To return to that fateful 2014 family wedding, “they came home to a trashed house. Money’s missing, phones are missing, cars have been driven, beds have been slept in, [our mutual cousin is] like, ‘What the f**k?’” The mutual cousin, Atif* (name changed out of fear of backlash), was shocked; he hadn’t given his keys out. “His parents were like, ‘Who could have done this?’ So they blamed one of his friends,” Maryam* said. But six months later, around Valentine’s Day, Maryam* added, Atif’s* father suddenly passed away in Pakistan, leading Atif* and his siblings to fly there for their father’s funeral. They left the house keys with a trusted friend and told him to sleep over, aware there had been a burglary only a few months back. During that trip, Atif’s* friend called him, saying he heard “the front door jiggling,” Maryam* recalled, and “it was your cousin Sundas trying to enter” with a guy. Atif* later figured out the boy was Will Farrell, who had gone to the same high school as Sundas. But in Sundas’s world, retribution is swift, Maryam* underlined: when Atif* mentioned the possible burglary to Sundas’s mother, Sundas found out and reportedly smashed the car of Atif’s* friend, Maryam* claimed. When Atif* landed at O’Hare from Pakistan, he drove straight to Sundas’s house, late at night, and went to her room to confront her. “This is a Pakistani Muslim family, and this girl’s room is littered with…condom wrappers and drug paraphernalia [for weed],” Maryam* recalled. “We’re asking her about these things. She’s not saying sh**. She’s looking at us blank. No emotion, not crying, no response. She was saying, ‘I don’t know what you're talking about.’ We go through her backpack, we find the keys….we show it to her mother.” “We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.
on March 16, 2026, 15:32:19
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