This was quite clearly an attempted honor killing: “Fatima had told police at the time that her father threatened to kill her several times for refusing the arranged marriage and dating a non-Muslim boy.”
Yet “Judge Schaller ruled that discussing arranged marriage, threats of honor killings, or family history of abuse would unfairly bias the jury.”
And so Ihsan Ali was convicted of assault, not even of attempted murder.
Protecting the image of Islam at all costs is always the highest priority. Note how the ever-witless Daily Mail refers to honor killing as “a culturally motivated act,” even as it is forced to admit that Ihsan and Zahraa Ali tried to murder their daughter for dating a non-Muslim boy. The media as well as the authorities are intent on shielding Islam from criticism, no matter what the circumstances.
“Fate of parents accused of attempting to murder daughter outside American school in ‘honor killing’ revealed,” by James Gordon and Nic White, Daily Mail, August 2, 2025:
A Washington couple accused of attempting an ‘honor killing’ by trying to strangle their teenage daughter outside a suburban high school have both been found not guilty of attempted murder.
Ihsan and Zahraa Ali stood trial for the shocking broad-daylight attack last fall outside Timberline High School in Lacey, Washington State where prosecutors said the pair tried to kill their 17-year-old daughter after she refused an arranged marriage.
After three days of deliberations, jurors convicted Ihsan Ali of assault and unlawful imprisonment.
His wife Zahraa was found guilty of violating a court order but acquitted of the more serious charges, including attempted murder, assault, and unlawful imprisonment.
Ihsan, who remains in custody, faces up to 14 months in prison for assault and an additional 12 months for unlawful imprisonment while Zahraa was released on Thursday on personal recognizance and is under strict orders to remain in Thurston County and avoid any contact with her daughter.
The case drew national attention last October after terrifying video footage emerged of Ihsan Ali putting his 17-year-old daughter, Fatima Ali, in a chokehold outside her high school, allegedly in retaliation for refusing an arranged marriage and for dating an American boy – actions he reportedly viewed as bringing shame upon the family.
The viral footage first published by the Daily Mail showed Fatima collapsing on the pavement, only for her father to continue strangling her unconscious body for nearly 20 seconds, according to prosecutors.
‘She’s unconscious, and he continues to strangle her around the neck for another 15-18 seconds and would have continued to do so even longer but for the intervention of those adults,’ prosecutor Heather Stone told jurors at the trial.
Witnesses testified that even after Fatima went limp, Ihsan refused to let go….
Prosecutors argued the attack was rooted in a planned ‘honor killing,’ a culturally motivated act meant to restore perceived family honor.
While the court barred the phrase from being used in front of jurors, investigators and witnesses referenced it repeatedly in early police reports and pretrial interviews.
Fatima had told police at the time that her father threatened to kill her several times for refusing the arranged marriage and dating a non-Muslim boy….
Legal experts say prosecutors faced an uphill battle from the outset, largely due to pretrial rulings that barred them from discussing the alleged motive.
Judge Schaller ruled that discussing arranged marriage, threats of honor killings, or family history of abuse would unfairly bias the jury.
As a result, what began as a trial labeled by the media and public as an ‘honor killing case’ never once used the phrase inside the courtroom.
Prosecutor Olivia Zhou never alluded to the motive in her opening statement, focusing instead on the severity of the attack….
somehistory says
The “judge” was in contempt of Law and doing the right thing. He should lose his seat on the bench.
Jury members want to know *motive.* Without motive, they find it harder to make good judgments and may fail to find the perpetrators of crime, guilty.
Mr. Spencer wrote: “Protecting the image of Islam at all costs is always the highest priority.”
Revelation 13: “14 Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an ****image**** in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the ***image*** of the first beast, so that the **image** could speak and cause all who refused to worship the ***image*** to be killed. ”
islime was *indeed* “wounded by the sword, and yet lived.”
gravenimage says
+1
bill says
It seems something is rotten in the state of Washington
rick says
I simply cannot understand the determined acts of protecting Muslims by police, courts, and our local and state governments for a variety of criminal activity in the US and Europe. Can someone please explain why? Honor killing of family members by family members is only done by Muslims and the group who has committed the most of this horrific murders are Palestinians in Jordan and in Israel. Egyptians are another class who commits them.
All the facts in the case clearly show attempted murder by strangulation. If her father shot her but not killed her what would that be called? If he knifed her but not killed her what crime would that be? How could it not be attempted murder?
And the term Honor killing was used by the police and the courts in paperwork leading up to the trial but banned by the judge at trail. Why? Is that not preferential treatment for the accused?
