With great sorrow and deep pain thousands of mourners attended Marwa El Sherbiny’s funeral in her home town Alexandria on Monday, 6th of July at Kaad Ibrahim mosque after duhr prayer.

    Marwa El sherbiny, the veil martyr died on the 1st of July in Dresden, her body was kept in the hospital till her brother Tarek went to get her back. Thousands of muslims were waiting for him there where they all prayed for her before she leaves berlin in Dar Al-Salam Mosque. Her body reached her home town Sunday night.

    The funeral was held on Monday in the presence of a number of politicians and leading government figures. Alexandria’s governor attended her funeral. Her school’s headmistress Mrs. Enaam el Dafrawy was also there together with a number of the schools’ teachers and girls carrying her photos and the cup that she made one day for her school…..

        

    Marwa has become a national symbol of persecution for a growing number of demonstrators, who have taken to the streets in protest at the perceived growth in Islamophobia in the west and many are taking her death as an illustration of latent racism or anti-Islamism in Europe, asking what the reaction would have been in Germany had she been Jewish. There are also plans to name a street and a school after her in her home town.

    Angry mourners at the funeral in Alexandria accused Germany of racism, shouting slogans such as "Germans are the enemies of God" and Egypt's head mufti Muhammad Sayid Tantawy called on the German judiciary to severely punish Alex W.

        

    Egyptian President even raised the subject with Chancellor Angela Merkel during the G8 summit in Italy last week, asking her to ensure the killer was brought to justice.

    On Saturday, a number of regional politicians attended the commemoration in Dresden, while Franz Müntefering, head of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), was also there, calling for more political action against racism while warning against instrumentalising Al-Sherbini’s death. Those present laid flowers in front of a large picture of the dead woman while Aiman Mazyek, secretary general of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany said Al-Sherbini’s murder marked a new dimension in violent Islamophobia and called for a strong but peaceful reaction.

    On 11 July, a public memorial, organized by local civil rights groups, was attended by more 1,000 people, including the Egyptian ambassador and officials from the state of Saxony. Franz Müntefering, head of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), was also there, calling for more political action against racism while warning against instrumentalising Al-Sherbini’s death. Those present laid flowers in front of a large picture of the dead woman while Aiman Mazyek, secretary general of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany said Al-Sherbini’s murder marked a new dimension in violent Islamophobia and called for a strong but peaceful reaction.

    The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, where El-Sherbini's husband researches, issued a statement on the occasion of the official ceremony, expressing shock and sympathy . This was preceded by the Max Planck Society having strongly condemned the attack on 8 July, stating: ‘The fact that the attack was racially motivated is especially distressing to us, considering that the Max Planck Society is a scientific research organisation with staff members from the most various nations.