The Europe News website reports today (July 2, 2010) that a plaque commemorating a pregnant head-scarved Egyptian woman, whose murder in a German court shocked the Muslim world, was unveiled yesterday in Dresden, in eastern Germany.
The memorial should serve not only to commemorate the 31-year-old Marwa El-Sherbini -- dubbed the "veil martyr" -- but also should serve as a warning against racism, said Juergen Martens, justice minister of the state of Saxony.
During a trial in July 2009, Alex Wiens, 28, plunged a seven-inch kitchen knife at least 16 times into Sherbini, who was three-months pregnant at the time.
Sherbini's husband, Egyptian geneticist Elwy Okaz, rushed to her aid, but was also stabbed repeatedly, and then shot in the leg by a police officer who was unsure who was the attacker.
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