Posted on 01/02/2008 9:39:35 PM PST by gop4lyf
Father May Have Killed Daughters For 'Honor' Last Edited: Wednesday, 02 Jan 2008, 8:21 PM CST Created: Wednesday, 02 Jan 2008, 7:02 AM CST
RVING, Texas -- A Dallas-area father may have shot his two teenage daughters to death because their Westernized clothes and behavior brought him shame, family members say.
Police are still looking for 50-year-old Yaser Said of Lewisville. Tuesday night they found his abandonded taxicab parked near an Irving hotel with his two daughters murdered in the back seat.
Investigators say either Sarah Yaser Said, 17, or Amina Yaser Said, 18, called 911 around 7:30 p.m., saying she had been shot, but could not identify her location. Police were able to trace the call to a general location, but found nothing.
An hour later, someone reported a suspicious vehicle near the Omni Mandalay hotel in Las Colinas, which turned out to be the taxi.
FOX 4 spoke with two of Said's family members who want to remain anonymous. They say Sarah and Amina dressed in Western clothes and listened to pop music. They described Said as angry with his daughters for not acting like proper Muslim girls.
Though police have not named the motive, in some Muslim countries fathers kill their children if they feel their honor has been ruined.
But local Islamic leaders condemn the practice, according to a member of the Islamic Society of North America.
"It has a lot to do with the culture, and nothing to do with the faith," said Azhar Aziz of the ISNA. He admits that American popular culture often clashes with Islamic values, and says local leaders have campaigned against violence it sometimes spawns.
"The right way to address this issue is to educate people, to talk to people," said Aziz. "But to take the law into your own hands is not justified at all."
American clothes, music, MySpace pages-- all of these can cause conflict between parents who want to maintain values and children who want to fit in with friends.
Said was described by neighbors as a quiet man from Egypt. They were stunned to learn police had a capital murder arrest warrant in his name.
Police thought he was hiding in his house in Lewisville on Wednesday morning, and swarms of officers in SWAT uniforms surrounded the place. After bombing the place with tear gas and having snipers on alert for about five hours, officers discovered the house was empty.
Yaser Abdel Said is 6' 2", about 180 pounds, wearing a black turtleneck, brown coat and tan pants. Police say he's armed with a handgun and should be considered extremely dangerous.
The mother and brother of the two girls were apparently not involved, and were uninjured, police say.
Until the world actually wakes up this will continue, with greater and greater frequency. They makes apologies and blame this on a misguided culture, not the cult thats is islam. And people say that all cultures are equal.
Of course, murdering your daughters and hiding from authorities bring no shame.
actually, allowing them to live would have brought shame upon him. that is how twisted and perverse that religion is. as for him hiding, well, he’s just a massive p——.
The right way to stop this is for Muslims to move back to a Muslim country. Then their children will not attempt to become Americanized.
Teenage girls liking clothes, music, and MySpace? Is there anything worse?
These are totally grounds for killing them.
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The right way to stop this is for Muslims to move back to a Muslim country. Then their children will not attempt to become Americanized.
these ignorant primitive towelheads...why did he bring his daughters to America? They actually try to assimilate into our society by adopting America’s culture and dress, and daddy kills them...then goes into hiding like the coward he is, as are ALL muslims who find it convenient to kill unarmed innocent people as often as possible....the religion of pieces....pieces of filth
At least Texas knows how to hold people responsible for murder.
Imagine the wrath of allah (pigs be upon him) if they wanted to go to a Hannah Montana concert!
This kind of thing may be excused in savage uncivilized locations like London or Oxford, but it just won’t be tolerated in Texas!
Yeah, what gets me is that these types of murders are referred to as "honor killings".
The crowd that goes for this stuff wouldn't know what honor was if it bit them on the ass.
What honorless swine.
The shocking thing here is that this Muslim thought he could come here to raise an Islamic family!
I really think that America is attracting the extreme Muslims. There are girls in Iran who are risking their lives NOT to live like Muslims, and there are people here in America who are killing to live like Muslims.
WTF is going on?!?!
Oh yeah? They are seriously having that "problem" in many Muslim countries, as kids get ahold of various bits of Western culture through various means. They control TV, Internet, printed works, etc., but it still slips through.
They also sometimes let them come to the West to study, and the girls don't want to come back.
It has been shown that what moose limbs wear around their heads are not towels but little sheets. Please do not call them "towelheads". The correct term is "little sheet heads".
Religion of honor, religion of peace...
I don't blame them..I wouldn't want to go back & live like they are forced to either. We shouldn't allow them here if we are going to corrupt them & they are going to end up dead.
Coming soon to an America near you....
when talking in English to American press. In Arabic they are promoting it.
you mean “go” back right?
I suspect the gentleman has already departed on an extended leave-of-absence to somewhere around The Holy land.
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