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[musette_sf]

this crime was terrible. and i am not sure that this was a random "hate crime" brought on by a reaction to her attire. Fremont has a huge Afghani population, and is VERY multi-cultural, with a significantly large population of Middle Eastern and South Asian people. people just don't get harassed here for wearing hijab and/or being Muslim.

from the very start of hearing about this crime, i thought that the likelihood of the cause being some kind of revenge within her family and/or immediate community, was more possible than the "nutter hate crime" version.

the "person of interest" the police are holding, is being held on previous violations, and his connection to this crime is that a witness identified his car. the "poi" is not Muslim. there has also been some talk about some Afghani gang activity recently in the area with tagging that is related to the crime. i could be totally wrong here, but gang activity of many ethnicities is somewhat prevalent in Fremont. i'm guessing that the "poi" is a gang member from another ethnicity, who was paid or otherwise negotiated with to actually do the crime, by people connected with the Afghani gang.

like i said, i could be wrong. but i'm just not buying that a woman in hijab was shot in broad daylight outside a school, just because a nutter doesn't like Muslims. not in Fremont, anyway. anything's possible, but the "official" story on this crime, what there is of it anyway, just doesn't add up for me.