"I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need? And then people tell me about pilgrimages to some dank pesthole in a jungle where they go to do homage to a crumbling temple, to a leering stone monster with a pot belly, created by some leprous savage. Is it beauty and genius they want to see? Do they seek a sense of the sublime? Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window - no, I don't feel how small I am - but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body." Ayn Rand
Another young woman tortured and murdered to add to the gruesome
gallery..... The horror of these young girls terror stricken victims,
who live in homemade concentration camps
is given the imprimatur of the West in its complicit silence - the
urbane face of bloodthirsty savagery. The West looks away and more
girls lead desperate, brutal lives. The "Feminists" look away and
pretend it is outside the realm of women's rights- leftists tools of Islamic jihad.. These useful idiots are on someone's payroll or
they fear Islam. Either way, get out of the way. Shame on all of you
for failing our women, our children, our girls, our very way of life.
How dare they throw our superior culture with both hands.
Harry
Potter star, Afshan Azad, badly beaten by her father Abdul Azad,
and his son Ashraf attempted honor killing earlier this month because
of her relationship with a Hindu man.
November 2, 'o9: Noor Almaleki is Dead Run over
by her Muslim father for being too "westernized", she lingered for days.
Police in Kingston, Ontario, charged three Montrealers, Mohammed
Shafia, his wife Tooba and their 18-year-old son Hamed with a shocking
crime. The trio are accused of mass murder, the killing of three of the
couple's teenage daughters, including their eldest child, Zainab, 19,
(above left, in a photo taken in 2007 in the United Arab Emirates with her friend Zubaida
Siddique) and Rona Amir Mohammed, a 50-year-old woman who was Shafia's
secret, first wife.
Honor killings on the rise in the West. The media gags itself and
throws women under the bus.
Sandeela
Kanwal, 25, was found dead on her bedroom floor last July. Her
father told police he strangled his daughter with a bungee
cord because she wanted a divorce.
Morsal Obeidi (stabbed to death 23 times by her
brother - for
"turning away from her family").
Hatin Surucu Germany Muslim brothers gunned her
down for adopting Western ways.
Hina Salem Italy ("Mohammed Saleem cut his
daughter’s throat because she
refused an arranged marriage and
instead wanted to integrate into
Italian society".)
Methal Dayem, a 22-year-old Cleveland State student, USA.
Zahida Peeveen at
29, before the malicious attack by her husband. At the time of the
attempted honor killing, she was six months pregnant. After attack: WARNING GRAPHIC
The
killing of Ghazala Khan in Denmark by her brother may be the only
instance where an 'honour' killing has been photographed while being
perpetrated. This picture was captured on cell phone camera and shows
the woman's brother aiming the gun at his sister, lying on the ground.
Her fiancee, also seen, was wounded, but survived. The killing was
planned by her entire family, and Pakistani taxi drivers were used as
spies to spot her and alert her family.
As a 13-year-old girl in Turkey, Rojda was raped, then
forced to marry her rapist under Islamic law. Her face was
mutilated by her "husband's" family when she refused to prostitute herself after he was imprisoned for
raping another child.
Rim Abu Ghanem 19 (Dr.
Suliman Abu Ghanem, a 33-year-old pediatrician
at
Assaf Harofeh Hospital, who along
with his three brothers decided to murder his sister for refusing an
arranged marriage) Israel
1/3 of the women murdered in Jordan are a result of
Islamic "honor" killing. And yet I could not find one picture of a
murdered girl in Jordan.
"It was a brutal scene. One
victim's head was nearly cut clean off," an official is quoted as
saying. (here)
And the thing is, this is the end - the final act, the culmination
of the subjugation, oppression, violent abuse
of women in Islam. The
terror that precedes the murder is almost unimaginable. Living in fear,
every day, living in fear of physical and mental abuse and
still, standing up and living their own lives -- only to be murdered for
it.
UPDATE:
Sabia Rani 19 UK (not only did four members of her
husband's family do nothing to help her, they
turned a blind eye as he continued the beatings and ultimately murdered
the
helpless young woman at the house they all shared).
QUEENS, NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) – A Queens,
New York man pleaded guilty to stabbing his wife to death, prosecutors said
Friday.
Mohammad Solaiman, 51, of Jamaica, Queens who worked as a bus boy at a diner,
stabbed his wife, Shahida Sultanna, 32, multiple times throughout her body,
killing her on December 22, 2007, while their daughter was asleep. An autopsy determined that the victim
had been stabbed approximately 251 times and strangled.
Solaiman began knocking on doors of several neighbors, alerting them of what
had happened which prompted them to call police. When police arrived to the apartment, Solaiman opened the door covered with blood,
standing with his four-year-old daughter and his wife’s body lying on the
bedroom floor clearly visible to police from the doorway. He was immediately
arrested.
“This brutal crime not only took the life of
a young woman it left a small child without a mother. The helpless victim
died violently. The defendant should be kept behind bars for the rest of his
life,” District Attorney Richard A. Brown
said.
Solaiman will face 15 years to life in
prison when he is sentenced in April.
Yup. That's what the Islamic honor killers do. They brutally murder, drop the
weapon, alert the neighbors or the cops to the kill, and go quietly.
Seven women were killed in the Palestinian territories because of "honor
killings” in the first month of the year 2010. These news were released by
Palestinian human rights organizations interested in women's issues, but
according to my sources, this statistic was falsified and the real number of
women who were murdered, only in the cities of Ramallah and Hebron since the
beginning of the year 2010 has exceeded 13. The sources confirm that these seven
women, who were registered in the statistics of human rights organizations as
victims of "honor killing”, were left in public streets and in fields after
being killed and (...)
The real suffering is caused by sharia law and the Islamic totalitarian
ideology.
But peroxide Phil Keating over at FOX news says honor killings are very rare
so ....never mind. Nothing to see here.
The only thing more vile, more horrific than the crime is the complicity of
the West concerning Islamic gender apartheid. The silence of the West, the
silence of the feminists and the media's corrupt silence advances Islam.
"Yet another "honor" killing...in Schweinfurt, Germany. Father stabs 15 year old daughter 68 times with a 30 centimeter
butcher knife while she slept. He first claimed he thought that the "sleeping
person" had "broken into" the house. The girl's grandmother found her dead on
the sofa. They were Turks. After his arrest the father now says
because "she didn't follow the Muslim way." He is a salesman, came to
Germany in 1991, and needed to speak via a translator. It was first published
in Welt (World) On-line. In their article they are calling it a "bloodbath."
(Blutbad) The Prosecution "believes that it was an honor killing."
"An open process provides some level of assurance that
there is no appearance that a Christian is seeking to execute a Muslim for
racial, political, religious or cultural beliefs," Little wrote, referring to
County Attorney Andrew Thomas' Christian faith.
You got that? A Muslim father runs over and kills his daughter
with his car because she wasn't Muslim, but we can't seek the death penalty "for racial, political, religious
or cultural beliefs". Got that? He can kill for his religious and political
(sharia) beliefs, but we cannot exact the just punishment for this egregious and
horrible crime.
Prosecutors said Almaleki
has admitted killing his daughter because she disgraced the family by not
following traditional Iraqi or Muslim values.
This is an outrage.
He should be executed. And we should be ashamed of this
dhimmitude. Special rights for Muslims. This is Islamic supremacism.
The Iraqi immigrant is accused of killing his daughter,
20-year-old Noor Almaleki, for being "too Westernized."
Police say he used his Jeep Cherokee to run down his daughter
and another woman in a Peoria parking lot Oct. 20. Noor later died of her
injuries.
Almaleki is charged with first-degree murder, aggravated assault
and two counts of leaving the scene of a serious accident. He has pleaded not
guilty to all charges.
The decision not to seek the death penalty comes after
Almaleki's attorney, Billy Little, a public defender, asked a judge to take
special precautions to ensure the County Attorney's Office wouldn't wrongly seek
the death penalty because Almaleki is a Muslim.
Little requested that the office make public the process it uses
to determine whether to seek capital punishment.
"An open process provides some level of assurance that
there is no appearance that a Christian is seeking to execute a Muslim for
racial, political, religious or cultural beliefs," Little wrote, referring to
County Attorney Andrew Thomas' Christian faith.
Laura Reckart, a county prosecutor, responded that
Little's concern about the "supposed bias" of the office's death-penalty-review
process was "without legitimate factual or legal basis."
She wrote that the state can seek the death penalty for
any person convicted of first-degree murder if it can prove the existence of at
least one aggravating factor, not because of religion.
However, the debate stopped there. On Tuesday, Reckart filed a
motion indicating prosecutors would not seek the death penalty.
Mike Scerbo, a spokesman for the County Attorney's Office,
declined to comment on the decision.
Prosecutors said Almaleki has admitted killing
his daughter because she disgraced the family by not following traditional Iraqi
or Muslim values.
They liken the case to honor killings that occur in the Middle
East, Africa and other parts of the world. In tribal societies where the
practice occurs, male family members feel they must kill a rebellious relative
who shames them by not adhering to traditional values.
Noor had reportedly married a man in Iraq and returned to
Arizona to live with a boyfriend and his mother in Surprise, police
said.
Where is the outrage against Islamic culture? Where is the rebuke of the
Organization of Islamic Conference and their
quisling organization, Alliance of Civilizations?
Where are the pathetic excuses who call themselves "feminists" in the West?
Why haven't they staged marches on the mall? Where is Naomi Wolf, who enjoys all
of the riches of Western civilization, while waxing poetic about the burka?
I am going to throw up.
Despite all the the scientific progress and technological and advancement,
man is as he ever was, barbaric and violent. Today, voices are only raised
against the good - the United States, Israel, Australia, Marshall islands, Honduras, ................... and Geert
Wilders.
A 16-year-old girl was buried alive by relatives in southeastern
Turkey in a gruesome honor killing carried out because she reportedly befriended
boys, the Anatolia news agency reported Thursday.
Acting on a tip, police discovered the body of the girl, identified only as
M.M., in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a 2-meter-deep hole dug
under a chicken pen outside her house in Kahta, a town in the southeastern
province of Adıyaman, the news agency reported.
The body was found in December, around 40 days after M.M. went missing. She
is being identified by her initials because she was under the age of 18. Her
father and grandfather are suspected in the murder.
A subsequent postmortem examination revealed that M.M. had a
significant amount of soil in her lungs and stomach, indicating that she was
buried alive and conscious, forensic experts told the news agency. “The autopsy
result is blood-curdling. According to our findings, the girl – who had no
bruises on her body and no sign of narcotics or poison in her blood – was alive
and fully conscious when she was buried,” one anonymous expert
said.
The girl’s father and grandfather have been formally arrested and jailed
pending trial over her killing, according to the agency. The father is reported
to have said in his testimony that the family was unhappy that M.M. had male
friends.
The girl was reported as missing and no clues about her disappearance were
found for 40 days. Her mother was arrested along with the father, Ayhan, and
grandfather, Memi, but later released. The two men were sent to prison by a
local court and did not speak in the court.
Police had found the body of the girl using an anonymous tip saying that M.M.
had been killed based on a decision by a family council and buried under the
chicken pen, daily Milliyet reported. The family has nine children, including
the girl, and was reported to have told neighbors that she was missing.
The girl had made a complaint to police about her grandfather two months
before she went missing, saying that he beat her because she talked to
boys.
Family councils consist of family
elders; honor killings are usually decided by such
groups.
Nidra Poller just translated this article for Atlas (with
no editorial comment). Nidra writes me, "Trust me, the translation is
faithful. It's hard to believe that an article can be so badly written. But
that's part of the story! It was published in Le Parisien, picked up by Le
Figaro more or less as is, and one reader commented on how badly it was written.
The story will be dropped today and we'll never hear any more about it.
Of course we can't miss the Rifqa Bary resonance. They always go for the
head. Particularly the throat and the eyes."
Indeed.
Translation by Nidra Poller Le
Parisien
Violence
She surfs on the Net, her brothers beat
her
Frédéric Naizot | 23 January 2010, 07h00
A 16 year-old girl may lose her eye as punishment for chatting on MSN. Caught
while she was on the computer one day in December, she was beaten and held
prisoner in the family apartment in the Raguenets housing project in
Saint-Gratien (Val d'Oise). The victim was punished by her two brothers had with
the approval of their strict Muslim parents. The four of them had held a family
counsel to escape from legal consequences. Yesterday, the brothers and parents
were arraigned before a magistrate in the court of Pontoise, charged with
deliberate violence, sequestration for more than seven days, and depriving the
victim of medical treatment.
The investigation was triggered when the young woman consulted an
ophthalmologist one month after the incident, when she was finally able to leave
the apartment. Suffering from injury to one eye, she was able to consult a
specialist who did not fail [sic] to note that she had been struck. She is in
danger of losing the injured eye.
Sequestered for eight days under terrible conditions
At best, according to certain information, she will be left with radically
diminished sight in that eye. Yesterday it was suggested the visual acuity would
be no more than 1/10th [= 10/20 ?]. The specialist immediately notified
authorities and the case was opened.
The court charged the Enghien police department to investigate the case. A
preliminary investigation led to the arrest on Wednesday of the victim’s parents
and her two brothers. The older brother, who is in his thirties, is suspected of
playing a major role. The family kept the teen prisoner in the apartment for
eight days under terrible conditions.
The mayor of Saint-Gratien, Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio—of [Sarkozy’s] UMP
party—said: “This cannot be tolerated in France in the 21st Century. You do not
put out the eye of a child for religious reasons. The parents have to understand
that this is a very serious act.”
The cannibals at the UN were unavailable for comment. Too busy were they
working on a resolution to kill free speech, criminalize defamation of Islam,
and annihilate the Jews.
Feminazis were insisting that Islamic misogyny empowers women. Clitorectomies
await them. Naomi Wolf first!
An innocent little girl, Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, aged only 13yrs was stoned to
death in Somalia. She pleaded for her life, a witness explained. "Don't kill
me, don't kill me," she cried, according to the man who wanted to remain
anonymous. Numerous eye-witnesses say she was forced into a hole, buried up to
her neck then pelted with stones by over than 50 men until she died in front of
1,000 jeering spectators. She had been accused of adultery in breach of Islamic
law, but sources told Amnesty International that she had in fact been raped by
three men, and had attempted to report this rape.
Aisha was killed on Monday 27 October in a stadium in the southern port of
Kismayu. None of men she accused of rape were arrested.
She was detained by militia of the Kismayo authorities, a coalition of
Al-shabab and clan militias. During this time, she was reported to be extremely
distressed, with some individuals stating she had become mentally unstable.
Initial reports said she confessed to adultery before a Sharia court. Amnesty
said it had learned she was only 13 and that her father had said she was gang
raped by three men. Yes, that was her crime, she was raped by three savage
Muslim men! When the family tried to report the rape, the girl was accused of
adultery and detained.
Fresh on the heels of the two year anniversary of the brutal islamic honor killing of Sarah and Amina Said, I went
back and reviewed Obama's website. I was shocked and appalled that Barack
Hussein Obama still had a web page paying tribute to a very influential Muslim
advocating for honor killings.
The Obama web site is
hosting a page dedicated to Mohamed Elmougy, who in front of the Dallas Morning News Editorial board, openly
supported honor killings specifically in discussion of Amina and Sarah Said.
Mohamed Elmougy, a prominent North Texas Muslim community leader and Egyptian immigrant, defended
violence, even deadly violence, against women and homosexuals.
Though the term "honor killing" did not come up in either discussion,
Mr. Elmougy explained that violence against sexual outlaws is acceptable
to defend the family and the social order.
"The way we view it, we don't look at it
as violent," he said. "We look at it as a deterrent."
Well. When you have a community acculturated to the belief that women (and
gays) who break taboos deserve to be beaten, even killed, out of some twisted
concept of the common good, you can be sure
there are innocent people enduring silent, anonymous suffering.
And here is the Obama page paying homage to the devout Elmougy:
Well, 18 months later, it is still there under the new banner of Organizing
for America. Screen shot taken 1/17/10:
Mohamed Elmougy helped me understand a little more about what had befallen
us.
I returned several times over the years to visit with the local Muslim
community leader. And this week's fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq seemed a
good time to once again glimpse the world through his eyes.
Mohamed, 49, owns the Pyramids Hotel in Allen. He's Egyptian
by birth and American by choice.
He opposed the war from the start. "You will remember that I
said getting out won't be nearly as easy as going in," he said.
I remembered, particularly since I had bought the argument
that Iraqis would welcome us.
"We were fools to think we were going to be seen as
liberators," Mohamed said. "We are seen as occupiers, and we always will
be."
Fire this maroon! The Muslim terrorist was on a terror
watch list. He had more liquid than my confiscated perfume bottles. The head of
homeland security said "the system worked". Who is she working for, al qaeda? Or
Obama? Uh, never mind.
They failed. Obama is failing, so what's the plan? Punish the American
people.
It take a serious form of delusion to draw these nonsensical conclusions.
This is what is protecting us. She cannot even bring herself to speak of the
motivation behind this wealthy, well educated son of a banjer -- Islam. She
can't even say it.
UPDATE: It gets worse. Ball bomber meet the balless administration.
(hat tip Kenny S via Politico)
Here’s the ‘wrap-your-head-in-Duct-Tape-moment’ from the lovely
and talented Janet Napolitano, the kickinest talininest homeslice securer and
Robert Gibbs, spokesmouth to the most famous Animatron ever to be
built…………………….
“We are winding down a war in Iraq that
took our eye off of the terrorists that attacked us, and have dramatically
increased our resources in Afghanistan and Pakistan where those terrorists
are.”
Bill Burton, with the president in Hawaii, recaps the Sunday shows: "Robert
Gibbs and Secretary Napolitano made clear that we are pressing ahead with
securing our nation against threats and our aggressive posture in the war with
al Qaeda. We are winding down a war in Iraq that took our eye off of the
terrorists that attacked us, and have dramatically increased our
resources in Afghanistan and Pakistan where those terrorists are. We are putting
the pressure on al Qaeda worldwide with all elements of American power, and key
al Qaeda leaders have been taken out in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
Gibbs also made clear the President refuses to play politics with these
issues. As he said in West Point, we must put aside petty politics and
recapture the unity that we had after 9/11.
That's all he does with this issue, this petty poltiician.
"Lastly, Gibbs and Secretary Napolitano announced that the president has
asked that the policies and procedures that have been in place the last
several years related to watch-listing and all information available on
the suspect be reviewed. He has also asked that the Department of Homeland
Security, specifically the Transportation Security Administration, review its
practices and capabilities as he is interested in learning how the explosive
material was brought on board the aircraft and steps that can be taken to
enhance the ability of airport screeners to detect and interdict such materials
in the future.".
We have had more Muslim plots against the United States the past 4 months
than the last four years of the Bush adminstration.
Now it appears her murderers will not come to trial until 2007.
Unmercifully murdered in 2007. Trial to being in 2011. Gender apartheid in Islam
is ignored.
Atlas readers joined me in an effort to purchase a stone for Aqsa. The cemetery worked with
me up until the murdering family put a stop to the headstone. When we attempted to
purchase a plot, any plot, near Aqsa's poor, beaten body, we were told we could
not. Everything was owned by the Islamic Society of North America.
Our struggle continued. For the full story go here.
Alleged ‘honour killing’ trial won’t start until 2011A Mississauga father and
his son charged in the 2007 alleged "honour killing" of Aqsa Parvez will stand
trial in 2011. (here)
“She was scared of her father: He was always controlling her,” said
Dominiquia Holmes-Thompson, a friend and classmate at Applewood Heights
Secondary School, where both were Grade 11 students. “She wasn’t allowed to go
out or do anything: That’s why she left.”
Because of western fear of Muslim violence, the dhimmi apologists in the
media refrain from even speaking the name of .....Islam. Asian is the euphemism
for Muslim.
This Muslim woman, something of a reformer it seems, openly discussed family
problems in the Islamic community and challenged views of women in Islam.
Nasim Jamil: May have known killer as there was no evidence
of forced entry
Police are investigating whether a murdered Asian [Muslim]
radio agony aunt could have been bludgeoned to death by a listener angered by
her on-air involvement in family feuds.
Nasim Jamil, 54, whose blood-covered body was found by her daughter at their
home, had stated on Awaz FM’s website that it was her dream to reunite
relatives.
The Asian community in Glasgow, where she lived, fear Mrs Jamil was murdered
over her role in disputes, Mohammad Sawar, a high-profile Muslim MP said
yesterday.
Mr Sawar, who represents Glasgow Central constituency, said: ‘This is only my
opinion but I think the most likely motive may be the radio show.'
It also emerged yesterday that Mrs Jamil, called 'Aunty' by listeners, may
have known her killer as there was no evidence of forced entry at her flat in
the city's West End district.
Mr Sawar added: ‘I have spoken to people in the village where Nasim’s family
come from and my own gut feeling is grievances between families she dealt with
could have led to this.
‘Problems between husband and wife can have serious implications and
I have been involved in some very intense situations involving families in the
community.
‘If there were issues between them, it could be they were the most serious
kind. There could be some ill feelings in some quarters.’
It has also emerged that a former colleague of the widowed mother of
two left the Glasgow-based radio station after receiving anonymous
threats.
The 42-year-old, who did not want to be named, left the
network, which serves the Asian [Muslim] community, in 2005 and said
he and Mrs Jamil had concerns about some of the hostile reactions of
some listeners.
He said: 'It was because I challenged
people about their views of women in Asian [Muslim] culture.
'There are some in the community who are very aggressive and threatening if
programmes do not fit their religious views.'
The agony aunt’s body was found with severe head and neck injuries in her
kitchen just before 8pm on Wednesday.
Her daughter, Nazia Jamil, 35, who lived with her mother, made a hysterical
phone call to a friend after discovering her body.
Shock: Daughter Nazia Jamil found her mother's body in their
flat's kitchen
She called for help and held her mother until medics arrived.
Miss Jamil called Javed Sattar, of Awaz FM.
He said: ‘When I got there Nazia was hysterical. She basically phoned me and
said: “Javed, my mum’s dead and I need you”.
A 20-year-old
woman divorcee accused of committing adultery in Somalia has been stoned to
death by Islamists in front of a crowd of about 200 people.
A judge working for the militant
group al-Shabab said she had had an affair with an unmarried 29-year-old man.
He said she gave birth to a
still-born baby and was found guilty of adultery. Her boyfriend was given 100
lashes.
It is thought to be the
second time a woman has been stoned to death for adultery by al-Shabab.
The group controls large swathes
of southern Somalia where they have imposed a strict interpretation of Islamic
law which has been unpopular with many Somalis.
'Lenient'
According to reports from a small
village near the town of Wajid, 250 miles (400km) north-west of the capital,
Mogadishu, the woman was taken to the public grounds where she was buried up to
her waist.
The Islamists want to impose a strict version of Sharia on
Somalia
She was then stoned to death in
front of the crowds on Tuesday afternoon.
The judge, Sheikh Ibrahim
Abdirahman, said her unmarried boyfriend was given 100 lashes at the same venue.
Under al-Shabab's interpretation
of Sharia law, anyone who has ever been married - even a divorcee - who has an
affair is liable to be found guilty of adultery, punishable by stoning to death.
An unmarried person who has sex
before marriage is liable to be given 100 lashes.
If they can't deal with our ways, then DON'T COME HERE. Why the hell did the
police chief apologize? Don't come here. We live under our just rule of law, not
sharia law. We pat down. Deal or leave.
