and intelligence agencies did.
You did know Israel did 9/11, right?
