The Chronicle of Higher Education – The Somali students watched the news with a sense of dread: Someone had hit six people with a car and then stabbed five more at Ohio State University.
Just don’t let him be Somali, some of the students thought to themselves as details of the attack started percolating on social media. Don’t let him be Muslim.
It had happened on a different campus in a different state, but the Somali refugees at St. Cloud State University had lived in the United States for long enough to know how this worked: Any act of violence by a foreign-born Muslim could reignite fears of immigration and terrorism, and there was no place more flammable than St. Cloud, Minn.
