ELHAJ & FAWAZ: U.Va. Should do more to value Muslim lives
Last week, a terrorist opened fire at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, leaving the world horrified. A white supremacist and self-proclaimed member of the alt-right discharged his weapons during Friday prayer, the weekly congregation time for Muslims, slaughtering fifty and injuring fifty more. Anti-mosque incidents — both violent and non-violent — have been on the rise recently. This trend has also been present in the United States, most recently including the 2015 attacks at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill which left three dead. All of these events bring to light another significant trend — the world’s devaluation of Muslim lives. But we do not have to look at the news to see this. We merely need to look around at our own University community.