More News on the Shaima Alawadi Murder in El Cajon.

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3. More input from the Iraqi Community

The "hate crime" theme is not a universal sale:

Unsolved killing is the talk of Iraqis' English class
Cuyamaca College students are discussing the beating death of Shaima Alawadi. Although speculation is high, they are placing their faith in the police, who say a hate crime is only one possibility.


...But in this working-class suburb east of San Diego, the nation's second-most-populous community of Iraqi immigrants, the fear does not seem to spring from a belief that the killing was a hate crime committed by a predator stalking Iraqis.

....Speculation within the Iraqi community about the motive has been continuous and wide-ranging.

"Who knows?" Nash Isho, 38, said as he played dominoes at the Baghdad Cafe amid large-screen televisions showing Iraqi music videos and an Arab soap opera. "Most people are friendly here to us, but maybe it's a personal thing, maybe a family thing. Who knows?"

On his way to the Babylon Market, 29-year-old Ray Tobiya admitted being perplexed: "It could be so many things. Maybe things nobody wants to talk about."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-iraqi-slaying-20120402,0,5491221.story