Muslims help victims and FBI after bombings
By Maria Sacchetti and Gal Tziperman Lotan | GLOBE STAFF AND GLOBE CORRESPONDENT APRIL 24, 2013
Hours after the Boston Marathon bombings, Boston Medical Center clinical psychologist Dr. Shamaila Khan was holding the hand of a woman who just found out her son’s leg was about to be amputated.
Khan, the hospital’s director for disaster and behavioral health training and a Muslim, told people outside the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury for a vigil Tuesday night how the mother, crying, tried to understand how this could happen to her family, Khan said.
“These Islamists,” the victim’s mother said, according to Khan.“They really need to get out of this country.”
Khan continued to hold the mother’s hand. She kept in touch while their son began his recovery. She never told them she was Muslim.
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