SubscribeFather Sought For “Honor Killings” - In Dallas
From those defenders of the faith at the Dallas Morning News:
Lewisville cabdriver sought in slayings of 2 teen daughters
Bodies of 2 Lewisville teens found in taxi; dating issues probed
Thursday, January 3, 2008
By WENDY HUNDLEY / The Dallas Morning News
Area police continue to search for a man who they believe killed his two teenage daughters and left their bodies in a taxi at an Irving hotel.
Police sealed off a street and surrounded the man’s home in Lewisville for more than five hours Wednesday but found that Yaser Abdel Said, 50, a cabdriver, was not inside.
He is sought in connection with the deaths of Amina Yaser Said, 18, and Sarah Yaser Said, 17.
Both victims died of multiple gunshot wounds, the Dallas County medical examiner’s office ruled Wednesday…
Police provided no clues about the motive for the killings. "There are several things we’re looking into," said Irving police Officer David Tull, noting that the suspect faces capital murder charges.
Officer Tull said there have been some "domestic issues" with the family, but he did not elaborate.
Police did say they are looking into the possibility that the father was upset with his daughters’ dating activities.
"It’s something well worth looking into," Officer Tull told WFAA-TV (Channel 8).
Officer Tull said at a news conference that the mother of the victims is cooperating with police and that she and her 19-year-old son are in a safe place. He believes the couple is married, but he didn’t know whether they had been living together.
Lewisville police responded to a call at the residence on Dec. 26 on a report of a missing person, Capt. Kevin Deaver said. He did not know who was reported missing or what action was taken to resolve the situation.
Mr. Said, who is from Egypt, has lived in the Dallas area since at least the mid-1980s, records indicate…
It’s unclear which of the sisters called 911 from a cellphone around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. She said she was dying, according to an Irving police report. She did not provide her location, but police traced the call to O’Connor Road and Riverside Drive.
They couldn’t find the caller but an hour later, police received another call about two unconscious females inside a taxi at a service entrance of the Omni Mandalay Hotel. Police located the vehicle and found the sisters.
"The victims’ mother provided information that pointed to the victims’ father as the suspect," the police report stated…
Liz Marines, secretary of the Lewisville High School Student Council, had classes with both of the sisters and remembers their scholastic abilities.
"Amina was very nice with everybody. She helped me in [Advanced Placement English] class," she said. Sarah was a sophomore when she took an Algebra II class with Liz, who was a junior at the time.
She said the sisters, who wore typical American clothes, didn’t talk much about their family. "I didn’t know they were Muslims until she told me they were Egyptian and Muslim," Liz said…
Now everyone will know that the girls were Muslim. What an honor.
By the way, note that our hero has been in this country for more than twenty years.
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January 3rd, 2008 at 9:00 am
Look-out…. Dad’s got a gun………
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:06 am
‘but found that Yaser Abdel Said, 50, a cabdriver’
Don’t even THINK about it!
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:29 am
Sometimes I wonder if they ought to put islam along with santera and just give anybody the boot who follows it.
Other times, I’m certain of it.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:38 am
Red: You were right the first time…just throw these barbarians out and have done with it!
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:24 am
You know, when I saw this story yesterday on Fox News, I wondered if it was an honor killing. Now I know.
January 3rd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
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SG I think you should show the pics of the young girls. They are the ones who suffered from this. Showing another mad Muslim does not even make a flash in the pan, they are a dime a dozen, sick really.
January 3rd, 2008 at 8:00 pm
All “honor killings” should be treated as first degree murder with capital punishment as the sentence.
I really have not seen the peaceful side of islam, all I see everywhere I look is the hateful and violent acts by these thugs.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:36 pm
‘but found that Yaser Abdel Said, 50, a cabdriver’
Don’t even THINK about it!
Yep. Probably another democrat;-)
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:40 pm
I live in Arlington. Los Colinas is just a few minutes from my house. It’s one thing when Sharia creeps into Britain or Canada, but what is it doing over here?
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Hey esthier -been a while. Hope you’re well.
I’d be willing to bet that there are a helluva lot of honor-killings that happen in the US that simply are not reported as such by our ever-PC news media.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Hey, DW! How’s the moose? I’ve lurked recently but have been too busy at work lately to post. For some reason they promoted me.
Honestly I almost wish I’d never heard of this one. The one in Canada was almost too much. Over Christmas I got Infidel (and of course Coulter’s new one, which mentions a Steve Gilbert in the thanks…), and the whole culture is a bit overwhelming. I’m completely amazed that Ayaan Hirshi Ali was able to be as successful as she has been considering her roots and wonder what’s in store for this country if we ever become what Britain is now.
Just today I read an article about female circumcision. Isn’t this the 21st century? How are barbaric practices like that still happening?
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:58 pm
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January 3rd, 2008 at 11:19 pm
We in the West need to prosecute and punish the perpetrators of these vicious vengeance murders by male relatives to the fullest extent of our laws. No political correct cop-outs, no hiding behind a veil of cultural or moral relativism.
It is not okay to kill your daughter(s), wife, sister, niece — anywhere, ever.
Karen Tintori, author
Unto the Daughters: The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian-American Family
http://www.karentintori.com
January 4th, 2008 at 12:21 am
The girls’ brother aparently made a statement against the idea of an “honor” killing, but I’m taking that with a grain of salt.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Good News this crime happened in Texas. Now if this happened in Seattle or Oregon. It only go down like this. “How could we better sacrifice our freedoms to better accommodate your Islam?” The local press will be asking how we should better respect sharia law.
In Texas the only accommodation he will receive is a Koran in his cell and a Halal final meal before he walks the Green Mile.
January 4th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
GT Burns, I think the dad fled to Egypt.
January 5th, 2008 at 7:41 am
I fled because he realized…”Oh shit! I did this in Texas…Gotta Run!” Now that he is in Egypt there probably is not chance we will bring this piece of shit to justice. If your religion says it is OK to kill your daughters because the way they dress. You have a messed up religion, period.
January 5th, 2008 at 7:42 am
I fled because he realized…”Oh shit! I did this in Texas…Gotta Run!” Now that he is in Egypt there probably is not chance we will bring this piece of shit to justice. If your religion says it is OK to kill your daughters because the way they dress. You have a messed up religion, period.
How the hell did Islam get to be 1 billion with all the suicide bombers and honor killings that go on over there?
January 6th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Update! Found this story on MM’s site this AM.
The slain girls’ brother, Islam, is still in denial about this being an “honor killing”
Not so says the girls’ great-aunt.
Rest in peace Sarah and Amina. Justice will eventually find your father and sentence him to eternal misery.