From the Washington Post article:
"was assaulted and then disappeared
after leaving a mosque in the Sterling area"
"According to accounts from police and a mosque official, a group of four or five teens were
walking back from breakfast at IHOP early Sunday when they were confronted by a motorist. All but one of the teens ran to the mosque, where the group reported that the girl had been left behind,"
"Remains thought to be the girl’s were found about 3 p.m."
"Shoyeb Hassan, the co-chair of ADAMS, said that during the last 10 days of Ramadan, the mosque has extra prayers at
midnight and
2 a.m., and members frequently go to McDonald’s or the 24-hour IHOP to eat
before they start their fast at sunrise, as Nabra and her friends were doing."
"evening prayers, which ended about 12:30 a.m. Sunday. As they were pulling out of the parking lot, he said, he saw a group of teenagers congregating and talking loudly about going out to eat. The girls, he said, were wearing the abaya, a full-length dress many Muslim women wear."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...d706461fa4f_story.html?utm_term=.736e3975c2d6
So, IMHO, they came from the midnight prayers, ate and either a) were going back to attend the 2 am prayers, or b) were done with evening prayers and would be going home after eating but then
fled back to the mosque.
Nabra’s mother, Sawsan Gazzar, said she thought Nabra and her friends would eat at the mosque after the prayers, and she would have forbidden her from walking to IHOP in the middle of the night. But she also wasn’t surprised that the girl went out; she and other teens had done it safely last year.
There was nothing in my post that addressed the crime statistics issue and that was directed at another member, to warrent you quoting me to post statistics on hate crime in the US. Please do not take the thread off topic.