Khanam was stabbed in the chest as she was walking home with her husband from the store they owned in Queens on Wednesday.
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Galvin-Marin lived on Normal Road, the same road where Khanam was stabbed to death that night.
Hundreds gathered at the Jamaica Muslim Center for Khanam’s funeral service on Friday, where her family spoke and mourned.
Khanam, whose nephew is an NYPD transit officer, was carrying some packages home with her husband, who let her walk ahead of him when his asthma flared up.
A report from earlier this year by Georgetown’s Bridge Initiative, a program dedicated to studying Islamophobia, found that in 2015, there were more “incidences of anti-Muslim violence and vandalism” than any other year since September 11th, 2001, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation hate crime statistics. She was rushed to a nearby hospital where she died. Violence against one Muslim New Yorker is violence against all New Yorkers.
“This neighborhood, it’s never happened like this”, Rahman said.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil liberties and advocacy nonprofit, said Khanam was wearing Islamic attire at the time of the attack. “She’s just crying or something, ‘Somebody kill me, somebody kill me, ‘ and he’s coming to help”. The actual attack was not caught on surveillance camera. “We want justice”, he added.
Attorney and activist Ali Najmi said her funeral would be held today at 2 p.m.at the Jamaica Muslim Center in Jamaica Hills.
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) hate crime statistics, 2015 had seen more incidents of hate crimes against Muslims than any other year since September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, Georgetown’s Bridge Initiative study found.
NYPD investigates the scene of a fatal stabbing of a 60-year-old Bangladeshi-American woman in Jamaica, Queens, New York City.
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Community members gather in NY during funeral prayers for Imam Maulama Akonjee and Thara Uddin, who were killed near their mosque in Queens on August 13.
