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Texas: Muslima charged with conspiring with her family to kill her sister for converting to Christianity

Nov 25, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)

A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence.

This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated: “The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-‘ashriyyah, Al-Ja’fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.”

Qaradawi also once famously said: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.”

“Latest charge filed in 2012 ‘honor killings’ case,” by Samantha Ketterer, Houston Chronicle, November 20, 2019:

Special prosecutors on Wednesday lodged a new charge against a family member awaiting trial in the 2012 “honor killings” of an estranged sister’s husband and best friend.

Nadia Irsan, 35, conferred with her attorneys while holding a handbag, visibly upset at the latest development in the years-long saga.

After being charged in 2015 with stalking in relation to the deaths, she is now accused of a more serious offense — conspiring with her father, stepmother and brother in the family-run criminal plot that ended with the two fatal shootings.

She is one of two people with open cases tied to the murders, which occurred after sister Nesreen Irsan left the family’s rural Montgomery County compound and converted from Islam to Christianity.

Prosecutor pro tem Marie Primm said she pursued the new charge of organized criminal activity years after the fact because she and her co-counsel saw “where the evidence took us.”

But Primm said the facts of the case mostly remain the same as they did in the 2018 trial of Irsan’s father, Ali Mahwood-Awad, a Jordanian immigrant who last year was sentenced to death for orchestrating the scheme intended to kill another daughter, Nesreen Irsan, as well as four others who supported her religious conversion, according to testimony.

Two people died almost a year apart — Nesreen Irsan’s newlywed husband, 28-year-old Coty Beavers, and her best friend, 30-year-old Iranian activist Gelareh Bagherzadeh….

The “honor” slayings occurred more than 11 months apart in 2012. In January, Nasim Irsan shot Bagherzadeh in the head after he, Ali and Alrawabdeh followed her to her family’s townhome, according to court testimony in the father’s trial.

Nesreen told investigators that she believed her father was a suspect, but a lack of evidence caused him to be released after questioning.

Less than a year later, the father sneaked into the northwest Harris County home of Nesreen and Beavers, according to testimony. When Beavers returned alone, the father shot him at least five times with a .22-caliber revolver.

Ali Irsan’s high-profile trial garnered international attention and portrayed him as a dictatorial patriarch who stalked Nesreen after she left home and enlisted several other family members to help. Others in the family testified that Ali raped, beat and abused them regularly.

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Filed Under: Apostasy, Featured, honor killing Tagged With: Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan, Nadia Irsan, Nesreen Irsan


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  1. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Nov 25, 2019 at 2:10 pm

    “Paris: Feminists Attack Other Protesters For Highlighting Study Showing 52% of Male Rapists Are Migrants”

    https://www.newswars.com/paris-feminists-attack-other-protesters-for-highlighting-study-showing-52-of-male-rapists-are-migrants/

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 25, 2019 at 11:16 pm

      What insanity. Thanks for that link, Flavius.

    • John says

      Nov 26, 2019 at 4:17 am

      Thanks for the link. No wonder Muslim men believe that European women want to be raped.

    • Eur says

      Nov 26, 2019 at 6:12 am

      Immigrants who already have nationality are not included in these statistics. For example in Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands … there are millions of Maghreb with dual citizenship (born abroad or born in Europe) These people do not count as foreigners and we Europeans are tired of seeing Moroccans, Algerians, Tunisians … harass and rape European girls (they never rape girls with hijab, curious). The Pakistanies in the United Kingdom is something horrific, a real plague. Are there European men who rape women? Of course, we have always had that kind of scum but it is clear that the massive immigration of Maghreb, Afghans, Pakistanies … have broken all the statistics

      • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

        Nov 26, 2019 at 5:52 pm

        “they never rape girls with hijab, curious”

        Koran 33:59:
        “O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused (other translations of ‘abused’: molested, annoyed, hurt).”

        Note: “… and not be abused.”

      • Joe lonzello says

        Nov 26, 2019 at 7:09 pm

        The criminal media in the U.S. hides this from us !

  2. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Nov 25, 2019 at 2:11 pm

    “False Flag: Leaked Email Shows Syria Chemical Incident Omitted & Misrepresented Key Facts”

    https://www.newswars.com/false-flag-leaked-email-shows-syria-chemical-incident-omitted-misrepresented-key-facts/

  3. somehistory says

    Nov 25, 2019 at 2:20 pm

    Hope they put her away for as long as the law of Texas allows. Let her be “upset” in prison.

    There are likely many more moslims in the U.S. who are guilty of conspiracy to commit crimes.

    i like the fact that this reporter put ” ” around the word ‘honor.’ There is only dishonor in murdering one’s family members. And this creep of a “father” was so dishonorable, he raped and beat his family members. Probably helped the young woman decide to leave and find a better way to live.

