USA: Muslim and Refugee Communities Fear Retaliation After Ohio State Attack

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Despite law enforcement officials and Ohio Gov. John Kasich cautioning against assigning a motive to Artan's attack, many suggest the Facebook post is proof of a terrorism connection.

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit: Patch Cleveland
By Chris Mosby | November 29, 2016

After 11 were injured in an attack on OSU's campus, both student and city organizations fear attacks on their members.

COLUMBUS, OH — Usama Khan was as frightened as everyone else on Ohio State University's campus when news of an active shooter was sent over the school's emergency broadcast system Monday. Eventually, everyone learned there was no shooter, but someone had driven a car driven into pedestrians and the driver went on a stabbing spree with a butcher's knife.

Khan was convinced the attacker wouldn't be associated with Islam and would instead be a student with personal problems that manifested in a hideous and heinous way. Then the world learned the attacker was Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an 18-year-old OSU student and Somalia-born refugee.

"I was shocked to learn that it was a Muslim attacker," Khan said.

Prior to executing the attack, Artan posted to Facebook and decried the treatment of Muslims in America and referenced lone wolf terrorist attacks. Despite law enforcement officials and Ohio Gov. John Kasich cautioning against assigning a motive to Artan's attack, many suggest the Facebook post is proof of a terrorism connection. There is now fear among Muslim and refugee communities in Columbus of retaliatory attacks against them.

Besides being a Muslim, Khan is also an immigrant. He came to the United States from Pakistan in 1997. He's 21 now and a senior at OSU. He's studying biomedical engineering and applying to medical schools. He is also the leader of a small group for Muslim students called the Ahmadiyya Muslim Students Association.


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