I get patted down every third time I travel. I hate it. I get patted down
because of jihadis in our midst. I am offended by it. No one apologizes to me.
Either I get patted down or I don't travel. I can't go into a building in NYC
without being screened. If I don't like it, too bad.
That's how it is. Who the hell died and made Muslims the ruling class? No
special rights for special classes. This is an outrage.
Windsor's police chief has
made a public apology to the local Muslim community for the "embarrassment"
caused by his tactical officers when they conducted an arrest operation. But the
head of the city's police union is unrepentant.
"In my belief, this isn't a
cultural issue," said Constable Ed Parent, president of the Windsor Police
Association. "These officers had a warrant to arrest someone. They went in, and
they arrested this person."
The controversy stems from arrests
made by the Windsor police tactical team last month.
On Oct. 31, the team acted
on a request by the RCMP and FBI to arrest Windsor residents Mohammad Al-Sahli,
33, and Yassir Ali Khan, 30, in connection with a radical Islamic group based in
Detroit.
According to Patrick Ducharme, the
lawyer for the two accused, the officers "patted down" a Muslim woman --Mr.
Khan's wife -- who was not a part of the arrest warrant.
"It was never the
intention for Windsor police officers to offend or embarrass the families of our
Islamic community," wrote Police Chief Gary Smith yesterday. "The actions taken
did cause embarrassment and did offend their religious beliefs. I sincerely
apologize to the families and the Islamic community."
This coward should be fired. He is afraid of a seventh century
barbaric system of nonsense?
A review of the incident
highlighted the need for additional "cultural sensitivity
training," a news release said.
But Const. Parent said he does not
know what the officers should have done differently.
In Canada, they jail the Muslim fathers of runaways who threaten their
daughters. In Ohio, they move to return them to their fathers. Perhaps Rifqa
ought to go to ....Canada. Oh yeah, I forgot, she is under house arrest, sharia
law enforced in Ohio. (slaps head)
The city’s taxi union boss was
handed a year in jail Tuesday for what a judge deemed an “honour crime.”
Yusef Salam Al Mezel, 44, had
pleaded guilty to criminally harassing his 23-year-old daughter, Eman, over
three weeks in July 2007.
“Mr. Al Mezel has
threatened his daughter with serious violence and has caused her to fear for her
safety in the name of honour,” Judge Lynn Ratushny wrote. “He has
committed the crime of harassment against her in the name of honour.”
Al Mezel admitted to
pushing his daughter, threatening to break her legs and kill her and smashing
her computer. When she fled marriage to a Syrian man for a $9,000
dowry, he stalked her to a shelter and a friend’s home.
He sent her e-mails threatening
her uncles and cousins would go “crazy” over the family’s honour and to come
home before someone got hurt.
Police spirited the young woman —
and the family sheltering her — out of Ottawa.
There’s no evidence Al Mezel would
have killed her but his threats “invoke a seriously dangerous belief system that
can and has led to violence against women,” Ratushny wrote.
The judge noted that Al Mezel, who
came from Kuwait 20 years ago, is a community leader — a founder of his mosque,
city council candidate and representative of 1,500 taxi drivers.
But she wrote that a year is the
minimum to denounce what he’s done and deter others.
The Crown had asked for up to two
years.
Eman Al Mezel testified she’d
stained the family “sharaf” by running away and shedding the hijab and killing
her was the only way to clean it.
Just as Rifqa Bary's father warned her that he would kill her for her
apostasy: “If you have this Jesus in your heart, you’re dead to me. You’re not
my daughter . . . I will kill you.”...........In this case, "a London father of
a schoolgirl allegedly murdered for falling in love threatened to kill her the
day before she disappeared, a court heard."
Just as Mohamed Bary flew into a rage after he heard from the Noor mosque
that his daughter had converted out of Islam, "Mehmet Goren, of Woodford Green,
flew into a 'rage' after he caught 15-year-old Tulay trying to escape from the
family home, her older sister, Nuray Guler, told the Old Bailey."
The sister of an alleged honour killing victim let out a long piercing howl
of anguish at their father as she faced him across a courtroom today.
Tulay Goren, 15, went missing in 1999 after falling in love with an older man
her parents did not approve of. Her body has never been found.
Her father Mehmet Goren, 45, was the last person to see his daughter alive
and is accused of her murder.
As she gave evidence against him at the Old Bailey his eldest daughter Nuray
Guler, 28, broke off in the middle of a sentence to scream at her father in
Turkish.
-- "Mehmet Goren
threatened to kill daughter Tulay days before she disappeared" --
"The London father of a schoolgirl allegedly murdered for falling in love
threatened to kill her the day before she disappeared, a court
heard." -- "Mehmet Goren, of Woodford Green, flew into a 'rage' after
he caught 15-year-old Tulay trying to escape from the family home, her older
sister, Nuray Guler, told the Old Bailey." -- "She said later that
evening she heard Goren on the phone saying: 'Don't worry, I won't allow her to
shout.'" -- "Mrs Guler, 28, wiped tears away as she described her younger
sister as a 'child looking for happiness.'" -- "She told the
court that her father previously made her own life 'hell' and tried to kill
himself when he heard she had been holding hands with her fiance." --
"Tulay Goren, who disappeared in January 1999, is alleged to have been
the victim of an 'honour killing.'" -- "Her father Mehmet is said to
have killed her after consulting with his brothers Ali and Cuma. Tulay's body
has never been found."
Another victim of Islamic honor killing. Her Muslim father ran her over with
his car. She hung on for weeks. She succumbed, she did not submit. Respect
Islam.
Her father was apprehended in the UK. The muslim underground that serves
jihad made sure he got away like Yaser Said, father of double honorcide murder
victims Sarah and Amina Said. He is still at large, in Canada, I hear.
"A 20-year-old Peoria woman has
died of injuries sustained in what prosecutors are calling an 'honor killing.'"
-- "Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, of
Glendale, is accused of running over his daughter, Noor Almaleki, and another
woman in his Jeep Cherokee because he was infuriated with his daughter for
becoming 'too Westernized.'"
-- "Noor Almaleki died Monday of
injuries she received during the Oct. 20 attack." -- "Peoria police said charges
against Almaleki, who is in a Maricopa County jail on two counts of aggravated
assault, will be upgraded, though a spokesman wasn't sure what the exact charges
would be."
-- "Speaking before a
Maricopa County judge over the weekend, state prosecutor Stephanie Low said
Almaleki has admitted purposefully running down his daughter." -- " 'By his own
admission, this was an intentional act and the reason was that his daughter had
brought shame on him and his family,' Low said. 'This was an attempt at an honor
killing.' "
UPDATE: Dhimmi reporter at Arizona paper calls it a hit and run: Woman in Peoria hit-and-run incident dies (the
reporter Dustin Gardiner must swap spit with Michael Kruse).
It's a first. Big media is violating the big media taboo. Islaaaaaaaaaaam.
They label it "Muslim unrest" but at least it's a beginning. Did CAIR file a
lawsuit from their jail cell yet?
In what may be the first
recorded instance of a Muslim wife attempting to murder her husband for not
being pious enough, a Staten Island woman was charged this week with attempted
murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. Rabia Sarwar, a 37-year-old
Muslim, said she did it because her husband, a 41-year-old Pakistani native,
enjoyed booze and pork and wanted her to dress in revealing clothes. (She held
fabric over her face and threw a shawl over her head before leaving court on
Thursday.)
While the Sarwar case is
sensational by dint of the role-reversal and the method of attempted murder
(throat-slitting), it’s also pedestrian: Over the past two years, there have
been about a dozen attempted or successful honor killings committed in the
US.
Rabia Sarwar allegedly stabbed her husband because he made
her break Muslim laws.
Last week in Arizona, an
Iraqi-born man tried to kill his 20-year-old daughter because she wanted out of
her arranged marriage; he escaped.
In July, a 17-year-old named Rifqa
Bary ran away from home because, she said, her Muslim family would literally
kill her for converting to Christianity. (She has been ordered by a Florida
court to return to her home state of Ohio, where she will appear before another
judge.)
So: Why is there such a recent
spate of honor killings in America? What does it mean when a woman tries to
exact the same vengeance that’s been wreaked upon her gender by men for
centuries?
“This is not a reverse
honor-killing — it’s martyrdom,” says Islamic apostate and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, herself the target of death threats. “It’s a
ticket for heaven for her, to clear her books. The only exception that’s made
for a wife or daughter to disobey her husband or father is if he forces her to
do something that’s un-Islamic. This is a message to other Muslims: ‘This man is
defying God. What am I supposed to do?’”
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A
37-year-old wife from New Brighton tried to slit her husband’s throat as he
slept because he was not the devout Muslim she believed she married, and
pressured her to eat pork and drink alcohol, authorities
allege.
In a rambling, four-page handwritten confession, Rabia
Sarwar laid out the “mental and emotional cruelty” that led to her trying to
kill her husband, Susan Wagner High School teacher Sheikh Naseem, early
yesterday morning, a law enforcement source said. “I tried my
best to cut his throat,” Ms. Sarwar admitted, according to court papers. Except
Naseem woke up during the attempt, and took the knife from her, authorities
said.
According to Ms. Sarwar’s attorney, Joseph Licitra,
Naseem “was a cruel person, he preyed on her.”
The day before the
incident, “he literally threatened to have her parents
mutilated,” Licitra said.
The way the law enforcement source
describes it, Ms. Sarwar, who is Pakistani, told investigators that Naseem, who
is half-Pakistani, had presented himself as a devout Muslim before the
two had wed five months ago.
But after the marriage, she
discovered more about him, she told investigators — before meeting her, he had
only dated non-Muslims, and he considered Salman Rushdie to be one of his
favorite authors.
Rushdie’s book, “The Satanic Verses,” was
reviled by hard-line Muslims for what they considered an unflattering portrayal
of the prophet Mohammed, and in 1989, Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued
a fatwa against Rushdie calling for Muslims worldwide to kill him.
Ms. Sarwar also told investigators that Naseem pressured her
into doing things that were against her religious beliefs.
“He
made her do stuff that she didn’t like to do — eating pork, drinking alcohol,
wearing short clothes. She did all of that to make him happy,” the
source said.
At about 3 a.m. yesterday, inside the couple’s 80 St.
Mark’s Place apartment, Ms. Sarwar “snapped,” the source said, cutting
his neck, right cheek and right hand.
PEORIA, Ariz. — Police in a
Phoenix suburb say they have arrested a father suspected of hitting his daughter
with his car because she was becoming "too Westernized" and was not living
according to their traditional Iraqi values.
Police in Peoria are releasing few
details, but say 48-year-old Faleh Almaleki is in custody. Police aren't saying
where Almaleki was arrested or where he's being held.
Almaleki's daughter, 20-year-old
Noor Faleh Almaleki, is hospitalized in serious condition. According to police,
the Almaleki's moved to the suburb of Glendale from Iraq during the mid 90's. (Fox
news)
UPDATE: Like Yaser Said (father of the two Muslim girls
murdered in Texas), Faleh Hassan Almaleki is still at large. Arizona License
Plate ADS-9192. Call Silent Witness or the Peoria Police Tip Line at
623-773-7045.
It will get worse and worse as the oppression and suppression of women in
Islamic societies seeps into our culture, unchecked and sanctioned by media,
leftists, women's organizations and other head-in-the-sand cultists.
PEORIA, Ariz. — Police in a Phoenix suburb are looking for a father
suspected of running down his daughter because she was becoming too
"Westernized" and was not living according to their traditional Iraqi values.
Police say 48-year-old Faleh Hassan Almaleki of Glendale
allegedly ran his daughter down Tuesday at an Arizona Department of Economic
Security parking lot in Peoria.
The victim, 20-year-old Noor Faleh Almaleki of Surprise, remains
hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
A second woman, 43-year-old Amal Edan Khalaf, also of Surprise,
suffered non-life threatening injuries. Police say the women are
roommates.
The media always show the killers and jihadists. If anyone gets a picture of
the victim, Noor Faleh Almaleki,
please send.
As Islam encroaches ..............it is the women who feel the effects. You
can judge the health, morality, ethics and enlightenment of any society, any
nation, by how they treat their women (and children).
Immigrant women in Finland are increasingly the
victims of violence perpetrated in the name of family honour. In Helsinki, twice
as many immigrant women have sought protection this year from violence than in
previous years.
Nasima Razmyar,
who herself came to Finland as a refugee from Afghanistan, has been taking in
growing numbers of immigrant women and girls at the Monika House shelter in
Helsinki's Sörnäinen district. Some of these women have been forced into
marriages, some beaten for disobedience or even threatened with
death.
This year, within just six
months more than 30 women have sought refuge from honour violence at the
facility. That is as many as during the whole of last year. As the coordinator
at Monika House, Nasima Razmyar has the impression that the rise can be
explained by growing numbers of women of marriageable age.
"Second generation immigrants are at just the age,
around twenty and marriageable, when the situation starts being strongly seen,"
says Razmyar.
(..) However, police believe that only a small
fraction, probably less that 5% of all honour violence incidents come to light.
The seriousness of the phenomenon is not understood, even by the officials
dealing with it. "More
familiarity by officials with other cultures is needed. Women and family members
from certain cultures come to tell of these problems, of the violence or that
they are being frightened and threatened. They should be met by with a different
attitude," says Chief Inspector Veli Hukkanen.
And everyone will pretend that this has nothing to do with Islam. And the
girls will keep dying, and women will be further degraded in Western societies.
It is an abomination, the murders and the complicity of Western media,
politicians, activists and academic asshats.
A Jordanian man was charged on
Sunday with premeditated murder after allegedly stabbing to death his
22-year-old daughter because she became pregnant outside wedlock, police said.
"The father and his
brother took the girl on Saturday to a doctor because she suffered stomach
pains, and everybody was surprised to learn that she was six months pregnant," a
police spokesman said.
"On their way home, the
father stabbed the girl with a sword 25 times in her stomach, killing her
immediately as well as her unborn baby boy."
The source said the suspect has
confessed to the crime following the murder, which took place in the Jordan
Valley.
"His brother was also charged with
premeditated murder, while the victim's boyfriend is being held in custody for
his own protection," he added.
Murder is punishable by the death
penalty in Jordan but in such cases of the so-called "honour killings" a court
usually commutes or reduces sentences, particularly if the victim's family urges
leniency.
In the past, parliament has
refused to institute harsher penalties.
Around 15-20 women are murdered each year in Jordan in the name of honour,
despite government efforts to fight such crimes. So far this year, 17 cases have
been reported.
Perhaps someone could start sending these honor killing stories over to Phil Keating at FOX news.
Send them to him daily, as he insists in his conversations with me that
these murders are so "rare".
Rajneesh was a small trader
from Jammu often going on business trips to Srinagar. He fell in love with a
girl and married her.
He wanted to be faithful to his beloved from
Srinagar, who was beautiful and had unflinching trust in her life partner. It’s
difficult, if not impossible, to have love bloom between Jammu and Srinagar. But
it was more than that. The boy from Jammu was a Hindu and the girl from
Srinagar, a Muslim. Ameena was her name and she changed her name to Anchal
Sharma after marriage.
A month after the marriage the boy was picked up
from his Jammu house by the Kashmir police and taken to Srinagar for
"investigation". The police never registered his name, Rajneesh Sharma, as the
accused who is being taken to Srinagar, but instead named his brother Pawan
Sharma in police records, to confuse and hide the real identity.
The
smell of a plot was there the moment they took the boy hustled in a jeep and
covered with a blanket.
The boy never returned home to celebrate his
first Diwali with Anchal nee Ameena.
He was found dead hanging
with an iron grill in his Srinagar cell. Police said he committed "suicide". An
inconsolable Anchal alleged that her parents bribed police to murder her beloved
because he dared to marry a Muslim girl from the valley. Anchal’s father works
in Srinagar’s police department, hence the influence was
obvious.
This week Anchal would have been celebrating Diwali
with her husband Rajneesh but for if this ultimate Taliban act. Surprisingly the
incident, so brutal and tragic hasn’t found an echo in the elite human-rightist
circles of Delhi and the self-righteous media which had taken up the Rizwan case
of Kolkata at a greater war footing than it has shown regarding Chinese
incursions.
Sweden had a lot of honour
killings. During 2007 I think it was 7-8 girls that "fell" out from balconies.
Several of them died. One or two is now in wheelchair. Not a single person was
sentenced for the killings/crimes. A few year ago on guy died of stabbing
and because they poured boiling oil in his throat.
The killer family
did get away. Blaming each other and a brother that fled to another country.
Then we have the most known girls. Pela and Fadime. Also killed by members of
their family. /FS
A 15-year-old schoolgirl
allegedly murdered for falling in love told her boyfriend that she had been
'tortured' by her father, a court heard today.
She is alleged to have been killed
by her father Mehmet Goren, after he consulted with his brothers, over her
relationship with Halil Unal.
A week later Goren, 49,
plunged an axe into Mr Unal's neck in a desperate bid to restore his
family's honour, the court heard.
Mr Unal, speaking from behind a
screen, told the Old Bailey about a time when they met up at Stratford bus
station in east London.
He said: 'When I saw Tulay there I
looked at her face and I saw that she had bruising to her eye.
'She told me that her father
tortured her and beat her and that her uncle Cuma was pressuring her.
'I said 'all this will pass, don't
worry'. She said to me, "really, genuinely, I hate these people, I hate the
house".
'In fact she said she didn't have
much time, she said she had to go. She said "because my father follows me all
the time".'
Mehmet Goren, 49, of Navestock
Crescent, Woodford Green, and his brothers, Cuma Goren, 42, of Evesham Avenue,
Walthamstow, and Ali Goren, 55, of Brettenham Road, Walthamstow, deny murdering
Tulay on January 7 1999.
They also deny conspiracy to
murder Mr Unal, between May 1998 and February 1999.
Mr Unal, who came to Britain from
Turkey in 1992, told the court how he first met Tulay when she worked at a
clothes factory in Hackney, east London, during her summer holidays in 1998.
Her mother also worked at the
factory, where Mr Unal was a supervisor, the court was told.
Mr Unal, now 41, said Tulay told
him that she was 17 and he said he was 29.
'Tulay said "age isn't important,
what is important is mutual love",' said Mr Unal, speaking through a Turkish
interpreter. 'She was unhappy, she wanted to have someone that she could embrace
as a husband.'
The court heard that she told him:
'Halil, I like you a lot, I hate
my family and I want to run away from that house. I am looking for a man who
will love me and marry me.'
Hundreds of attacks are to
be treated as 'honour' crimes in a new drive by police to prosecute more
offenders.
[....]
The horrific consequences of
honour violence were highlighted by an attack in Leytonstone in July in which a
24-year-old Danish man of Asian origin had acid poured down his throat and was
repeatedly stabbed because of his relationship with a Muslim woman.
In January 2006 Banaz Mahmod was
killed after falling in love with a man her family did not want her to marry.
The 20-year-old, who had left an
arranged marriage and started a relationship with Rhamat Sulemani, 29, was
strangled with a bootlace at her home in Surrey in January 2006.
Her father Mahmod Mahmod, 52, and
uncle Ari Mahmod, 50, of Mitcham, were convicted of the killing.
The pair decided she must pay "the
ultimate price" for bringing shame on them.
Ms Mahmod had made a series of
complaints to police and agreed to press charges a day before she was killed.
The Independent Police Complaints
Commission investigated how police dealt with her.
[...]
The new approach will be unveiled
tomorrow at a London conference organised by the Association of Chief Police
Officers and the Crown Prosecution Service.
There will also be a new attempt
to persuade victims of female genital mutilation to come forward following the
failure of legislation passed six years ago to outlaw the practice to result in
a single conviction.
Under the new approach, which
mimics the detection techniques used to tackle race-hate crime following the
Stephen Lawrence murder, reports from friends or relatives about possible honour
violence will be taken seriously, even if the victim has failed to raise the
alarm.
Other indications such as a girl's
sudden disappearance from school will also be seen as significant.
Announcing the new measures, Nazir
Afzal, the Crown Prosecution Service's legal director, said: 'It will be about
making sure we look for the signs so that we don't miss cases.'
On the issue of male victims, Mr
Afzal said one vulnerable group were gay men, who were sometimes forced into
marriage because of a desire from their families to hide their sexuality, while
other cases arose when relatives wanted to divert a male family member away from
criminal associates.
The number of specialist
prosecutors tackling the problem will also be increased with the number employed
in London, which currently has 10, scheduled to double over the coming month
Tuesday is D-day for Rifqa. Contribute to her legal fund here. And make the
calls!
Free people, please keep the heat on. This is America, fight for Rifqa, fight
shariah law.
Florida Department of Children and Family: George H. Sheldon,
Secretary 1317 Winewood Blvd. Building 1, Room 202 Tallahassee,
Florida Phone: (850)
487-1111 Fax: (850) 922-2993
In Europe, they protect Muslim girls who fear 'family prestige' killing
(shariah killing) and killing because they are apostates. Here in America,
teenage apostate Rifqa Bary's life hangs in the balance, and it looks like they
will be sending her back to the devout Muslim family at the next hearing on
Tuesday, the 13th. It appears that authorities will be sending her back to the
father who threatened to kill her if she "had this Jesus in her heart", the
father who gave her private diaries and letters to un-indicted co-conpsirators
CAIR and major newspaper outlets; back to the brother who took out her eye, who
leaked information about her whereabouts to a muslim stalker-blogger; and back
to the radical Noor mosque that spied on her and told her family that she was a
convert and to "straighten her out or else"............. that is what
America is doing.
Obama wants to make sure to make it safe for girls who want to wear the
burka. What about girls who don't want to wear it, you numskull?
This from Italy: The video below (from an online Italian newspaper) is in
Italian. The 15-year-old girl fled home claiming that her Muslim father was
going to kill her because she was in love with a non-Muslim. She is now
in a secret location, care of the Italian social service.
The segment is very short, but
here is what it says in essence. Nothing of any significance has been left out.
“He wants to kill me.”
That is what a 15-year-old Moroccan girl says about her father, who frequently
beat her, so she left home.
Her father is a Moroccan worker
who has lived in Italy for 25 years. He beats her up because she has an Italian
boyfriend, and he keeps reminding her that she is Muslim – “Tu sei musulmana” –
and she should not have an Italian boyfriend. His beatings, and his attitude,
became so worrisome that she fled from the house and is now staying in a
“comunita” (a kind of group-home that serves as a refuge for those who flee
their family situation).
At the end of the very
short item, there is a brief interview by phone with a politician who discusses
how how one political party, the Northern League or Lega, wants to have a
national law passed that will ban the niqab, for at present the situation
depends on the local officials, the mayor, of reach town, to decide for himself
how to deal with the niqab problem as he sees fit.
UPDATE: QK has more, and translated this: “Il Giornale”
Amo un italiano, papà mi uccide"
Marocchina di 15 anni sotto scorta “
I love an Italian, daddy wants to
kill me” Moroccan 15-years-old under protection
(in Italian)
«Her request for help is
heartbreaking: «Help me, I do not want to end up like Hina and Sanaa». She said
in tears to the Carabinieri of Pavia, just a few hours ago, a Moroccan
fifteen-years-old escaped from his home in Voghera. And the soldiers have moved
immediately: "Now the student is in a protected location in Lombardy, away from
the parents herself accused of having threatened to give her the same end of
Sanaa. Besides, its history, for some months now, is similar to that of two
girls, had their lives took for the only "guilty" of loving an Italian, and not
a Muslim, man. A script already seen.
