UPDATE: It is now one full week since the shocking and shameful Dallas honor murders took place. As of this writing, (January 8th, at 6:30pm est), the mainstream media continues to maintain its enormous and profound silence. The murderer remains at large and is suspected to be the father of the slain girls: Yasser Abdul Said. I have been told that both the AP and Fox affiliates put the story on the wire but it has not traveled beyond Dallas. Any ideas of what it might take to get this story to move? Are two corpses not enough? Is the fact that the alleged murderer is an Arab Muslim man too politically incorrect to print?
THE ORIGINAL PIECE BEGINS HERE:
The “story” is now also about the mainstream national media’s utter failure to cover the Dallas-based honor murders of two teenager sisters, Sarah and Amina Said–and it is also about their father Yasser, an Egyptian-born taxi driver, who has somewhat miraculously managed to avoid capture for five full days. As of this writing, he has still not been found.
Is there connection between these two stories? I fear there might be, at least in this sense: If Yasser Said’s photo had been plastered all across our television screens and on the pages of our morning newspapers maybe–just maybe–someone might have recognized him or maybe–just maybe–someone at a mosque might have been shamed by this dishonorable act and encouraged to mount a Muslim religious campaign to find and turn him over to the police.
Talk about whistling Dixie!
Where is Yasser? Did he shoot himself? If so, where’s the corpse? Did he flee the country after a well-planned murder? If so, what plane did he board and where did he go? What kind of powerful friends might a taxi driver have? Is he really only a taxi driver? Has he taken shelter in a mosque?
I have no inside information but I assume that the police are asking all these questions. Authorities have offered a $10,000.00 reward for Abdul Said.
As I’ve previously noted, on January 3rd, the New York Times did cover a daughter’s murder in Chicago–but wouldn’t ya know, the murder was committed by a drunken and abusive Hindu father which subliminally “proves” that non-Muslim fathers also kill their pregnant daughters, sons-in-law and grandchildren. So there!
It’s not as if the mainstream media is quiet about Muslim Matters. In fact, the January 5th-6th issue of the New York Times Book Review is entirely devoted to Islam. Entirely. Completely. The lead “essay,” (to be distinguished from three non-opener essays and the twelve book reviews), is a sterling example of the subtle disinformation campaign being waged by the overly glamorized Tariq Ramadan and is titled “Reading the Koran.” Is this title a play on or a playful admonition towards Azar Nafisi’s best-seller Reading Lolita in Teheran–a far more comprehensible and literary piece of writing but one which is highly critical of Islamist Iran?
And just today, the Paper of Record has a piece about domestic violence in the Muslim communities but guess what the headline reads? “Abused Muslim Women in U.S. Gain Advocates. Sympathetic Clerics Ally With Activists.” All’s well, Islam is not the problem. Indeed, according to this article, one brave mullah (truly, peace be upon him) and some religious Muslims are “saving” abused Muslim women–not only from murderously violent Muslim men–but also from the female staff at domestic violence shelters (read: secularist feminists) who are too spooked by hijab and hallel eating requirements to be of much use. Or perhaps their modern ways spook abused Muslim women.
I am absolutely honored to be among the many internet bloggers and local Dallas media who broke this story on January 2nd and who have continued to write about it ever since. Let’s hear it for those who made the first two pages of Google which cites nearly 4000 such references: Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs, Ron Dreher, at Crunchy Con; Robert Stacy McCain at the Washington Times in “Fishwrap,” (and who called it to my attention), Dymphna at Gates of Vienna, Robert Spencer at JihadWatch, LindaSog, Ace of Spades, Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Scared Monkeys, NationalReview online (which reprinted the local Dallas coverage), Cheat-Seeking Missiles, Michelle Malkin, Debbie Shlussel–and of course , let’s hear it for the local Dallas media who have informed us of the following details:
Earlier today, the girls had two funerals: one was a large Christian Baptist-style funeral (!) at which a Catholic priest presided and the second took place in a mosque. (Is Mrs. Said a convert to Islam from Christianity or did teenage schoolmates wish to be consoled by a Christian service?) Mrs. Said and her teenage son have gone into hiding. The family was, allegedly, plagued by domestic violence. The deceased teenagers, (may Sarah and Amina rest in peace), had both been very smart and also afraid of their father. They had intellectual and professional ambitions and they had non-Muslim boyfriends. This is what passes for a capital offense in many Muslim families.
Yes, I wrote “many” and I mean “many.”
Only a few honor murders need take place in order to effectively intimidate and humble an entire generation and population of Muslim women. Honor murderers might be doing the “dirty” work for all Islam.
This might be one reason why Muslim leaders do not step forward to denounce honor murders and other acts of terrorism towards women and children. They fear they would be targeted by Islamist terrorists for doing so–but perhaps they also fear losing the “home court” advantage, so to speak. All Muslim tyrants–Osama bin Laden, taxi-drivers in Dallas–profit both psychologically and economically when women are willing slaves.
Neither funeral mentioned that the girls had been honor-murdered nor did the Dallas media initially focus on this as an honor murder. The liberal mainstream media did not cover the murders at all–only the conservative-leaning blog media did (as blogger Israel Matzav noted on Cheat-Seeking Missiles. )
Okay: I challenge the Muslim cleric who is heroized in the New York Times, Imam Muhammed Magid, of Falls Church Virginia, to take on honor murders as well as domestic violence.
And, while I’m at it, I challenge the mainstream media to cover the Dallas honor murders and to name them as such.
A girl can always dream. It might be in the funny mainstream papers tommorrow.
