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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Media Ignores That Muslim Hate Crime Hoaxer Is in Real Danger

Dec 20, 2016 10:10 am By Robert Spencer

A shaved head as punishment. Islamic honor killings do happen here. My latest in PJ Media:

After her story made international headlines, it came out last week that a hijab-wearing Muslim who said she was harassed and threatened on a New York subway by drunk Donald Trump supporters actually made the whole story up.

But Yasmin Seweid doesn’t seem to be a cynical hoaxer; she apparently made up the story to avoid the wrath of her strict Muslim father over her being out late and having a non-Muslim boyfriend.

And so while purveying this fake news about Seweid being the victim of an anti-Muslim hate crime, the establishment propaganda media is missing the real story: this young woman is in very real danger.

It is clear that Yasmin Seweid has every reason to be afraid of her father, who actually forced her to shave her head after the story broke of her hoax. This was not, apparently, a punishment for the hoax, but for dallying with a Christian boyfriend.

Her shaved head — and even shaved eyebrows — in full view as she appeared in court with her clearly angry and disgusted father over the hate crime hoax ought to wake authorities up to the danger she is in.

The shaving is designed to humiliate and subdue her.

In this kind of thinking, the hair is the core of the woman’s attractiveness — hence the hijab, which is supposed to remove the occasion of temptation for men. So shaving the head de-feminizes her and removes her attractiveness, which in the Islamic view is all a woman has.

Now that the truth about her story — that it was all false — has been revealed, some of the curious aspects of it are falling into place. For example, not long after she initially complained of having been harassed by the Trump-supporting louts on the subway, just as the media was in full feeding frenzy mode, she went missing.

She may not have been prepared for the media spotlight. Yasmin Seweid is just 18 years old, and perhaps didn’t realize she was giving the establishment propaganda media what it wants most in this world: a case that reinforces their narrative. She gave them a story of an innocent, pious Muslim being victimized by Trump-loving “Islamophobes.” She may have disappeared in a panic over the media attention for a story she knew was false.

But another possibility must also be considered: Yasmin may have disappeared because she was fleeing a family from whom she believed she was in genuine danger.

Yasmin might have thought, and may still think, she could be killed for being too “Westernized” – a fate suffered by other Muslim women and girls in the U.S. and Canada.

For example, Aqsa Parvez was killed by her father and brother for refusing to wear the hijab.

Amina and Sarah Said were killed by their father for having non-Muslim boyfriends.

There have been others.

In such cases, the killer believes he has cleansed the family’s honor. Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” However, “not subject to retaliation” is “a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring” (‘Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2).

In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law.

The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria, in 2009, scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, however:

… the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour “provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.”

In 2003, the Jordanian Parliament voted down, on Islamic grounds, a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported:

Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.

Until the encouragement Islamic law gives to honor killing is acknowledged and confronted, more women will suffer. And in the meantime, Yasmin Seweid is in serious danger….

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  1. Angemon says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 10:23 am

    Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Media Ignores That Muslim Hate Crime Hoaxer Is in Real Danger

    Yup – that’s the tragic irony here: the media are so eager to paint themselves as defending a minority from outside abuse that they overlook the abuse from inside said minority. If Yasmin Seweid ends up adding to the list of victims of islamic “honour” killings – and I hope that’s not the case and that the media spotlight she endured acts as a protection – her death will be on the conscience of the media vultures, although I doubt it’ll weight them.

    • john spielman says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 11:33 am

      I FIND IT TYPICAL for islam that her father wasn’t angry about her LYING to police ( that the whole story was made up), but he was angry with her dating a KUFFIR!

      this is because muhammed was not only a DEMON possessed mass murderer thief and pedophile PERVERT and false prophet, but A LIAR AS WELL and lying is a sanctified act (made holy) when carried out against nonmulsims!

  2. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 10:57 am

    Will it be by…….
    being beheaded with a sword? (Bridges TV)
    axe blows to the head while she is sleeping? (Switzerland)
    throat-slitting? (London, England, Abdalla Yones)
    being suffocated with a plastic bag in front of her sister? (Shafilea Ahmed, UK)
    being run over with a car? (AZ, Noor al Maleki)
    pistol shots? (Amina and Sarah Said)
    blows to the head with a tire iron? (CA, Shaima Alawadi)
    being buried alive under the hen coop? (Turkey)
    being beaten and then drowned in a fake car accident? (Ontario)

    The young woman is in grave danger.

    • Stephen Rohaty says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 11:28 am

      The young MOHAMMADAN woman. She shall die as allah wills.

    • Lynne says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 5:40 pm

      Two Muslim sisters were murdered recently by their brother here in Ottawa, Canada. The police haven’t called an honour killing but some believe it could be. Our non mainstream media are investigating.

