Ten Years Later: What Chapel Hill Taught America About Islamophobia
Muslim Americans are still fighting for recognition of hate crimes.
A decade ago on February 10th, Craig Hicks murdered three young Americans in their Chapel Hill, North Carolina home in a ruthless act of hate. Twenty-three-year-old Syrian-American Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife, twenty-one-year-old Palestinian-American Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and Yusor's sister, twenty-one-year-old Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, were just beginning their adult lives—embodying the very essence of the American Dream through their hard work, ambition, and aspirations for a better future.
While Islamophobia has long cast a shadow over the United States, the brutality of the Chapel Hill murders seized the nation’s attention. Muslims and non-Muslims alike came together in protests, held vigils, and demanded justice.
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