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Texas: Muslim Who Honor-Murdered His Two Daughters is Finally Caught, and the Denial Begins

Aug 30, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

My latest in PJ Media:

Yaser Said, who brutally murdered his two teenage daughters in Texas on New Year’s Day 2008 in an apparent honor killing, has finally been caught after being on the run for twelve years. This horrifying case points up the reality that honor murder can happen even in Western countries. But immediately after Said’s tardy capture, the denial and obfuscation began.

Islam Said, a son of Yaser Said, was arrested with him. Apparently he was in hiding with his father who murdered his two sisters Amina and Sarah, although he doesn’t seem to have had anything to do with the killings. And according to the Dallas Morning News, Islam Said denies that the killings were honor murders or had anything to do with Islam. “It’s something else. Religion has nothing to do with it.”

Yet that raises the question of why Islam Said was with his father at all. If these weren’t honor killings, why would Islam Said go on the run with Yaser and help him hide for all these years? Why wouldn’t he have the normal human reaction of thinking that what his father had done in murdering his sisters was abhorrent, and turn his father in to authorities? Did Islam Said’s commitment to the religion of Islam override that natural human reaction and make him think that what his father had done was good and praiseworthy?

For despite media denial and obfuscation of the fact, honor killing is something that many Muslims believe to be good and in accord with their faith. According to Islamic law, “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.” (Reliance of the Traveller o1.1-2). In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law. In this case the victims were the murderer’s daughters, victims to the culture of violence and intimidation that such laws help create….

Also connected to the Islamic aspect of the story, and evidence that these were honor killings, is the fact that Yaser Said was enraged that Amina and Sarah had non-Muslim boyfriends. The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday that “Sarah said her father had threatened her older sister when he learned that she had a boyfriend, saying he’d put a bullet through Amina’s head.”

Twelve years ago, however, the Dallas Morning News was more courageous and honest. Back in January 2008, it reported that the girls’ mother Patricia had said (regarding Amina) that “since they are Muslim that the daughter was only allowed to date other Muslims. Yaser had found out she went on a date with a non-Muslim and became very angry and threatened her with bodily harm.”

There is much more. Read the rest here.

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Filed Under: Featured, honor killing, Useful idiots, willful ignorance Tagged With: Amina Said, Islam Said, Jeff Spivey, Patricia Owens Said, Sarah Said, Yaser Said


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  1. Keith O says

    Aug 30, 2020 at 6:42 pm

    Murder is murder, plain and simple.
    Using religious or cultural reasons to kill someone is abhorrent.
    If anyone wants simple proof that Islam is not aligned with your God then they have no further to look than the “custom” of honor killings.
    I know of no other “religion” worldwide that says, Yup, it’s ok to kill your child because they hurt your sensibilities.
    If it was normal to kill a child because they pissed us off, then there is every chance that the human race would not be here today. Lets face it, how many times have we all wanted to throttle our kids???

    • t. says

      Aug 30, 2020 at 11:36 pm

      I read the whole article. Bravo, Robert.

    • Rufolino says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 10:09 am

      Murder is rarely plain, and never simple.

      Murder is the most outrageous crime a human being can commit, and this case in particular requires the full, undiluted force of the law.

      When the victims were his own children !

      Any considerations of the excuse of “religion” are preposterous, within the context of this abhorrent, unspeakable crime against humanity.

  2. gravenimage says

    Aug 30, 2020 at 7:07 pm

    Texas: Muslim Who Honor-Murdered His Two Daughters is Finally Caught, and the Denial Begins
    ………………….

    Violence, Taqiyya, and whining–the common Islamic trinity…

    • Mount Zion says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 5:50 am

      ..the common islamic trinity 🤣😂 well said .

    • john smith says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 8:47 am

      +1

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 9:22 pm

      Thanks, Mount Zion and john.

  3. J Morgan says

    Aug 30, 2020 at 8:05 pm

    That thug lost his humanity due to Islam. Sad, I can see the resemblance of the girls in his eyes. What an evil religion.

    • David Curtis says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 7:43 am

      The religion? of pieces

  4. RichardL says

    Aug 30, 2020 at 8:07 pm

    islam has nothing to do with islam. Now repeat: islam… All this will end sometime in the next two years when Trump helps America rip apart leftard lies. The beautiful two girls will still be dead and that is terrible.