The Mainstream Media in the United States also failed to cover the story of the strangling of Aqsa Parvez in Canada on December 12. I read about it in the Toronto papers because I was in Toronto from December 14th through December 19th.
In her book INFIDEL, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells of her attempt to get the Dutch parliament to pass a motion to register how many honor killings took place in Holland each year. A pilot project was conducted in two police regions. On p. 309, she writes, “Between October 2004 and May 2005, eleven Muslim girls were killed by their families in just those two regions (there are twenty-five such regions in Holland).”
Fox News, at least, has been covering this story in reasonable depth.
“A girl can always dream.”
Keep dreaming. I am going to start dreaming that Kobe Bryant will beg me for mercy on the basketball court. The MSM will continue ignoring these murders as much as possible. Highlighting them only helps the GOP. The Republicans will demolish the Democrats in November and their presidential candidate will win by the minimum of ten percentage points. The Politically correct leftists are incapable of taking to task the evils committed by dark skinned individuals. End of story. It’s just that simple.
Well, here’s a Dallas newspaper columnist who doesn’t get it.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/localnews/columnists/jfloyd/stories/010808dnmetfloyd.1cb92c88.html
“Generalizing vicious crimes does disservice to newspapers, audience” by Jacquielynn Floyd. She writes in typical “oh, let’s not jump to conclusions” style: ” That does not make this a “Muslim” or an “Arab” crime. People who love their children do not kill them, no matter where they’re from or where they go to church (!). And deranged, homicidal control freaks come in all flavors.”
Say, Jacquie – Hel-LO!
Kumbaya, My Lord, Kumbaya!
The Fort Worth Star Telegram judges whether the Muslim man committed an honor killing. In “Police report: Slain girls’ mom returned home out of guilt”, reporter Melissa Vargas concludes today:
“The [murdered] teens’ grocery store co-workers said Said [the fugitive] and Islam [Said's son] often came to the store to make sure the girls were really there.
Friends have said Yaser Said is not a devout Muslim. His wife did not seem familiar with the religion’s customs during a part of the girls’ funeral at a Richardson mosque.
But the clash of Yaser Said’s culture and the girls’ Westernized lifestyle prompted a heated argument after the girls’ funeral Saturday.
Some of the teens’ Christian relatives confronted Muslim friends and relatives over whether the slayings were part of an honor killing.
Honor killings are an ancient Middle Eastern tribal practice in which male relatives kill their female relatives who have engaged in or are even suspected of illicit sexual activity, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Web site.
‘This was not an honor killing,’ [Massoud] Nasseri [the cab owner and Said's boss] said Tuesday. ‘This was just a good man who went crazy.’”
I think it’s a slippery slope if you are attempting to parse honor killing versus non honor killing and make some kind of argument about this crime from that vantage point.
Or relying on some kind of formal definition of honor killing or speculating about Abdul Said’s degree of Muslimness in attempting to get a handle on this atrocity.
None of us is inside that guy’s head. I think we can all agree to the heinousness of the crime and that its perpetrator should be apprehended.
The point is well taken that if there were more (national) publicity, the odds of finding him would increase.
ok………………..PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IN ISLAM IT IS FORBIDDEN FOR A MUSLIM WOMAN OR GIRL TO MARRY A NON MUSLIM MAN.
IN ISLAM IT IS OK FOR A MUSLIM MAN TO MARRY A NON MUSLIM WOMAN…..AS LONG AS HE TRYS TO CONVERT HER TO ISLAM….AND RAISE HIS KIDS AS MUSLIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sooooooooo……..the question is……..what are you supposed to do when a muslim woman falls for a non muslim? the answer has always beeennnnnn people…..honor killings or other forced crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sooooo I don’t want to hear anymore that this is not an Islamic problem. Not one muslim in this world can argue what I just said!
you didn’t really make a point but…
im a muslim- girl background syrian, born in abu dhabi.
i swear in islam, if the husband decides to use wifebeatings, the man is not suppose to hit on the face, hit in sensitive areaas, leave bruising, and is not allowed to fight in front of the children, he’s not allowed to break bones, or violate a women, if he does any of this, than he violated allahs rules.
islam says it’s not an honour killing. You’re right Islam it’s not an honour killing. If he raped those girls when they were innocent and before they did anything wrong, or have boyfriends which they probably didn’t know what they were at the age of 7 & 8, their father took their virginity.
beautiful….a muslim man rapes his daughters while their innocent and young, than he kills them 10 years later, for having non-muslim boyfriends, PLEASE – so
someone jusitfy me this.
is it an honour killing when the man that killed them in 2008 raped them 10- years ago, that’s not an honour killing.
If anyone should be killed it should be Yasser said, because he is the one who shamed the family, not the two girls-
it has nothing to do with Islam, you’re right islam as a regligion is actually PEACEFULL. however, yasser if fuckd up, and i know for a fact that allah will put him in his place…
when they reported that the girls were raped, they went back and said it was a lie…
the judge should have still kept it open, since it’s 7 and a 8 year old female speaking.
anyway, Auntie- stop saying it’s an honour killing.
BECAUSE I SWEAR IT DOESN’T SAY, A MAN IS ALLOWED TO VIOLATE HIS DAUGHTERS….
nobody seems to understand the difference between an honour killing and murder…so what if he was muslim, HE STILL MURDERED THE GIRLS AND HURT THEM.
the girls new they were gonna die.
i swear they told their mother that if their dad kills them, they dont want a muslim funeral….
and that you still had to give them, and they didn’t want that-
Good For You, For Being SELFISH.
i rest my words…
I know you wont really rest until he’s found…and beautiful angels, he will be found.
You sister from a different MOTHER
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