6-Year-Old Palestinian Boy Stabbed to Death in Illinois
Right-wing rhetoric strikes again as an avid 71-yea-old 'news watcher' stabs boy 22 times to protect Israel
My mind struggled to believe what I was reading. A 71-year-old white man, seemingly a normal one on the block, but who happened to have been turned to extremism in his views thanks to the Trump presidency and countless hours watching Fox News and other right-wing media, knocked on the door of the young Palestinian family to whom he was renting an apartment.
When the 32-year-old mother opened the door, he raged about how all Palestinians had to be killed and grabbed her neck. Managing to fight free, she raced to the bathroom and closed the door to dial 911. What she told the police was a matter of seconds; this “American patriot,” Trumpist and Fox News watcher stabbed the woman’s 6-year-old son 26 times with a military knife with a serrated blade. Emerging from the bathroom to see the bloodbath and her dying son, the man attacked her. She was stabbed over a dozen times.
The monster responsible for this is Joseph M. Czuba. The man should be sent to Gaza. The American justice system should not protect him; death by electrocution is too kind. He should be flown to Israel and handed over to Hamas. Nothing can ever condone the cold-blooded murder of any human, let alone a 6-year-old who was most likely just watching cartoons and planning his next play session.
The problem is, and it is one that most right-wingers and Trumpists aren’t willing to accept, that the rhetoric of Fox News and other propaganda outlets on the right does nothing but promote hate and violence. The right-wing media machine plays to the lies and hatred of the right-wing extremists. Former patriot after patriot is being radicalized by the free-for-all of hate. And then there is Trump, who lets these hateful and mentally unstable losers know that “he has their back” with his wink-wink rhetoric.
Ron DeSantis commented in a Republican debate with Nikki Haley that the civilians of Gaza should not be permitted the protections afforded to non-combatants. He was letting the world of Trumpist right-wing extremists know that Florida is on their side. He was letting them know that hate is at home in Florida.
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said the United States should not take in any Palestinian refugees if they flee the Gaza Strip because they “are all antisemitic,” and he dismissed international entreaties for Israel to provide clean running water and utilities to the 2.3 million civilians in the territory (US Shouldn’t Take In).
This is hate, pure and simple. This hate, coming from a leading fascist in the Republican Party, is then reported and accepted by Fox News and other right-wing organizations. Sick losers like the inhuman monster in Illinois then brutally take the life of a 6-year-old. What kind of hate must one have in one’s heart to be able to stab a little boy 26 times?
That act of violence is what the Right in America stands for. They can — and will — say they don’t, but that’s a lie. Nothing good ever comes from extremism; the right-wingers and Trumpists who have seized control of the party are extremists. Hate-filled, racists, and Christian-fascists, any time any of them ever utter a word in support of their disgusting and small-minded views, we must all remind them of the gory and nightmarish attack of “their movement” on Wadea Al-Fayoume.
“This was directly connected to dehumanizing of Palestinians,” said Abdelnasser Rashid, a Democratic Illinois state representative who is Palestinian American (6-Year-Old Boy Fatally Stabbed).
Do you see what we have become? This family came to our country to escape Hamas and the hate and oppression of the Gaza Strip. They chose the United States as the place where they would raise their son to become one of us. On a calm Fall Sunday in his home, a white American entered and brutally ended his life. Many conservatives all over the country probably think that Czuba is a hero.
I have always wondered how Germans just stood by and watched as their Jewish fellow citizens were brutalized and beaten in public. Sadly, I no longer have to look to the past to imagine those horrors: This is what America has become thanks to Donald Trump and the right-wing fascist revolution underway.
We have to unite to stop them.
The escalation of hate has led to fatal violence in this country now. To stab a small child 26 times...an indication of what’s to come as our politics continues to spin out of control. White nationalists, led by a criminal mob boss, will do the bidding of the ChristoFascists without hesitation. It’s blood lust.
A percentage of Americans are champing at the bit for civil war. The desire for blood - to kill - is growing. It’s unclear what they hope to achieve other than power, as the goal appears to be only about superiority. Without a manifesto, mission statement, or set of goals, we can only conclude it’s about the act of killing for gratification or to prove one’s loyalty to a cause.
There is grave danger in America now.