The young girl knows an Italian,
they liked one another, they start to go out together. He has the same age: a
clean story. Yet parents do not go at all well. The father, as soon as he
discovers it, screams her again, and again, that she must break off this story.
Finally, a bit for filial obedience, much more for fear the teenager obeyed. But
only briefly. Finally she cannot bear it no more. She takes up to frequent the
Italian kid. And unfortunately she is eventually discovered. The mother in fact
found a note in his pants, thrown in the basket of dirty laundry for the washing
machine. It says: "I cannot forget the past with you." From there, the hell with
the family.
The harassment starts. Her father
beat her repeatedly and threaten her of death: "I'll give you the same end of
the others ..." alluding to the most horrific cases of poor Muslim girls
massacred because they were trying to break free from a fundamentalist and dull
world. Beatings and threats that the mother have witnessed as well, without
blinking, but rather sharing this "method of education”. The girl tries to cling
to whatever is around her, had her friends contact the Social Services, as she
will explain later to the police too. But everything remains as is. Nobody took
her away from that family that now beats and insulted her almost every day. The
angry phrase she hear is always the same: «Raki daimen Muslima u-maghribiyya
(you are still/forever Muslim and Moroccan). These are your roots, you must not
forget, and that is why you cannot attend Italian boys who are not Muslims. Your
father feels dishonoured». Then the blows.
The emphasis that the media have
given to cases of Hina and Sanaa moves her react. Thanks to what she saw she is
conscious of what can be the end. She rebels and saves herself. And the parents
lose a daughter. When she decides to run away from home is disoriented, does not
know what to do or where to go. But she proved stronger than she has ever
suspected. Thinks of one Italian friend of her. Contacts her and goes to her
place. She stayed there a night. The next day she took the train with her,
destination Pavia. Once they arrived in the [provincial] capital the decision
triggers: to get help from whom, certainly will not underestimate their cry of
despair.
So she enter the barracks of San
Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, and tells all. She knows that to rebel could win her a
life without regrets, where she can freely decide her own fate. And at
the sentinel that stops her at the entrance she says, without hesitation: «I
want to make a complaint." Allegation that begins with tears, but ends with a
half smile. Because at once she is told that she will not return in that house.
Finally her terror is listened. Now, of this case, will take care the Juvenile
Court».
blasphemy against Islam, that is. As the German
press is reporting:
Dusseldorf – A German publisher has cancelled plans to publish a mass-market
novel out of fears that it might face violent protests due to a rude reference
to the Koran, Der Spiegel magazine reported Saturday. The crime novel – about
the “honour killing” of a Muslim woman – had been scheduled for September
publication, but the Droste publishing company of Dusseldorf decided not to
print it after all, the magazine said in a story to appear in its Monday
issue.
It said the publisher had first asked the author, Gabriele Brinkmann, writing
under the pen name WW Domsky, to tone down dialogue in “To Those Worthy of
Honour” which might be construed as offensive, but she had refused.
Spiegel reported that the offensive phrase in question was a character
saying: “You can shove your Koran up …”
Publisher Felix Droste had asked an expert on Islamic society to study
whether the crime story’s text could compromise the safety of his firm or his
family, and the expert suggested the phrase be modified.
But the author refused to alter it to “You can shove your honour up …”
Droste wrote back that riots over Danish cartoons that poked fun at the
Prophet Mohammed in 2005 showed that anyone publishing insults to Islam was
putting their safety at risk, Spiegel said.
Over the weekend I heard Mark Steel on the wireless mocking the idea that
there was an “Islamisation” of Europe, doing an impression of a call to prayer
on Radio Surrey. Funny as always, but wrong – Islamisation does not mean waking
up one day to find the newsreaders sporting a massive beard and a hook on his
hand, or the local hoodie having his hand cut off in public, any more than
climate change means immediate and dramatic Hollywood-style disasters.
Islamisation refers to small but significant erosions of our freedom, bit by
bit, demand by demand, concession by concession. The initial victims are Muslims
themselves: for many Muslim women and girls living in Britain, especially those
20,000 said to be at risk from genital mutilation or the smaller number
threatened with honour killings or with being murdered for apostasy,
Islamisation is already a reality.
For the rest of us it is less immediate and less noticeable, but a little bit
of our freedom dies every time someone is cowed into silence.
A RALLY FOR RIFQA'S CIVIL RIGHTS ON THE DAY OF HER NEXT HEARING NOVEMBER 16TH FRANKLIN COUNTY JUVENILE COURT Franklin County courthouse Franklin County juvenile court 4th
floor 373 S. High street Columbus, Ohio 43215 Time to be determined
Phone:
614.462.4411, Franklin County Juvenile Court clerk
THERE WILL BE SPEAKERS, FELLOW APOSTATES FROM ISLAM, INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS FIGHTING BLASPHEMY LAWS AND DEFENDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE AGE OF JIHAD. I IMPLORE YOU TO STAND WITH THIS GIRL. SHE REPRESENTS AMERICA IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ENCROACHING SHARIA LAW.
Directions to the Franklin County Courthouse & Rally:
Franklin County Juvenile Court, 373 South High Street, Columbus
(Ohio).
Rally Site. The Rally will be held at the
Dorrian Commons Park, lying East and immediately adjacent to the Franklin County
Courthouse, where Rifaq Bary’s Juvenile Court Hearings will be held later in the
day. For those wishing to attend that public hearing, assuming room in the
Courtroom, hearings are scheduled to begin at __.__ _.m.
Courthouse
Address. The Franklin County Courthouse is located at 373 South High
Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215.
By Automobile. The Franklin County
Courthouse lies just East of the intersection of Interstate highways I-70 and
I-71, off of exit 100A on I-70 (near the confluence of the Scioto
and Olentangy Rivers). Exit the freeway North, just a block until W. Mound
Street, and turn East, to your right onto W. Mound. Drive East on W. Mound for
just 4 blocks until you reach South High Street. Turn South, to your right, and
you will see the Courthouse and rally site.
High Street, by the way, is
the dividing line between E. & W. Columbus, so don’t be alarmed if you see
streets with E. & W. designations: things are literally just “across the
street” from each other, in relation to all of the events described
herein.
Event Parking. The Courthouse is served by several large
parking lots immediately to the North across W. Mound Street. The parking lot is
bound on the West by S. Front Street, to the North by Main Street (which appears
to be Ohio Highway 62), and to the East by S. High Street, upon which the
Franklin County Courthouse fronts.
Another major parking lot lies to the
North of the event, north and south between E. Main Street and E. Rich Street,
and east and west on South High and South 3rd.
Hotel
Accomodations. A link has been provided below to help you look for travel
accommodations. Less than a block North of the Courthouse, and immediately to
the South of the large parking lot described above, there is the Westin Columbus
Hotel on the Southeast corner of the intersection of South High and East
Main.
By Air. Port Columbus International Airport (CMH) is just 6
or 7 miles Northeast of downtown. At the link below, the map also has off to the
left margin an interactive service for securing flights in and out of Port
Columbus.
After she lost her virginity she was viewed as a "valueless
commodity." I have many times spoken about how Islam relegates women to
the status of commodities, and here is proof. And of course the usual
chorus of Islamic apologists will appear to assure us that honor
killing has nothing to do with Islam and is a cultural practice
followed by a wide variety of peoples -- and yet Muslim girls keep
getting killed in disproportionate numbers. No one, of course, dares to
confront the root of the problem by pointing out such inconvenient
truths as the fact that a manual of Islamic law certified by Al-Azhar
as a reliable guide to
Sunni orthodoxy says that "retaliation is obligatory against anyone who
kills a human being purely intentionally and without right." However,
"not subject to retaliation" is "a father or mother (or their fathers
or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring." ('Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2).
In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty
under Islamic law. In accord with this, in 2003 the Jordanian
Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to
stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that "Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values."
"Missing girl was victim of honour killing, claims mother," by Lucy Ballinger for the Daily Mail, October 8 (thanks to all who sent this in):
A mother broke a ten-year silence to claim her teenage daughter was murdered in an 'honour killing', a court heard yesterday.
Tulay
Goren, 15, was allegedly killed by her father and buried in his garden
after he learnt she was in a sexual relationship with a man twice her
age.
Mehmet Goren, 49, with the help of at least one of his
brothers, then allegedly dug up her remains in Woodford Green, East
London, and disposed of them a week later. Her body has never been
found.
Tulay's mother Hanim lived with the dark family secret and
at first misled police because she was scared for her safety, said
Jonathan Laidlaw, QC, prosecuting.
Tulay's
father and his brothers Ali, 55, and Cuma Goren, 42, both of
Walthamstow, East London, yesterday appeared at the Old Bailey accused
of the schoolgirl's murder on January 7, 1999, and the attempted murder
of her boyfriend Halil Unal, now 41. All three deny both charges.
Tulay was living with Mr Unal and had even tried to marry him, but was too young.
But after losing her virginity Tulay was seen as a 'valueless commodity', the court heard....
The Islamic machine is in full swing. Their priority is to separate Rifqa
from her supporters, her friends, her fortress against the jihad against her.
The belligerent, hostile new Islamist lawyer for Mohamed Bary has tried
vigorously to get John Stemberger (Rifqa's lawyer) removed. He shrieked in the
court room that Rifqa's guardian ad litem was in cahoots with Rifqa's legal
counsel (and what is their evil agenda? Rifqa's well being?). The Muslim offense
is to restrict Rifqa's visitation with her close friends and Shayan Elahi (the
Islamic lawyer) recommended to the judge that "medication" be administered to
Rifqa. Do you see where this is going?
But they can't attack that dear little girl every day, can they? No. So they
switch off between Rifqa, "the right wing" extremists protecting and defending
her (myself, Robert Spencer et al), Rifqa's lawyer (a Christian conservative
activist!), Christianity itself and the good Pastor who took her in.
The corrupt and utterly debased media is only too happy to do the dirty work
for jihad. Check out this disgusting editorial written by a Muslim accusing the
church of "getting rich off Rifqa". First off, the Rifqa Bary Trust was only just established a couple of days
ago. And Rifqa will be receiving all proceeds. This is an attempt to smear
the church and keep money out of Rifqa's hands much needed for defense. She
needs to hire various professionals for her defense. The lawyer that set up the
trust did it pro bono. Believe me, there is no money cache.
Where are the Muslims defending Rifqa? Where are Muslim feminists (oxymoron?)
coming to the defense of Rifqa. Every apostate has spoken fiercely in Rifqa's
defense. How come we don't see those faces on television?
This case is about apostasy. Period. All this confetti is a
trick to take the focus off the brutal punishment for apostates.
To keep Fathima Rifqa
Bary in Florida, the argument is being made in court that not only is her family
a danger to her, and not only is the entire Muslim community in Columbus a
danger to her life, but that the state of Ohio is incapable of protecting her
("Christian activists rally behind runaway teen," Dispatch
article, Friday). As crazy as this position sounds, the group that is trying to
keep her there has gotten a lot of political support in Florida, including from
the governor.
Not a single politician stood up for truth and justice in this case until
Wednesday, when Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien issued a
statement that, in 31 years, he has not heard of a single case of "honor
killing" in the area. So the claim that the Muslim community of central Ohio,
which numbers more than 60,000 people, is dangerous to people who leave the
religion is nothing but hate propaganda.
Ron O'Brien ought to look beyond his lakeview townhouse where
there are large concentrations of Muslims.As far back
as 2004,UK police were re-examining more than
100 murders in England and Wales they suspect could be so-called honour
killings. It has gotten so bad in the UK that the Parliament has taken it up as a critical issue. Last month
a man, his wife, and son are accused of killing four young women, including the man's three daughters
in what Canada police are describing as a savage honor killing disguised as a
car accident.
O'Brien is an ignoramus. Do your homework before you sentence a
girl to death.
Ohio child-welfare officials also issued a report stating that it is
safe for Rifqa to return to Ohio. Rifqa Bary's family already has
agreed to let her come back here and immediately be put under the protection of
Franklin County Children Services.
I have spoken to a number of folks on Ohio and this girl has been
living in fear for years. Terrified. As one of her best friends described her
secret conversion, "It's an Ann Frank Story".
In response, the Florida court sealed the findings of its own law-enforcement
investigation into the alleged "Ohio threat," because obviously there isn't one,
and so far has refused to let her come back to Ohio.
Why not let her come here? Because Global Revolution Church, the fanatical
group that targeted this minor on the Internet and put her up in the home of a
male "pastor" in Florida without alerting the authorities for two weeks, is out
to make money off this story.
I have met them, talked to them. They are lovely, G-d fearing
Christians. The salt of the earth.
The church has succeeded in injecting bigotry and ignorance into the halls of
justice in Florida. But I believe the hate that has infected Florida politics, a
cancer that Americans soundly rejected in the last election, ultimately will be
defeated in this case.
It is about time for Gov. Ted Strickland to do the right thing and take a
stand in defense of our state and in the defense of justice and the rule of
law.
OMAR TARAZI
It's disgusting how the smearing of the church is almost sport. But speak the
truth about the extremism mosque, the Islamic terrorist that preach and plan,
the vile sermons and teaching and you are committing .....blaspheme. And the
lapdog media laps it up like the good dogs that they are.
These are the victims of Western apathy and silence, and it's only
getting worse:
What follows are recent victims of honor killings in the West..... someone
ought to email this to the maroon O'Brien as he throws Muslim girls and their
right to love under the bus as he serves his Islamic masters.
Sabrina Larbi-Cherif, performing "It's only life". She wrote: this is my
first video here and its one of my favorite songs of kate voegele so i hope i
didn't do too bad.
Feroz Mangal and Khatera Sadiqi were shot by Khatera's brother as they sat
in a parked car at the Elmvale Acres shopping plaza .
Sandeela Kanwal, 25, was found dead on her bedroom floor last
July. Her father told police he strangled his daughter with a bungee cord
because she wanted a divorce.
Morsal
Obeidi (stabbed to death 23 times by her brother - for "turning away from her
family").
Hatin Surucu Germany Muslim brothers gunned her down for
adopting Western ways.
Hina Salem Italy ("Mohammed Saleem cut his daughter’s throat
because she refused an arranged marriage and instead wanted to integrate into
Italian society".)
Methal Dayem, a 22-year-old Cleveland State student, USA.
Zahida Peeveen at 29, before the malicious attack by her
husband. At the time of the attempted honor killing, she was six months
pregnant. After attack: WARNING GRAPHIC
The killing of Ghazala Khan in Denmark by her brother may be the only
instance where an 'honour' killing has been photographed while being
perpetrated. This picture was captured on cell phone camera and shows the
woman's brother aiming the gun at his sister, lying on the ground. Her fiancee,
also seen, was wounded, but survived. The killing was planned by her entire
family, and Pakistani taxi drivers were used as spies to spot her and alert her
family.
As a 13-year-old girl in Turkey, Rojda was raped, then forced to
marry her rapist under Islamic law. Her face was mutilated by her
"husband's" family when she refused to prostitute herself after he
was imprisoned for raping another child.
Rim Abu Ghanem 19 (Dr. Suliman Abu
Ghanem, a 33-year-old pediatrician at Assaf Harofeh Hospital, who along with his
three brothers decided to murder his sister for refusing an arranged marriage)
Israel
1/3 of the women murdered in Jordan are a result of Islamic
"honor" killing. And yet I could not find one picture of a murdered girl in
Jordan.
"It was a brutal scene. One victim's head was nearly cut clean off," an
official is quoted as saying. (here)
And the thing is, this is the end - the final act, the culmination of the
subjugation, oppression, violent abuse of women in Islam. The terror that
precedes the murder is almost unimaginable. Living in fear, every day,
living in fear of physical and mental abuse and still, standing up and living
their own lives -- only to be murdered for it.
UPDATE:
Sabia Rani 19 UK (not only did four members of her husband's
family do nothing to help her, they turned a blind eye as he continued the
beatings and ultimately murdered the helpless young woman at the house they all
shared).
I have said from the very first that Rifqa Bary is the highest value target
in America. Apostasy is the most egregious crime against Islam. Her
crime is not just against the family. it is against Islam.
I know Ohio law
enforcement and Florida law enforcement found no threat to Rifqa
but perhaps they can put down the kool aid for five minutes and do their job.
There is a pro-Islamic site on Facebook that threatens Rifqa Bary with
death. Will everyone stop the PC, religion of peace nonsense, pull ther heads
out of ther asses and get serious. Is law enforcement going to stop playing
games and protect this young girl or what? Salman Rushdie did far less.
A US judge, Friday,
ordered that Sri Lankan born Rifqa Bary (17), who fled to Florida from Ohio on a
bus last month because she believes her parents will kill her for converting to
Christianity, gets to stay in Florida as courts settle who gets custody of her.
He also ordered mediation to start after the next hearing.
What I don't understand is
that Facebook disabled my account
for two weeks at least as I spoke the truth about Islam as far as our Saviour
Jesus is concerned.
Surely these people should be
arrested?
Rifqa needs asylum by the US
authorities NOW!!
UPDATE: They pulled the site as soon as I posted ........
Violated yet again - first by her uncle, her mother's silence on the sexual
abuse, her father's death threats, her community, the system, and now those
that are supposed to protect her. Much thanks to reader David. I strongly urge
all readers to express their outrage.
6 Sep '09
Dear Gov Crist
This is my third letter to you
in the matter of Rifqa Bary.
My previous two letters
were written to appeal to you as a man of conscience to allow Rifqa Bary to
remain in the State
of Florida, safe from the dangers she fears, and in all events to allow
her to stay there until she reaches the age of 18.
Now, I am
appalled to learn that this fine young woman was
subjected, seemingly against her will and better instincts, to three and a half
hours of interrogation by your department (FDLE) without the presence of her own
lawyer, and that FDLE even refused her permission to have her lawyer present
despite (a) her having requested so herself a short while into the interview,
and (b) her guardian
ad litem having specifically asked DCF and/or FDLE that both she and
Rifqa's attorney be given advance notice of any such interview, which they were
not -- which surely is a violation of Rifqa's rights.
Evidently, DCF was partner to
these decisions and, as the agency responsible for protecting Rifqa;'s welfare,
is even more at fault than FDLE.
This is an extremely disturbing
development. Ms Bary was quite obviously subjected to intimidation and abuse by
FDLE (and DCF) by being denied her rights and by being subjected to FDLE's
harassment and intimidation, and was not given the protection DCF sbould have
ensured. In fact, she was accorded not even the basic rights to which a
criminal is entitled! All this, in AMERICA? For shame!
Gov Crist, the buck stops with
you!
I urge you to make sure
that Ms Bary is given every protection under the Constitution, that you
personally apologise to her for this poor treatment, and that she be fully
compensated by the State
of Florida for any and all deprivations and mistreatment at the hands of
those on your watch.
We the public at large are
watching this case very closely and intend to make sure Rifqa Bary remains
safe.
Will they depose the uncle who allegedly sexually abused her? Her mother
knew about it and did nothing. I am sure the father didn't know, as Rifqa would
have been punished unmercifully. The female victim is always at fault. How many
lashes do rape victims get in Islamic countries? 99.
Add this to all the many stories I broke in the Rifqa Bary case on the
physical abuse of Rifqa and the parents' financial situation. No media picked
them up. The media only ran the CAIR narrative (they are working with the family
according to anti-Rifqa, pro Islam websites).
Not only is the media criminally negligent in not telling Rifqa's story, but
they use this terrible case to seize the opportunity to smear and rank on
Christianity. Christianity is the evil in all this, according to the media. The
vilification of the good Christian folks who took this girl in turns my stomach.
It is evil.
On several occasions friends of Rifqa would bring her down to the school
counselor because of bruises on her legs and her arms, beatings suffered at the
hands of her father and brother (sounds like Islam Said). The middle school, in a serious dereliction of
duty, did not report these beatings to child welfare services. Beatings were
random, violent, unprovoked. Take, for example, when Rifqa and her father
Mohammad were driving in the car. He would force her to wear the hijab, which
she hated. In her discomfort she would slouch down, embarrassed, and her father
would haul off and sock her in the face so that she never forgot to sit up
straight in her costume. The beatings were regular and so much a part of the
landscape of Rifqa's life that she became inured to them, just like Amina and
Sarah and Aqsa and every "honor" victim. (more here)
Rifqa: "He took that laptop and waved it in the air and he was
about to beat me with it, and he said, “If you have this Jesus in your heart,
you’re dead to me. You’re not my daughter.” And I refused to speak but he said,
“I will kill you. Tell me the truth.” In these words, bad words, cuss words. So
I knew that I had to get away"
I told you that the Islamists, un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR (which is
working closely with the family), the extremist NOOR mosque and the Islamic
machine were caught off guard when Judge Daniel Dawson ruled that Florida had
jurisdiction over Ohio in Rifqa's first hearing back on August 21. They thought it was a
done deal that Rifqa would be returned to Ohio.
She wasn't. They are making up for lost time now. They have brought in the
big guns. They have revved up their media and political machine. They fired the
old lawyers and brought in their lawfare specialists. First order of business is
to get Rifqa's lawyer removed and replaced with an "attorney ad
litem".
The second hearing with the new legal team was hostile, ugly and tense (my observations here).
Shayan Elahi, the new Islamist lawyer for Mohamed Bary, is filing for
"psychiatric" evaluation of Rifqa. They can't say she is an "unruly delinquent,"
as she has no history of promiscuity, drug abuse or alcohol. So they will say
she is crazy.
Will they depose the uncle who sexually abused her? Her mother knew about it
and did nothing.
"The Bary father's attorney, Shayan Elahi, states that he will be
filing a Writ of Prohibition in the 5th District Court of Appeals in the state
of Florida to stop the current proceedings in the case as it is now at the
Thomas S. Kirk Juvenile Justice Center."
Judge Daniel Dawson is fairminded and is obviously placing Rifqa's well being
above all else, so the Islamic machine is going to try everything in its power
to get her out of his court room.
One of the bombshell developments from
yesterday's hearing in Florida family court in the case of would-be honor
killing victim Rifqa Bary is that the Florida Dept of Law Enforcement (FDLE)
conducted a three and a half hour
interrogation WITHOUT HER ATTORNEYS present - showing that Rifqa
has less rights than a captured Al-Qaeda terrorist in Guantanamo Bay. The only
thing FDLE stopped short of was waterboarding
Rifqa.
Rifqa's court-appointed advocate/guardian
ad litem was livid as she had requested that the Dept of Children and Families
(DCF) notify her and Rifqa's personal attorney before an interrogation, which
never happened. DCF and FDLE - both controlled by FL Gov. Charlie Crist -
colluded to make this inquisition happen in the absence of her attorneys.
According to news reports, the guardian ad
litem said that 15 minutes into the interview, Rifqa asked about having her
attorneys present at which point the three adult male FDLE inquisitors told her
that since she was the "victim" in the case, she wasn't entitled to have her
attorneys present. Needless to say, her abusive parents had their attorneys
present during their interview.
Contact Gov. Charlie Crist and tell him to
end the inquisitions by his FDLE and DCF goons:
Wow. Check out the CNN headline - if anyone is not a Muslim, it's Rifqa Bary.
Four years a devout Christian, but CNN respects their master's shariah law.
allalua quid pro quo.
Four Christians working in Somalia to provide services to orphans
have been executed by beheading by al-Qaida-linked interests who told their
families that is the penalty for apostasy.
