It was 1 o’clock in the morning when Muhammad Atif Syed, his wife and six children arrived at the Albuquerque International Sunport as Afghan refugees in 2016.They were tired from the long journey but as their case manager tried to help the family load their luggage into a minivan, Syed began to argue with him.“I have to see you face to face to show you the way he did it – just like to simplify it, like, ‘You don’t tell me what to do, wait for me to, I’ll get my luggage,'” Mazin Kadhim, a former case manager with Lutheran Family Services recalled. “And I was like, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, you know, I’m not trying to do anything offending you. I’m trying to serve you actually.'”
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With some indication that the killings of four men in Albuquerque may have had sectarian motives, some American Sunnis are calling for solidarity with Shiites.
Shaheen Syed, 21, came came under scrutiny from the police after his father, 51-year-old Muhammad Atif Syed, was charged with two of the Muslim murders. He may have been working with his dad.