"This Was An Honor Killing"

Sarah and Amina Said were buried yesterday -- matching pink caskets at a Baptist, then a Muslim, funeral -- while their father, who shot the two teens to death because he was upset about their dating, remained on he lam.

The Dallas Morning News write-up includes this:

Gail Gartrell, the sisters' great-aunt, said Saturday that Mr. Said had physically abused the two girls for years. Around Christmas, the girls' mother – Ms. Gartrell's niece – had fled because of Mr. Said's threats to kill the girls after he learned they had boyfriends, she said.

"She ran with them because she knew he would carry out the threat," Ms. Gartrell said. "This was an honor killing."

She said her niece returned after Mr. Said told her that he would move out so they could reconcile. Within a few days, she said, the girls were dead.

At the Muslim service, an Imam said that families being the most important thing in Islam and the need for parents to work to keep their families strong. How about it, Muslims? Is this going to be your creed, or is honor killing?

Honor Killing Motive In Said Case: Denied, But ...

The brother of two Texas Muslim girls murdered (allegedly)by their father denies that the barbaric Islamic practice of honor killings had anything to do with the killing of his sisters.

Mr. [Islam] Said also disputed widespread rumors and media reports that his father's religion may have been part of the motive. There has been speculation that the slayings were an honor killing, a practice in some Muslim cultures where a man kills a female family member who is believed to have shamed the family.

"It's not religion," he said. "It's something else. Religion has nothing to do with it." (Dallas Morning News)

Islam Said offered no alternative motive, however, and police are still investigating honor killing as a motive. The same report provided new information that underscored the motive -- buried a bit, but offered nonetheless:

Zohair Zaidi, a close friend of Sarah's, said Sarah told him their father had threatened harm to Amina recently when he discovered she had a boyfriend.

"Her dad has always been oppressive with her and her sister," said Mr. Zaidi, 18.

"She said that one day when she came home – the day he found out about Amina's boyfriend – he told Sarah, 'I'm going to put a bullet through Amina's head, and you better get used to her because she's not going to be around much longer.' "

If liberal legislators can create the phony legal concept of "hate crime" without so much as a mini-shudder, then why not enact anti-honor killing legislation? Aren't Muslim daughters and wives worth the extra effort to protect?

Ha. I predict it will be a long time before you see an elected Democrat introducing an anti-honor killing bill out of fear of Islamic backlash, and fear of appearing intolerant of the world's most intolerant religion.

Yaser Said remains at large. Let's bring him in alive so we can have a massively publicized honor killing trial, and then, since this is Texas we're talking about, execute the SOB.

Honor Killings? What Honor Killings?

Media reticence to confront Muslim quirks like honor killings and their enthusiasm to cover hate crimes couldn't be more evident than what's showing up in Dallas in the wake of the apparent -- can you hear my gag as I insert the obligatory qualifier? -- honor killing of two teenage girls by their Egyptian Muslim father.

The second story on Dallas/Ft. Worth news radio station KRLD's Web site this afternoon is:

Outrage In Arlington Over Hate Crime

There's outrage in Arlington following an attack on a black woman and racist graffiti spray painted on a garage door. About two weeks ago, Broderick Gamble and Silk Littlejohn found racial slurs spray painted on the garage of their home. Just two days prior to that, Littlejohn was allegedly hit with a two-by-four by a 66 year-old neighbor. She now faces hate crime charges. Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck joined the police chief and the president of the NAACP to ease racial tension in the upscale neighborhood and across the city saying Arlington will not tolerate these types of crimes.

After at first refusing, Gamble announced here on KRLD that he now plans to accept and install new garage doors. Mayor Cluck will join the NAACP at a meeting at Wimbish Elementary tonight to discuss the issue.

This story is two weeks old, folks. The only "news" is that somebody gave Gamble a new garage door. How newsworthy is that compared to the brutal murder of two teens by their father because their American dating habits reportedly [gag] offended his Islamic sensibilities?

Apparently, it's quite a bit more newsworthy. The story on the murders [honor killings] of Sarah and Amina Said by their father was one, two ... let's see ... 11 stories down -- the last story on the page, after such newsworthy items as a newly imposed ban on outdoor burning [of leaves, not daughters] and a new civic campaign to get boys to pull their pants up.

Here's the station's full write-up of the murder of the Said girls:

Vigil Planned to Honor Murdered Lewisville Sisters

Pink will be the color-of-the-day at Lewisville High School where students return this morning from their Christmas break. Student leaders are asking classmates to wear pink in honor of two sisters found murdered in their father's taxi cab in Las Colinas Tuesday night. Police are still hunting down the father, Yaser Abdel Said, who is the leading suspect. Amina and Sarah Said were known as excellent students and fine athletes -- and their friends are staggered to hear of the murders. The Student Council is planning a prayer vigil this evening at Lewisville High. They're also asking students to wear pink today because that was Amina and Sarah's favorite color.

Were they Muslims? Gee, I just can't tell. What was Yaser Abdel Said's motive? I haven't got a clue.

Is the American media afraid to confront Islam? You betcha.