Why are Muslim criminals given such a preference? That is the fundamental question in not allowing the jury to reach a proper decision. And what now? We know that Muslims will not give up the desire to “right the wrong of their female children” which produced in their sick minds “dishonor”. This daughter is not safe going forward and the judge will bear blame if any harm comes to her.
somehistory says
You are right, Rick. Those things didn’t matter to the ‘judge.’
If a non-mozlum father tried to strangle his daughter to death….for whatever *reason,*….then he would have been charged and the judge would have allowed the charge, of attempted murder.
If the girl had died while the scum’s hands were on her throat, what would the ‘judge’ have ruled?
If other students had not intervened….one boy in particular….the girl would have died.
Vlad says
It would be ruled a honor suicide to protect the valuable member of society, a welfare mooch papa
gravenimage says
Ths is not uncommon in places like Pakistan, where the most outrageous murders are often disingenuously officially deemed “suicides”. And that way the victim is usually denied a proper burial, too.
Maria V says
Yep, we are going to be another Europe and getting closer to the total Islamic Invasion…
Wake up America!
Trepova says
After successfully evacuating her and her two children from Sweida, Syrian-French woman Amjad Zarifa recounted the shocking details of what the family experienced during the week of bloody conflict in the governorate, which led to the death of her husband, Firas, during their much-anticipated vacation throughout the years of the Syrian war.
According to Radio France Internationale, Amjad and her husband, Firas, decided to leave the country and seek asylum in France, protesting the repression of the Bashar al-Assad regime since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in 2011. They had completed their studies between 2005 and 2011.
The couple settled in northwestern France in 2014 and quickly obtained French citizenship. Firas works in IT, and Amjad is a mathematics teacher.
From their French city of Rouen, the family followed the fall of the Syrian regime in December 2014. They then decided to spend the summer vacation in their hometown, Sweida, with their two children, ages 5 and 15.
Amjad recounts: “We left on June 5, arrived in Damascus, and then moved to Sweida, where we planned to stay for two months.” “We spent a wonderful month with our family, but suddenly, in just two days, everything changed,” says Amjad. That day, bloody clashes erupted between Bedouin groups and local fighters in Sweida.
Similar clashes preceded these events in April and May, which ended with local agreements between religious leaders and authorities to contain the escalation and integrate Druze fighters into the new power structures. However, this calm did not last.
As the violence worsened, Amjad found herself and her two children trapped in her husband’s family home in the heart of the city.
“The children began to feel afraid,” she says. “My husband asked me to leave with them to my parents’ home in the village of Qanawat, north of the city.” They arrived in the village, where her father temporarily took them in, hoping the situation would calm down.
But things did not improve. Firas remained trapped in the city, amid heavy gunfire and streets crowded with vehicles filled with displaced people. According to Amjad, Firas and his wife’s brother took shelter in a room in the house. On July 16, he sent a text message saying that tanks had reached the neighborhood, but that the situation was still under control. An hour later, he sent a message to the neighborhood group: “We are surrounded here, we need help.” Communications were cut off at 10:30 a.m.
Firas and Amjad’s brother were killed by direct fire, and the house was then hit five times by rocket launchers before it was completely burned down.
The next day, Amjad learned the news from neighbors who had managed to hide. On July 17, the remains of her brother’s body and Firas’s watch were found among the rubble. The family was unable to return to the city for about a week, amid dire security conditions, and took refuge in an uncle’s home.
“We were stuck for about two weeks,” Amjad said. “There was no way to get back to Damascus, nor to the airport. The city was besieged, with no water, no food, no medicine. Corpses were scattered, especially around the hospital.”
Despite the ceasefire declared on July 20, the situation remained tense. Government forces set up roadblocks on the roads leading to the city, allowing only authorized vehicles to pass.
With the help of a family friend and French passports, the Syrian Red Cross was able to evacuate Amjad and her two children from the city on July 30.
With them, many Druze from Venezuela and other countries left, taking advantage of Assad’s fall to visit their homeland for the first time in years.
On July 31, Amjad and her two children arrived in Paris via Istanbul, while most of her family remained in Sweida.
Source: Sky News Arabia
gravenimage says
Awful–but no surprise.
Troybeam says
Judges either ignore Islam’s sharia law, they do not know sharia law, do not want to get involved with Islam but in all cases he should be dealing in AMERICAN/CONSTITUTIONAL law.
Judges should not in any way shape of form make rulings that are outside of the legal system as this judge did and should be disbarred for doing so.
