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 […]
Texas: Muslim who murdered his daughters in honor killing caught after 12 years on the run
Yaser Said murdered his daughters for having non-Muslim boyfriends. This horrifying case points up the reality that honor murder can happen even in Western countries. 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, […]
“Nice legs”: Video shows Texas Muslim father making creepy remarks to daughters he murdered in honor killing
Longtime Jihad Watch readers are familiar with the horrifying case of Amina and Sarah Said, whom their father Yaser Said murdered in an honor killing in Texas on New Year’s Day in 2008. “Trotter added that Amina and Sarah had nowhere to turn in Texas. No one understood that a teenager saying ‘My Dad is […]
23-27 documented honor killings every year in the U.S., many more go unreported
“Even cases that appear to be honor killings, such as the Jan. 1, 2008 murder of two Irving, Texas, sisters that landed their father on the FBI’s most wanted list, cannot always be conclusively linked to a religious motivation. Without hard evidence, critics say, ascribing a religious motivation to crimes committed by Muslims demeans Islam.” […]
FBI adds Texas Muslim honor murderer to Ten Most Wanted list
Amina and Sarah Said were murdered by their father, Yaser Said, on New Year’s Day 2008, because they had non-Muslim boyfriends. Yaser Said has never been caught. A police report records that before the murders, a relative of the girls told police that Amina and Sarah’s mother “had told her that since they are Muslim […]