The report on the outrage
comes from International Christian Concern, which said the executions took place
sometime after the kidnapping of the Christians July 27, but it only discovered
the tragedy recently.
The organization identified the Christian orphanage
workers as Fatima Sultan, Ali Ma'ow, Sheik Mohammed Abdi and Maaddey Diil. They
had been kidnapped in the coastal Somalian town of Merca, about 50 miles from
Mogadishu.
According to ICC, al-Shabaab, an Islamic extremist
organization, claimed responsibility and said the Christians were killed when
they refused to renounce their faith in Jesus.
The ICC report said a
junior al-Shabaab militant notified the families Aug. 4 the four were beheaded
for ap... more
The extremist agitator who disrupted the press conference before the Rifqa
Bary hearing seems to have a soft spot for Osama bin Laden. Imagine that. The
media swooned for him and called those of us fighting for Rifqa's religious and
individual freedom from shariah (Islamic) law the extremists. They followed him
everywhere, lapping up every stinking lie.
Spencer took him on here. Lutfi also expressed his admiration for CAIR and Hamas
at yesterday's press conference. He called himself an 'honor
member'of CAIR (video coming soon).
Guesss who he wrote the oped for - the Islamist Orlando Sentinel.
Now that's rich.
Imagine that you are an Arab living in Saudi
Arabia, Syria, Morocco, Egypt or Jordan. Perhaps you are a Muslim living in
India, Iran or Indonesia. You are listening to two voices.
One voice comes from George W. Bush, president of the United States. He led
what I consider an illegal invasion of Iraq, which has led to the deaths of
innocent civilians. He led an intervention in Afghanistan, which also
contributed to the killing of innocent people who had no relation with al-Qaeda
or with politics in general. Bush tells you, an Arab, how peaceful Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon is. He's warning Iran, one of the world's largest Muslim
nations, to surrender its peaceful nuclear program while recruiting the United
Nations and allied nations to impose sanctions against Syria and Iran. Yet in
the heart of Arab and Muslim land, Bush justifies maintaining Israel's weapons
of mass destruction. He also threatens Syria. The United States and Israel claim
that Hamas' offices in Syria pose a threat even though, to my understanding,
these Palestine resistance fighters have refused to declare war on America.
Bush accepts the idea of at least some Israeli settlements, which Iconsider
illegal in the occupied West Bank. The International Court ofJustice -- commonly
known as the World Court -- has condemned Israel'ssecurity wall and land
grabbing. It has demanded that Israel remove the wall, return the property and
compensate the owners for their hardships. Bush has downplayed the court's
order. In fact, the United States has vetoed many U.N. resolutions against
Israel through the years.
On the other hand, you have Osama bin Laden, a Muslim Arab, saying
that the United States is evil, anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and interested in
controlling Arab land and oil and in maintaining brutal Arab dictators in power.
Bin Laden is recruiting Muslims and Arabs to stand up and fight against their
enemies -- that's Israel and America. As an Arab or Muslim listening to both
Bush and bin Laden, whom should you believe and whom should you
trust?...
Mohammad Y. Lutfi is an Arab-American businessman in
Orlando.
UPDATE: A Jew hater from waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back -- 1988. A Yaser Arafat
lover:
Today, we are witnessing an
Israeli policy that has killed at least 300 Palestinians since Arabs began their
uprising over Israeli rule in occupied lands Dec. 8.
The Florida Security Council set up a press conference before the
hearing. Tom Trento, Jamal Jivanjee, Robert Spencer and I addressed the press.
CAIR sent an agitator plant who was screaming names ("pathological liar!") as
soon as we tried to speak. I'll address that in a separate post.
CAIR, Noor, and the Islamic infrastructure were caught with their pants down
at the first hearing. They assumed Rifqa would be sent back to Ohio because of
jurisdiction. They are making up for lost time now. They have brought in the big
guns. The Hearing
Mark of the Florida Security Council via Spencer secreted a press pass to me
to get inside the hearing. G-d bless him. I am in. Handwriting my notes - no
blackberries, laptops, or recording devices. Judge Daniel Dawson presides over
the honey colored oak courtroom and sits beneath the large letters: "equal
justice under the law". What he doesn't understand is that this is a
landmark case - shariah law vs. American rule of law and individual rights.
Rifqa Bary, wearing a white top with a brown cardigan over her shoulder, is
tiny. She was dwarfed by the overwhelming number of adults in that courtroom,
there to determine her fate. As tiny as she was, she towered over the courtroom.
She wore a silver Christian cross dangling from her neck and clutched her Bible.
She looked over the press corp searching for a friendly face and became happy
and animated when she saw members of a young church group she obviously knew. I
was overwhelmed when she recognized me, broke into a big smile, mouthed my name
and waved to me. It was a moment I will never forget.
Rifqa's parents were not there today. Mohamed Bary's new attorney, Shayan
Elahi, shows himself during the proceedings to be a rabid Islamist. He jumps up
and down, back and forth across the courtroom like a caged panther. He glares at
Rifqa. She does not meet his eye. While he did go to a "Christian" school in
Pakistan (St. Pats High School, Karachi 1983-1987), he is not a Christian....in
this 2005 opinion piece he clearly labels himself a Muslim American.
Attorneys for Rifqa, her parents, FDLE, DCF and a media outlet are in the
courtroom. Judge Dawson repeatedly requests mediation, asking why no date has
been set. Judge Dawson presses attorneys to move forward on mediation and not
wait for depositions. Mohamed Bary's attorney says mediation is pointless,
futile, no reason for it. Judge differs, says even minor points can be worked
out that don't have to take up the court's time.
Shayan Elahi rebukes mediation throughout the entire hearing, insisting there
is "no room to maneuver".
The Orlando Sentinel petitions the court (!!) They want to be a party in the
dependency case. I am stunned. The Orlando Sentinel, which single handedly has
done everything in its diminishing power to ruin Rifqa Bary and anyone tied to
her case, wants special exception.
The judge takes up the request. The media outlet is responding to the judge's
decision to seal an FDLE report on the claims made by the teenager. If they are
a party, Atlas is going to file, too.
Judge refuses the Orlando Sentinel request. If he does it for them, he'll
have 800 media outlets asking for the same [not to mention the blogs].
Dawson declares, "the media has no right to be a party". The
Orlando Sentinel dares to be named a party. They are ghouls.
FDLE wants the seal order clarified, since both parties have not seen it.
The attorney for Bary's father says "there is a need for information out
there," and requests the judge allow the media more access to the family court's
documents.
Her attorney argues against it, saying this is a "private matter."
They judge denied the Sentinel's request to be notified of proceedings in
this matter. He did not curtail each party's right to talk publicly about the
case, including the release of documents filed in this case.
Judge Daniel Dawson also decided to seal Florida authorities report on
findings of Rifqa Bary's allegations that her parents in Ohio would kill her
because she converted from Islam to Christianity.
Rifqa's attorney, John Stemberger, said he prefers the court see the FDLE
report, just completed today, and choose whether to release it to the parties.
However, the judge said legal documentation usually works the opposite way, with
the parties getting it first.
DCF requests each party receive the FDLE report, but the contents not be
allowed to be leaked to anyone else.
The Florida Law Enforcement Department conducted a lengthy interview with
Bary and released a transcript to the lawyers.
Judge Dawson ordered the report released to the parties and has given them 10
days to say why they would want to release it or keep it from others. After
that, the documents would be made available under the normal restrictions of
juvenile court.
A video tape of FDLE's
questioning of Rifqa is part of the report.
The problem with Rifqa's is
that Rifqa did not have a lawyer or her guardian litem (Or anyone for that
matter when the deposition was taken by the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement). She asked for counsel but her request was dismissed.
In a gross attempt to have Stemberger removed from the case, Shayan Elahi is
calling for an "attorney ad litem" in place of Stemberger. He badgers the
judge.
After a meeting at the bench, the judge said, "We have plenty of attorneys in
this case, I'm not sure adding more would assist this."
She doesn't need another attorney. It's the opposition's attempt to isolate
Rifqa. Judge Dawson says no to an attorney ad litem. There is no need for an
AAL. Rifqa's big sigh was heartbreaking.
He is taking up a gag order requested by the girl's guardian.
The
attorney for the Sentinel is being allowed to address the request. He is telling
the court that gag orders are usually approved in jury trials. In this case,
there is no jury and the judge will make the decision on Rifqa's
request.
The gag order would not restrict the media from the court, but
would limit what the parties can say about this case.
A DCF attorney says
she is getting calls from children who are distraught about the media's
coverage.
"There are adults who are parading this about the media," she
said.
"This is absolutely causing problems in this case," she
added.
Shayan Elahi goes off. He screams "the hypocrisy is clear": "right wing
organizations" have been out there, promoting a political agenda. He has the
audacity to whine that only Rifqa's story is being told. Uh, Elahi, meet the
Orlando Sentinel, the Columbus Dispatch, Fox news, The NY times. He calls the
judge's consideration of a gag order "ridiculous". He bullies. He stomps. He
claims the Barys' name has been "dragged through the mud".
He said Stemberger is calling news conferences to make claims against the
family, but now wants a gag order that would keep the parents from defending
themselves.
"Where is his (Bary's) right to stand up and say, "Look not at my religion
but look at how I raise my family'?"
"If you agree with this gag order, you are saying the other party cannot have
their story told."
The attorney for Bary's mother, Roger Weeden, then breaks the gag order and
declares that "there's nothing in this (FDLE) report that supports the girl's
claim." Rifqa grabs the GAL's arm.
The Guardian ad Litem, Crista Bartholomew, says, "I can't believe you just
said that". She demands that it be stricken from the record. His statement
violates the judge's order not to release anything about the report for at least
10 days.
Judge Dawson quietly responds, "The state's concern is for the safety of the
child". Based on media attention, Dawson says no one side has gotten the "best
coverage". But the more media attention, "the less safe the child will be".
Shayan Elahi says the Barys are being denied their rights. He says that
English is their second language and they must be able to have their lawyer
(him) speak for them. Dawson says it is not the court's responsibility to
provide the Barys with an English translator for their media interviews.
Elahi slanders the GAL (Guardian ad litem), saying she is working in cahoots
with Stemberger. Bartholomew (GAL) insists she is not. "The state's concern is
for the safety of the child. My take is what is in the best interest of the
child". This is not a holy war.
Elahi continues aggressively. He demands that Rifqa's visit with the Lorenzos
[sic - he doesn't even know their names] stop. He insists that Rifqa's best
friend Jamal Jivanee be banned. Rifqa starts crying. The DCF are the final word
on who can see Rifqa. They agree that the Lorenzes will not visit but their
three children can, as they are close to Rifqa in age and she is so fond of them
and they of her.
Next issue was Rifqa's immigration status. Apparently Shayan Elahi did not
provide the court requested papers (passport etc) for Rifqa. Rifqa came here on
her mother's visa - the documentation of which expired in 2005. Rifqa is in the
country illegally and so is the family. The judge wants this addressed quickly
so that Rifqa's "continued presence [is] in the US". Shayan Elahi has 10 days to
present the family's immigration documentation.
The judge wants dates for mediation. He again re-affirmed that both parties
need to have a mediation to see if they could agree on any issue and to expedite
moving forward in an orderly fashion. Elahi once again says it's a waste of
time. Judge Dawson's experience in these matters have shown just the opposite
and he is becoming concerned that he is "not getting cooperation". Elahi backs
off.
Shayan Elahi will be reopening jurisdiction. He threatens to file a motion
calling Rifqa "an unruly delinquent" if there is no proof of abuse or danger.
There is talk of counseling for Rifqa and the family. Shayan Elahi wants it
in Ohio. Stemberger wants some input on the psychologist's philosophy. The Judge
says absolutely not. Perhaps the guardian ad litem should have some say. An
anonymous source tells me that the one session Rifqa had with a counselor was a
Muslim who spent a good portion of the session proselytizing Islam.
Nuts.
UPDATE: Thanks to Dee
St. Petersburg Times at TampaBay.com 9/1 article by Michael Kruse:
Shayan Elahi, the new Orlando pro
bono attorney for Mohamed Bary. "Religious bigotry," he said, "is unacceptable
and un-American." Roger Weeden, the new Orlando pro bono attorney for Aysha
Bary, called the memo hearsay and totally inadmissible, and said it was
"designed to inflame passions and generate fear without any relevance towards
resolving the issues." Noor Center director Hany Saqr. . .denied all the
allegations in the memo, according to the Associated Press. "Based on our
religion, we think that there's no compulsion to religion. So Barys don't have
to pay legal fees after all? And there's no compulsion in their religion as that
would be unAmerican, and the mosque is not relevant.
I have a number of videos to load on this press conference. On this video of
me addressing the press you'll hear Mohammad Lutfi, the Orlando Muslim who
loudly proclaimed his support for the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic
Relations, screaming in the background. What was most disconcerting is that this
extremist who hijacked the press conference was the darling of the press. They
followed him everywhere. It was disgusting. But Spencer took him on and was the
bomb. Loading that video now.
The dhimmi reporter I was arguing with in this video was the FOX news
reporter in Florida. The blonde male airhead's name escapes me. But he is
rooting for the bad guys.
UPDATE: The FOX maroon is Phil Keating (thanks Bic for ID-ing the
tool). The beachboy covered the first Rifqa Bary hearing from ...Miami. Way to go, Phil.
Robert Spencer:
Here is video of the CAIR plant. They are pulling out the stops.
The media swarming the extremist (who later spoke of his admiration for Hamas
- Trento should have that video).
I noticed in Ms Geller's interview
that the CAIR representive was shouting a bunch of things, so I put on my head
phones and gave a listen. Here is what I discovered. "a(un audiable) year old is
not capable of making up her own mind... If she converts to islam, islam will
reject her automaticaly... you kidnaped a 17 year old girl... you kidnapped
her... brainwahsed...." So lets get this straight. If a teenage girl converts to
islam, islam will reject her becasue she is not capable of making up her own
mind. However if a muslim man wants to mary and have sex with a 9 year old thats
ok, becasue she is fully formed and developed?
I was in the courtroom - no laptops or BBs or recording devices allowed. When
Rifqa saw me, she waved enthusiastically and mouthed PAMELA! She was so happy.
She is tiny. Her relationship with her guardian ad litem is precious. Thank
g-d for that woman.
Robert was in the outer room and he liveblogged
here. I will have a full report and video later.
The new lawyer for Mohamed Bary is a shark, Shayan Elahi. He tried like hell
to get Stemberger removed and replaced with an attorney ad litem.
He tried to stop Rifqa's visitation with her friends (that's when she began
to cry).
I'll have more as soon as I get puter time. Here is Robert's
report:
I'm in Orlando, Florida, at the Rifqa Bary hearing. Tom Trento of the Florida
Security Council, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs and I held a press conference
outside the courtroom a little while ago, for a skeptical and sometimes hostile
press. The press conference was disrupted several times by Muhammad Lutfi, an
Orlando Muslim who declared his support for the Hamas-linked Council on
American-Islamic Relations; he has clearly taken a great interest in this case.
We explained about the jihadist connections of the Noor mosque, about Islamic
apostasy law, and about Islamic honor killing. The mainstream media flocked to
Lutfi, because he was telling them what they want to hear, but he was lying
openly about Islamic apostasy law, denying that Muhammad had said, "If anyone
changes his religion, kill him," and when I pointed out that this was in a
hadith in Bukhari, the collection of traditions of Muhammad that Muslims
consider most reliable, he denied that also. I'm in an overflow courtroom
now, with the proceedings from the main courtroom on closed-circuit video. Rifqa
is in the courtroom now, and it will all be beginning soon. I'll keep up with
what I can here, but my laptop is running out of juice, so I may not be able to
liveblog even though laptops are allowed in here. In any case, I'll keep you
posted. Pamela is in the main courtroom and I'm sure she will have extensive
coverage.
I've met many heroic people here -- converts from Islam and others who have
come out to show their support for this courageous and threatened girl, whom
every lover of freedom should be supporting.
-- We are now embarked. Rifqa's parents, Mohamed and Aysha Bary, are both
present via phone. Their lawyers are in the courtroom. They are discussing a
date for a mediation hearing. The judge is explaining that there are "issues
beyond what the facts are" -- jurisdictional issues and others. And they are
sorting out the status of the mother's attorneys; the family clearly has
lawyered up since the first hearing. They are apparently no longer "indigent,"
as they had previously claimed.
The Orlando Sentinel has put in a notice of appearance, which would give them
notice of certain documents in the case; Rifqa's lawyer wonders who provided
confidential information to the Sentinel so that they knew to do so. Good
question. The Sentinel rep is arguing that historically when proceedings have
been closed, the media has been given access to documents that are otherwise
sealed to the public. Mohamed and Aysha Bary's lawyer is arguing that since this
case has been "blown out of proportion" on the Internet (heh), the Sentinel
should have access to confidential documents, presumably to set the record
straight.
My battery is running out!
The court has denied the Sentinel's request, but the judge is assuring the
media that in any issues related to closing future hearings he would allow them
to be heard.
A representative of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is present and
has a report. He is, perhaps significantly, sitting with the lawyers for the
parents. At the adversarial press conference reporters were shouting that law
enforcement had investigated and found that Rifqa was not bat any risk in
returning to her family in Ohio; this perhaps was what they were referring
to.
One of Rifqa's lawyers is saying that they were given no opportunity to be
present when Rifqa was interviewed by law enforcement. Neither her attorney nor
her guardian ad litem were present, which seems highly irregular. The other side
responds that because Rifqa is not a suspect but a victim, she had no right to
have counsel present.
Alas, my battery is running out; must shut down. Will take notes on paper and
update you asap.
UPDATING from Blackberry now, as long as it holds out. Now, over a question
regarding mediation, the lawyers have approached the bench, and the mics are
off.
Now they're back. The judge is saying that there are enough attorneys in the
court room (and there are many), so he is not inclined to appoint an atty ad
litem for Rifqa, as she has private counsel.
Now they're discussing a gag order for the case. The judge is allowing the
Sentinel rep to argue against the gag order. The Sentinel guy is saying that gag
orders are for jury trials, but in this case there is no jury, so no one
influenced by coverage will be making the decisions. He says that gag orders are
to keep people from being prejudiced as to the case, and so no gag order is
needed here.
The guardian ad litem is saying that Rifqa understands why a gag order is
needed, and says that many times she and others connected to the case have been
distraught by the coverage. And looking at the Sentinel's coverage, that is
understandable.
Rifqa, says her lawyer, says that "This case is not about me, but about
thousands like me," but understands why the gag order is needed.
Now the parents' attorney is attacking John Stemberger, Rifqa's attorney, for
his hypocrisy. He says that Stemberger has been lying and attacking the Ohio
mosque and Muslims, and now he wants a gag order. He is saying that a gag order
would be saying that people can use the media for their benefit and that they
would have no right to respond. He is saying that Stemberger's report on the
Ohio mosque was based on lies from right wing sources and had no value.
Weeden, one of the parents' lawyers, then contrasted Stemberger's supposedly
baseless report with the FDLE report that says she is in no danger. Then Rifqa's
guardian ad litem asked that he be removed from the court, as he released
material from the FDLE report after they just sealed it. They went to the bench
to talk that over. When they returned, Weeden was still there.
The parents' lawyer is attacking Stemberger and the Lorenzes for publicizing
the case. He also earlier mentioned an attack on Islam and Muslims.
The judge is saying that both sides have gotten plenty of media coverage. He
agrees that the more media attention Rifqa gets, the less safe she is. He grants
the gag order, but only the attorneys. They are to discuss only procedural
issues with the media. The parents' lawyer says English is their 2nd language,
and he is gagging people who can speak for them. Judge replies that it is not
his job to provide interpreters for people who want to talk to the media -- and
that they can get other people to speak for them. After the case is resolved, he
said, you can write your novel or produce your miniseries or do whatever you
want to do.
Now they're discussing Rifqa's citizenship status. And now on to the question
of jurisdiction. The mother's new attorney has just filed a new motion saying
this court has no jurisdiction. The guardian ad litem says that has already been
decided, and you don't get 2 bites of the apple. Now the parents' lawyer says
that Ohio Child Protective Services won't file a case because they don't think
she is in danger, but FL only has jurisdiction because Ohio has not filed a
case, setting up a catch 22. He says that if they have to, they will file a case
in Ohio charging that Rifqa is an unruly delinquent. The judge says essentially
that if another case is filed, jurisdiction will be reconsidered.
Now they're discussing procedures regarding visitation rights. She has had
supervised contact with her brother. The department (not sure of what) is
seeking to limit visitation with Pastor Lorenz and his wife. Now the parents'
lawyer is saying that the Lorenzes and their children and the Global Revolution
Church should be restricted from seeing the child. He says that because of the
gag on attorneys, Stemberger, who has a habit of grandstanding, will use the
church to do his "dirty work."
Stemberger says Elahi -- the parents' lawyer -- is the one who is
grandstanding, and that he has provided accurate information. He says that the
Lorenzes' children are Rifqa's friends and provide her comfort. The judge says
he will allow them to continue to visit Rifqa. Parents' lawyer says Mohamed Bary
has not lost his parental rights, and he has a say in who sees his child. He
says the Lorenzes hid Rifqa for two and a half weeks while Ohio was looking for
her. The judge says that no allegations have actually been made against the
Lorenzes' children. And he adds that even her own siblings should not be
discussing this case.
The parents' lawyer says that mediation will be useless. "I'm trying to help
the court" by saying this, he says. The judge says that he doesn't see how he is
helping the court by complaining that mediation won't work. They agree to set a
date for mediation. Also the guardian ad litem asks that the child start
counseling, and that should later expand to family counseling. Some say she has
already started it. The judge suggests medication, and the guardian says Rifqa
objects to that. One of Rifqa's attorneys wants to know the perspective of the
counselor.
The parents' attorney wants the judge to appoint an attorney ad litem for
Rifqa. He says Stemberger is agenda-driven. The judge says he should file a
motion to that effect, but that Rifqa wants Stemberger and he will respect that.
He says that it seems that Elahi wants a new attorney who will have a different
view from Stemberger's of what is in the child's best interests. But he will not
appoint one now.
Jamal has been friends with Rifqa for over a year. Here is evidence of Rifqa
living in secrecy and fear. Her parents did not know she was a Christian. She
worshiped in secret and she was terrified. Jamal Jivanjee is currently
serving as the executive director of Illuminate. Illuminate was founded in January 2007, but prior to that
Jamal served as the lead pastor of newlife-osu, a collegiate church at The Ohio
State University.
Hey we're here in Orlando for the hearing for Rifqa Bary, and we are here
with Jamal Jivanjee, who is Rifqa's friend from Ohio, and you're here. First of
all, why are you here?
JJ: I'm here to help set the record straight about
who she is, her faith, her real faith is being maligned.
Atlas: How so?
I mean I know from my perspective of covering the media, but you're her friend.
JJ: Yes
Atlas: She's being maligned personally. Does she live in
fear?
JJ: Yes
Atlas: Was it a brand new fear, was it a brand new
conversion?
JJ: Absolutely not. I met her over a year ago (unclear) we
come from a similar background, I come from a Muslim background and my father
became a Christian, several years ago, so I'm a pastor in the Columbus area
speaking at church and my sermon made it online, and Rifqa listened to that
sermon and was moved..
Atlas: I bet..
JJ: ..in her heart, so she
contacted me, and said "I too am a Muslim my family came from Sri Lanka and I
want to know more about your dad's story because I'm living in hope, I've been
living a secret life as a Christian for three years and she stated that in a
message to me..