    • David Curtis says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 7:44 am

      Spot on Richard, to awful that any human can do this.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 30, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    That religiously devout and brutal cruel Muslim “father” ,Yaser Said, who callously murdered his two young daughters in what so many Muslims so very inappropriately call “honor killing” is both a murder as a liar when he claimed that that “Islam had nothing to do with him killing his daughters.

    The reason that he lied about being motivated by Islam to kill both of his daughters is rather obvious.

    It’s what a micro -sociologists would call “impression management” regarding his religion.

    That murderous Muslims fiend of a father is engaging in the Islamic doctrine of deception , Taqiyah, when heclain that Islam has nothing to do with malicious murders . Yaser Said ,being a committed Muslim is attempting to protection of image of Islam with his lying words. He along with the Muslim clerics hope this act of taqiyah will keep Westerners from realising the true understanding of the vicious violent heartless misogynistic murderous essence of Islam.

    In addition, one night in the late 1990’s I read in an Islamic propaganda booklet published for Westerners.

    In it was a picture of a little girl with the words printed under that photo read “Islam is a religion that respects life.All life.”

    That statement is not only disinformation but it’s also a blatant falsehood of a claim and an outright lie.

    Furthermore, Brigitte Gabriel , who is the founder and head of actforamerica.org , in the book she wrote of the title THEY MUST BE STOPPED had exposed on pages 171.172 that “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in islamic ideology…Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.”

    Indeed, they must be stopped !

    • john smith says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 8:52 am

      Everything you say here I agree with 100%.

  6. elee says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 12:38 am

    This guy is a living breathing walking talking big screen technicolor advertisement for cultural imperialism.

  7. Michael Copeland says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 8:49 am

    In 2008 honor-killings were not widely known to the public. Since then there have been the Rifqa Bary case which lifted the lid on it. Jessica Mokdad’s murder in 2011 was highlighted by Pamela Geller. Other cases have been covered by JihadWatch.

    Gradually the American people are becoming aware of Islamic honor-murders.
    May this case continue the process, and help more and more to become informed.

  8. badabhai says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 9:33 am

    Yaser was caught in a bind. He callously removed his daughters Amina and Sarah out of circulation and from his perspective for their own good, regardless of the fact that so full of life and promise they were, and so sad and awful a fate he bestowed on them..

    He had to be strong to do that after reading them all the bed time stories of the bravery of ancestor muslims in the middle east where he still fantasised that he would return to one day. He whispered Bismaillah in the their ears last thing before bed and kept one eye on their progress in between his hard hard work to provide the best-est for his pride and joy.

    He was only here to work hard and take dollars back with him to re-fit his ancestral home. He would have only come after his wife persuaded him; “they will learnn the english ande become the striking daughters fit for the best gentleman husbands back in the Middle East”.

    But sadly for Yaser; Americanism caught up with them. They wanted more and more of what he could not allow and he found and enacted his solution.

    Karma has now now caught up with this bitter man, he did not want to hide, he loved his daughters, it is America that killed them , not him blame America, this is what this awful awful man will say.

    Since 2008 America has changed so much anyway, I wonder if Rasida Talib or Omar will help him. This will not end well for him, he has suffered so much mental anguish anyway, I think just deport him…. let him see the error of his ways in his homeland without his lovely daughters… that will be a fitting punishment.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 9:50 pm

      The appalling badabhai wrote:

      Yaser was caught in a bind. He callously removed his daughters Amina and Sarah out of circulation and from his perspective for their own good, regardless of the fact that so full of life and promise they were, and so sad and awful a fate he bestowed on them..

      He had to be strong to do that after reading them all the bed time stories of the bravery of ancestor muslims in the middle east where he still fantasised that he would return to one day. He whispered Bismaillah in the their ears last thing before bed and kept one eye on their progress in between his hard hard work to provide the best-est for his pride and joy.
      …………………….

      There is no indication that Yaser Said was ever a good father as badabhai pretends, He had threatened the girls before and made disturbing sexual comments about them. The girls told friends that he had physically and sexually abused them.

      After Sarah got a part time job at a convenience store Said started filming her, and berated her for smiling at the customers.

      More:

      He was only here to work hard and take dollars back with him to re-fit his ancestral home. He would have only come after his wife persuaded him; “they will learnn the english ande become the striking daughters fit for the best gentleman husbands back in the Middle East”.
      …………………….

      The claim that his Egyptian wife convinced Said to come to the US–even including a fake quote–is of course utter hogwash. He came here and married an American woman,

      In reality, Said came to the U.S. on a student visa in 1983. Said married Patricia “Tissie” Owens in February 1987 when he was 30 and she was just 15. This marriage could not have been legal. He also abused his wife.

