Hadi Mizban / AP

Relatives of Shaima Alawadi gather around her body during her funeral in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, March 31. Alawadi, an Iraqi-American woman found bludgeoned to death in her California home last week with a threatening note left beside her body was buried in her native Iraq on Saturday.

Iraqi-American woman found beaten in her California home laid to rest in her native Iraq

"The martyr (Alawadi) used to love all; she made no distinction between religions," Alawadi's father, Nabil, told Reuters.

"Her husband told me that someone threw a note saying, 'go back to your own country, you're a terrorist' ... Who is the real terrorist, Shaima, or them," he said.

-- Reported by msnbc.com news services

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