El-Shani Albisi is the domineering and abusive widower of hate crime and murder victim Mira Albisi. His mother Jazlyn Elbisi is a pillar in the local reserved Muslim community. The abuse would be bad enough the stereo would be turned up during fights, but Mira refused to press charges both times police were called, the second by a neighbor who tried to help her and knew about her extramarital lover, Jewish congregate Joshua Feldman.
Mira was seen burned alive after being raped with a pipe, not living through her fatal, obviously hateful maiming. She was tracked by her personally designed henna adornments, and El-Shani was personally informed. Despite his temperament, he was distraught to know Mira was murdered, especially since she had a young son named Ahmet from another marriage.
El-Shani himself became a suspect after his abuse and Mira's affair with Joshua were revealed, Jazlyn suspected of misdirecting the police. When another man, Tariq Assad, was raped and murdered in the same uncanny fashion, even in details never leaked to the press, the real killer, Islamophobic spree hate killer Sean Webster, was tracked, arrested, and murdered by inmates in jail. (SVU: "Hate")