Thousands of Muslims in the US have attended the funeral of Nabra Hassanen, who was murdered on Sunday morning.
The 17-year-old was kidnapped from near a mosque in northern Virginia and was beaten to death by a man named Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, with a baseball bat.
Police said the killing was being investigated as a road rage incident.
However, Nabra’s father has rejected the police theory and said his daughter was attacked because she was Muslim. According to some reports, the teenager might have been raped before she was murdered.
More than 5,000 people participated in the funeral of Hassanen in Sterling, Virginia, on Wednesday. The killing of the Muslim girl has sparked both sorrow and outrage, as most of the American Muslims view the incident as a hate crime that could have happened to other Muslim teenagers.
