FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Adam Weinstein
Phone: (202) 780-9590
Email: aweinstein@niacouncil.
Washington, D.C. – Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian American Council, issued the following statement in response to the setting on fire of Nabra Hassanen’s memorial at Dupont Memorial Fountain after she was brutally murdered on Sunday outside a Virginia mosque:
Back to top“Regardless of whether Nabra’s murder was the result of a hate crime or a heinous act of senseless violence, the reaction to her passing has exposed the depth of Islamophobia in America among an insidious few, and a loud rejection of hate by the majority.”