      • Donovan Nuera says

        Dec 21, 2016 at 12:09 pm

        There was a newscast by the Rebel Media lady investigator on this just this week ( she I believe was the one who is also covering the story about how violent immigrant elementary school students have been to Canadian girls that the local school officials are trying to sweep under the rug)

    • Tom says

      Dec 21, 2016 at 8:04 am

      FGM will be the next step. No clitoris for you!!
      While we are at it , sew up that vagina.

  3. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 11:02 am

    “Honor” in Islam means male supremacy. It must not be challenged in any way.
    There is no chivalry in the seventh century desert tribal mindset.

    See “The Mindset Need” at Gates of Vienna
    http://gatesofvienna.net/2014/10/the-mindset-need/

  4. Stephen Rohaty says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 11:25 am

    Amen! Poppa, do what the koran orders you to do.

  5. Lee Hicks says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 11:34 am

    Every Muslim woman and child are daily in grave danger from Islam’s hatred of women and children. From the dishonorable killings of women who (according to Muslim doctrine) err, to the pedophilia and rape of the young, Islam places no value on the lives of the women and children, reflecting Satan’s hatred of them from Eden, when he was informed that his defeat would come through them.

    Anyone wishing to see Satan’s true characteristics on display only needs to look as far as the words and actions of Islam worldwide.

    We see his hatred for mankind (especially for women, children, Christians, and Jews), his violence, murder, rebellion, rage, cruelty, deceiving nature, and absolute corruptness. That is the one value that Islam provides, a window into the dark heart of Satan, masquerading as the false god Allah.

  6. Mockingjay says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 12:19 pm

    Just imagine, for a moment, a Western dad doing this to his teenage daughter.

    FORCIBLY shaving her beautiful long hair off.

    Just try and imagine that.

    Hard to, isn’t it?

    But if it actually would happen, he’d be charged with child abuse, physical assault and what not,- and probably taken in for psychiatric evaluation as well.

    – But if he’s a muslim dad, he walks free.

    Abuse, in all forms, is part and parcel of their culture.
    – And we’re certainly not going to interfere with their culture.

    • Donovan Nuera says

      Dec 21, 2016 at 12:11 pm

      Exactly!! Where are the shrieking feminists?!!!

      • Silent says

        Dec 21, 2016 at 1:49 pm

        The feminists are so far left that you cannot see them. To give you an example is when we saw the sexual assault take place during New Years eve in Cologne Germany, the feminists claimed all men were like that.
        They do not have the courage to come to the defense for the women who were sexually assaulted because of the fear that they might be branded as racist.
        When the feminist started out many years ago they had a legitimate cause to pursue, but in recent years they are like a ship without a rudder floating aimlessly in a sea of despair. If they wanted to they could make their voice heard defending these victims of assault, by demanding politicians to take immediate action to prevent this from happening again. No such luck from this silent majority of feminists.

  7. Crusades Were Right! says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 2:29 pm

    “honor”

    Just like “martyr” and “holy”, Islam perverts the meaning of the word “honor”.

  8. JawsV says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 2:34 pm

    I couldn’t care less about the lying Muslima.

    • Rainman says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 7:02 pm

      I agree.

    • Guest says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 11:57 pm

      Well I care. What she did was wrong, but she doesn’t deserve parental abuse

      • JawsV says

        Dec 21, 2016 at 8:26 am

        And she shouldn’t have made up a “drunk Trump supporters on a subway” story. After all they have done to us since September 11, 2001, through the Christmas Market Jihad in Berlin I have no sympathy for any Muslims. Islam is a curse and plague on the world and should be abolished.

  9. revereridesagain says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 4:35 pm

    I hope she has disappeared on her own, perhaps with the help of Western — i.e., sane, benevolent, rational — friends, and hasn’t “been disappeared” by her scowling thug of a father. If there were any feminists out there with a sincere determination to protect women they would throw a phalanx of women — and any men who cared to participate — around her day and night, right to her doorstep, so that her allah-slaves family couldn’t harm her further without facing the consequences. Let the New York Effing Times and the rest of the dhimmedia deal with that story.

  10. CrankyWW says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 7:53 pm

    She’s lucky the only thing cut was her hair.

  11. Matthieu Baudin says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    A most compassionate piece.

  12. Guest says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 12:00 am

    She didnt mean for her lie to get out of control. Her if the media wasn’t on them her father could have killed her.

  13. don vito says

    Dec 21, 2016 at 5:07 pm

    She has the makings of achieving the status of kufr. It will require courage, but through her rebellious nature her liberation is near. May alla be cursed through her actions, and may many moslem hypocrites and apostates be freed from Islamic oppression.

  14. gravenimage says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 4:17 am

    Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Media Ignores That Muslim Hate Crime Hoaxer Is in Real Danger
    ………………..

    Very true. Shaving her head was likely only a first step. This young woman is in danger of being “Honor Killed”.

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