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SB Victim Fled Islamic Extremism in Iran
Bennetta Betbadal, born in Iran in 1969, fled to America when she was 18.
In the statement issued to the news media, the family said: "It is the ultimate irony that her life would be stolen from her that day by what appears to be the same type of extremism that she fled so many years ago."
http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20151203/bennetta-betbadal-of-rialto-fled-iran-to-avoid-islamic-extremism-family-says
The Assyrian community is reeling right now. At a time when Assyrians are living in fear in their indigenous lands of ISIS butchers (5 in Syria were slaughtered recently, another 180 men, women and children are still held hostage) we are still unsafe in the diaspora.