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Two Saudi teen sisters committed suicide rather than return home
American Thinker ^ | 01/23/2019 | Rick Moran

Posted on 01/24/2019 8:47:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind

In October, the bodies of two Saudi Arabian sisters, Tala Farea, 16, and Rotana Farea, 23, washed up on the New York city waterfront. Authorities feared foul play.

But yesterday, the medical examiner said the two young women committed suicide. Friends say that the sisters said they would kill themselves before returning to Saudi Arabia.

CBS:

Their fully clothed bodies were discovered Oct. 24 near the river, two months after they were last seen in Fairfax, Virginia, where they had been living in a shelter amid allegations that they were abused at home.

Police said the sisters had been in Manhattan since Sept. 1, staying at expensive hotels and ordering in pairs of meals until a credit card they were using maxed out. A jogger said he saw them praying at a playground near the river, sitting about 30 feet apart with their heads in their hands, hours before their bodies were found, police said.

The deaths shined a light on the secretive and risky journeys Saudi women take to flee their homes in the kingdom and abroad. Under the kingdom's guardianship system, women must have the approval of a male relative - such as a father, husband, brother, or even a son - to marry, obtain a passport or travel.

New York City Police Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said people who knew the Farea sisters in Virginia told investigators that they made statements within the last year indicating "that they would rather inflict harm on themselves - commit suicide - than return to Saudi Arabia."

Recently, another Saudi teen girl, Rahaf Al-Qunun, barricaded herself in her hotel room in Thailand rather than return home. She was granted asylum by Canada.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: honorkilling; islam; muslims; saudiarabia; suicide

1 posted on 01/24/2019 8:47:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Watch out:

The media always shows their rare, conservative as hell photos.

They were muuuuuuch, much more Americanized that the media-selected photos show.

Those photos show a pair of girls who would really, REALLY piss-off conservative muslims.

I’m inclined to consider them as murdered.


2 posted on 01/24/2019 8:49:20 AM PST by gaijin
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m not sold that it was suicide.


3 posted on 01/24/2019 8:49:24 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Two bodies duct-taped together “commit suicide” in 4 feet of water. Yah sure...


4 posted on 01/24/2019 8:49:29 AM PST by montag813
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To: gaijin
I remember the two girls from Texas that were killed by their father. They were beautiful young girls.


5 posted on 01/24/2019 8:51:10 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: montag813

Total bull this was suicide.

Honor killing and the MSM doesn’t want to point out the obvious - or the police apparently.

Reminds me of the rape gangs in England going unchecked year after year because it’s non-PC to prosecute foreign criminals.


6 posted on 01/24/2019 8:52:53 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: SeekAndFind
THIS is a little more honest than what the media choses to show:

In fact they were more at-home than even these photos show.

The media will always show them covered, no make-up at all, unsmiling: Their passport photos taken from when they were back in SA.

7 posted on 01/24/2019 8:52:56 AM PST by gaijin
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To: dfwgator

Questioning the official narrative automatically makes you a ‘conspiracy theorist’, don’t you know?


8 posted on 01/24/2019 8:55:01 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just how do two people manage to duct tape themselves together effectively? And then get to the water?


9 posted on 01/24/2019 9:02:34 AM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: MichaelCorleone

They’d have been better going back. Who are the people they left behind who are in grief because of their rejection, not just of all people, but life itself. If they were mentally ill, that’s excusable.


10 posted on 01/24/2019 9:03:53 AM PST by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: SeekAndFind

This reminds me we’re just a week away from World Hijab Day, February 1, where Progressive women the world over celebrate the Islamic subjugation of women.


11 posted on 01/24/2019 9:06:43 AM PST by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: gaijin
I’m inclined to consider them as murdered.

Maybe, but I can understand why these girls might prefer death to being imprisoned in that hellhole, likely married off to an uncle or a cousin and never able to leave the house without permission.

12 posted on 01/24/2019 9:08:56 AM PST by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: Wiser now

Just like Vince Foster managing to shoot himself in the back of the head with a rifle


13 posted on 01/24/2019 9:10:43 AM PST by albie
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To: SeekAndFind

Trouble believeing two girls would choose to commit suicide in the manner people are saying.


14 posted on 01/24/2019 9:12:52 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: jalisco555

Its sad they couldn’t see a better way out of their situation. It is a great big world with lots of places to run to.


15 posted on 01/24/2019 9:12:53 AM PST by posterchild (anti-science: thinking a fetus is distinct from a tumor and sex is determined by chromosomes)
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To: gaijin

I’m 100% with you.


16 posted on 01/24/2019 9:39:52 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: CharlesOConnell

I hope you’re not serious.

This was not a suicide; They were murdered.

And you are sadly mistaken if you believe that their family members are grieving. Their family is rejoicing that they are dead because their family are responsible for their deaths. Ever hear of “honor killings”?

The hard truth is that, in Saudi Arabia, females are considered property and are regarded as worthless.


17 posted on 01/24/2019 9:49:58 AM PST by CrimsonTidegirl
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To: SeekAndFind

So, who is going to pay off their maxed out Credit Card Bill?

Why didn’t they just go to Canada?

Is this OUR fault now?


18 posted on 01/24/2019 9:52:21 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Statement from the women’s march..... crickets


19 posted on 01/24/2019 11:33:35 AM PST by jimmygrace
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