When Yaser Said was caught in August 2020, Irving police Chief Jeff Spivey said: “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.” And I pointed out that reports at the time of […]
Texas: Muslim Who Helped His Father Evade Capture After Murdering His Sisters Gets Ten Years
But no one is facing up to the reality of Islamic honor killing in the U.S. My latest in FrontPage: In Fort Worth, Texas on Tuesday, a 32-year-old Muslim named Islam Said was sentenced to ten years in prison for spending the last thirteen years helping his father, Yaser Said, one of the FBI’s Most Wanted criminals, evade […]
Texas: Muslim gets 10 years for hiding his father, a Most Wanted fugitive in honor killing of his two daughters
32-year-old Islam Said was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for helping his father, Yaser Said, evade capture since 2008, when Islam was only 19. Yaser Said was arrested in August, twelve years after “he is alleged to have shot and killed his two daughters, 18-year-old Amina and 17-year-old Sarah, in the back of […]
Texas: Mother of murdered girls admits their father killed them because they had non-Muslim boyfriends
“Though Owens initially denied claims it was an ‘honor killing,’ she now believes the crime was motivated by Yaser’s anger over their daughters dating non-Muslim boys.” She “now believes” that? Way back in January 2008, the Dallas Morning News reported that Patricia had said (regarding Amina) that “since they are Muslim that the daughter was […]
Texas: Son of Muslim who killed his daughters for having non-Muslim boyfriends admits to helping father avoid arrest
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 […]
Texas: Muslim who murdered his daughters for dating non-Muslims didn’t want to raise ‘whores as daughters’
Patricia Said, the wife of the murder Yaser Abdel Said, is the source of this information. As I noted here, this is a woman who admitted in 2008 — after her husband had killed their two daughters — that her husband had threatened to kill one of her daughters for dating a non-Muslim. Then, after […]
Texas: Muslim Who Honor-Murdered His Two Daughters is Finally Caught, and the Denial Begins
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 […]
Texas: Son of Muslim who murdered daughters denies it was honor killing, says ‘Religion has nothing to do with it’
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 has now been arrested in Texas along with his […]