Atlas: This is long before there was any Global
Revolution Church, this was long before
JJ: Oh yeah...this was over a
year ago....
Atlas: So why is the media concentrating on where she went,
not why she went? I'm sure you picked up on that
JJ: Oh absolutely,
that's why I think that it's right to set things straight that, they don't want
to address the real issue, and the real issue is that she's a Christian and that
thus whole problem is because she's a Christian. Had she not been following
Jesus we wouldn't be talking about the story, but she's been a christian, she's
been living a secret life for over a year, and when I heard about her story, I
thought that I've got to meet this girl.
So my daughter, I have a
daughter, the same age as her, so my daughter and my wife we went from New
Albany Ohio which is just a suburb of Columbus, met her at a Starbucks and had
coffee and I wanted to hear her story. And her story absolutely moved me. I
mean, I went to bible college, I've been around a lot of pastors, and Rifqa
had...I've never been around with somebody with stronger faith in Jesus, and I'm
a bold person for Jesus, and this was a year ago, and it challenged me, I
thought, I've never seen anybody like this.
Atlas: I'm Jewish and I was
moved,
JJ: Yeah, it's..
Atlas: It's a beautiful
thing...
JJ: Her faith is very real, and as a matter of fact it's more
real than my own faith. And it challenged me, so I stayed in contact with her
and my daughter stayed in contact with her because she mad a tremendous impact
in my daughter's life, but I knew it, and she told me a year ago.
Atlas:
They keep saying it's her word against the father's, it's the narrative. I mean
FOX was a disaster today, FOX was an outlet for the Noor Mosque practically, I
mean they had the Noor spokesman on, and who's payíng that fancy lawyer, I mean
hello, but we won't go there. So, you're saying that she was definitely
threatened, she expressed that to you..
JJ: Oh absolutely,
Atlas:
From when, the beginning?
JJ: From the very beginning, and I have the
original message that she sent me, that told me she was living a secret life and
that was over a year ago. I kept that message, I still have it. Amazing that I
kept, I don't keep any of my Facebook messages, except for that
one.
Atlas: It was because you were so moved. Now let me ask you
something, do you think that she should go back to Ohio, even in foster care? Do
you believe that she would be in jeopardy from not only, because listen, with
all the honor killings, even in Iraq, and Aqsa Parvez and Hassan, you know, who
had her head chopped off by her moderate Muslim husband, it always the dishonor
to the family. This is a dishonor to Islam, is it not far more egregious
apostasy?
JJ: Yes it is, and what people don't understand about Islam,
you know, there are verses in the Koran, their holy book, that actually give
permission to kill, that's not my word, that not my
interpretation,...
Atlas: You were a Muslim...
JJ: Yes..this is
documented, now I want to say this, my family, most of my family are still
Muslims, they are not all bad people, but it is written in their holy books and
there are Muslims that take this very seriously
Atlas: That's
right.
JJ: And there's plenty of evidence, and you've done a lot of work,
with this, there is plenty of evidence that the mosque would be the type of the
people who are associated with that mosque, some of the leadership there, it is
evident that they would believe those kinds of things. They've made statements
advocating murder. So, with just that I think that you have to be careful,
obviously she fears for her life..
Atlas: Even if you don't understand,
there's a lot of taqiyya, there's a lot of deception to advance Islam, even if
you don't understand, you err on the side of caution, in the welfare of the life
of a minor child. It's a no brainer.
JJ: She's a seventeen year old girl,
she understands....
Atlas: And she knows her own mind
Atlas: I
want to thank you so much, this is very brave of you. Very very brave of you,
thank you so much...
JJ: It's an Ann Frank situation..
Atlas: It's
an Ann Frank situation....see you inside..reporting to you live, it won't be
live when you guys see, but I'm always live...
At the Rifqa Bary hearing in Orlando Florida, Robert Spencer is here, so let
me tell ya, rest easy tonight fellas.. the Dynamic Duo!
Another hearing for looms Rifqa Bary, the girl who converted from Islam to
Christianity and fled from her family after she said her father threatened her
life. Florida must do the right thing and not return her to her family in
Ohio.
I just landed and lo and behold, my alter ego is on da yob! Have no fear,
Atlas and jihad man are here. We will be covering the Bary haring this
afternoon. The hatchet job FOX is doing on Rifqa today is unforgivable and
completely uninformed.
The Orlando Sentinel -- judge, jury and teen girl would-be executioner -- is
out there shilling for jihad on the day of Rifqa Bary's hearing. Note how the
tools at the Orlando Sentinel always call her "Fathima," though Rifqa never
calls herself that. Rifqa goes by Rifqa.
Meanwhile, Ohio child welfare officials have already concluded it's
safe for Rifqa to return. They want to place the girl in therapy and reunite her
with her family.
That, however, may not be the conclusion of Florida
officials who have had to deal with a flood of e-mail and reaction from
thousands of people, many of them including anti-Muslim sentiments, who say the
runaway is a hero.
Gov. Charlie Crist has received more than
9,000 e-mails about the runaway, his office said.
ATLAS READERS
ROCK!!
For the past two weeks, the
Florida Department of Law Enforcement has been investigating whether there are
any credible threats to Rifqa, 17, a native of Sri Lanka. Agents will present
their findings today, something that could signal what happens
next.
If they conclude no threats exist, Circuit Judge Daniel
Dawson could send the girl back to Columbus, Ohio, where her parents have agreed
to place her in foster care for at least a month.
If agents conclude Rifqa is in
danger, the judge could leave her here in foster care, her status since Aug. 10
when another judge ordered her temporarily into the care of the Florida
Department of Children and Families.
No matter
what FDLE says, Rifqa will fight to stay here until next August, when she turns
18, said her attorney, John Stemberger, a conservative Christian activist. He
said Rifqa is in a stable home with a Christian foster family and is
happy.
[...]
Eric Fenner, executive director of Franklin
County Child Services in Columbus, Ohio, said Wednesday that his agency has
investigated the girl's complaints and believe she can safely return
home.
"We think by getting the family with a therapist ... hopefully,
we can salvage this family," he said.
I think Fenner's report should be made public.
"We think by getting the family with a therapist ... hopefully, we can salvage
this family," he
said. He has NO idea who or what he is dealing
with.
A Muslim family will discard its faith on the advice of a kuffar
therapist?
What a total idiot.
Rifqa is expected at today's
hearing. Her parents are not.
Stemberger filed paperwork on Monday,
alleging that the mosque attended by Rifqa's family is home to terrorists and
Muslim extremists. He is expected to make the same argument today.
The
mosque, Noor Islamic Cultural Center, issued a statement Wednesday to say those
allegations are lies and that hate groups are using Rifqa's case to attack
Muslims.
Rifqa boarded a bus to Orlando and sought refuge with
husband-and-wife pastors Blake and Beverly Lorenz of Global Revolution Church.
She met Beverly Lorenz through a prayer book page on the Internet social network
site Facebook.
Although Rifqa's family was searching for her and had
filed a missing persons report with Columbus police, the Lorenzes kept her for
two weeks without notify [sic] authorities.
Why don't Rene and Amy ask why it took close to two weeks for the
Barys to file their missing persons report? No. Rene and Any take
dictation.
FDLE will not say whether the
Lorenzes are under investigation. It is a crime in Florida to shelter an
unmarried juvenile for more than 24 hours without the consent of her parents or
notifying authorities.
The rubes are dying for good Christians to get thrown to the
lions for the crime of saving a young girl's life. This is how far the left has
descended into immoral madness.
The Lorenzes say they
were trying to protect a frightened teenager who was convinced her life was in
jeopardy.
It's enough. The girl has suffered enough. Leave her be.
Tomorrow is the hearing for Rifqa Bary. Let's review the case for Rifqa. (Her
words and video of her statement are here.)
Rifqa converted to Christianity in secret four years ago while
living in a devout Muslim household. Knowing what we know about honor killings and apostasy, there is real danger for the
welfare of this child. Are we going to throw the dice with a child's life?
If Rifqa had converted and her parents were "cool with it" as they claim, why
would she run thousands of miles? Why would she implore strangers to take her
in? Why run? Why is she terrified? She has refused to see her parents while she
is under foster care, and while she did want to see her siblings, her parents
allegedly did not comply and she has not seen her younger brother.
Why was Rifqa forced to lie about her eye? She did not have an accident. Her
brother threw something at her.
Why did the parents lie about their "indigent" status? Why did Mohamed Bary,
Rifqa's father, dissolve his business in July? The Barys were
still renting two homes, owned two businesses and traveled a lot up until the
very end of last month. Why the distraction of a sudden missing luggage story that led to ..... bankruptcy? And why have the
Barys hired a whole new legal team? Who is paying for it?
According to one family law attorney who reviewed the court
documents, Rifqa suffered years of psychological and physical abuse. Many times
punishment was meted out by her brother.
Alex Grey was removed from his mother's care because he
was overweight and the South
Carolina authorities blamed the mother, because she was not preparing
healthy food. Further, the mom, Jerry Grey, has been charged with neglect
(and put in jail) for allowing her
14-year old son, Alexander, to reach a dangerous weight (more here).
Why did the parents choose a radical mosque a half an hour from
their home when there were at least three that were closer? Why would Mohamed
Bary force Rifqa to attend the "Halaqah" Noor Center youth gatherings, which
lasted about five hours?
Rifqa said, "My father was very
intent on making sure that his children, and especially me, were raised deeply
in the faith of 'Original
Islam' which was taught at the Noor Center"
Patrick Poole has comprehensive coverage of the NOOR mosque and more on this rat pack shot:
Yes, that’s our local terror
sheikh, Hilliard resident Salah Sultan (right) hamming it up with Qaradawi
(center) and Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood leader Faisal al-Malawi (left). Sultan
serves on the board for two of Qaradawi’s organizations along with al-Malawi,
the International Association of Muslim Scholars and the European Council for
Fatwa and Research. Qaradawi and Malawi are both banned from the US for their
open support of HAMAS and other terrorist organizations, as well as for issuing
fatwas allowing for suicide bombings against civilians. In 2004, Qaradawi,
Malawi and Sultan issued a fatwa in the name of IAMS calling for jihad against
American troops in Iraq.
Sultan is also a member of the Fiqh Council of
North America, which bills itself as the top Islamic ruling body in the
US.
Here’s another shot of them laughing it up:
Rifqa cannot be returned to this town in Ohio where the local scholars glad
hand with the likes of a jihadist Islamic supremacist genocidal sheikh like Qaradawi.
The Noor Center's release says
that "hate groups appear to be using this family matter as an
opportunity to attack the Muslim community and Islamic organizations in order to
further their religious and political goals."
Uh, we have no religious or political goals - but certainly shariah does.
Islamic law does. Accusing truth tellers of what they are guilty of. It is their
modus operandi.
Rifqa told her story to as many as twenty adults before she fled. No one
would listen.
This girl has been abused enough. When she was brought into
custody in Florida, this tiny bit of a thing was shackled at the ankle and waist
and incarcerated with the juvenile
criminals. Shame on them.
Rifqa Bary is an honor student, a cheerleader - a good girl. Like Amina and Sarah Said, she lived two lives: she was a happy
productive successful student in school and a tortured, oppressed and brutalized
victim at home. Many in her school were shocked to hear that Rifqa, the
quintessential good girl, had run away from home; those close to her were not
surprised at all.
Many people ask, if her father was devout, how come she was a cheerleader?
Muslim girls who live in the West lead two lives. Just as Amina
and Sarah Said were honor students, star athletes, soccer players, tennis
players, etc., so was Rifqa. Amina and Sarah did it all. But their lives at home
are a polar opposite of the outside life. There is a constant struggle. The
murder always happens when the parent/family sees they have lost control of the
child. In the case of Amina and Sarah, the girls ran away. The mother lured them
back, and they were both dead less than 24 hours later. Aqsa Parvez had left the
house and was staying with friends when she too was lured back, only to be
murdered. Aasiya Zubair Hassan had filed for divorce from her moderate Muslim
husband Mo, a pillar in the community, when he chopped her head off back in February in Buffalo, New
York.
The girls live in a constant state of war, negotiating the terms of
surrender. The tug of war, the back and forth, goes on for years. The
negotiation precedes it for years. It is only when the parent loses control of
the child -- either they run away, file for divorce, leave the faith, etc., act
independently in some way -- that they are murdered in the final act of control.
They "win" and cleanse the family of the dishonor of their daughter's un-islamic
behavior.
Bary is a middle-class jeweler
with no documented history of abuse and no record of radical actions or beliefs.
Whatever his disagreements with Rifqa — and what parent of a teen hasn't had his
or her share? — he obviously had invested a lot in her care and
upbringing.
Most of the girls who are honor murdered in the West suffer abuse unknown to
law enforcement authorities. But the friends know. Teachers know. Amina and
Sarah told teachers, friends, etc. So did Rifqa ....for years.
I broke many stories in the Rifqa Bary case on the physical abuse of Rifqa
and the parents' financial situation. No media picked them up. The media only
ran the CAIR narrative (they are working with the family according to anti-Rifqa, pro Islam websites).
Not only is the media criminally negligent in not telling Rifqa's story, but
they use this terrible case to seize the opportunity to smear and rank on
Christianity. Christianity is the evil in all this, according to the media. The
vilification of the good Christian folks who took this girl in turns my stomach.
It is evil.
On several occasions friends of Rifqa would bring her down to the school
counselor because of bruises on her legs and her arms, beatings suffered at the
hands of her father and brother (sounds like Islam Said). The middle school, in a serious dereliction of
duty, did not report these beatings to child welfare services. Beatings were
random, violent, unprovoked. Take, for example, when Rifqa and her father
Mohammad were driving in the car. He would force her to wear the hijab, which
she hated. In her discomfort she would slouch down, embarrassed, and her father
would haul off and sock her in the face so that she never forgot to sit up
straight in her costume. The beatings were regular and so much a part of the
landscape of Rifqa's life that she became inured to them, just like Amina and
Sarah and Aqsa and every "honor" victim. (more here)
Rifqa: "He took that laptop and waved it in the air and he was
about to beat me with it, and he said, “If you have this Jesus in your heart,
you’re dead to me. You’re not my daughter.” And I refused to speak but he said,
“I will kill you. Tell me the truth.” In these words, bad words, cuss words. So
I knew that I had to get away"
That said, Rifqa Bary faces death. We
have seen these 'honor' murders spiking in
the West, partly because the West refuses to acknowledge the motivation
behind these heinous crimes. Despite societal denial, these crimes are taking place. Why wouldn't the welfare
of this child be the only consideration before the
court?
There is a very simple argument that must be made: (props to
Robert)
So it's her word against his. Will Mohamed Bary murder
his daughter, or bring about her death? Of course there is no way of
knowing. But we do know some things:
1. Mohamed Bary and his wife, pictured above right, appear to
be devout, observant Muslims -- Mrs. Bary, after all, has her head covered,
indicating that they respect at least some, if not all, Islamic laws.
3. Other Muslim fathers, as I point out here, have appeared to be credible, gentle
fellows as they lured their wayward daughters back home -- after they had run
away in fear for their lives. And then once they were back home, they murdered
them.
In light of those facts, the court would be foolish in
the extreme, when it convenes again on August 21, to expose Rifqa Bary to risk.
There is no doubt that this would not be done in other child welfare cases --
any reasonable suspicion that the child could be in physical danger is acted
upon immediately, and the child removed from the home. For what conceivable
reason should this case be different?
Further, what is being done to secure Rifqa's safety? She is, hands down, the
highest value target in America. She needs 24-hour protection. I hope a petition
to the court is being made for such protection.
Florida Department of Children and Family: George H. Sheldon,
Secretary 1317 Winewood Blvd. Building 1, Room 202 Tallahassee,
Florida Phone: (850)
487-1111 Fax:
(850) 922-2993
I thought Atlas readers would find it very telling to read the question and
answer session from yesterday's Rifqa Bary press conference. Notice how so few questions
address Rifqa. Why so little on the abuse? Why no questions on the Qaradawi
connection? Why no questions on Sultan? Why no questions about apostasy in
Islam? Why no questions on the very real danger Rifqa is in? Why no questions on
what a high value target Rifqa is? Why no questions on Mohamed Bary's claims of
poverty? Questions on Rifqa's friends? No. Teachers? No.
Why are the media so in the tank for the Islamists?
Mike Schneider from the Associated Press: "Just a quick question. A
lot of what you described kind of seems tangential to the case, I mean, has her
parents ever proclaimed support for the Muslim Brotherhood or supported
terrorist organizations? I mean, shouldn't the focus be on her
family?
John Stemburger: Well, her family are members of this mosque, they are
involved with these types, that's the problem, and they associate with people in
their home and on a regular basis are involved. It's obvious they're being
influenced by the unique teachings, which would be highly observant teachings of
this particular center. That should be a major concern to the court I would
think especially since its directly tied to their household.
Mediator: Does that answer your question, Mr.Schneider?
Mike Schneider: Oh yeah, there is a follow up if I could, um, given
the attention this has gotten from the Florida authorities, Ohio authorities,
the media, can you honestly say that you think that she'll be harmed if she goes
back to Ohio?
John Stemburger: Based upon everything that we have researched, and all the
experts that I have listened to, I think that there is no question in my mind
that if she is sent back to Ohio, it is only a matter of time before she slips
away into the night. The United Nations has reported that there are over 5000
honor killings or apostate killings a year, and so this is not something that
want Rifqa to be a statistic of. And we believe that it's in her best interests,
clearly to retain her stable placement here in Florida and to not have her
return to Ohio.
Mike Schneider: Thank you.
Wall Street caller: Question: Hello, I would like to know if you know
anything about the contact between the local CAIR chapter and the Orlando
Sentinel? Is this where the Orlando Sentinel is getting its version of the
case?
John Stemburger: I have no idea if there are any special relationships
between CAIR and the Orlando Sentinel, I think they are in cue too to ask a
question, so perhaps they can answer that question directly, so, but I don't
have any information for you.
Wall Street caller: Thank You
[Rene is the rube over at the Sentinel - Atlas]
Orlando Sentinel,
Rene Stutzman: Yeah, this is the Orlando Sentinel, Rene
Stutzman. Can you give me the names of the people at Noor Mosque that want Rifqa
dead?
John Stemburger: Rene, I think that after you read our brief the totally of
the circumstances present a direct danger to her. Obviously in this kind of a
situation you are not going to identify a specific person. Her father made
specific threats to her, that's a significant threat.
Orlando Sentinel, Rene Stutzman: Mr. Stemburger, also, could you tell
me, have you seen the report or gotten the summary of the FDLE's findings in
regards to its charge from the court?
John Stemburger: No, but I would eager to see those, do you have a copy of
those?
Orlando Sentinel, Rene Stutzman: Yes, sir.
John Stemburger: I do not have a copy of that but I would look forward to
seeing their findings. I imagine a lot it would be consistent with what we have
alleged here, but I have no idea of knowing that.
Orlando Sentinel, Rene Stutzman: Thank you.
Rachael WKMG: Can you tell me if she has spoken to her parents, and
does she still feel that they would be the ones to take action against her if
she went home or is more a concern of the more larger community from the Noor
Center?
John Stemburger: I am not aware that Rifqa has spoken
with her parents since she's been here in Florida, and Rifqa, in her statement
in court indicated that she definitely loves her family, but is threatened
because of the past beatings from her father, and the threats from her father.
My primary concern has to do more with the community which surrounds her
household and their daily lives as a result of this incident. I'm certain that
both are real and serious, but it's hard to know which would be more
serious.
Rachael WKMG: Ok, thank you.
Danielle Cangelosi, Fox News channel: Mr.Stemburger: I want to ask you if
Rifqa ever recalls her father using the language of "dishonoring the family" or
"dishonoring Islam". In the affidavit he threatened to kill her, I just wonder
if he ever specifically said that he would, he needed to take care of her
because she was dishonoring Islam or the family.
John Stemburger: I am not aware that she has indicated those specific
words
[Cangelosi was the FOX producer I worked with on their Honor Killing special back in June 2008 - Atlas]
Danielle Cangelosi, Fox News channel: So where did she, I mean did
she just base on her studies and what she knew about the faith is how she came
to the conclusion that it would be an honor killing if she
returned?
John Stemburger: She knew when she stepped into the Korean Methodist Church
years ago that she was doing something that would be viewed very very, with
great hostility, rather, and she had fear back then and continued to live with
fear until she escaped to Florida.
Danielle Cangelosi, Fox News channel: Um..also in the affidavit it
also, there also at the end, her mother threatened to send her back to Sri Lanka
to be dealt with there. Did she ever explain exactly what her mother meant by
saying "to be dealt with in Sri Lanka"?
John Stemburger: No, she did not explain it in detail, but the implication
was that she knew that Sri Lanka did not have the kind of protections the United
States had, and that it would not be a pretty situation.
Danielle Cangelosi, Fox News channel Ah, one more question. In the
household, was it, did her father uh, was it a strict Muslim household? You know
that in lot of the pictures on TV, she seemed to be very Western in that, it
looked like she was on the cheerleading team, because she didn't appear to have
to wear a burka or anything like that. I was just wondering if it was a strict
household? I mean in what ways?
John Stemburger: Ah, certainly.
It appeared that her father was encouraging all members of the family as
adherent as possible under the circumstance. If you look at the two young girls
that were killed in Texas in January of last year, they were modernized, they
were not devout Muslims at all, and so in a lot of these situations you have
kind of a tipping point where the child or the spouse becomes so westernized in
a variety of ways or so unadherent to certain traditions or practices, that
there's a tipping point and there's the ultimate demise.
Question: (UNCLEAR)
John Stemburger : We have literally gotten hundreds of communications from
Christians who were former Muslims. We've gotten communications from a variety
of types, people who just love her and want to pray for her, I mean it's really
difficult to keep up with the influx of communications, but there's a number of
people who have an interest in the matter.
Same Questioner: What about other Muslims (UNCLEAR)
John Stemburger: None specifically that I'm aware of. I'm sure that they are
out there but none that I'm aware of.
Same Questioner: Has Rifqa been able to visit at all with her brother or her
family..(UNCLEAR)
John Stemburger: The court allowed for her to visit with her younger brother
after the last hearing, however for some reason that visitation never took
place. It's possible that the parents just denied visitation with her, but we
have no way of knowing why it did not go down.
Mike Schneider, Associated Press: Hi John, Mike Schneider from the
Associated Press, I just hope that you could clarify something for me you said a
few minutes ago about past beatings, what did you mean by that?
John Stemburger : Her father has slapped her with such force that just
knocked her over. Her father asked her to wear the official headdress of Islam,
and because she, I guess, lowered her body down in the car so she couldn't be
seen, he punched her on the side of her face, with great force, because she was
ashamed of that.
John Stemburger : I do not have that specific information, it's not in the
affidavit, but it was in our original petition.
Mike Schneider Associated Press: Ok, thank you. Morry Radio:
Thank you very much. Mr. Stemburger, what is Rifqa'a emotional and spiritual
state right now, knowing all that has been at stake for her, in converting to
Christianity? Where is she now in her spiritual journey, and how is she
maintaining her faith despite the media attention and the horrendous threats
presented to her life
John Stemburger : I have to tell ya that Rifqa is a remarkable young lady,
she is petite in stature, almost stunningly petite, but she is robust and big in
heart, and it's just, while she has great moments of fear and apprehension, has
great hope and trust and joy. Her faith is very very real, much more than most
of ours, and that's a great source of hope and comfort to her.
