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Texas: Muslim murders his sister’s friend in honor killing for encouraging his sister to marry a Christian

Sep 3, 2019 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Islamic law forbids Muslim women to marry non-Muslim men. And there will be much, much more of this in America: Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. 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, but “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.’” And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that “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.

“Texas man pleads guilty in 2012 so-called honor killing,” Associated Press, August 30, 2019:

A Texas man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for what prosecutors call the “honor killing” of an Iranian rights activist who was his sister’s friend.

Nasim Irsan pleaded guilty to murder Thursday in Houston. Irsan could have faced life in prison if convicted of capital murder for the January 2012 fatal shooting of Gelareh Bagherzadeh (GEL’-uh-ray buh-GAR’-zuh-day).

Prosecutors say Irsan’s family is Muslim and was angry that his sister wed a Christian and converted. Bagherzadeh encouraged her friend to marry Coty Beavers. He was slain in late 2012.

Irsan’s father, Jordanian immigrant Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan, was convicted last year of capital murder in both shootings and sentenced to death….

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Filed Under: Featured, honor killing, Islamic supremacism Tagged With: Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan, Coty Beavers, Gelareh Bagherzadeh, Houston, Nasim Irsan, texas


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  1. Beverly says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 12:08 pm

    Women are like pets under Islam. You can pretty much do whatever you want to them. If they piss you off, beat them and if they really really piss you off you can kill them. Mohammed said it was okay so therefore it’s okay.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 3, 2019 at 8:51 pm

      Abusing and killing pets is illegal in the West. There are no such safeguards for women in Islam.

    • Linda Fontenot says

      Sep 18, 2019 at 1:11 pm

      If they are HONOR KILLERS in
      AMERICA they should get the DEATH PENALTY.

  2. ciudadanocr says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 1:44 pm

    “Honor killing” classification seems inappropiate bacause it blurs the essence of the crime. There are many reasons for a “honor killings” rather than religion. This crime should be called by his real name: “religious hate crime”, “religious intolerance crime”. It seems they are affraid touching Islam even tangentially.

    • James Lincoln says

      Sep 3, 2019 at 2:32 pm

      ciudadanocr,

      Let’s be even more direct and call it “Islamic intolerance – inspired murder”.

  3. Angela says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 1:57 pm

    Could someone please clarify the narrative?

    “Prosecutors say Irsan’s family is Muslim and was angry that his sister wed a Christian and converted. Bagherzadeh encouraged her friend to marry Coty Beavers. He was slain in late 2012.”

    Was Bagherzadeh a man or a woman? Who was slain in 2012 – Bagherzadeh or Coty Beavers? I am so confused.

    • Angemon says

      Sep 3, 2019 at 2:29 pm

      Bagherzadeh is a girl, a friend of his daughter. Both Bagherzadeh and Beavers were murdered in 2012. The creep also intended to kill his daughter, but only after he killed her husband to cause her emotional trauma.

      • ɹǝpun uʍop uosɐſ (@oldmarinemcd) says

        Sep 3, 2019 at 5:49 pm

        That didn’t help…

        • somehistory says

          Sep 3, 2019 at 6:56 pm

          There was a young moslim woman. She made a friend of a non moslim woman. This young woman encouraged the moslim woman to marry Mr. Coty Beavers, a Christian.

          The moslim father of the moslim girl, and the moslim brother of the moslim girl, conspired to first…kill the young non moslim woman for “encouraging” the moslim girl to marry a Christian man. And they also planned the murder of the young Christian man. They were also going to murder the moslim daughter/sister.

          They did, in fact, murder the young non moslim woman, and they murdered the young Christian man so the moslim daughter/sister could not marry him. The young moslim was not murdered, because they caught the murderers before they could finish the plan.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 3, 2019 at 8:55 pm

      Spot on, Somehistory.

  4. Angemon says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 2:20 pm

    Texas man pleads guilty in 2012 so-called honor killing

    It is called so because that’s exactly what it was.

  5. MS MADELEINE DUNN says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 2:34 pm

    These are the people the leftist who hate and try to deplatform and de-legitimize conservatives claiming to have great love for humanity – in their grand utopian delusion, want us to embrace. –

  6. somehistory says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 2:43 pm

    Recalling the original story here, it really showed just how evil and diabolic moslims are when they decide they have been “dishonored” by a family member…usually a daughter.

    It sure has taken a long time for trials in the two murders. The “father” should not be given twenty years on death row to “think about what he did,” Hint: serial killers and moslims don’t “think” like other people do as they don’t have remorse and pangs of conscience. When they “think” about…remember…the murders, they feel the glee all over again.

