German convicted of Muslim murder

Al-Jazeera English reported that a man who stabbed an Egyptian woman to death in German has been sentenced to a life in prison on Wednesday. He will spend almost 15 years in prison, longest sentence in German courts.

The killer of Marwa al-Sherbine, a pregnant Egyptian woman to death in front of her husband and her three-year-old son. Alex Wiens, 28, who has anti-Islamic and xenophobic views. It was said that Wiens was sane when he was in courted and stabbed al-Sherbini to death and injuring her husband, who was trying to protect her.

Elwy Ali Okaz, al-Sherbine's husband, was also shot by the police who mistakenly took him for the attacker. The report said that Weins' attack was motivated by for groups of non-Europeans and Muslims living in Germany. There have been a Muslim outcry especially from Egypt for the death sentence to occur.

However, Egyptian authorities have tried to explain to the public that there is no death sentence in European law and that 15 years in prison is the harshest sentence Wiens will get.

The German government has said that justice has been served. "Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, the Egyptian ambassador to Germany, welcomed the verdict, saying: 'Justice has been honoured.'"

The article said, "Germany had the second-largest Muslim population in western Europe after France" which was kind of surprising to me because I just thought with such a huge population of Muslims, there must be an open dialogue of different issues going on. Like having different awareness programs for people to join and such things like that.