      More:

      But sadly for Yaser; Americanism caught up with them. They wanted more and more of what he could not allow and he found and enacted his solution.

      Karma has now now caught up with this bitter man, he did not want to hide, he loved his daughters, it is America that killed them , not him blame America, this is what this awful awful man will say.
      …………………….

      Sympathy for the devil. *Just sickening*.

      More:

      Since 2008 America has changed so much anyway, I wonder if Rasida Talib or Omar will help him. This will not end well for him, he has suffered so much mental anguish anyway, I think just deport him…. let him see the error of his ways in his homeland without his lovely daughters… that will be a fitting punishment.
      …………………….

      Note that this thug has no sympathy for the *actual victims*–just for their savage murderer. Then, he wants this murderer freed so that he can go and kill again.

      And why not?

      I tracked down badabha’s previous posts at Jihad Watch–unsurprisingly, he is spouting apologia for another attempted Honor Killing, this one in 2016:

      “Uganda: Muslim screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ tries to kill wife for leaving Islam”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/04/uganda-muslim-screaming-allahu-akbar-tries-to-kill-wife-for-leaving-islam#comment-1416314

      BadaBhai says

      Apr 14, 2016 at 8:38 am

      I am Bada Bhai and new to this forum with a view to share excellent big brother insights.

      It looks like Ms. Hawa was already apart from Dapharah.

      Why bother to disclose that she saw JC as her savior when clearly he could not save himself.
      I think that she said this to clearly antagonise and annoy him, goading him to panga [machete–GI] action.

      I feel that she has a lot of explaining to the judge too…
      ………

      Note that he can’t blame this attempted “Honor Killing” on America–this happened in Uganda, yet his sympathies, as here, are clearly with the assailant, and feels that the victim is at fault.

      Just disgusting–but this is how pious Muslims think.

      • Autar KRISHEN Gurtoo says

        Sep 1, 2020 at 12:45 am

        Muslimes are in a pepetual war in DAR UL HARAB. They are in USA on a stated agenda of converting USA to DAR UL ISLAM. So deal with their perfidy and rotting social construct despite most struting in Western countries as civilised Humans, theu are MUSLIMES, Slimy Non-Humans demandng Muslim rights.

      • badabhai says

        Sep 1, 2020 at 8:07 am

        Hello Mr GravenImage

        You are getting the proverbial “knickers in the twist”. I HAVE CONDEMNED YASIR for Amina and Sarah for mis-circulation , this is clear, pls re-read my excellent post.

        I feel you are very islamophobic and have now have lost clear perspective by being on this blog for long period of time (at least since 2016 since you replied to me in 2016).

        I tend to stay off these type of blogs and only come occasionally to keep sense of perspective; this is my very clear advice to you Mr GravenImage, please for your own sanity heed the humble request of your big brother.

        The Patricia “Tissie” is this fat lazy woman who has had been bitten by Americanism burgers and Yasir bestowed marriage to her with a view to teaching her the proper way to live, but her laziness and love of burgers kept her from learning; really she is the one at fault. She has taken only small part of bringing up her daughters and Yasir has had to do most of the heavy lifting for up bringing.

        In reality he should have gone back home long ago, that was his real wrong step, that and his son, still wanting to stay.

        So now he must pay for his crimes, and my view was that deportation was a greater sentence for this cruel man, that’s all; please, you don not need to twist this into anything else.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 1, 2020 at 10:29 pm

          The appalling badabhai wrote:

          Hello Mr GravenImage

          You are getting the proverbial “knickers in the twist”. I HAVE CONDEMNED YASIR for Amina and Sarah for mis-circulation , this is clear, pls re-read my excellent post.
          ………………………….

          What is “mis-circulation”? badabhai certainly is not characterizing this as what it is–the most vicious of all murders, butchering your own children.

          And note again how badabhai here also whitewashed the attempted “Honor Killing” of a woman in Africa by her savage Muslim husband, over her daring to leave Islam.

          More:

          I feel you are very islamophobic and have now have lost clear perspective by being on this blog for long period of time (at least since 2016 since you replied to me in 2016).
          ………………………….

          Ah–right. If only we didn’t oppose the other horrors of Islam, then we will likely be fine with Muslims murdering those they are supposed to love.