It’s worse when judges send Muslim’s to a sharia court that operates inside of America, then you have a 2 system legal system.
Paul says
In western countries, sharia courts work differently. Often times they are secretive and informal. I haven’t ever heard of murder cases taken there, but something like a man abusing his family can be. They swear tnot go to the regular court and it gets handled there. Other things like polygamy go thru there.
The sharia courts goal is to get stronger every year. In England, now the government is funding the sharia court. They are growing exponentially, and I would absolutely not be surprised if murders are being handled there in secret, but I doubt they are.
Let me tell you a true story. A girl from Yemen was involuntarily fondled in my class in middle school. Long story short, she was shipped to Yemen and never heard from again. Very nice kid… But the vibe we got from the other Yemen kids was very eerie. The honor killing was likely done back home. And it could never be known to us outsiders, but it is in their community. But everyone keeps their mouth shut, it serves as a reminder to them that Islam still has a long arm.
The point is, this attempted honor killing was done in a crime of passion, that’s not how it’s supposed to work, they’re shipped home and the relatives get them.
Troybeam says
The same can be said for FGM on young girls or they bring in a person who performs this at group parties, not just in UK but globally.
Tony says
The Leftists(eg. Judges, Democrats, Politicians, etc.) ally and protect Islam and its Muslims against Non-Muslims because Leftists are totalitarian partners with Islam’s Muslims to help Islam gain more power and more control in a society. The spiritual alliance of Leftists and Muslims is demonic and terroristic.
There is NO MECCA, NO MUHAMMAD, and NO QURAN in the 7th century AD in Saudi Arabia despite the Muslim Standard Islamic Narrative(SIN) claims. Thus, Islam is a deceitful, factitious ideology imaginatively fabricated over time into the 21sth century, and there is NO PEACE with Islam and its Muslims. Allah’s cursed Islam, a Criminal-Terrorist Enterprise and a Murderous-Demonic Cult of Believers, Muslim Soldiers for Allah, continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, mass murder, intimidation, supremacy, segregation, hatred, incitement to violence, criminality, genocide, victimhood, censorship, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law, Sharia, and in Islam’s Quran(Quran 8:60; 9:41, 88; 5:35, etc.).
Allah’s specious ideology in Qur’an 8:39 commands Muslims to fight Non-Muslims until they surrender to Muslim rule when it says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Hence, Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Westerners via Tax Exempt Organizations, the Media and Hollywood, Foreign Funding, etc. because Islam violates and is incompatible with Western Laws(Quran 8:60; 9:5,29, 111; 47:4; 49:15; 60:4 etc.).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam and its Muslims function as a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims to make Islam supreme and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes Terrorist Criminal Organizations with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 2:191; 4:89, 91; 9:5,29, 111; 49:15, etc.).
Allah’s Islam, a supremacist Antichrist Ideology, is using Western Freedoms and Laws against Non-Muslims to conquer Non-Muslims under Islamic Rule. Non-Muslims should legally designate Islam as a Muslim Terrorist Organization(MTO) where Mosques, Muslim Schools, Islamic Centers, Sharia Courts, and Muslim Organizations are banned because of their incitement of segregation and discrimination to fight back against ISLAMIZATION, Muslim subjugation, and tyrannical violence(Quran 4:65; 9:5,29,111; 60:4; 98:6-7, etc.).
Allah’s Muslims desire to make Islam supreme. Sahih Bukhari 3126 says, “… the Prophet said, He who fights so that Allah’s Word(ie. Islam) should be superior, fights for Allah’s Cause.” Allah, the Supreme Destroyer, in Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah[ie. Allah’s Cause), so they kill and are killed…”. Allah teaches that Death By Jihad leads to Muslim Paradise. Allah in Qur’an 3:169 says, “And do not consider those who were killed for the sake of Allah as dead. Yet they are alive with their lord, receiving their provision.”
Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the Legal Right and the Quranic Duty to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a CRIME of Blasphemy, Unbelief, and Infidelity against tyrannical Allah. Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION AS SUPREME(Quran 3:115, 151; 9:5, 29, 111; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0, etc.).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-totalitarian way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of: incitement, intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, slavery, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, sedition, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:191, 208,216; 4:65, 89,91, 95, 115; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,60, 74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49, 73,88, 111,123; 21:92; 47:4; 49:15; 60:4; 61:9-11; 62:6; 89:14; etc.).
Walter Sieruk says
It seems that this Judge is attempting to hide something from the court room and the ;public about the motive of that “honor killing.”
