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California: Muslim gets life sentence for killing wife in murder initially blamed on “Islamophobia”

Jun 23, 2014 2:18 pm By Robert Spencer

Kassim AlhimidiThis murder was a very big deal for awhile among Leftists and Islamic supremacists, although now (of course) they have forgotten that it ever happened. At the time, because of the note that was found by the body saying “Go back to your country, you terrorist,” the crime was universally reported as being motivated by “Islamophobia,” and the work of an “Islamophobe” who hated Shaima Alawadi for wearing a hijab. They even staged a campaign, “One Million Hijabs for Shaima Alawadi.” When it turned out to be an Islamic honor killing and Shaima’s husband was arrested for the murder, they went silent — with no retractions or apologies, of course.

Stooping lowest, not surprisingly, was Islamic supremacist and current media darling Reza Aslan, who raged in this sub-literate tweet that Pamela Geller and I were responsible for the murder:

Aslanthreat

In another tweet, Aslan of course refused to apologize for smearing me for a murder. Classy guy.

The whole “hate crime” aspect of Shaima Alawadi’s murder was staged. It was apparently an Islamic honor killing for which Shaima Alawadi’s husband is now standing trial. Will the Leftists and Islamic supremacists who made so much of the hate crime now stage “One Million Hijabs Against Honor Killing”? Somehow I doubt it.

“Iraqi immigrant who beat his wife to death in their El Cajon home sentenced to life in prison,” CNS, June 23, 2014 (thanks to Zahra):

EL CAJON (CNS) – An Iraqi immigrant who beat his wife to death in their El Cajon home after she asked for a divorce was sentenced Monday to 26 years to life in prison.

Kassim Alhimidi, 50, said he would rather be sentenced to die and have his remains sent to Iraq.

A prosecutor read a letter from one of his daughters, Fatima.

“How could you kill someone who is always there for you?” the letter read. “Mom lives with us every day, but you are the one who will be forgotten,”

Police at first thought the killing of 32-year-old Shaima Alawadi, the mother of five, might be a hate crime. A photocopied note found near the victim said: “This is my country. Go back to yours, terrorist.”

Prosecutor Kurt Mechals said Alhimidi hit his wife in the head with a blunt object at least six times as she sat in front of a computer.

But Alhimidi said he was out for a drive March 21, 2012, when his wife was killed. Video recovered by investigators, however, showed his van near the family home on Skyview Drive.

The couple’s then-17-year-old daughter, Fatima, told police she was upstairs when she heard a “squeal,” then later what sounded like a broken plate downstairs around 11 a.m. the day her mother was attacked. A pane from a sliding glass door had been broken from the inside, Mechals said.

Fatima — who had stayed home from school — thought her mother had fallen, but paramedics first on the scene said blood and other evidence was inconsistent with a fall.

I hope Fatima was herself investigated. Note her suspicious crocodile tears here:

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  1. eib says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 3:04 pm

    In the West the law = reason, not rumor.
    A sad day for Satan and the Ummah.

  2. Angemon says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 3:33 pm

    “I hope Fatima was herself investigated.”

    Shouldn’t that be the standard police procedure? After all, she was in the crime scene at the time of the attack. That, and she claimed she thought her mother fell despite the presence of the”GTFO terrorists” note near the body and, according to the paramedics, blood and other evidence being inconsistent with a fall.

  3. PRCS says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 4:19 pm

    Dear ‘ole dad is an idiot!

    He went back to Iraq with his wife’s body for the funeral–and returned here.

  4. Marty says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 4:22 pm

    Ever since aslan tried to (unsuccessfully) persuade people that Jesus was a palestinian he’s had no credibility nor has he deserved any. Perhaps he should consider joining other peaceful muslims in syria or iraq.

  5. BlueRaven says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 4:37 pm

    Aslan is not worth fighting for. He is a first rate deceiver. He could have learnt that only in Madrassa, where else.

    This Iraqi thing is a mess. I wonder if LRJTV sent another ‘investigative’ jounalist (IJ) to the court to see how their story is developing. I guess not, because the IJ dude just didn’t get it, the Muslims will lie for anything, becasue they do not respect us.

  6. gravenimage says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 8:44 pm

    California: Muslim gets life sentence for killing wife in murder initially blamed on “Islamophobia”

    This murder was a very big deal for awhile among Leftists and Islamic supremacists, although now (of course) they have forgotten that it ever happened.
    ………………………………..