    Texas should take care of this snake in record time.

  7. Oldone says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 5:15 pm

    In my semi-educated mind, the main reason the “Prophet” started his imaginary relationship with “Allah”, was to control his woman…After controlling the first one, he had a conversation with “Allah”, where he was “told”, that he could have as many as he wanted, including children…Amazing that he could have whatever he wanted, but other men are limited…HMMM…The so called religion, is all about men controlling women…A man’s vote counts as two women, because men are smarter than women…Women must do exactly what the male tells them, or they are beaten…Ad Nauseum…Honor killings my ass…A man and a woman have had a disagreement about something, the man lost the argument, or the woman is going to do what she wants, not what the man wants…Ergo the man says to himself, “By God, i’ve lost the argument, but I’m not going to lose the fight!!!”…”I’m going to get my honor back!!!”…This is typical of low IQ individuals, who have been brainwashed by their “religion”…First cousin marriages, so the dowery wealth remains in the family, are a classic slippery slope to a multitude of physical and mental birth defects…Incest is NOT best, and first cousin marriages will produce lower life forms…After another ten or twenty generations, the progeny of Islamic incestuous marriages, will be sitting in the corner drooling and screaming…The Texas legal system, has taken out the trash, maybe some of the other lower life forms, will learn something, but I doubt it…

  8. Aussie Infidel says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 5:40 pm

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

    Those religious traditions and values need to be destroyed – along with the supremacist, misogynistic ideology which fosters them. There is no honor in Islam, only revenge for any non-compliance with the Sharia.

    Islam has no place in a civilized society.

    • Joseph Gold says

      Sep 4, 2019 at 2:00 pm

      Absolutely, Aussie Infidel. The scourge of Islam should have been eradicated from Planet earth centuries ago. Sad to say, now it’s too late for civilized society to do anything about it.

  9. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 6:14 pm

    it’s not possible to reiterate too much the fact that the brutal ,cruel vicious and murderous actions of Islamic misogyny which is so inappropriately called “honor killing.”

    This heinously wicked misogynists Islamic tradition reaches such n demonic extent of evil and madness that in number of Muslim nations ,as Afghanistan , if a girl or woman is raped she then might undergo being murdered in an “honor killing.” This is worse that a terrible miscarriage it’s an outright outrageous affront to all that is decent, good right as well as sane. To actual punish the victim of raped and not the rapists is most hideous, vile and wrong. very wrong. The Bible teaches in Proverbs 17:15. “The Lord hates two things, punishing the innocent and letting the guilty go free.” [E.R.V.]

  10. gravenimage says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 8:49 pm

    Texas: Muslim murders his sister’s friend in honor killing for encouraging his sister to marry a Christian
    …………………

    This *poor woman*. The murderer’s sister and husband would probably have been next, and may still be in danger from the family.

    God, I hate Islam.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 3, 2019 at 8:56 pm

      I’d forgotten that the family had already murdered the Christian husband, as well.

  11. dlbrand says

    Sep 4, 2019 at 3:49 am

    “A special ‘Ruh’ from ‘Allah,’ so too a special blessing, for a ‘special’ expressed rage” — http://www.debibrand.org/a-special-ruh-from-allah-so-too-a-special-blessing-for-a-special-expressed-rage/

  12. Mary C. says

    Sep 4, 2019 at 9:47 am

    “Islamic law forbids Muslim women to marry non-Muslim men.”
    One of many pieces of proof that Islam IS NOT a religion of peace and love. If it truly was, Muslim women wouldn’t be forbidden to marry non-Muslim men.

  13. joanofark06 says

    Sep 4, 2019 at 2:09 pm

    Aawwww, did he not go in front of THIS court?? He would have been freed in a day!! (sarc/off).

    Islamic Shariah Tribunal Begins Operating in Texas (from 2015)

    https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2015/february/islamic-shariah-tribunal-begins-operating-in-texas

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 4, 2019 at 2:52 pm

      Insanity–thanks for that link, Joan. Shari’ah courts haven’t made the inroads in the US that they have in Britain and many parts of Europe, but it is still madness to allow them.

  14. Kay says

    Sep 5, 2019 at 1:46 am

    Honor killing in Texas. Thus “proving” Tlaib’s outrageous statement that honor killings happen world wide.
    Heartbreaking.

  15. Alison Arbo says

    Sep 6, 2019 at 12:44 pm

    I am appalled that this is even a religion! Islam is the devil. We need to watch our country well. They have infiltrated the very fabric of our society. People beware

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