The father wasn’t happy that his children were becoming “Americanized.”
“‘He always returned home but was more like his father, a traditional Muslim,’ Markowitz said. ‘The girls were happy to go shopping with their mother, have electrolysis. But he was very much like his father, didn’t believe in living the American culture. His father even had him working for him against her in the home, taking photographs of things, like items his mother had bought. Like a spy.'”
“‘Americanized’ kids riled dad; matricide suspected,” by Mike Martindale, Detroit News, September 14, 2017 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):
Farmington Hills — Nada Huranieh’s death was initially seen as an accidental fall, but investigators soon determined the 35-year-old fitness trainer had been murdered — and that her 16-year-old son was the alleged culprit.
Authorities remain tight-lipped about their investigation into Huranieh’s death, but court records shed some light on her family’s sometimes troubled existence behind the walls of their mansion off a quiet dirt road in southern Oakland County.
Huranieh, 35, died Aug. 21 from injuries suffered in a fall from a second-floor window of the seven-bedroom home on Howard Road in Farmington Hills. Authorities said she was found on her patio by her 14-year-old daughter, who called police to report Huranieh was not breathing.
The death was ruled a homicide following an autopsy, and her son, Muhammad Altantawi, is charged as an adult with second-degree murder. He is being held in Oakland County Children’s Village without bond.
During a pre-exam conference Friday, Judge Marla Parker of 47th District Court scheduled a preliminary hearing for Nov. 17, when she will decide whether Altantawi will be tried in his mother’s death.
The teenager, from all accounts, is a good student without any prior legal trouble. If found guilty of killing his mother, he could be sentenced to life in prison.
“My client has expressed his innocence and said he had nothing to do with his mother’s death and is looking forward to being cleared in the legal process,” said the teen’s attorney, David J. Kramer, who declined further comment.
But court records and people familiar with the family reveal stress inside the home that predated the death, with Muhammad Altantawi being placed “in the middle” of adult issues, including allegations of domestic violence, a parental split and Medicaid fraud charges against his father, a Canton-based physician.
Huranieh and Bassel Altantawi, who wed in Syria in 1999 and had three children, were in the midst of a divorce; both were scheduled to give depositions the week she died.
Huranieh had filed for divorce in March 2016. According to court records, the teen’s father, Bassel Altantawi, now 46, violated orders for supervised visitation and allegedly met several times with his son at a strip mall near the home more than a year ago.
The father also expressed concerns that his children were being “Americanized” by his wife in contrast to their Syrian and Islamic roots, court records indicate.
One of Huranieh’s ex-attorneys, Carolyn Markowitz, said the son expressed anger toward his mother and frequently slipped away to meet his father, who was ordered out of their Farmington Hills home following an incident in which he was accused of throwing his wife down a flight of stairs on Valentine’s Day in 2016.
Altantawi eventually pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of spousal abuse. He was placed on a tether and given conditions that included having no contact with his estranged wife for two years and having only supervised visitation with their children, who were ordered to have counseling.
Muhammad Altantawi and his two sisters, age 14 and 12, were in the sole legal custody of their mother at the time of her death, though the boy’s address is listed as being on Ford Road in Canton, according to his district court criminal file. The address is his father’s urgent care clinic.
Part of the divorce filing in Oakland County Circuit Court is confidential.
Bassel Altantawi could not be reached for comment. His divorce attorney, Timothy McGlinchey, said in a circuit court filing last year that his client “denies violently throwing anyone down stairs.”
In a phone interview, McGlinchey said Bassel Altantawi has been rocked by the events of the past year and a half.
“My client is devastated at what has gone on with his family: the divorce; then the death of the mother of his children; and then his son being charged with the death,” the attorney said.
Bassel Altantawi described the altercation with his wife as “an isolated and very unfortunate incident that he has taken responsibility for and it will not be repeated,” McGlinchey wrote in the 2016 divorce filing.
The estranged couple’s older daughter phoned police to report the Valentine’s Day incident, according to Markowitz, Huranieh’s former attorney.
“Her injuries were serious, she could have died,” she said.
It was unclear if the son was at home during the altercation, but Markowitz said in the following months, it became clear that Muhammad was growing apart from his mother. Several times, he ran away to see his father.