Which is the terrible reality is that “Islamic culture” is not really a genuine culture. As observed in that so very savage cruel, brutal vicious and murderous that it’s not really an actual, genuine, culture but a result of a primitive deadly religion , because of its wicked Islamic practice of “honor killing.”
Be that vicious murderous action of “honor killing “ takes place in Iran or Afghanistan and Pakistan, in any other Islamic country and now even some Western nations as in that Washington State case
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 which is entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED 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. “
Indeed, they must be stopped !
Walter Sieruk says
About that cruel brutal vicious and murderous Islamic practice so inappropriately called “honor killing” is a horrendous affront. Clearly “Islamic culture “ is so very savage cruel ,brutal vicious and murderous that it’s not really a genuine “culture, it’s an abomination.
As observed in that malicious and brutal cruel murderous action that is unfittingly called “honor killing” is an affront to all that is actually just, good, humane and right.
To put this in another way, 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 law ,which is nothing but a heathen practice and hoax.
As revealed in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995 ” For that future history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” .page 150.
Therefore Sharia is of pagan origin and therefore has no value or worth.
Wellington says
This is typical of the state of the American judiciary in our era. Let me provide another example though I could provide dozens: Last year a majority of the Colorado State Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump pursuant to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment could be taken off of Colorado ballots because he had engaged in insurrection against the United States even though that very amendment states in Section 5 that “The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.” Well, the Congress did just that in 1948 when Harry Truman was President and that law stated that no one could be prevented from running for office because of engaging in insurrection against the United States unless that person was not only charged with insurrection but also convicted of insurrection. Donald Trump was not even charged with insurrection let alone convicted of it.
Much of the judiciary in today’s America is a national disgrace. Thomas Jefferson over two hundred years ago warned of the danger of judicial tyranny. Well, we have it now and mixed with a significant dose of incompetence.
Patrick says
Folks need to be at the Courthouse, to protest the gag order on Jurors and attorneys, we are either going to be subjugated by Islam and allow Muslim loving leftists in America, to to take total control of you and me. By leftists supporting Islam, they’re supporting Islamic jihad of Americans, attacks on you and me, the implementation of Sharia Law in America.
James Lincoln says
In saner times, a criminal investigation would focus on “means, motive, and opportunity” – along with who, what, when, where, why – and how.
In saner times.
gravenimage says
Spot on, James.
gravenimage says
Washington state: Judge forbids discussion of motive in honor killing case, father convicted of assault of daughter
……………………………………
Just to hide the motive. There can be no reasonable reason for ths illegal censorship.
Shirley Rosenhohn says
Follow the money! Has this scumbag of a judge been bribed by “influential” wealthy, poweful muslim “pilars of society” ? I know this is difficult, specially if this individual has a bank account in the Cayman Islands, Switzerland or Liechtenstein, but where is a will there is a way.
gregory says
How about a mistrial? I would want to “arm up” if I was that girl. Definitely all the children should seek emancipation from their parents. Safer to live alone than in an abusive family like this. Also at the end of the day if the child cannot legally obtain arms they are at high risk of physical harm whether emancipated or not. If possible all forms of protection should be on the table. Worst case they get charged with having an illegal firearm… charges in WA probably be dropped. Kids I feel for you.
jerry glenn says
Washington surges in the national Islamopandering derby.
OLD GUY says
I still know an enemy when I see them, ISLAM.
Islam is destroying law and order in our society with one intension the overthrow of our country and lifestyle.
Islam will enslave or murder all infidels, thats us non-islamic believers by the way.
This Judge is falling right in to the hands of Islam, DECEPTION. The jury should know the motive behind the act of violence against this young girl.
It should be on the front page of every news paper and on the major news media. But it won’t, you can’t offended Islam, even while it killing you.
Payl says
USA is nowhere near Europe, and the Muslims in Europe are hundred times better behaved. But, they will be the swing vote to swing districts to democrats and communists.
Republicans can only hang on by gaining more minority voters. I think you’ll see Islamic only towns pretty soon, informal of course.
gravenimage says
How are Muslims in Europe–waging Jhad terror attacks, stabbing victims, mass raping children, and–yes–having many times more “Honor Killings–*better* than in the US, where these horrors are at least rarer?
And while some in both parties hope to get Muslim voters, things are much worse with the Democrats here. Trump has been tryng to end–or at last limit–immigration from terrorist nations.
Paul says
It was a typo. I meant the ones in USA are better behaved.
gravenimage says
Ah–I see. Thank you, Paul.
Joe1 says
So was the viral video of the attack that made national news, admitted as evidence? If juror watches the video, how could they not conclude it was attempted murder?