Morry Radio: What kind of a future is she looking at, remaining in
foster care indefinitely, what will happen when she turns eighteen when other
legal matters may present for her to live an independent life? What is the
outlook of her future
John Stemburger: Those questions are beyond our, you know, the scope of this
conference. Obviously her goal is trying to get the state to protect her, at
least over the next year. Obviously when your free and you're a minor, you can
hire body guards, you can move about on your own, you can protect yourself, you
can move around to other parts of the country, you can freely go about in order
to protect yourself. Because of the circumstance now, we're trying to get her to
be , to remain under the custody of the state of Florida until she reaches the
age of maturity.
Morry Radio: Ah, very good. And have other people shown interest in taking
her under their wing, so to speak, into their households and would this be
permissible?
John Stemburger: Right now the court has specific orders that she's to be in
a licensed foster care home, and so that's where she will stay until the court
orders a new location.
Thank you very much for participating in this conference, this is very
important information, and we hope that you all will provide to the public, we
believe that much of the coverage, but not all of it, but much of it has been
one sided. And it's really been not focusing on the problem, and the problem is
not Islam, the problem is Noor Center, because this in a unique mosque, that has
unique beliefs and is extremely dangerous. Thank you very much for your time and
for participating.
Florida Department of Children and Family: George H. Sheldon,
Secretary 1317 Winewood Blvd. Building 1, Room 202 Tallahassee,
Florida Phone: (850)
487-1111 Fax:
(850) 922-2993
Thank you for attending this press event over the phone, we believe this
matter is of significant public interest. we appreciate your covering this
story.
My name is John Stemburger, I'm a Orlando trial lawyer, I've been practicing
for the last 14 years here in Orlando and throughout the state of Florida. I'm
an AV rated civil trial lawyer, I practice in the areas of personal injury,
commercial law and litigation. In addition to that I serve as a guardian ad
litim, volunteer for ten years, representing abused and neglected children, and
I've seen the silliest reasons for ripping kids out of their homes, like being
overweight, and I've seen the most horrific reasons like feeding babies cocaine
and locking them up in closets. so I have a little bit of the sense for the
background for the process of dependency and what's going on here with juveniles
when the state takes custody of them.
I am also a leading advocate in Florida for issues relating to family,
parents and children as well. I am here though however in my representation of a
private personal lawyer on the behalf of my firm, in representing Rifqa Bary and
not with any group that I might be affiliated with. We are announcing today the
filing of two documents which most of you have been provided......
But we are announcing the filing over an hour ago, two documents were filed.
First one was a special investigative, an intelligence memorandum, which is
supportive of the petition for dependency which is currently before the court,
and then secondly there is an accompanying affidavit, which the very first sworn
statement that's been filed in this case on the behalf of our client Rifqa
Bary.
Part of the reason for doing this announcement today is because some of the
media coverage in this matter has been at best, inaccurate in parts, and at
worst, just completely missing the point in the real issues in this case. They
have focused on a young pastor and his wife, Beverly and Blake Moran, who have
been pastors of a Methodist Church in this community for over 25 years. I don't
personally know them, I know of them, and they did probably what any of would do
in taking someone in who has indicated that their life was in danger. And we
also have had one-sided soft stories on just the parents point of view that
didn't ask any of the hard questions, or report on any of the allegations made
in our original petition.
The primary issue in this case, is the clear and present danger that is
presented by the Noor Center Mosque, and its ties to terrorist activity, and the
parents, that is the Bary parents' devotion to, and relationship with, and
regular weekly participation in the Noor Center. The memorandum we submitted in
support of the petition of dependency that is before the court, just to give you
some legal jargon, dependency actions are when the state is declaring whether or
not the state is to declare a minor child dependent because of its need for
protection. ...because of abuse, abandonment or neglect. And so when that
happens, it doesn't mean paternal rights are terminated, it just means that the
state takes custody of the child for the protecting them from the parents and
the home environment.
Our office and legal staff have been working around the clock to document the
materials we have provided, so first I'm going to draw your attention to the
investigation and intelligence memorandum we filed. Together with Rifqa's
affidavit, the documents we've presented demonstrate the parties to this cause,
namely Rifqa's parents, along with the family's physical relatives are directly
connected to the Noor Islamic Center, and that the Bary family has been and will
continue to be devoted members and follow leaders of the Noor Center.
The second issue that we have with the Noor Center, that its former Islamic
scholar Dr.Osama Sultan has been photographed with terrorist leaders designated
by the United States government. He has recently appeared on television inciting
violence against Jews, and he's previously appeared at an event in support of
designated terrorist organizations, while at the same time as an active member
of the Noor Center Community. Currently we believe with the best knowledge that
we have that he's been banned from reentering the US, because his citizenship
application has been denied.
The third issue with the Center is that they have had a number of extremist
speakers that have been featured at the Noor Center. Such speakers where the
Bary parents go to hear on a regular basis weekly, and sometimes bi-weekly, and
these speakers are on the record making statement in support of violence,
terrorism and extremism. And the evidence even indicates that some of these
speakers, and we've detailed it extensively in the body of the memo, have been
directly involved in the funding raising and supporting of this particular
Mosque since its inception.
And then the final issue is the Noor Center has also been tied to a nation
wide FBI terror investigation, and we've outlined that as well. CNN has covered
this, it has identified Columbus as the main center of the FBI investigation,
and the story was also the subject of a recent lengthy five page article in the
New York Times, which we've cited for you in the bottom of the memorandum as
well. This is the primary issue. Now we also have submitted an affidavit by our
client, Rifqa Bary, and this establishes, ok, we understand and I believe that
the facts are there to support the allegation that this Mosque has ties to
terrorist activities.
Rifqa's affidavit indicates that these parents, her parents were regularly
involved with this Mosque, and she makes several statements in her affidavit
including the fact where she arrived to the Columbus area, that her father and
her family visited two other Mosques in the area. They chose the Mosque that is
the one farthest away from home, there's only one Mosque out of the eight in the
region that is farther away than the Noor Mosque. She was required to attend
Halaqvah at the Noor Youth Center gatherings that last about five hours, and on
three separate occasions those activities were held in her home, official,
regular Noor Center gathering held in her home with other members of the Noor
Center present.
It's significant to realize that parents are encouraged to come with their
children, so at these youth meetings, it's not just young people, but were also
devoted members of this particular center as well, inside of Rifqa's home during
those times that they met there. During the summers, the primary gathering of
the Mosque is on Friday afternoon, and so Rifqa was not able to attend during
school, but during the summer she would also attend with her family because her
father required this and those meetings would last approximately three
hours.
Their family regularly socialized with other families from the Noor Center,
including eating with, including doing activities with. And finally it's
significant to recognize that while Rifqa believes that her parents may have
suspected that she had an interest in Christianity, they found a book in 2007
that was written and distributed by Rick Warren, it wasn't until the members of
the Noor Center community, the leaders contacted her father and informed that
they need to deal with this matter immediately, and that's when the big
confrontation came with Rifqa. And then finally once her mother found another
Christian book in her bedroom and threatened to send her back to Sri Lanka to be
dealt with, and that's when she escaped her home in fear for her life.
Let me say in closing, that this is not a case against Islam, and I want to
make this extremely clear, I was highly disappointed at the article in the
Orlando Sentinel today, which quoted only half of my quote. The vast majority of
Muslims in this country are peaceful, they're law abiding citizens and they
should be protected by the Constitution, embraced and really welcomed as
contributors to the great diversity that makes up what America is. But
unfortunately, a discredit to those moderate peaceful Muslims are a growing
number, a minority, but a growing minority of radical Islam members, of which
the Noor Mosque is associated with. We believe that this is significant, we
believe that the court will take judicial notice of this, and we believe that
the media should please let this information be known as well because this has
been such a matter of public interest.
After today's bombshell press conference - Rifqa Bary's statement and mosque
investigative report - there was not one, not two, but
three CAIR-fused anti-Rifqa articles at the Orlando
Sentinel today. Three. The shills at the Orlando Sentinel are
on the warpath against Rifqa Bary.
It's like watching a train wreck in slow moe. It is jaw dropping how vested the
media is in advancing CAIR's fallacious narrative against Rifqa and those
speaking in her defense. So much so they print the most ridiculous trash without so much as a question mark. They
ignore everything that validates Rifqa's claims.
Armaros wrote in a previous thread:
But what
horse does the media have in this? Are they so afraid that their
kids might be lured into Christianity by on line predator missionaries?
.....they fear them
more than AL Queda, as Al Queda was "exaggerated" by Bush and Cheney. Christians
are the enemy. Their bibles, guns and pick up trucks. Hell if it weren't for
them and "their president" Bush, Muslims would be in deep love with us.
They have latched on
to the religious euphoria, which Rifqa is obviously exhibiting, and assume as if
it was unique or somehow due to the Pastor couple who have taken her in. All
converts go through this phase. Especially if met with such adversity which also
happens to revolve around their new faith. How many shills have we heard
about John Walker Taliban Lindt? The explanations for his "misguided yet
well meaning" euphoria he felt about Islam were so many I lost count. As well as
concerns for his safety.
Will he be devoured
by inmates in prison? Should he get extra protection...?
And above all, how
he must be able to continue practicing his faith. All that while the real
question should have been whether to hang him or shoot him for his treason.
It is
striking how the media let themselves be played. They ignore everything and
anything relating to the Barys. Nothing even seems odd to them. Their suspicion
is 100% with the other side. Not 60% or 80%. 100%.
The US immigration
paper Pamela posted indicates that Mr Bary violated the conditions required for
permanent residency in the USA. That being, the 6 years continuous presence on
US territory. It appears from his own accounts that he was going on business
trips while he was supposed to stay put in the US. Not that this makes one a
murderer or reveal sinister things.
Still strikes me as odd when papers
so kindly miss this, and all the other shenanigans like if this was the 08
election campaign.
I think the Bary
side is already playing a field ahead. I believe they resigned to the
possibility that the Florida court will move in favor of a child's welfare,
especially given her age of 17. It will be judged that she was old enough to
assess danger if she saw it.
-At least I hope
that.
So the Bary camp is
already setting up the narrative for the next round. For this they have
enlisted the sympathetic, naive and politically correct media. The narrative
being, their poverty, misfortune and victim hood to Islamophobia and a right
wing christian conspiracy after the economic misfortunes of Mr Bary having lost
his shipment in 2001 and his unfair treatment by the INS.
[Needless to say ..... the Barys were still renting two homes, owned two
businesses and traveled a lot. Up until the very end of last month. Ignoring his
business dissolution and distracting with this luggage story says more about the journalism at the Sent
and StP Times than the Bary camp who is trying to win a fight.]
These new
"revelations" are readying them to face off at a higher venue. This is why they
re feeding the media with these stories and this is why the christianophobic
liberal establishment is taking up their cause. Such cause being based in a lie,
that Rifqa was converted and brainwashed by child stealing christian fanatics.
Leaving behind in shatters the Bary family after all the other injustices they
have suffered, including being refused permanent status in the USA because of
silly and archaic immigration rules. Those "un american" rules Pelosi was
pontificating about when pimping herself for the "legalize them all"
crowd.
[Rifqa Bary] claimed in court
documents Monday that her family's mosque in Ohio has terrorist ties — a
charge disputed by the Islamic center's leader.
What did the tools at the Sentinel expect? That the mosque would say, Oh yes,
we are extremists tied to Hamas! Such stupidity takes the breath away. Here is
the evidence of the terror ties here, here, and here.
In a 35-page memorandum filed Monday in Orange County family
court, attorney John Stemberger claims Fathima Rifqa Bary, who will remain in
foster care in Florida at least until a hearing on Thursday, should not be
returned to the custody of her parents, Mohamed and Aysha Bary, because of their
connection to the Noor Islamic Cultural Center near Columbus, Ohio.
"The leader of the mosque, Dr. Hany Saqr, was previously an imam
for another area mosque at the same time the largest known Al Qaeda cell in the
U.S. since 9/11 was operating out of the mosque," the document read.
"Additionally, Dr. Saqr was identified in exhibits submitted by the Department
of Justice in a recent terrorism finance trial in Texas as being one of the
leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America — an international
organization responsible for birthing virtually every Islamic terrorist
organization in the world, including Al Qaeda."
The center also is affiliated with Dr. Salah Sultan, a "cleric
alleged photographed with terrorist leaders designated as such by the U.S.
government," according to the document, and frequently hosts "extremist
speakers" who have allegedly made statements supporting violence and
terrorism.
Back to the dhimmi Sentinel:
Rifqa Bary, 17, said in a sworn
statement her family regularly attended gatherings at the Noor Islamic Cultural
Center in suburban Columbus, Ohio, and her attorney said in a memo the
mosque hosted extremist speakers and supported a scholar with ties to the
militant group Hamas.
One can only imagine what a Hamas ideologue mosque would do with a
little girl like Rifqa Bary. I mean, think about it.
Hany Saqr, director of the Noor
Center, refuted all the allegations raised by the teenager's
attorney.
Shocka!
[...]
"At our center we
know that people accept Islam, some people accept Christianity, some people
accept Judaism," Saqr said. "Based on our religion we think that there's no
compulsion to religion. Everybody has the right to choose whatever religion he
wants to."
This is, of course, how Islamic
groups in the U.S. have reacted to every act of violence and every threat that
any Muslim has issued in recent years: they've raised fears of a non-existent
"backlash" and claimed they're being persecuted, rather than address the root
causes of the violence and brutality within their own community. And the
bemused, befuddled multiculturalists in the mainstream media go along with it
happily, every time.
The Orlando Sentinel has been
engaging in a full-scale campaign to discredit Rifqa
Bary and her defenders. Pamela Geller skewered a few of their recent
propaganda pieces here, here, and here. And here's the Sentinel's latest fresh steaming pile of
Rifqa coverage:
"Muslims fear runaway girl's
case will fuel religious hatred," by Jeff Kunerth for the Orlando Sentinel, (more at Jihadwatch
here)
Rifqa said, "My father was very intent on making sure that his children, and
especially me, were raised deeply in the faith of 'Original Islam' which was
taught at the Noor Center"
Florida Department of Children and Family: George H. Sheldon,
Secretary 1317 Winewood Blvd. Building 1, Room 202 Tallahassee,
Florida Phone: (850)
487-1111 Fax:
(850) 922-2993
Finally, Rifqa gets a chance to tell her
story - PDF here. As Modernist pointed out in the comment section, Rifqa has
never changed her story, while her father has changed his story continually.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ORANGE
COUNTY, FLORIDA
State of Florida County of Orange
BEFORE ME, the undersigned
authority, personally appeared, Fathima Rifqa Bary, deposes and says: 1. My
name is Fathima Rifqa Bary. I am seventeen years of age having been born on
August 10, 1992 and I am of sound mind and personal knowledge of the facts
herein;
2. My family and I moved from Sri Lanka to the Hollis/ Queens are
in New York in 2000;
3. When I was twelve, in 2004, our family moved from
Hollis/Queens, New York to Gahanna, Ohio; 4. Upon arriving in the
new area, my father began to research Mosques in the region;
5. After
visiting a couple of other Mosques in the area, including the "Islamic Center"
in Columbus, my father decided that our family would join and become active in
the "Noor Islamic Culture Center" (Noor Center) located in Dublin,
Ohio;
6. The Noor Center was a twenty five minute drive from our house
and there were eight other Mosques that were closer to out home in the Columbus
area;
7. My father was very intent on making sure that his children, and
especially me, were raised deeply in the faith of "Original Islam" which was
taught at the Noor Center;
8. Our family attended the Noor Center
gatherings as much our schedules would allow;
9. Every Saturday my father
required me to attend the "Halaqah" Noor Center youth gatherings which lasted
about five hours. My father and mother would often attend these meetings with me
as all Noor Center parents were encouraged to attend youth meetings,
10.
On three separate occasions, the regular official Saturday Noor Center youth
gatherings were held in our home with other members of the Noor Center
present;
11. In the summers, my Father required our whole family to also
attend the Noor Center major gatherings held every Friday afternoon. This was
the main meeting of the week which members were required to attend which lasted
about three hours;
12. My father also required us to attend the major
Islamic holidays such as Ramadan at the Noor Center;
13. Our family
regularly socialized with other members of the Noor Center community;
14.
My father was a committed member of the Noor Center and required our family to
attend as much as possible;
15. I became a Christian on Friday, November
18, 2005 at the Korean United Methodist Church in Columbus, Ohio;
16. I
hid my Christian faith from my parents as best as I could and had to sneak
around to attend Christian campus meetings, I also hid my Bible at home in
various locations;
17. In about 2007 my father discovered a copy of a
book entitled the "
The Purpose Driven Life
" by Rick
Warren that I hid in my bedroom. My father had a serious talk with me about the
importance of retaining the Islamic blood line in my family but I did not tell
him about my conversion;
18. In June of 2009 my father confronted me with
several questions about whether I had become a Christian, whether I was
baptized, if I was going to church. Out of fear I remained silent;
19.
Then my father told me that he received numerous emails and phone calls from the
leaders of the Noor Center community who informed him that he needed to deal
with this matter immediately;
20. In a fit of anger that I had never seen
before in my life, he picked up my lap top, waived it over my head as if to
strike me with it and said "if you have this Jesus in your heart, you are dead
to me! You are no longer my daughter." I continued to remain silent and then he
said to me even more angry then before, I will kill you! Tell me the
truth!"
21. On July 17, 2009, my mother confronted me about another
Christian book she discovered that I hid in my bedroom. She had just spoken with
my father was on the phone who was out of town. She was very upset, in tears,
and almost grieving and told me I was going to have to be sent back to Sri Lanka
to be dealt with.
I am on a 2 pm live press conference call right now. These two documents were
just filed, Rifqa's statement and the investigation of the NOOR center here .
The primary concern for Rifqa's wellbeing deals with the terror tied NOOR
Islamic Center: the fact that her parents joined the most radical mosque (the
furthest away from her home). Meetings for the NOOR were held at Rifqa's
home.
I am listening to John Stemberger make a major announcement that relates to
the Rifqa Bary case. Please see the text below for more information. I am
recording so you can hear the whole thing.
"Part of the reason for doing
this announcement today is because some of the media coverage has been at best,
inaccurate, in parts and at worst, just completely missing the point and the
real issues in this case."
2:20 pm: Renee the rube (Orlando Sentinel) wants the names
of those at the NOOR mosque who "want Rifqa dead". John Stemberger declines to
name names and urges Renee to read the investigative document.
The Orlando Sentinel plans on running a shill piece on the parents everyday
until the hearing Thursday. Here's today's dhimmi piece, and they are not ashamed(!)
Nidra Poller (we love huh!) asks about the connection between the Orlando
Sentinel and CAIR.
Thank you for attending this press event over the phone, we believe this
matter is of significant public interest. we appreciate your covering this
story.
My name is John Stemburger, I'm
a Orlando trial lawyer, I've been practicing for the last 14 years here in
Orlando and throughout the state of Florida. I'm an AV rated civil trial lawyer,
I practice in the areas of personal injury, commercial law and litigation. In
addition to that I serve as a guardian ad litim, volunteer for ten years,
representing abused and neglected children, and I've seen the silliest reasons
for ripping kids out of their homes, like being overweight, and I've seen the
most horrific reasons like feeding babies cocaine and locking them up in
closets. so I have a little bit of the sense for the background for the process
of dependency and what's going on here with juveniles when the state takes
custody of them.
I am also a leading advocate in Florida for issues
relating to family, parents and children as well. I am here though however in my
representation of a private personal lawyer on the behalf of my firm, in
representing Rifqa Bary and not with any group that I might be affiliated with.
We are announcing today the filing of two documents which most of you have been
provided......
But we are announcing the filing over an hour ago, two
documents were filed. First one was a special investigative, an intelligence
memorandum, which is supportive of the petition for dependency which is
currently before the court, and then secondly there is an accompanying
affidavit, which the very first sworn statement that's been filed in this case
on the behalf of our client Rifqa Bary.
Part of the reason for doing this
announcement today is because some of the media coverage in this matter has been
at best, inaccurate in parts, and at worst, just completely missing the point in
the real issues in this case. They have focused on a young pastor and his wife,
Beverly and Blake Moran, who have been pastors of a Methodist Church in this
community for over 25 years. I don't personally know them, I know of them, and
they did probably what any of would do in taking someone in who has indicated
that their life was in danger. And we also have had one-sided soft stories on
just the parents point of view that didn't ask any of the hard questions, or
report on any of the allegations made in our original petition.
The
primary issue in this case, is the clear and present danger that is presented by
the Noor Center Mosque, and its ties to terrorist activity, and the parents,
that is the Bary parents' devotion to, and relationship with, and regular weekly
participation in the Noor Center. The memorandum we submitted in support of the
petition of dependency that is before the court, just to give you some legal
jargon, dependency actions are when the state is declaring whether or not the
state is to declare a minor child dependent because of its need for protection.
...because of abuse, abandonment or neglect. And so when that happens, it
doesn't mean paternal rights are terminated, it just means that the state takes
custody of the child for the protecting them from the parents and the home
environment.
Our
office and legal staff have been working around the clock to document the
materials we have provided, so first I'm going to draw your attention to the
investigation and intelligence memorandum we filed. Together with Rifqa's
affidavit, the documents we've presented demonstrate the parties to this cause,
namely Rifqa's parents, along with the family's physical relatives are directly
connected to the Noor Islamic Center, and that the Bary family has been and will
continue to be devoted members and follow leaders of the Noor Center.
INVESTIGATION AND INTELLIGENCE
MEMORANDUM
IN SUPPORT OF PETITION FOR
DEPENDENCY
COMES NOW the minor child Fathima
Rifqa Bary by and through her undersigned counsel and files this “Investigation
and Intelligence Memorandum” in support of the Petition for Dependency before
this court. Together with Rifqa Bary’s Affidavit attached as “Exhibit A” the
documents demonstrate that that parties to this cause, namely Rifqa’s parents,
along with the family’s physical residence are directly connected to the Noor
Islamic Center and that the Bary family has been and will continue to be devoted
members and followers of the leaders and teachings of the Noor Center. The
following memorandum presents extensive documentation establishing ties to the
Noor Center has with terrorist groups and the extreme danger this presents to
the minor.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Noor Islamic Cultural Center
(hereinafter the Noor Center) in the Columbus, Ohio area is wholly owned by the
American Islamic Waqf, an Ohio corporation. It is controlled by a self-appointed
board and operates an extensive facility in the Columbus suburbs. The mosque LAW
OFFICES OF JOHN STEMBERGER, P.A. 4853 S. Orange Avenue, Suite C Orlando, Florida
32806 Telephone (407)
251-1957
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membership is quite diverse in
ethnicity and background; however, it has been identified as one of the primary
sources of Islamic extremism in Central Ohio. As this facility is the spiritual
home and directly connected to the Bary family’s daily and weekly life as set
forth in Rifqa Bary’s Affidavit, (Exhibit A) concerns about the mosque’s
leadership and ideology are critical to understanding the potential threat to
Rifqa Bary and this Honorable Court’s decision about whether she should be
declared a dependent of the state and or whether or not she should she be
returned to her family.
