“Primm reminded jurors that earlier in the trial, Irsan’s first wife and oldest daughter both testified he raped them and subjected them to years of persistent, brutal abuse….On Friday, Irsan maintained that he killed that son-in-law in self-defense after he came to Irsan’s home with a pistol and shot at him twice. He also said any of his children who said he beat them were liars. ‘They were princesses,’ he testified. ‘I treated them like princesses. They had everything they wanted.’”
Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan would have you believe that he is just a lovable, big-hearted lug who keeps being victimized by all the bad, bad people around him. He didn’t scam airlines, they just happened to lose his luggage every time he flew. He didn’t beat his children, they just lied that he did, even though all he ever wanted to do, poor guy, was “make people smile.”
This is the same victimhood strategy we see Islamic advocacy groups using all the time. Muslims are persecuted and discriminated against, you see, and therefore we should dismantle various counter-terror measures that make Muslims feel afraid. Claiming victim status appears to be a near-universal tendency.
“Jordanian father convicted of two Houston-area ‘honor killings’ tells jury he treated his daughters ‘like princesses,” by Brian Rogers, Houston Chronicle, August 10, 2018:
A Jordanian immigrant convicted in a pair of “honor killings” told jurors on Friday that he treated his daughters “like princesses” and constantly gave other people gifts, an attempt to avoid the death penalty for separate 2012 slayings of his son-in-law and his daughter’s best friend.
“I would buy a lot of gifts. I love to make people smile,” said Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan, as he testified in his own defense for the second time. “Put a smile on people’s faces.”
He was insistent that witnesses lied about his bad acts, and when prosecutors asked why so many people, almost 100 witnesses, would come to court to lie, he flashed the observers in the gallery a broad smile and said, “When the cow trips, everyone sharpens their knives.”
The 60-year-old father of 12 insisted on testifying, despite his attorneys’ numerous warnings, and gave jurors a three-pronged defense that included his love for family, how the people who testified against him lied and how hard it was to grow up in a war zone in Jordan with a strict father….
Prosecutors later had a field day when they cross-examined Irsan about earlier testimony that he killed a different son-in-law in 1999, scammed money out of government agencies and family members, as well as the days he spent beating his first and second wife and their children.
Special prosecutor Marie Primm spent more than an hour asking Irsan about dozens of schemes to get money from FEMA, his family, his mosque and the airlines every time he flew.
“Did you ever fly without claiming you lost baggage and valuables?” she asked.
Irsan said it was not his fault that airlines constantly lost his bags….
Two weeks ago, prosecutors convinced the jury that Irsan was a Muslim extremist who spent months stalking one of his adult daughters after she ran away from the family’s rural Montgomery County compound and converted to Christianity.
Prosecutors told the jury Irsan planned to kill a total of five people including his daughter for converting and marrying a Christian….
The fatal shootings of Nesreen Irsan’s husband, Coty Beavers, and her close friend, Gelareh Bagherzadeh happened 11 months apart in 2012. Earlier in the trial, Irsan took the witness stand and tried to counter evidence he stalked his daugher [sic] by claiming he missed his daughter and was just following her as he tried to get an explanation for why she left home.
Because prosecutors were able to prove that Irsan committed both homicides as part of the same scheme, he was convicted of capital murder in less than an hour….
Primm reminded jurors that earlier in the trial, Irsan’s first wife and oldest daughter both testified he raped them and subjected them to years of persistent, brutal abuse.
After jurors convicted Irsan, his oldest daughter testified that she married in 1999 out of desperation to get out of Irsan’s house only to learn — after her father drugged her and shipped her off to his homeland in Jordan — that her father had shot and killed her new husband.
On Friday, Irsan maintained that he killed that son-in-law in self-defense after he came to Irsan’s home with a pistol and shot at him twice.
He also said any of his children who said he beat them were liars.
“They were princesses,” he testified. “I treated them like princesses. They had everything they wanted.”…
Burner Jack says
His daughters must be lying! A Muslim wouldn’t lie! They’re to pious to Lie!
His daughters are Muslim. Hmm. Hey! Wait. Just. One. Minute. Here!…
mortimer says
Sure… that’s it … the daughters are lying because they are deficient in intelligence and their testimony is only one-half that of a man’s. So under sharia law it’s one man’s testimony against that of two one-half persons. Thus under sharia law, it’s a draw. Inconclusive? Right?