    Yes—but it was not “Islamophobia”—instead, it was what *causes* “Islamophobia”—Islamic savagery. Shaima Alawadi was “Honor Killed” by her pious thug husband.

    And more, in a detail that has barely been touched on by the press—she had been “married” to her killer when just a child, and then smuggled into the United States while still underaged as a “relative”, rather than as a “wife”.

    But that doesn’t mean that this pious butcher wasn’t all too happy to try to pin the murder on his “Islamophobic” Infidel neighbors. Damn barbarian.

    And so many of his corieligionists were happy to jump on the bandwagon—and so many dhimmified Kaffir were ready to play along.

    But now it is not just the Mohammedans who appear to care little that she was really murdered by the man who had raped her as a child—few of those Hijab-sporting useful idiots seem to much care either. *Ugh*.

    More:

    Stooping lowest, not surprisingly, was Islamic supremacist and current media darling Reza Aslan, who raged in this sub-literate tweet that Pamela Geller and I were responsible for the murder

    In another tweet, Aslan of course refused to apologize for smearing me for a murder. Classy guy.
    ………………………………..

    This should come as no surprise. After all, how many people are going to call him on it? And given the level of coverage, more people likely remember the false “killed for wearing a Hijab” story than they do the truth that it was an “Honor Killing”.

    More:

    An Iraqi immigrant who beat his wife to death in their El Cajon home after she asked for a divorce was sentenced Monday to 26 years to life in prison.
    ………………………………..

    The usual—any woman who resists an abusive marriage under Islam must die.

    I’m just glad that the foolish Kaffir weren’t *quite* as clueless as this supremacist Mohammedan believed—and he’ll have decades in prison to mull over his mistake.

    It’s not as though he is likely to spend that time ruing having abused and murdered his wife, after all…

    More:

    Kassim Alhimidi, 50, said he would rather be sentenced to die and have his remains sent to Iraq.
    ………………………………..

    Well, of course he would. That way, he’d be a “Martyr” killed by the filthy Infidel for ‘practicing his religion’. *Ugh*.

    More:

    A prosecutor read a letter from one of his daughters, Fatima.

    “How could you kill someone who is always there for you?” the letter read. “Mom lives with us every day, but you are the one who will be forgotten”

    …Fatima was herself investigated. Note her suspicious crocodile tears here.
    ………………………………..

    Well, I *hope* her words are genuine—and I hope her story *was* thoroughly investigated.

    All too often in Islam, though, murdering “disobedient” women is a ghastly family affair.

    At least we know that the police and prosecutor didn’t take the family’s bs at face value—or else they’d still be looking for an “islamophobe” who didn’t like headscarves…

  7. Hogrider Kafir says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 8:48 pm

    This took place in the backyard of CAIR and the ISOC. Where is CAIR now in speaking out on honor killings. All of a sudden Hussam Aylous is mute. And Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi the president of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, we have heard nothing from you. That is after it was shown to not be a hate crime. Hussam and Siddiqi, not speaking is speaking.

  8. mortimer says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 10:50 pm

    Reza Aslan COVERS UP honor killing and denies its existence at the same time!

    Wow! What barbarian.

  9. David says

    Jun 24, 2014 at 6:34 am

    Check it out, a Muslim speaker at the Opera House in Sydney giving a speech defending honour killings. Note the pathetic apoligisers for him: “not speaking for Islam, honour killings happen in other religions & cultures…blah blah blah. Pathetic. I prefer these straight talking Muslims actually, we know this is what the majority of Muslims think, but don’t come out & say it openly.

    http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCAQqQIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fsport%2F2014%2Fjun%2F19%2Falastair-cook-scene-last-test-century&ei=L0upU9LcO8PPkwWRmYGQBA&usg=AFQjCNGaXnqiodWnWCMPI5xXRsdNxFjEEg&sig2=vZs9tOG8LFt6wwV__36LXQ&bvm=bv.69620078,d.dGI

  10. David says

    Jun 24, 2014 at 6:35 am

    Sorry, wrong link before.

    http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CC4QqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fnsw%2Fhonour-killings-speech-prompts-boycott-of-festival-of-dangerous-ideas-20140624-zsk03.html&ei=Nk6pU4SIBoTlkgWH4YDoCw&usg=AFQjCNH6C1J0LmOHswkh0-kjFxzqfBzkfA&sig2=B5fKvEernSgNJz-3HLE0MQ

  11. eib says

    Jun 24, 2014 at 8:44 am

    The victims of honor killings are far closer to salvation than those carrying them out.
    This man will die a thousand times every day until he repents.