          Well, this apologist for Islamic savagery is certainly right on this point…

          More:

          I tend to stay off these type of blogs and only come occasionally to keep sense of perspective; this is my very clear advice to you Mr GravenImage, please for your own sanity heed the humble request of your big brother.
          ………………………….

          Yeah–badabhai only pops in here periodically to whitewash the brutal horrors of Islam–just sick.

          His implication that minimizing these atrocities is “sanity” just shows what Islam does to its sick adherents.

          More:

          The Patricia “Tissie” is this fat lazy woman who has had been bitten by Americanism burgers and Yasir bestowed marriage to her with a view to teaching her the proper way to live, but her laziness and love of burgers kept her from learning; really she is the one at fault. She has taken only small part of bringing up her daughters and Yasir has had to do most of the heavy lifting for up bringing.
          ………………………….

          Ah, yes–the “proper way to live” encompassing complicity with the murder of her own daughters, as she may well have been. But as disgusting as she is, she was not the driving force behind these murders–that was Yaser Said himself, whom badabhai believes can show Infidels the “proper way to live”. Of course, this Mohammedan would not say such a thing if he *really* had a problem with “Honor Killing”.

          More:

          In reality he should have gone back home long ago, that was his real wrong step, that and his son, still wanting to stay.
          ………………………….

          First badabhai blamed Yaser Said’s Egyptian wife–who does not exist–for his having to come to the United States, now he is blaming the murderer’s son. Pious Muslims can *never* accept any responsibility for their own ugly actions, and this poster is no exception. In 2008, the time of the murders, Islam Said was 20 years old, and his father was 51. Is he saying that a man in late middle age had to listen to his son, who was barely of age? Ridiculous.

          Moreover, there is no indication whatsoever that Said only stayed in the US at his son’s urging–badabhai is pulling these claims out of his posterior.

          More:

          So now he must pay for his crimes, and my view was that deportation was a greater sentence for this cruel man, that’s all; please, you don not need to twist this into anything else.
          ………………………….

          In other words, badabhnai here wants us to release this murderer back to the sanctuary of Dar-al-Islam, where “Honor Killings” are seldom prosecuted. In that case, he would be free to murder again–which is, no doubt, just how badabhai likes it.

          Note also that he did not address his similar whitewash of his coreligonist attempting to murder his wife in Uganda. If poor old Yaser Said had to murder his daughters here because of the West, what was this other pious Muslim’s excuse?

          The fact is that Muslims like badabhai are hoping that Infidels get used to this grotesque Islamic savagery–sorry, no dice.

  9. Mary C says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 11:29 am

    Words cannot describe how overjoyed I was (and still am) after hearing about Yaser’s capture! In addition to his son Islam Said, his brother Yassein was also arrested for harboring the POS. No doubt that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

    BTW, ever mention that most honor killings are Islamic, Muslim women are forbidden to marry non-Muslims, etc…only to get comments like “all religions have extremists,” “Christianity and Judaism are misogynistic too,” or “most school shootings are committed by Christians”? GAH! Anyone who gives those type of comments when you mention Islamic abuse and mistreatment of women and girls, is excusing and defending these atrocities, and implying that we should just turn a blind eye and not speak up for the rights and well-being of Muslim girls and women.

    Anyone see where I’m coming from there?

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 1, 2020 at 10:30 pm

      +1

  10. Cornelius says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 6:12 pm

    >Irving Police Chief Jeff Spivey says “This man brutally murdered — shot to death — his two daughters in his taxi cab. What led him to do that, I think at this point to us, is irrelevant.”

    Very bizarre statement from a police chief leading an investigation of a murder. Motive is a crucial part of any crime and prosecution (except those dealing with insanity). Why would the police chief go out of his way to state that the motive was “irrelevant”?

    The answer is simple: Political-correctness….fealty to Muslim-advocacy groups.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 9:51 pm

      +1

  11. somehistory says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    So if not to save “face”….and a double-ugly one at that…what was the “reason”?, the “something else”?

    Could it be he was raping his daughters and they threatened to go to the police? Threatened to tell their boyfriends, or co-workers?

    Could it be that he wanted to continue raping them, but they said, “No” and were strong enough now to be able to resist….esp two together?

    Of course it was islam. But the significant thing….the son didn’t deny that his father murdered the girls. This will be used against the defense of this hideous, evil creep who was no “father” to these poor, and lovely, girls.

  12. TKF says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    The Dallas Muslim News is Sharia compliant. They never stop depicting Islam as all rainbows and lollipops. This was a straight up honor killing and EVERYONE, including Yaser and his son know it.

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