I. THE NOOR CENTER CEO AND THE MUSLIM
BROTHERHOOD
The leader of the mosque, Dr. Hany
Saqr, was previously an imam for another area mosque at the same time the
largest known Al-Qaeda cell in the U.S. since 9/11 was operating out of the
mosque. Additionally, Dr. Saqr was identified in exhibits submitted by the
Department of Justice in a recent terrorism finance trial in Texas as being one
of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America – an international
organization responsible for birthing virtually every Islamic terrorist
organization in the world, including Al-Qaeda. One of his subordinates
identified in those trial exhibits was identified in a FBI memorandum as
providing $735,000 to Hamas while under Dr. Saqr’s direction.
II.
THE NOOR CENTER SCHOLAR AND TERRORIST LEADERS
A former Islamic scholar
associated with The Noor Center is Dr. Salah Sultan, a cleric that has been
photographed with terrorist leaders designated as such by the U.S. government.
Dr. Sultan has recently appeared on television inciting violence against Jews,
and he has previously appeared at events in support of designated terrorist
organizations while an active part of the Noor Center community. Following his
departure to Bahrain, unconfirmed reports indicate that his US citizenship
application has been denied and that he has been banned from reentering the
US.
III.
THE NOOR CENTER AND EXTREMIST SPEAKERS
A number of extremist speakers
have been featured at recent Noor Center events who are on record making
statements in support of violence, terrorism and extremism. Evidence also
indicates that some of these speakers have been LAW OFFICES OF JOHN STEMBERGER,
P.A. 4853 S. Orange Avenue, Suite C Orlando, Florida 32806 Telephone (407)
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3 directly involved in fundraising
and supporting the mosque since its inception. One regular speaker and
fundraiser for the Noor Center was listed by federal prosecutors as an
unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing trial.
IV.
THE NOOR CENTER TIED TO NATIONWIDE FBI TERROR INVESTIGATION
The Noor Center has also been
directly tied to the ongoing nationwide investigation into Somali-American
youths who have left the U.S. to train in terror camps operated by the
Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab terror organization. CNN has identified Columbus as
one of the main centers of the FBI’s investigation. This story was recently the
subject of a lengthy front-page New York Times story. One Minneapolis mosque
leader who has been named by others in the Somali community as allowing
Al-Shabaab recruiters to operate in his mosque was a featured speaker at a Noor
Center Somali youth conference just last November. And a Noor Center Somali
youth has appeared repeatedly with another Minneapolis imam who has been
questioned by the FBI regarding more than a dozen of mosque attendees who have
left under such circumstances and been placed by the Department of Homeland
Security on the no-fly list. Additionally, there are also other extremist
elements in the Central Ohio Muslim community that raise concerns about Rifqa’s
potential safety in light of the national media attention to this case. One
example already mentioned is the Al-Qaeda cell that had been operating in the
area. The nationwide FBI investigation into the missing Somali youths has
focused on Columbus as one possible hotspot for terrorist recruitment, as the
city with the second largest Somali population in the country.
Florida Department of Children and Family: George H. Sheldon,
Secretary 1317 Winewood Blvd. Building 1, Room 202 Tallahassee,
Florida Phone: (850)
487-1111 Fax:
(850) 922-2993
Notice how the shills are going after everyone and everything surrounding
Rifqa except the truth. They write fallacious reports as to the who and the
where, but never the why. Never the why Rifqa ran. The St. Petersburg Times
is getting in on the return Rifqa to terror movement.
What is beyond the pale is that the media and the Islamists are calling for
charges to be brought against those that provided sanctuary to the teen who
begged for shelter from a family and a community that takes no prisoners. No one
is talking about bringing the the parents up on child endangerment charges or
conspiracy to commit murder charges. Why is that?
This entire article is about prosecuting the Pastor for providing sanctuary.
Of course the Pastor didn't break the law. That's not the point. It is to
discourage anybody from taking in a Muslim girl who runs from Islam. That's what
this is about.
Have you ever seen a pimp who prostitutes teen runaways persecuted the way
the Pastor and his lovely wife Beverly have been? The most foul accusations have
been hurled at these fine people. Smears manufactured by the leftist Islamic
machine. Has anyone in the press asked Rifqa what she thinks of the people that
took he in?
Rifqa Bary, the Ohio teenager who
ran away from her Muslim family, lived in the Orlando home of evangelical
pastors Blake and Beverly Lorenz for 16 days before authorities knew where she
was.
Florida law says you can't shelter
an unmarried minor for more than 24 hours without calling either the authorities
or the parents or guardians of the minor.
Sheltering an unmarried
minor is a first-degree misdemeanor. First-degree misdemeanors are punishable by
up to a year in prison.
The language of the law is clear.
What's not clear is whether authorities are investigating the Lorenzes and what
they did or didn't do when they took in the young Christian convert in late
July.
The Orlando police say their
involvement in the case is over.
State Department of Children and
Families officials say they're not investigating. They asked the Florida
Department of Law Enforcement to do that.
Prosecutors in the State
Attorney's Office in Orlando say they're waiting to see what the FDLE
concludes.
"At this point," FDLE spokeswoman
Kristen Perezluha said, "we're not going to be in a position to say if what the
pastor did was breaking the law or not. We might be able to comment later."
The Bary parents want something
done.
"The 21/2 weeks that Rifqa was
missing were a living hell for the parents. Was she dead? Was she alive?" said
Shayan Elahi, an Orlando lawyer who's serving as a spokesman for the family.
"The Lorenzes, under the statute, had the obligation to go to the authorities
and they did not.
"They didn't follow the law,"
Elahi said.
Rifqa, 17, fled from her family's
home near Columbus, Ohio, because she believes her parents must murder her in an
Islam-mandated "honor killing" due to her conversion to Christianity.
She has been a Christian for four
years. She has also accused her parents of past mental and physical abuse.
The parents, Mohamed, a jeweler,
and Aysha, a homemaker, deny all the allegations, saying they love her and want
her back home, and that she's free to practice whatever religion she wants.
The case for many people has
turned into a high-pitched, polarizing battle between religions. The court
system sees a dependency matter.
Last Friday, a judge in Orlando
decided that the girl should stay in Florida with a foster family, while the
FDLE looks into the legitimacy of her claims.
The next hearing is Sept. 3.
Last month, the girl came to
Orlando because she had met Beverly Lorenz through a Facebook prayer group,
United States of Prayer. They exchanged messages during the spring and early
summer, and late one night in early July talked for 15 minutes on the phone,
praying together.
The girl's first full day in
Orlando was July 22.
Blake Lorenz, 53, said last week
in phone interviews with the Times that at some point he might have
asked the girl if she should call home. "I may have," he said. He said she said
no.
He said his first call to the DCF
was in late July. The DCF says it can't confirm that the caller was Blake Lorenz
— it's an anonymous tip line — but can say that it got a call about this matter
on July 29. Blake Lorenz said he didn't give the girl's name.
"They told me they were going to
send her back to Ohio, probably, and I said, 'I'm not going to give her name,' "
he said. "We didn't want her to go back to Ohio. We were trying to protect her
life."
He said his second call to the DCF
was sometime in the first week of August. The DCF says it got that call on Aug.
6, two weeks after Rifqa arrived in Orlando.
That's the call that triggered a
sequence of calls from one law enforcement agency to the next and ended with the
Orlando police showing up on Aug. 7 at the Lorenzes' four-bedroom house in a
gated community to pick her up.
"There was no criminal intent,"
Blake Lorenz told the Times last week. "This girl came fleeing for her
life."
There have been a good number of lies circulated by big media to counter what
has recently been discovered about the Bary family finances. Today we saw the
Orlando Sentinel paint the "doting father" - here is what Renee the rube
reporter wrote in the Orlando Sentinel:
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Mohamed Bary is
a doting Muslim father, intent on giving his daughter the best
education he can. But he says he made a terrible mistake last
October: He bought her a laptop computer.
A source very close to Rifqa told me that Rifqa bought that computer
out of her own money. It is so interesting (and disgusting) that the
'doting' dad is now claiming he should have never bought the computer.
I am hearing that the Bary parents have a new legal team. Who is paying for
that?
Rifqa told the judge she'd been
a Christian for four years. Her parents learned of her conversion a year ago —
and that she had kept her new faith a secret from them. She proclaimed
herself a Christian on her Facebook page in 2007.
People who know the Barys say
Rifqa's allegations are crazy.
So these "people" say Rifqa is "crazy". Would you send Rifqa back
to a town where they say she is crazy?
"There is no way this man would
hurt his daughter," said Neil Javery, 52, a Hindu and family friend in
Westerville, the Columbus suburb where the Barys live. [...] Away from
home, though, Rifqa was open about her faith. She gathered with other students
for "See you at the Pole," an annual prayer service held at schools around the
country. Until about three months ago, she attended a youth group at the tiny
Korean United Methodist Church in Columbus.
She carried a Bible to
class. That upset her parents, who told her they were afraid — not that
she had converted to another faith but that she'd get in trouble for violating
the separation of church and state.
The devout parents were worried about the separation of church
and state? Say what? And if it was so "safe" for Rifqa to
practice her Christian faith, why did she run? Why did she spend 20 hours on a
bus? Why would she speak of such abuse?
When Rifqa was born, her family
was wealthy and lived in Galle, Sri Lanka. They owned a large house and enjoyed
the benefits of a driver, a cook and a maid.
Rifqa was a tiny newborn,
just 5 pounds, and very quiet, Aysha Bary said. When Rifqa was 5, she fell onto
a toy airplane. It left her blind in the right eye.
This story is a lie. She did not
fall.
Her father insisted she get
medical care in the United States. He feared her care would mean a long
separation from his wife and son, so he moved the family to Queens, N.Y., in 2000.
In 2004, he moved them to the
Columbus area because of its excellent public schools.
By the time the
Barys moved here, though, they were no longer wealthy. Two months after
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Mohamed Bary was on a business trip, flying with
a bag of gems, as he often did. This time, the airline ordered him to check the
bag. It was lost. It contained nearly $400,000 worth of jewels, said David
Leung, 48, of Worthington, Ohio, a close family friend. Financially, the family
has not recovered, he said.
Here is the same amount being cited in Mohamed Bary's application to the US
Citizenship and Immigration Services. His application was denied. I wonder
why.
The Barys live in a small,
two-bedroom apartment and own one car, an 11-year-old Honda station wagon that
has 225,000 miles on it.
A week ago, Rifqa's parents and brothers, ages 5
and 18, climbed into that car and drove 16 hours to Orlando for a court hearing.
They had hoped the judge would order Rifqa back to Ohio.
What judge would order a child back to such a dangerous
situation?
But by then thousands of people
had seen Rifqa on YouTube, crying and saying that her father, because he is a
Muslim, has no option but to kill her for abandoning Islam. Gov. Charlie Crist's office received hundreds of e-mails —
much of it anti-Muslim — urging him block her return to Ohio.
Anti-Muslim as opposed to life saving. How low will these trolls go?
He did not, but he sent his general counsel, Rob Wheeler, and DCF Secretary
George Sheldon to the Aug. 21 hearing. While they sat watching, a DCF lawyer
asked the judge to put off a decision on returning Rifqa to Ohio until Sept. 3.
He did.
DCF also asked the judge to let the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement investigate whether Rifqa's father and other Muslims in Columbus are
a threat to her. The judge said yes to that, as well.
FDLE agents and
child welfare workers inspected the family's home and questioned Rifqa's parents
last week.
"I'm happy they came," her father said. "We have nothing to
hide."
He and his wife are modern Muslims, he said. Now, during the holy
month of Ramadan, a time of prayer, they eat nothing between sunrise and sunset.
Until this year Rifqa fasted with them.
Their prayers this year, her
father said, are that Rifqa will come back to them.
"We want our daughter
back home," he said. "She can practice whatever religion she
wants."
Salam al-Marayati of the Muslim
Public Affairs Council, a thoroughly unpleasant character with whom I have
appeared on many radio shows (on which he invariably likens me to Osama bin
Laden, although I have never flown any planes into buildings, beheaded anyone,
or exhorted anyone to do so), attacks Rifqa Bary, the seventeen-year-old girl
who converted from Islam to Christianity and fled from her home and father after
he threatened to kill her (as she explains here),
and her supporters in a contemptuous, dishonest, condescending and arrogant
piece at the Huffington Post, "Rifqa, the Reverand [sic] and Apostasy"
(August 18).
Hugh
Fitzgerald and Andy Bostom have already weighed in on this utterly
contemptible article, but I have a few things to add.
Al-Marayati is intent on impugning
Rifqa's
own testimony in favor of her father's protestations that he does not intend
to kill her -- and indeed, it is her word against his, and the only price we
will have to pay if al-Marayati turns out to be wrong is a murdered teenage
girl. To support his case, al-Marayati makes essentially two points, both
encapsulated in this sentence: "Mohamed Bary allowed his daughter to become a
cheerleader and says she can practice any faith she wants -- clearly, he is not
a fundamentalist."
His first point is thus that
Mohamed Bary, by allowing his daughter to prance around in skimpy cheerleader
costumes, clearly was not the sort to insist on the finer points of Islamic law
like the death penalty for apostasy (which al-Marayati implies does not exist
anyway, so it's hard to see why it would be a feature of "fundamentalism" in the
first place). However, honor killing victims in the West have invariably been
girls who have been Westernized, adopting Western non-Muslim mores to the
growing dismay of their male relatives. Al-Marayati's point is that if Mohamed
Bary were a "fundamentalist," he would not have allowed Rifqa to become
Westernized in the first place. Real life, however, is not always that simple.
Honor killing victims like Amina and Sarah Said in Texas and Aqsa Parvez in
Canada appear to been quite Westernized for a considerable period before their
relationships with their fathers reached a tipping point, and they were
murdered. Rifqa Bary fled before that could happen, but the fact that she was a
hijab-less cheerleader indicates nothing. Pamela Geller explains further in responding to the same claim from Mike
Thomas of the Orlando Sentinel:
Victims are generally beautiful, Westernized, and dressed in a manner that
perhaps Thomas would term “provocative.” Muslim girls who live in the West lead
two lives. Amina and Sarah Said, allegedly murdered by their father in Texas on
New Year’s Day 2008 for having non-Muslim boyfriends, were honor students, star
athletes, soccer players, tennis players, etc. Rifqa was the same way in Ohio
before she fled. These girls led double lives. The murder always happens when
the family sees they have lost control of the
child.
Al-Marayati's second point is
that, contrary to Rifqa's own claim, the Qur'an says nothing about killing
apostates:
She claims that her parents "love God more than me" and therefore have to
perform an honor killing on her. She argues "it's in the Quran". No it's not,
sweet little Rifqa. It's not in the Quran. Whoever told you that is either
ignorant or a liar. You should look it up yourself before claiming it's in the
Quran.
Rev. Lorenz is then quoted in a local television station report saying that
if a Muslim leaves his religion and does not return to Islam in a couple of
days, then he must be killed. He claims that someone showed him the verse. There
is no such verse, Rev. Lorenz. In every faith, apostasy is shunned but ultimate
judgment is left to God, not people.
Two things are being confused
here: honor killing and the death penalty for apostasy. Honor killing is not
discussed directly in the Qur'an, although it is given strong implicit support
by 18:74, 80-81, when the mysterious figure known in Islamic tradition as Khidr,
traveling with the prophet Moses, kills a young man Moses terms "innocent"
(18:74). Khidr explains: "And as for the lad, his parents were believers and we
feared lest he should oppress them by rebellion and disbelief. So we desired
that their Lord would give them in exchange (a son) better in purity (of
conduct) and closer in affection." The young man is murdered because he is an
unbeliever, so that his parents may be given a believing child in exchange. (Why
the unbelieving son has to be killed before the believing son can be given to
them is not explained.) Thus the precedent is set: a child who is an unbeliever
is killed for his unbelief.
The death penalty for apostasy is
found more directly in the Qur'an -- Islamic authorities generally root it in
two Qur'anic verses, 2:217 and 4:89, as Hugh has noted. Here is 2:217:
They ask thee concerning fighting in the Prohibited Month. Say: "Fighting
therein is a grave (offence); but graver is it in the sight of Allah to prevent
access to the path of Allah, to deny Him, to prevent access to the Sacred
Mosque, and drive out its members." Tumult and oppression are worse than
slaughter. Nor will they cease fighting you until they turn you back from your
faith if they can. And if any of you turn back from their faith and die in
unbelief, their works will bear no fruit in this life and in the Hereafter; they
will be companions of the Fire and will abide therein.
What does it mean that the works
of those who "turn back from their faith and die in unbelief" will "bear no
fruit in this life" as well as in the next? Let's go for an answer to the
Tafsir al-Qurtubi, a classic and thoroughly mainstream exegesis of the
Qur'an. About 2:217, Qurtubi says this:
Scholars disagree about whether or not apostates are asked to repent. One
group say that they are asked to repent and, if they do not, they are killed.
Some say they are given an hour and others a month. Others say that they are
asked to repent three times, and that is the view of Malik. Al-Hasan said they
are asked a hundred times. It is also said that they are killed without being
asked to repent.
Did you notice one option that
Qurtubi never mentions? That's right: he never says anything like "some say the
apostate should not be killed." The only point of contention seems to be how
long the Muslim must wait before he kills the apostate.
Meanwhile, 4:89 says this:
They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the
same footing (as they). But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in
the way of Allah (from what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize
them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or
helpers from their ranks.
Just for the record, Rifqa had no laptop when she converted four years
ago.
Rifqa Bary says: "And I had a laptop and he took that
laptop and waved it in the air and he was about to beat me with it, and he said,
'If you have this Jesus in your heart, you’re dead to me. You’re not my
daughter.' And I refused to speak but he said, 'I will kill you. Tell me the
truth.' In these words, bad words, cuss words. So I knew that I had to get
away.
The deception to cover and advance Islam is staggering over at the dhimmi
Sentinel. Decrying Christian extremists and diabolical laptops, everyone and
everything is to blame, but Islam and the laws mandating the death penalty for
apostasy are never called into question. This is Nazi propaganda.
And this is the case they are going to make to the courts. There is a reason
such trash is being printed. The Huffington Post printed a giant lie about
apostasy today in regards to Rifqa (look for Spencer's piece later on that).
Let me first digress and dispense with Al-Maryati’s crudely unsophisticated
taqiya [3]. Yes, despite Al-Maryati’s denial, apostasy is mentioned in the
Koran—Koran 4:89 [4] most prominently—and the punishment is death, as noted for
example by two of the most important classical Koranic exegetes, Baydawi and Ibn
Kathir, in their commentaries on this verse. Al-Maryati’s crude taqiya fully
ignores the fact that punishment by death for apostasy from Islam is firmly
rooted in all the most holy Muslim texts—both the Koran, and the hadith—as well
as the sacred Islamic Law (the Shari’a). Koran 4:89 [4] states, “They desire
that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all)
alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes)
in Allah’s way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever
you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.” (Andrew
Bostom)
When it comes to the welfare of a minor child, you err on the side of
caution. But not according to the shills in the media. This has nothing to do
with years of abuse and shariah law; the laptop made her do it. Anyone,
anything, but never dare speak ill of Islam
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Mohamed Bary is
a doting Muslim father, intent on giving his daughter the best
education he can. But he says he made a terrible mistake last
October: He bought her a laptop computer.
Because
of that laptop and access to the Internet, he says he lost his daughter to Christian
extremists.
If that were true, why would she make up all that stuff? And if
he is so doting, why would she run away at all? And if she is
such a Christian, she wouldn't lie so. Lying is not part of Christianity. There
is no taqiya in Christianity.
Fathima Rifqa Bary, 17, is 800
miles away, living with a Christian foster family in the Orlando area. She is a
runaway who has become a cause célèbre among evangelical
Christians.
But I'm Jewish.
She fled Ohio last month,
saying her father had threatened to kill her because she had converted to
Christianity.
Not true, Mohamed Bary
said.
"I still cannot believe she would think that," he
said.
But somebody planted that idea in her head, and he is convinced it
was someone she met on the Internet.
Facebook, an online social network in which users select
"friends" from anywhere and everywhere, is where Rifqa met Blake and Beverly
Lorenz, the Orlando husband-and-wife minister team who took her in after she ran
away.
In the weeks before she fled, her parents noticed she would sleep
all day and stay up all night exploring the Internet.
Until this spring,
Rifqa was a model student, an obedient daughter. She earned good grades, worked
part-time at a Chinese restaurant and called home even if she were running just
10 minutes late.
But about the time school ended in May, she began
all-night Facebook sessions. She started withdrawing from family members and
longtime friends, her parents said.
Many of her chats were with
evangelical Christians, her father said. They turned her against him, he
said.
People who know the Barys say
Rifqa's allegations
are crazy.
"There is no way this man would hurt his
daughter," said Neil Javery, 52, a Hindu and family friend in Westerville, the
Columbus suburb where the Barys live.
Aysha Bary is a
stay-at-home mom who speaks little English but breaks into tears over what has
happened.
What about the business she runs? Why no mention of Custom Bridal
Veil?
"My heart goes out to them,"
said Holly Easton of Plain City, Ohio, who owns a wedding gown business
and pays Rifqa's mother to stitch beads onto gowns. "It's horrible. ... I hope
they're able to reconcile, and she comes home and they can be a family
again."
The Barys are not radical Muslims, friends and associates say.
Their household is as normal as any other.
"It's just typical," Easton
said. "Kid comes in, looks at parents, rolls her eyes and goes
upstairs."
How would Easton know? Do we take some plant's word over Rifqa? Read the whole bloody mess so you can see what Rifqa and,
frankly, the whole of the West is up against.
Two religious icons, Faith J. H. McDonnell, director of The Institute on
Religion and Democracy’s Religious Liberty Program and Church Alliance for a New
Sudan, and the author of Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern
Uganda’s Children; and Ruth King,representing Americans for A
Safe Israel, have taken up the cause, the fight for Rifqa's safety.
I had hoped that one Muslim would stand for Rifqa -- the moderate Zuhdi
Jasser, perhaps? His silence is deafening. Perhaps he is too busy writing about
the lessons of Ramadan for the Puff ho.
But here we have a Christian and a Jew representing their respective
organizations standing and fighting for Rifqa's religious liberty and her
unalienable right to be free.
We stand against Islamists, dhimmis and
supremacists.
The indomitable Faith McDonnell :
“She has committed a crime
against the Ummah, or nation state of Islam.”
Gabriel went on to explain that apostasy was punishable by death according to
all four schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence, as well as the Koran, the
Hadith – the words of Mohammed himself, and particularly the Shafi’i school of
Islamic jurisprudence which guides Islam in Sri Lanka. “She is in dire danger
not only from her family because she has soiled the honor of the family, but
from the Islamic community in Columbus, Ohio who feel it is their duty to kill
her according to their religion,” [...]” Blogger Katelyn Beaty
frowns that Rifqa’s story is being used by Christian bloggers and media “as
proof of Islam’s violent roots and the cost of following Christ.” Following
Christ is costly “no matter who’s doing the following,” comments Beaty, equating
high school ridicule and social ostracism with say, beheading . She adds that
the evidence of Islam’s violent roots “is disputable” in the case of Rifqa.
