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It was back on New Year’s Day 2008 that Yaser Said brutally murdered his two daughters, Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, in Irving, Texas. On Tuesday, he was finally convicted of capital murder and received an automatic life sentence. But throughout the trial and all the coverage it received, it was clear that virtually no one is willing to tell the truth about why Said killed his daughters, or to face the unpleasant reality that murders of this kind could quite easily happen again in America.
According to Fox News, prosecutor Lauren Black said at the trial that Said was “obsessed with possession and control.” No doubt he was. Fox also tells us that “in a letter written to the judge, Said wrote that he was not happy with his daughters’ ‘dating activity’ but he denied killing them.” Also, “in a Dec. 21, 2007, email that was brought into evidence, Amina Said told a teacher that she and her sister planned to run away. She said they didn’t want to live by the culture of their father, who was born in Egypt, nor did they want arranged marriages, as he planned. Her father, she said, had ‘made our lives a nightmare. He will, without any drama nor doubt, kill us,’ the email read.” So the picture was painted of a hyper-possessive and controlling father who disliked his daughters dating, as he had arranged marriages for them, and who had apparently actively threatened them. And all this had to do with Yaser Said’s Egyptian culture.
That’s all true, but it isn’t the whole truth. Also incomplete and misleading was a New York Post article from August 1, when the trial was about to begin, which reported that “friends and family said Said was unhappy that his teenage daughters were dating.” Dallas’ WFAA likewise missed the mark when it reported that “police believed he became jealous and obsessed because the girls both dated American boys.”
In reality, Yaser Said wasn’t angry over the fact that his daughters were dating or over their dating American boys. WFAA actually had it right in an earlier report, from June 4, which said that “police believe Yaser Said was angry his daughters were dating boys who were non-Muslim and killed them.” That is what the Dallas Morning News reported all the way back in January 2008: the girls’ mother, Patricia, had said, regarding Amina, that “since they are Muslim that the daughter was only allowed to date other Muslims. Yaser had found out she went on a date with a non-Muslim and became very angry and threatened her with bodily harm.”
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notnolib says
It’s just islam. Ask the terrorists at the terror org CAIR. They’ll tell you.
mortimer says
The ‘REAL’ reason he did it? Here it is:
“Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong” is a concept in Sharia law which is compulsory for all Muslims. This is the Muslim’s ‘GREAT COMMISSION’. All Muslims are involved in promoting discriminatory Sharia law.
Enforcing Sharia law is the mission and duty of all Muslims.
Another way to put this is ‘COMMANDING VIRTUE and FORBIDDING VICE’.
When Muslims see anything that contradicts Sharia law, they are required to use a sequence of 1) persuasion, 2) domineering words, 3) harsh words, 4) vandalism, 5) threatening intimidation, 6) physical assault and finally 7) armed attacks to enforce Sharia law. To fail to do those things in order would be sinful.
Normative Islam, rather than an aberration.
A good, practicing Muslim is required to act at times as a vigilante if he can get away with it.
mortimer says
Important distinction about Islamic ‘Virtue’ and Islamic ‘Vice’.
Islam’s ideas of what is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ come from Allah and Mohammed. These ideas are ‘revealed’ and have nothing to do with logic or inner conviction.
A Muslim COMPLIES with Sharia, and doesn’t need to agree with or understand it. He is dumbed down by letting the mullahs think for him. Muslims are the unthinking, obedient slaves of the mullahs. Islam considers critical thought to be dangerous and rebellious, so critical, independent thought is strongly discouraged by the mullahs.
Real virtue, on the other hand, requires thought, the exercise of personal conscience and a choice to follow a noble conduct based on the Golden Rule.
Since the Golden Rule is not part of Islam, real virtue is also not a part of Islam. Muslims simply obey Sharia law or they don’t.
Most Muslims are only obeying a tiny part of the many hundreds of Sharia laws. When Muslims try to be totally Sharia-compliant, they often become overwhelmed and suddenly drop out. This process of drop-out from Sharia compliance has been called ‘SALAFI BURNOUT’.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Mortimer. I just wish more pious Muslims were “Salafi burnouts”.
somehistory says
the prosecutor did say in court that it was an “honor killing” and explained the meaning of the term.
there are so many mozlums in Texas, esp in that area…”The Metroplex”…that many people probably are aware of the *reason* he abused his daughters, made their lives a living hell, and then murdered them. But most people don’t want to be called “racist” and “bigot” and be dx’d with that false ‘phobia,’ so the news people won’t’ say “it’s islam.”
Walter Sieruk says
Many Westerners are too ignorant about the deadly misogyny of Islam or if they do know about it are too cowardly to speak out about it and condemn it.
For Islamic “culture” is not actually a real culture but cruel savage primitive murderous system of brutal religious vicious violence. As seen in that malicious murder “custom” called “honor killing” which is permitted under Sharia ..
Be that vicious murderous action take place in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Egypt in any other Islamic country and now even some Western nations, as America, as seen Dallas, Texas in that horrible tragic case of that vicious and malicious Muslim “father who brutally murdered his two teenage daughters only for dating non –Muslim boys. This is reflection of that of the truth in the book entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel proven by that Muslim father when he viciously murdered his daughters because he felt that he was losing complete control over them. For her book reads “Control of behavior and disregard for life are key elements in Islamic ideology.” Page 171
More about the topic of Islamic violence which, something, takes the form of the brutal cruel vicious and murderous action that is so inappropriately called “honor killing.” This malicious misogyny is so heinous callous and malice- filled that it’s an affront to all that is good, decent and right. In addition, the author, Brigitte Gabriel in her book same book on pages 171,172, that “The shocking reality is that most Muslim men, including those educated in the West, have no objection to the degradation of women in their countries. Across the Muslim world, even in moderate Islamic countries, women’s’ rights are almost nonexistent…Women is Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” In this just cited book it explains on page 176 that “Honor killings have also come to the West thanks to the rise of Islamic immigration.” As this article reveals that Muslims father murdered his two defenseless helpless daughters in cold blood.
Indeed, they must be stopped !
somehistory says
Here is some good news….for sanity, freedom of speech and the professor who was sued by the c.a.i.rats.
CAIR Loses Appeal on Suit Aimed at Muzzling Arizona Professor
by Steven Emerson
IPT News
August 11, 2022
https://www.investigativeproject.org/9235/cair-loses-appeal-on-suit-aimed-at-muzzling
“”This is a win for civilization,” Damask told the Investigative Project on Terrorism Thursday morning. ”
“CAIR’s lawsuit wanted to force the removal of course materials it claimed to “have the primary effect of disapproving of Islam.” ”
“”Their arguments are gibberish and I think they know that,” Damask said. But CAIR sees it as “‘a legal jihad we’re waging here. We’re looking to intimidate.’ Which is an odd position for a civil rights group.’
gravenimage says
Good to hear, Somehistory. Thanks for that link.
gravenimage says
No One Dares Say the Real Reason This Texas Man Killed His Daughters
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Yes–this was an Islamic “Honor Killing” because he daughters dared to date non-Muslim boys. They were too ‘Westernized’ so they had to be murdered to cleanse this thug’s “shame”.