  12. David says

    Jun 24, 2014 at 10:29 am

    Update on this, the Sydney Opera House has now cancelled the talk on honour killings by the Muslim, after widespread condemnation. The Muslim, Mr Badar blames Islamophobia.

    http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/festival-of-dangerous-ideas-honour-killings-talk-cancelled-20140624-3arlb.html

    • PRCS says

      Jun 24, 2014 at 12:13 pm

      In my opinion, it would have been far better, and informative, to have allowed him to explain his moral justification for killing uppity women.

      Surely, the public would have been better served by hearing the truth, from the ass’s mouth–instead of the usual lies and obfuscation.

      • Mirren10 says

        Jun 24, 2014 at 1:15 pm

        ”In my opinion, it would have been far better, and informative, to have allowed him to explain his moral justification for killing uppity women”

        Agreed, PRCS. It is always better to allow mohammedans to condemn themselves out of their own mouths.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 24, 2014 at 7:49 pm

      Thanks for that, David.

      From the linked article:

      The Sydney Opera House has cancelled a controversial talk by Muslim writer and activist Uthman Badar titled “Honour killings are morally justified” after widespread condemnation of its inclusion in the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
      In a statement the Opera House appeared to blame the talk’s title for giving the “wrong impression”, while announcing that it had decided not to proceed with the session…

      “It is clear from the public reaction that the title has given the wrong impression of what Mr Badar intended to discuss.
      …………………….

      Yeah—right. Hard to imagine how one might misinterpret “Honour killings are morally justified”—good God.

      The Sydney Opera House has taken down his page, but here’s an excerpt from his piece:

      “For most of recorded history parents have reluctantly sacrificed their children—sending them to kill or be killed for the honour of their nation, their flag, their king, their religion. But what about killing for the honour of one’s family? Overwhelmingly, those who condemn ‘honour killings’ are based in the liberal democracies of the West. The accuser and moral judge is the secular (white) westerner and the accused is the oriental other; the powerful condemn the powerless…”

      See what he’s doing here? For one thing, parents in the West don’t have the power to send their children off to war—this is utter bs.

      And note what he is characterizing as “the powerless”—a Muslim butcher who would murder his wife or children in cold blood because they have ‘besmirched his honor’. *Ugh*.

      (Thanks to Sheik Yer’Mami)

      http://sheikyermami.com/honour-killings-are-no-longer-unislamic-they-are-morally-justified/

      The Sydney Opera House initially characterized this thug thusly:

      “Uthman Badar is spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia. Hizb ut-Tahrir is a global advocacy group working for positive change in the Muslim world via the re-establishment of the Islamic Caliphate. He is a well-known speaker, writer and activist in the Muslim community in Sydney.”

      Never mind that Hizb ut-Tahrir is a terrorist group.

      And Uthman Badar, like most pious Muslims, is no defender of free speech, in any case:

      “Free speech is a liberal tool of power”

      http://www.5pillarz.com/2014/02/12/uthman-badar-free-speech-is-a-liberal-tool-of-power/

      In it, he is not only arguing that “God and His Prophets should be protected from insult”—the title of the debate—but rejects the whole concept of free speech. He refers to it as “depravity”.

      I decided to check out what else Hizb-ut-Tahrir spokesman Uthman Badar has been up to. It should come as no surprise that he is blaming Jihad terror on the West:

      “An act of terror on Australian soil will be the fault of the government, says Muslim cleric Uthman Badar”

      http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/an-act-of-terror-on-australian-soil-will-be-the-fault-of-the-government-says-muslim-cleric-uthman-badar/story-fni0cx12-1226760244883

      Because the cause of all Islamic terrorism is…uh…any attempt to defend against Islamic terror…

  13. Reality Check says

    Jun 25, 2014 at 2:25 pm

    The daughter strikes me as horribly insincere in that video. What a phony!

  14. Oliver says

    Jun 25, 2014 at 5:49 pm

    Is my math off?

    The mother was 32, father 50; daughter 17.

    That would mean mother was 15 when daughter born, 14 when conceived.

    Father would have been 332 when daughter conceived.

    isn’t that statutory rape?

    or is my math off?

    • Angemon says

      Jun 25, 2014 at 6:23 pm

      Orthodox islam allows marrying of girls from the age of 9, following muhammad’s example. He married a 9-year-old girl on his fifties.

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