Following the shooting deaths of three Muslim university students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Tuesday, Muslim and non-Muslim mourners alike have taken to social media to organize prayers and vigils for the victims.
More than 4,000 people have joined a Facebook group for a Wednesday evening vigil on the UNC campus to remember the lives of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23; his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21; and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19.
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The Muslim community is deeply and profoundly saddened by this tragedy. The families asks for calm, patience and restraint, and your prayers. To God do WE all belong, and to God WE will all return. As Deah’s brother so wisely stated, they are “our three winners.” They have been reunited with their Lord, and we pray they all enter paradise with His choicest blessings. We all pray that Allah grant these two special and dear families: the Barakat’s and the Abu-Salha’s, beautiful patience in these very trying times.
