Cousin Of Jordanian Pilot Murdered By ISIS Planning Vigil In Bridgeview
(CBS) -- A Jordanian American here in Chicago is the cousin of the pilot who was killed by ISIS and he says he and other Jordanians are planning a vigil and demonstration in Bridgeview on Friday evening - something he says they should've done before now.
54-year-old Zakaria Maaitah says he watched just a bit of the horrific video that shows his second cousin, pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh, being burned.
And he says he couldn't stop his tears.
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"My tears was coming out crazy. It's not easy. It's not."
On Friday evening, he and other Jordanians will gather to take a stand, he says. Standing up against the killing of the pilot and against people who, he says, presume to call themselves Muslims - but commit murder.
"We should have done this before, when they did that to the Japanese. And now they did it to our guy. Our beloved Moaz. They burned him alive.
"This is not accepted in any type of a human race at all."
Maaitah came to Chicago from Jordan in 1983. He says it's difficult to be here now, especially, with most of his family in Jordan, suffering.
"I worry about his (the pilot's) mother and father more than I worry about anybody else in the world," he says. "They just took their heart... I just hope they didn't see the video."