BC says
Its the old catch 22 if they lie then they are not ‘true’ Muslims. So he wins both ways
StellaSaidSo says
UPDATE: JUSTICE!
He got the death sentence.
Burner Jack says
What kind of ‘religion’ has to threaten its members with death to maintain it’s numbers?
Diane Harvey says
The one that goes by the name Islam.
balam says
Islam should be declared as a DANGEROUS CULT.It is similar to militaristic NAZISM. There is nothing spiritual about ISLAM,There is only SEX and SAVAGERY.
Bev says
No religion does. Islam is not a religion. It is totalitarian theocracy that controls your life 24/7/365 from cradle to grave through religion and law (Sharia).
gravenimage says
Islam is a religion–it is just an evil religion.
StellaSaidSo says
Penalty for capital murder in Texas – death by lethal injection.
Few deserve it more than this revolting exemplar of the world’s most depraved and demented ideology.
balam says
Stella: You are absolutely RIGHT.
Hari Singh says
Absolutely anyone who kills his children is a demon, his thoughts are demoniac, his religion must be demoniac.
Strangerinastrangeland says
Texas is bad place to murder people. He will executed within 18 months.
John says
Good, then he can meet muhammad in HELL
sherry says
I hope you’re right !!! If anyone deserves the death penalty it’s this guy. Why does society keep claiming Islam as a religion when in reality it’s an inhumane ideology and should be outlawed???
LR says
Whether you like it or not, Islam is a religion.
Jen says
It is a religion the same way that satanism is a religion.
somehistory says
If he is sentenced to death, there will be an automatic appeal. If that fails…and it should…there may be more if his attorneys can think up some “reasons’for why he should be given a new trial, should not be put to death, etc.
it all depends on how much time goes by before the automatic appeal goes through the court.
People sometimes stay on death row 20 plus years.But he’s so hideous, inside and out, he may just ugly away.
Rarely says
Best selling muslim handbook: “How to Scar Your Children for Life”.
Without the protection of living in a muslim majority country people like him will gradually be defeated AS LONG AS we do not water down our laws and legal system to permit people like him acting with impunity.
The new generation aren’t quite as complacent as their mothers have been.
LR says
Rarely,
That is what I am counting on. Prosecuting all murderous bastards to the hilt.
Wish more states had the death penalty.
elee says
This didn’t happen in a vacuum. Somebody told this guy his actions were permitted or encouraged. Who could that have been? His local imam and congregation and all associated entities should be held criminally and civilly liable.
Ashley says
Passages in the Qur’an encourage such savagery…
scherado says
Start Start the drum-roll….[it ends when we learn of the result of the SENTENCE received by the convicted murder, that is, “capital murder.”]the drum-roll….[it ends when we learn of the result of the SENTENCE received by the convicted murder–was it a murder conviction?]
scherado says
Proof-read much?
Rarely says
Every time I look at the picture his nose seems to have grown. Is it my imagination or has been afflicted with the Pinocchio syndrome? I believe it’s a hereditary disease unique to muslims.
gravenimage says
Texas: Muslim convicted of two honor killings says his daughters are lying when they say he beat them
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Certainly doesn’t sound as though the prosecutors are buying this crap–and I hope the jury doesn’t, either.
somehistory says
A psychopath will never admit to doing wrong. it is always another’s fault, everyone else is lying, whatever was done by the perp was good and people just don’t appreciate it.
This creep is a psychopath. No matter the evidence against him, no matter the number of people that give testimony, because he is a psychopath, he will never admit to what he did. He will never say he was wrong.
henrik arboe jensen says
dems : send me all your money, the say after i will return them.
infidel says
Did U notice,, how this creature has bred 12.. other than his penchant for blood and gore…Reproduction Jehaad!!!
Jack Holan says
Irsen was dead wrong! His families didn’t have a Father. They had the Devil in their midst.
FYI says
“I love to make people smile ” says the accused murderer.
Such devout people muslims….masters of dissembling and false piety.
“we smile in the face of some people,
although our hearts curse them”
abu Ad DaradI
gravenimage says
Yes–that was the most grotesque line of all. I think those “smiles” were grimaces of fear.
Mahendra Singh says
Father of 12! They can fight for ever.