Rahma Ayad was 26. Algerian. A nursing trainee. She wore the hijab. On July 4, she was brutally stabbed to death in her apartment building near Hanover, Germany. The suspect? A 31-year-old German man. Arrested at the scene. No name released.

Was this racially motivated? Or an honor killing? They won’t say. The press won’t ask. The public doesn’t know.