“He always returned home but was more like his father, a traditional Muslim,” Markowitz said. “The girls were happy to go shopping with their mother, have electrolysis. But he was very much like his father, didn’t believe in living the American culture. His father even had him working for him against her in the home, taking photographs of things, like items his mother had bought. Like a spy.
“There were third parties, a religious mentor, who was also trying to influence him or relay his father’s wishes, which was also improper,” she said….
Paul says
if he doesn’t like the american culture then fuck off out of it and move somewhere else.. job done.. no need to stay in a place you don’t like…
BC says
The usual warm and cosy family life of Muslims! If the wife or daughters get of line they are very likely to die of it
Nancy says
What everyone needs to know, is that they don’t want to go back but the plan is to make Islam the government of the world..People need to wake up ..
mortimer says
HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE UNWILLINGNESS OF MUSLIMS TO ASSIMILATE. To assimilate is not to follow Allah. Therefore, Islam is not compatible with being an American.
Killed by the hands of her own son, it must have been a very vicious and horrendous fall.
This killing was done in the name of Islam and for the ADVANTAGE of Islam… so that the father could get a new and more obedient, more Islamic wife, rather than an Americanized one.
‘Good women are obedient’ (K.4.34).
Saipan Sam says
I’m surprised the little mohammadian did not murder his sisters for good measure. Just think how proud Allah would be then
IQ al Rassooli says
We are told repeatedly that many Americans have very NICE Muslims as their friends. Really? Has any such American ever asked their NICE Muslim friend the following simple but DEADLY question:
According to your ‘religion’, as a non Muslim, what am I called?
If the NICE Muslim is decent, he will tell the TRUTH: you are a KAFFIR/Infidel
For those who are clueless, KUFFAR/ Infidels have only TWO choices under Islam: to SUBMIT to Sharia or be EXTERMINATED!
“lovely choices!?”
Al Mai’da 5: 51 “O ye who believe (Muslims)! take not the Jews [Yahood] and the Christians [Nasara] for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other.
And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them…”
*** The implications of the last sentence is of immense importance “And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them…” meaning that any followers of Muhammad who befriend or under the rule of Christians or Jews (or any none Muslim group) would be considered Apostates to Islam, outsiders to Islam, enemies of Islam who must be slaughtered.
In a nutshell, no Muslim in the USA (or any none Muslim country) can ever be loyal to the American Constitution because it is Man Made NOT from Allah’s Sharia nor can any Muslim in the USA (or any none Muslim country) be a loyal citizen because none Muslim Americans are called Infidels/ Kuffar/ Unbelievers/ Kafiroon to be either subjugated or exterminated***
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
John A. Marre says
He’ll never get life in prison. He’ll get probation. The women in the jury will feel sorry for him, suppressing their sexual fantasies, and let him go. The defense will teach him to bat his eyelashes and look innocent. The Muslim Victim Card is there if needed.
Mike says
Sure… you’re correct but who gets to foot the bill for all that follows…court, housing and meals in jail, lawyers…me and you!
Danielle Donovan says
That’s perhaps the sickest comment about this I’ve ever seen. I hope you don’t have any women in your life. I’d think it far more likely that ZMEN would sympathize with wanting to rid themselves of those pesky women with those “sexual fantasies”.
You don’t realize you sound more like these “sick Muslim” men than any man I’ve ever known!
barry says
not allowing you to post on facebook “you are being redirected ” message is all i get
Pet Charles says
Let us call the famed lawyer Alan Derschowitz to offer a religious right doctrine. He is representing the female genital mutilation (FGM) doctors. Let us here that under Islam a son is entitled to kill his mother or sister if she violates Islamic tradition.
utis says
I read here and there about sons and brothers honor-killing relatives, but from what I recall from the Umdat-al-Salik, only parents and grand-parents got off free after killing children or grand-children. So what’s the deal with other family members? Does islam allow surrogates for honor-killings?
Jack Diamond says
“killing an apostate from Islam is without consequences.”
‘Umdat al-Salik
utis says
The light dawns. Thank you.
gary says
Why do muslims feel the need to murder….?
