Islam Said, a son of Yaser Said, who murdered Islam’s two sisters Amina and Sarah on January 1, 2008, 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 Islam Said helped his father evade capture for twelve 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 victim was the murderer’s daughter, a victim to the culture of violence and intimidation that such laws help create. That is why 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.”
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 reports below 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, 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.”
“North Texan Islam Said Pleads Guilty To Helping His Father Yaser Said Avoid Arrest In Daughters’ Murders,” CBSDFW.com, January 19, 2021:
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A 32-year-old Irving man has pleaded guilty to helping his father, a capital murder suspect, evade capture for more than 12 years, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah on Tuesday, Jan. 19.
Islam Yaser-Abdel Said, the son of FBI “10 Most Wanted” suspect Yaser Said, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to conceal a person from arrest, one count of concealing a person from arrest, and one count of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.
“Islam Said prioritized the whims of his father, an alleged killer, over justice for his own sisters. Thanks to the dogged work of the FBI and its law enforcement partners, however, Mr. Said’s efforts were ultimately in vain,” said U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah. “We are grateful to the many agents and officers who worked to apprehend Mr. Said, along with his father and uncle. Sarah and Amina deserve justice.”
“Islam Said made it possible for his father, Yaser Said, to evade justice for the brutal murder of his daughters for more than a decade,” said FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge Matthew DeSarno. “Along with our partners, the FBI is thankful for the dedication and relentless pursuit that led to the capture of Amina and Sarah’s killer and those that provided him harbor.”
In plea papers, Said admitted to sheltering his father from arrest in an attempt to subvert the administration of justice.
The elder Said had been a fugitive from justice since New Year’s Day 2008, when he allegedly murdered his teenage daughters, Amina and Sarah.
According to law enforcement, he shot the girls to death inside his taxicab and abandoned their bodies inside the vehicle. He was captured by the FBI’s Violent Crimes Task Force in August 2020, and is currently in state custody.
By pleading guilty, Islam Said admitted that the evidence proved he committed the crimes charged in the superseding indictment.
Conspiring with his uncle, Yassein Said, Islam Said harbored his father, Yaser, inside an apartment in Bedford, Texas, where a maintenance worker spotted Yaser on Aug. 14, 2017. After the maintenance worker reported the sighting to the FBI, an agent was dispatched to interview Islam, but Islam refused to cooperate, instead calling his uncle to say, “we have problem,” prosecutors said.
He later harbored his father inside a home in Justin, Texas that belonged to his cousin. On Aug. 25, 2020 FBI agents observed Mr. Said and his uncle deliver grocery bags to the residence, then followed him to a shopping center 20 miles away, were he dumped trash retrieved from the home….
Michael Copeland says
“Religion has nothing to do with it.” Standard in-your-face lie.
revereridesagain says
This thug is probably hoping for 72 underage holy renewable virgins. Since he was merely an accessory to murder, he doesn’t get the adult ones with the refined technique.
Oh, but that has “nothing to do with” his filthy excuse for a religion, either.
ElderlyZionist says
Young Islam may have harbored his father as much from fear as from religious fervor. This is evidently a family that kills disobedient children, and there is at least one uncle and a cousin at large in the US to enforce standards. Of course Islam (the religion, not the son) routinely enforces obedience by violence and fear.
What is the penalty in Texas for accessory-after-the-fact to premeditated murder?
somehistory says
Evidently, from a quick search, not enough penalty. A couple of years in prison and a fine. And since he admitted his guilt, probably even less than if a jury found him guilty.
somehistory says
Slime. His sisters deserved so much better than a “father” who murdered them…while pretending he was taking them to dinner…and a “brother” who helped the slug slime escape justice. Would still be doing so if the authroites hadn’t been given assistance by an outsider and by their determination to catch the slime.
This creep deserves the most the judge can sentence and his father deserves to hang high.
And the ” mother” deserves her date before a judge and jury with a really competent prosecutor who will prove that she had everything to do with what happened to her daughters.
Pray Hard says
Imagine that.
Aussie Infidel says
“Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.”
What about the lives Yaser Said destroyed? Do they count for nothing? Of course not; according to the Sharia, they violated sacred Islamic law and “deserve to die”.
“Religion has nothing to do with it.”??
The lying bastard was simply trying to protect his honor. Couldn’t have his daughters befriending infidels.
Islam is a sick religion that has no place in a civilized society.
Pray Hard says
Under the JoHo administration, the dearth of recent shame murders should pick up considerably. If you know any moslem women, tell them good bye now.
john smith says
Muhammad is the role model for all muslim,and some role model he was, an evil sadistic murderous psychopath, who was void of empathy love or compassion. Pious muslims nurture their children with hatred, and to emulate muhammad in every way possible, so it comes as no surprise when some turn out to be cold blooded murderers.
I’ve said this before, but many who are brought up this way are incapable of having loving feelings, the farther here is a classic example of such a person. He didn’t love his children, he’s never loved his children and he has never loved anyone, hate is all he has ever known. When your heart is filled with so much hate you will never feel love, its impossible. This is what islam can do to a person.
Cornelius says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzAIfzw2ubg
My song tribute to Amina and Sarah Said
gravenimage says
Thank you for that link, Cornelius. Still very moving.
Glad at least that the murderer was finally caught.
James Lincoln says
Amazingly, FOX News covered the story:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/islam-said-yaser-said-honor-killings-texas
gravenimage says
Good.
OLD GUY says
Biden’s opening the migration to muslims will bring these wonderful murdering people to a neighborhood near YOU. Islam is brutality unto its self and anyone who lives in the areas where it is practiced.
Our governments job is to protect our citizens, open borders to islam is not protecting our citizens, It is allowing the enemy to infiltrate or cities and states.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
gravenimage says
Texas: Son of Muslim who killed his daughters for having non-Muslim boyfriends admits to helping father avoid arrest
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Everything pointed to this.
So often in Islam “Honor Killings” are family affairs. *Ugh*.