    Too bad he has an automatic appeal to the death penalty and it will be years before it is carried out.

  4. Angemon says

    Nov 25, 2019 at 2:54 pm

    After being charged in 2015 with stalking in relation to the deaths, she is now accused of a more serious offense — conspiring with her father, stepmother and brother in the family-run criminal plot that ended with the two fatal shootings.z/blockquote>

    The family that slays together stays together? Not in prison…

  5. elee says

    Nov 25, 2019 at 3:11 pm

    Islam, per Reliance of the Traveler among others, has always held that killing of (1) a child (presumably of any age) by its father, or (2) an apostate, incurs no penalty. How dare the kafirs contradict the Prophets eternal revelation with their man-made laws!

  6. Jean Terry says

    Nov 25, 2019 at 3:11 pm

    I think people who are allowed to come to this country as immigrants should be carefully screened to find out if they are planning on having the same values they had in their home country. If so they should not be allowed in. They will probably lie because it is a part of the Middle Eastern culture, but screeners should be very astute at recognizing this. It makes me sick that someone comes here and carries their abhorrent culture into this country.

    • SANDRABo says

      Nov 25, 2019 at 10:30 pm

      Many are vetted. By the UN!

  7. David Longfellow says

    Nov 25, 2019 at 3:46 pm

    Muslims: their first answer to every problem is to kill somebody.

    • Kisaka says

      Nov 26, 2019 at 9:16 am

      Blood thirsty vampires they are.

  8. Westman says

    Nov 25, 2019 at 7:12 pm

    Islam, the religion of killing family members over religious differences; offering proof, everyday, that it is anything but peaceful and turns human beings into thought-slave zombies.

  9. roberta says

    Nov 25, 2019 at 8:01 pm

    And I thought they respected our laws. haha
    China has the right idea. I hate it, I hate to admit it, to think it, write it, or say it. But China is showing the best path when it comes to islam.
    Sadly the west will never have the strength to do the same. We put the rights of criminals above our own rights, islam is a crime.

    • Wellington says

      Nov 25, 2019 at 10:24 pm

      I would be content if only the West en masse described Islam as a religion for psychopaths (a la Mohammed), control-freaks, the confused and losers. Were this done, ostracism by osmosis would set in and largely take care of this heinous creed. It could also lead, should also lead, to denying entrance of Muslims into the West just as so many Western nations deny entrance to Neo-Nazis and their ilk.

      • roberta says

        Nov 26, 2019 at 8:54 am

        To me islam is a contagious mental illness, I guess all cults are.
        Is that what you are saying, and to keep them out of the west based on that?

  10. gravenimage says

    Nov 25, 2019 at 11:18 pm

    Texas: Muslima charged with conspiring with her family to kill her sister for converting to Christianity
    ……………….

    I remember this terrible case–and it keeps getting worse.

    God, I hate Islam.

  11. Lydia Church says

    Nov 26, 2019 at 12:23 am

    Is anyone complaining that she ‘hurt the sentiments of millions of Christians’ by doing so???
    No, of course not. But when someone burns the koran, it’s all you hear about, as in the other article post next to this one!
    Typical.

  12. Christopher Watson says

    Nov 26, 2019 at 4:02 am

    Why, why, why do we let these savage animals into our society? We don’t let tigers and crocodiles run free in our streets, we put them in cages.

  13. Giacomo Latta says

    Nov 26, 2019 at 9:05 am

    I believe Qur’an(4:89) would be better translated as ”the family that preys together, stays together.”

    • FYI says

      Nov 26, 2019 at 10:25 am

      And Qur’an( 2:191} could be translated as “the muslims that “pray” together,slay together”

  14. ralph g says

    Nov 26, 2019 at 10:20 am

    We are paying the price for having elected (to two terms, yet) an avowed Muslim as president. There is no such thing as a “moderate” or “good” Muslim. If that sounds too generalized, I make no apology for telling the truth.

    Thanks to Robert Spencer for sounding (and continuing to sound) the alarm. Pity more do not pay attention.

  15. infidel says

    Nov 26, 2019 at 10:57 am

    In India, we Hindus call these Muslims are the RAAKSHAS of modern times.. meaning they are the equivalents of DEMONS in Hindu lore…How apt.. And BTW today is the 11th anniversary of the HORRIFIC Mumbai attacks.

  16. OLD GUY says

    Nov 26, 2019 at 11:16 am

    Deport her and all Muslims like her and her family. We do not need them in this country, they only cost us harm to our society. Islam and Christianity are like night and day, only darkness comes from Islam!

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