To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled. They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work. (Titus 1:15-16)
abad says
Muslims do not “know” God
They know Satan on a first name basis though
Japetto Donatelli says
I know it’s not popular to say this, but I actually feel kinda sorry for him. It’s not often I would say that about an accused killer, but I have a fairly good understanding of how the teachings and traditions of islam can corrupt the mind. It’s common for a son to want to emulate his father. In his young muslim mind it’s easy to imagine how he might see his mother as a “bad” person deserving a push out the window. I don’t know, he hasn’t been convicted and maybe he didn’t even do it. I feel both sad and mad that so many people are willing to hate and kill for a religion that isn’t even in the shadow of humanitarian goodness. And the tiny morsels of good it does contain have the appearance of trite platitudes sprinkled on top of genocidal murder and terror. It’s meaningless garbage, even the best islam has to offer. People had already achieved islam’s best offerings thousands of years earlier without all the rapacious killing and suffering. Calling islam a “religion of peace” is like calling feces a “brown delectable delight.” And in a way it is, but only if you’re a maggot or a very hungry dog.
Ken says
The word Islam means both peace+submission at the same time. Therefor if someone cannot submit to Islam they will never have peace in their lives and it is an act of charity (one of the pillars) to behead the person or assist her out the window.
The twisting of language is just one reason for the left’s adoration of their sacred comrades.
abad says
Then I suggest they leave the United States for Syria.
They really have no place here, their “values” are diametrically opposed to our western values
Irene Brekelmans says
This accident happened to the mother just before their divorce case, hm, hm.
Really curious who did it and what the punishment will be. Look at Denmark at the moment and they are “surprised”, they were “never warned” that it would be like this, that is what you get when you don’t listen to reasonable” Islamophobes” who tried to tell you something, very polite, without hate, and warned you
Good luck, european countries, the USA, Australia, New zealand and to all the muslim women and all the moderates with your “Religion of Peace” but you all have and stayed a lovely hugging and especially
:political correct bunch”
Ashley says
“There were third parties, a religious mentor, who was also trying to influence him or relay his father’s wishes, which was also improper,” she said…
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If indeed this young man killed his mother he certainly was groomed to do so. Dr. Altantawi and this supposed “religious mentor” have blood on their hands.
No question in my mind that this was an honor killing.
I can only hope that Altantawi’s young daughters are safe from their father.
Islam doesn’t take kindly to “The girls were happy to go shopping with their mother, have electrolysis.”
Undaunted says
He couldn’t just sign up for junior hockey and work his way into the NHL and someday – like every other kid in Michigan dreams – play for the Stanley Cup and the honor that prize implies and imparts.
Noooooo. He had to bring honor to himself and family by killing his mother. What a bunch of twisted morons.
Manny says
Killing your own mother? Nothing is worse. That it is justified by Islam shows you how evil is embedded into the religion. My hunch is he doesn’t get life in prison. They’ll reduce the charge to manslaughter and give him ten years or less.
Keith Jordan says
Of course you may kill your mother! She’s female, isn’t she?
Sarah says
OK. So he married her in Syria, had her under his thumb completely. Took her off to America to live in the land of milk and honey. Couldn’t cope with seeing her enjoy her new life and new freedoms. Or their daughters doing the same.
So he beat her stupid. Then the divorce came. And in his eyes, she signed her death warrant by wanting a divorce. She wasn’t under his thumb anymore and it enraged him.
The fact that she had sole custody tells me that he was a nutbag. The courts will always give a man a chance to raise his kids these days – unless something serious is occurring.
So he wasn’t allowed near her or the house. Here she is, living it up in HIS house. Raising HIS daughters. Being free and happy and ‘Westernized’. So he worked on his Son, instead. Taught his Son that since he’s a man, he has RIGHTS. Taught the Son that his Mum and Sisters should be under HIS thumb.
So the Son did the Dad’s bidding for him.
Dad is happy now – wife is dead – as she deserved in his eyes. Daughters are irrelevant. They’re just women after all. And the Son is confident, because he’s a young Muslim boy. Who will send him to jail for life??
That PC idea might work in Canada, or the UK or maybe Australia. But not with the American courts. That kid is going to go down. And I’ll bet he never shows a moment’s remorse or regret. His Mother, in his eyes, no doubt fully deserved it.
Logically-speaking says
Another case of Muslim teenagers killing other Madrassah students.in an arson fire in the Malaysian capital;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wqQ2SHsDqs&t=1198s ;-
gravenimage says
Michigan: 15-year-old Muslim accused of killing mother to please strict Muslim father
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God, I hate Islam.