Just as the secular media did, Beaty throws suspicion on Pastors Blake and
Beverly Lorenz of Global Revolution Church. Inadverently, she uses several of
the same key talking points that the Council on American Islamic Relations
(C.A.I.R.) has put forth in their efforts to discredit Rifqa. She quotes the
Bary family attorney who claimed that Bary was not afraid until she met Pastor
Lorenz. Beaty adds signficantly that Lorenz “holds Bary tightly throughout the
video.” Beaty also notes that the famous scholar of Islam Sgt. Jerry Cupp of the
Columbus missing person’s bureau “disputes Bary’s claims, telling The Columbus
Dispatch that Mohamed Bary has known about his daughter's conversion for months
and appears to be caring.” Guess what, Sgt. Cupp and Ms. Beaty. Appearing to be
caring is called taqiya. And Beaty does not mention, that other sources say that
the police talked to friends and teachers of Rifqa who informed them that Rifqa
was in fear for her life and had been the victim of abuse already. Beaty does
cite author and founder of Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer, who calls Rifqa’s
situation a “slow-motion honor killing,” but then exclaims that The Christian
Post “audaciously lists Bary’s story in its ‘persecution’ news file.” I wonder
where she would suggest they list it.
Beaty concludes that believers can rejoice that “this teenager has come to
Christ in a cultural context in which it would be difficult to betray her
parents' teaching.” Describing conversion to Christ as betrayal of the teachings
of Islam is a rather odd way for a fellow Christian to phrase the situation, but
not unheard of. A speaker on religious persecution at the General Assembly of
the National Council of Churches some years ago spoke similarly when she stated
disapprovingly that the only Christians who “experience difficulties” in Iran
were those who “have chosen to leave the communities of faith into which they
were born.”
Finally, says Beaty, “none of this requires that Christians be quick to use
Bary's claims to prove that Muslims — in this case, her parents and mosque
leaders — are intent on killing Bary because their beliefs make them inherently
violent.” She instructs incongruously that “we should also remember the
Christians worldwide who actually risk death by Muslims for following Christ:
like those in Pakistan and Nigeria.” But the words of Mohammed, "If anyone
changes his religion, kill him" (Hadith – Sahih Al-Bukhari 9.84.57) mean the
same thing in Ohio that they do in Asia, and Africa.
Perhaps Beaty and others like her should consider that many of those who have
been “quick” to believe Rifqa Bary are not interested in proving a point about
Muslims, but in protecting a vulnerable girl, convinced that when it comes to
honor killing and apostasy it is better to err on the side of caution than to
add another name and face to the list of the dead. The best assessment of most
of the American Christian church’s comprehension of life under Islamic law came
from Rifqa herself. Trying to explain the danger she faces from her Muslim
parents, the Islamic community in the Columbus, Ohio area, and the entire Ummah,
she exclaimed despairingly, “I’m fighting for my life, you guys don’t
understand. You don’t understand.”
Putting children first is a
bipartisan national policy that mandates legal protection and shelter for minors
in harm’s way. It is the way of all civilized nations.
Why do we not apply this policy to
the treatment of Arab and Moslem children who are routinely used as shields and
props on battle fields; routinely brainwashed to hate; offered as martyrs for
suicide missions; killed in the name of a barbaric code of “honor” by relatives
including siblings and parents?
Rifqa Bary is a seventeen year old
girl who faces danger, abuse and possibly death if she is forced to return to
her parents. Her crime under American standards of law? None. Her disrespect for
American law? None. Anti-social behavior as dictated by the mores of our
society? None.
Why then does Rifqa Bary fear her
parents so that on Thursday September 3rd, a Florida Circuit Judge will decide
whether to send her home to her family or be given a haven and freedom?
What do her parents and her mosque
and Islam see as her crime and violation of law and social behavior and honor?
Her conversion to Christianity four years ago. While her conversion remained
secret her parents thrived economically in Columbus, Ohio where they worshipped
in a local mosque where sermons offered the strictest interpretation of the
Koran.
When the mosque, which has been
under suspicion for abetting terrrism deliberately “outed” Rifqa's conversion to
her family she was subjected to bruises and death threats and fled from her
home. In Florida, an Evangelical church gave her shelter and guidance in filing
for restraint.
Initially, the muted media
interest in her story deliberately ignored the Islamic faith driven death
punishment for apostasy. They chose instead, to smear and defame the church as a
“cult” and accused them of brainwashing Rifqa.
Americans for A Safe Israel joins
a distinguished list of individuals and organizations and journalists who have
come forward in support of the right of Rifqa Bary to seek shelter and
protection to practice her faith and enjoy all basic freedoms guaranteed by our
constitution.
Over at Google Raudensah, an anti-Rifqa, pro-Islam blog that I referenced here last Sunday, the following has been posted (and was
subsequently published at Facebook a couple of days later). I am not going
to fisk it, of course, because everything in this post is a lie, from the basic
-- 'blaming the Global Revolution Church for Rifqa's conversion (Rifqa converted
to Christianity four years ago and had only recently come into contact with the
Global Revolution Church) -- to the ridiculous: "kidnapping" "brainwashing" and
standard operating procedure of obfuscation in Islam.
Dear Brothers & Sisters,
I am sure that you are all well
aware of the case of Rifqa Bary, the daughter of a Sri Lankan brother named Bary
living in Ohio, USA.
Rifqa Bary is converted to
Christianity by a group named Global Revolutionary Church. The media is
manipulating the story in support of this group by producing a video clip where
the girl says that her parents are going to kill her and they refer it to as
"Honor Killing" in Islam. She also continues to say that she would be sent to
her country where Honor Killing is taking place everyday. Even her attorney who
is a Cuban Lady goes on to say that Honor Killing by the Muslims takes place in
USA everyday.
The Global Revolutionary
Church is not only trying to gain recognizance from the public but they are
Insulting Islam by having coached the child to give wrong information about our
religion. Her instructors doesn't know that Sri Lanka is a Buddhist
country therefore they have coached Rifqa Bary to mention that there are 100's
of Honor Killing taking place in Sri Lanka. This proves that her trainers does
not know whether Sri Lanka is a Muslim country or not . If anyone listen to the
video clip with a good headphone you can listen to the instructions given to the
girl by the Pastor who was holding her very tight throughout the whole
interview. The girl looks very upset and feared.
I was able to talk to Br.
Bary few times and he said that his daughter has been influenced by people from
this Revolutionary Group to attend classes conducted in their Church. He said
that his daughter was missing for three weeks and he informed the Ohio police
with regard to that. After three weeks the police have informed that
his daughter was in Orlando. He said that a Pastor named Brian Williams from
Ohio has arranged with another Pastor in Orlando to transport the girl from Ohio
to Orlando and now they are giving a different story to the Media. They have
brainwashed the girl for three weeks and now she is giving a different story to
the media with fear.
According to Ohio State
Law this is a kidnapping case and the lawyers from Bary's side are trying to
bring this Revolutionary group to Justice. We need to support Br. Bary
and his phone number is (347) 247-6568. Please talk to him for further
information. Also CAIR is supporting Bary and they are involved in this
case. CAIR in Ohio is handling this case.
Please forward this email to
everyone you know.
While I was not aware of who "Brian Williams" was, I knew he was not involved
with Rifqa at all. Well, it seems Brian Williams' name was planted quite
deliberately by Islamic leadership and smear merchants in the hopes that they
could befoul and besmirch Christianity (while sanctioning the murderous acts
mandated in Islam and not once addressing the substance and terror Rifqa was
facing). Barbarossa wrote that:
The identification of "a
Pastor named Brian Williams from Ohio" gives us some indication of how
the Bary family and their supporters in the Muslim community intend to respond
to this situation with possibly fabricated claims. The apparent "Pastor
Brian Williams" they are invoking was convicted last year of sexual assault
charges, sentenced to eight years in prison and has been in prison ever
since. There is absolutely no indication that Rifqa had any contact with this
Brian Williams or his church. Rather, reports indicate that Rifqa had
been attending a large evangelical mega-church in the Columbus area. If they
have some other "Pastor Brian Williams" from the Columbus area in mind (a Google
search turned up nothing), they are letting the ambiguity hang out there.
Thus, it seems that they
intend to float this name out there in the hopes that their allies in the
lamestream media pick up this association meme, at which point they can further
embroider their fabricated narrative verifying this pedophile Christian clergy
conspiracy and point to the media reports as proof!
Get it? We must not get sucked into the propaganda campaign of Islamic
supremacists. Honor killing and the penalty of death for the far worse crime of
apostasy strikes fear into the heart of any Muslim girl or woman who wants the
freedom to choose a life of her own. James Morton makes a very salient point in
the Toronto Sun here:
But honour killing kills
the deceased and threatens others. An honour killing uses violence as theatre to
intimidate others. It stands to enforce a sexual code of conduct by violence and
threats.
An honour killing is part
of an organized effort to subjugate women to a specific and oppressive view of
society. Although the total number of honour killings in Canada is
still relatively small, probably less than 50 in total to date, the impact on
the community as a whole is huge. When compared to a worldwide figure of perhaps
5,000 honour killing a year the implied threat is heightened.
But numbers alone do not tell the
story. Even at its height, the number of lynchings in the American South was
fairly small (probably less than 100 a year) but the intimidation huge. Southern
blacks knew the danger of speaking up for their rights; with honour
killings, women can see the risk of behaving outside their place.
Under Canadian law, terrorism
includes an act taken for political, religious or ideological purposes which
threatens the public or national security by killing, seriously harming or
endangering a person. Terrorism is violence designed to intimidate for an
ideological purpose.
That's what an honour
killing is -- violence intended to subjugate and intimidate women.
In the United Kingdom ,the Crown
Prosecution Service has found links between honour killings and terrorism.
Nazir Afzal, the CPS's
spokesperson on honour crime, said a terror group threatened to kill a
woman, now in hiding, for her sexual behaviour.
"They told her husband that if he
didn't put his wife in her place then they would do it themselves," Afzal said.
[...]
Let's call honour killing what it
really is.
Call it terrorism.
And it's why Rifqa must be kept in Florida with a new identity and a new
family. Columbus, Ohio and the extreme Islamic center that Rifqa escaped pose a
grave threat to her life. The dhimmis at Florida's most embarrassing newspaper
are calling for Rifqa to be returned to Ohio here.
Thank G-d for Z Street. They are proud Jews like me, ashamed when American
Jewish organizations grovel at the feet of those planning the destruction of the
Jewish state, the Jewish people.
Today Z Street issued this defense of Rifqa Bary:
THE MEDIA ISN’T INTERESTED WHEN
MUSLIM PARENTS MAKE CREDIBLE DEATH THREATS AGAINST THEIR TEENAGE CONVERT TO
CHRISTIANITY, BUT THEY ‘RELIGIOUSLY’ CONDEMN PRAYER IN SCHOOL AND OTHER
NON-MUSLIM RELIGIOUS EXPRESSIONS
On Thursday, September 3, Florida
Circuit judge Daniel Dawson will decide whether a 17 year old girl can practice
her chosen religion in a safe environment, or if she will be shipped back to her
family where she faces imminent danger and possibly murder.
Z STREET, a new Zionist
organization committed to opposing terrorism and oppressive Muslim law, stands
behind this teenager and supports her decision to both choose her own religion
and to choose freedom from harm, even - especially - from her own family.
Rifqa Bary chose to clandestinely
practice Christianity approximately four years ago. She kept her religious
choice private because she knew her parents, strict Muslims who attend a local
mosque just outside of Columbus, Ohio, would never permit her to leave Islam. A
former scholar at her parents’ radical mosque, a Hamas cleric, was eventually
banned from the United States. Columbus is a suspected nucleus of al Qaeda
activity in the United States.
Mosque members informed Rifqa’s
parents about her Christianity. Bruises on her arms and other parental abuse -
including death threats - led Rifqa to flee her home and run to the security of
a church in Florida. While in Florida, Rifqa filed a legal petition to remain
there and not be shipped back to Ohio.
Much of this story’s (relatively
scarce) media attention has prominently mentioned that the church leader from
whom Rifqa sought refuge is an evangelical Christian. Reverand Blake Lorenz was
accused by Rifqa’s father of kidnapping and brainwashing his daughter. Lorenz’s
church has been called a “fringe cult.”
“The media’s willingness to
publicize smears against conservative Christianity, while failing to focus on
the centuries-long dictates of Islam which demands converts be killed and which
honors those killers, usually family members, is appalling,” said Z STREET
co-founder Lori Lowenthal Marcus.
The choice of the Florida court on
September 3 is to allow Rifqa to freely and safely practice her chosen religion,
or condemn her to return to her family who are strict adherents of a religion
that officially considers it an honor for a family member to kill an apostate -
someone who chooses a religion other than Islam.
Rifqa recognizes the immensity of
the court’s decision: “I want to worship Jesus freely, that’s what I want. I
don’t want to die.”
The press has largely ignored this
life and death decision which pits Muslim parents against their teenage daughter
who chose Christianity over Islam. Islam dictates the parents’ actions - let’s
hope judicial sagacity and respect for human life guide the judge’s. And that
the love of our country’s First Amendment and respect for International human
rights guides the press.
FP:
The liberal and feminist Left is once again shamelessly silent, not coming to
the defense of Fathima Bary. Give us some of your thoughts on this
silence.
Geller: I am profoundly anti-feminist
because it is a phony movement. It is rooted in Marxism-Leninism, and does not
genuinely represent women. It clings to its dogma of multiculturalism, and
embraces the leftist ideology du jour, which in our own day is
Islam.
They are frauds and
liars. High minded leftopathic feminists cloak themselves in self- righteousness
and scorn genuine feminists like Sarah Palin. These women call themselves
feminists and stand on the mall in DC, righteous in their indignation in defense
of late term abortion and the right to kill viable babies (btw, I am pro-choice
-- early that is), while turning the other cheek in the face of Islam's
misogyny. Rifqa Bary's case is just the latest example of this
myopia.
But other people are
taking up the slack. Thank goodness for brave, courageous leaders like Florida
House majority leader Adam Hasner. Hasner issued a statement in defense of Rifqa
Bary. No feminist did.
FP:
How can we better help Muslim women in our own society who face this
oppression?
Geller: By standing up to honor
killers, by calling an honor killing an honor killing, and ending the mainstream
media's covering up for the Islamic roots of the practice.
When Muslim girls like Rifqa Bary, the most courageous girl in
America, see
what happened to Amina and Sarah Said, Aqsa Parvez, and so many others, they're
forced to live out their sentence in their homemade concentration camps, because
they see that there is no escape. If the West will not stand up for its values,
its own unalienable rights, then these girls have no chance.
Do you have any idea
how many Muslim girls are watching, and watching very closely, the case of Rifqa
Bary? She represents their hope of freedom. That's why the Islamists want to
kill her. If she succeeds, she will give other Muslim girls hope. That is why we
must do everything we can to support her and other Muslim girls in danger of
honor killing, by building shelters, creating an underground railroad, and
supporting their attempts to be free.
I am very pleased to the Washington Times is running it. Rifqa Bary
is a landmark case, and the battle is taking place in the media in the war of
ideas and opinion. So go read the whole thing and leave a comment over there.
Indigent or dishonest? Excerpt:
Yet in a Dun and Bradstreet report
filed by Mr. Bary himself for his business, Bary Gems, he states his business
does $237,561 yearly. Mrs. Bary makes high-end bridal gowns (that income may be
off the books, but she works every day). It would appear she works for Custom
Bridal Veil -- a company owned by a Risana Bary, who works with Mr. Bary at Bary
Gems. Risana is apparently Mohamed's wife -- but why is she listed under
different names in different places? The questions regarding their honesty are
inevitable.
Rifqa is a prayer warrior and is very strong in her faith, but could use
encouragement from those who support her. If you want to send her a note of
encouragement or a prayer, they will be compiled into a notebook and given to
her. You can email your notes to info@grcorlando.org or mail them to the church
at P.O. Box 533961, Orlando, Fl 32853.
The church that gave Rifqa
sanctuary is setting up a trust fund for Rifqa and her cause. All monies
collected will go towards Rifqa, her legal defense, and her cause. Not one dime
will be retained by Global Revolution Church and all funds will be administrated
and disseminated by a third party.
If you would like to financially
contribute to Rifqa and her cause, you can do so in a couple ways.
1. By credit card or debit card on
the GRC website. Make sure to designate in the comments section that the funds
are for 'The Rifqa Bary Trust'.
2. By mail. Send check or money
order (no cash please) to the church at P.O. Box 533961, Orlando, FL 32853. Be
sure to designate the check for 'The Rifqa Bary Trust' on the memo line.
You could also arrange for your
church, Bible study, local organizations, etc to take up a collection for Rifqa.
UPDATE: I am waiting on information from the attorneys to
direct donors to a Rifqa Bary Trust Fund that will be administrated separately
from the church. As soon as the info is available, I will post it.
No surprise here, but it is revealing of how Islamists hope to frame the
Rifqa Bary argument. Read the letter by Ahmed M. Rehab Executive director, Council on American-Islamic Relations, to Mike
Thomas, breathtaking shill for the leftist Islamic alliance (my take here).
Does un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR mention the death threat to Rifqa? Does
un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR discuss apostasy in Islam? Does un-indicted
co-conspirator CAIR discuss Rifqa's fears? Does un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR
speak to the danger Rifqa is in? Nah. It's all about "nuance," "perception,"
insulting the ummah, etc. Nothing about the minor child's abuse, fear or peril.
What a sleight of the hand, eh?
It is amusing and ironic that Ahmed Rehab would dare invoke the "public's
ignorance of Islamic history, culture and contemporary affairs" and of Islam's
1,400 year history. It is that very ignorance that makes possible the
advancement of mendacious, fallacious and utterly wrong propaganda such as his.
Bat Ye'or, the world's leading scholar of Islam,
describes the 1,400 years this way:
"over a millennium of jihad wars, land expropriations, enslavements, and
humiliations of the conquered non-Muslim populations on three
continents."
Even the headline is a complete lie. "Rare"? The media never questions Islam,
its teachings, misogyny, and violent acts. It promotes the taqiyya. Name the
last time you saw Ibn Warraq, Dr. Andrew Bostom, Wafa Sultan, Robert Spencer,
etc. in the mainstream media. Name one media outlet that published the Danish
cartoons. Who is the victim and who is the victimized?
Thomas's column on teen rare for
Muslims ...I was pleasantly surprised to note the level of perception and nuance
in Mike Thomas's column about Fathima Rifqa Bary ("Anti-Muslim bias obvious in
girl's case," Orlando Sentinel, Sunday). Such professional
journalism is sorely missing from the usual media treatment of Muslim-related
articles that are too willing to assume the worst.
Thomas is absolutely
correct; the mass incrimination of Muslims is common practice in places where it
would be far-fetched for followers of other faiths. Muslims receive special
flak, not only because we have nut cases in our religion that have given our
religion a bad name — though nut cases exist in all faiths — but because the
media's coverage of Muslims seems to be limited to those nut
cases.
Pundits often portray Islam as a crazy, murderous cult. Because
they rely on the public's ignorance of Islamic history, culture and contemporary
affairs, they do not have to be bothered about their simpleton views being
irreconcilable with 1,400 years of solid civilization by Muslims from China to
Spain, or with the fact that 7 million American Muslims live among their
neighbors in this country as proud, upright citizens.
For those pundits
who are pressured to reconcile the two, the escape clause then becomes,
"American Muslims may seem admirable on the outside, but they are really stealth
jihadists on the inside." And so Rifqa's parents are judged not by who they are
but by what the pundits say they are.
This serial mischaracterization
will not be duly challenged unless more columnists exhibit the journalistic
integrity and cultural smarts of the likes of Mike Thomas.
Express your concerns to the Department of Children and Families at the
contact information provided below:
Department of Children and Families 1317 Winewood
Boulevard Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0700 Website: http://www.myflorida.com/cf_web/
The contact information for the Ohio Child Protective Services is:
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services 30 East Broad Street, 32nd
Floor Columbus, Ohio 43215 Telephone: 1-866-635-3748 Website: http://jfs.ohio.gov/ocomm_root/contactUs.stm
Thank you for contacting Attorney General McCollum's Office.
Rifqa's parents, Mohamad and Aysha Bary, signed affidavits declaring
themselves indigent. That's why the Florida court appointed a lawyer
for the father and a lawyer for the mother. Both their lawyers are being paid by
the taxpayers of Florida. Worse still, Aysha and Mohamed Bary's lawyer asked the
court for more money at Rifqa's custody hearing last Friday, so
that they could wage a campaign to get Rifqa back home -- a campaign involving
depositions, legal docs, filings etc.
Yet in a Dunn and Bradstreet report filed by Mohammad Bary himself for his
business, Bary Gems, he states his business does $237,561 per annum. When I first reported the story, and Risana Bary's name kept popping
up in Mohamed Bary's various business dealings, I thought Mohamed's partner
"Risana" was another family member. She's not. She is his wife, Rifqa's mom.
Aysha Risana Bary makes high-end bridal veils.
According to this website at WESH,com, Aysha is Risana
Bary. That means that Rifqa's mom is a small business owner.
Rifqa's father is a gem dealer and her mother, Aysha Risana Bary, is the proud
owner of Custom Bridal Veil.
According to sources close to the family, Aysha Risana works long and hard
at home every day, making all kinds of high end bridal veils.
Hi there! I am a 7 yr experienced
embellishment in Columbus OH. I have a workroom in my home.. I have a passion
for embellishment. I am willing to work with out of state customers. You can
visit www.custombridalveil.ecrater.com If you have a need for a embellishment...
please contact me. custombridalveil@yahoo.com
Did they sign affidavits stating in front of G-d and man and the law
that they were indigent?
So, let's recap. The Barys own two businesses. The Barys
live in a very affluent neighborhood in Westerville, Ohio, in a house they rent.
They rent because pious Muslims aren't supposed to take on mortgages -- that
would be usury, and is forbidden in the Koran.
According to Dunn and Bradstreet, the business operates out of an address
different from their home address in Westerville - 4282 Nafzger Dr, Columbus OH
43230 (below).
UPDATE: THIS IS THE BUSINESS ADDRESS - PUBLIC ON ALL BUSINESS DOCUMENTS (which is how my readers and
I found it) - I have kept the Bary home address private
I am sure the industrious Barys will claim poverty because they have to pay
taxes on this income -- tax evasion is a federal offense, and so is perjury. So
expect the inevitable denials. But clearly it calls into question their honesty,
their character and the lengths they will go to.
Lie, cheat, steal -- obviously indicative of what we are dealing with.
The leftist Islamic alliance is pulling out all the stops to crush the power
of authenticity, the gospel truth, the word of a just turned 17
year old girl, Rifqa Bary. The Islamic spin machine was slow on the media
spin uptake, as they thought for sure that they had the cat (or in this case
Rifqa) in the bag when they went into the jurisdiction hearing on Friday. They
assumed Rifqa would be sent back to Ohio and dealt with
accordingly.
But the candor and integrity in this girl's desperate
plea set freedom loving people alight. Furious flurries of emails, faxes, and
phone calls from blog readers, talk radio listeners, etc., were frantically made
in a lifesaving plea for this brave girl's life. And G-d bless, she was saved (in more ways than one). And if you haven't
dashed off a note of thanks to Governor Crist, by all means do it.
But
now, the cultural jihadists and their infiltrators are furiously at work. The
media puppets are called to do their masters' bidding. And so they are. I called
the shills over at The Orlando Sentinel to task here and here and here. But that was only the beginning. That was small
taters.
Now, a larger context comes into play. Those who question the violent
teachings of Muhammad are being painted with the racist brush. The objective is
to smear those who dare speak the truth and validate,
with scholarship and historic evidence and accuracy, Rifqa Bary's claims. The
left's weapon - ridicule and smear. If you destroy a person, their analysis and
work is destroyed as well, rendered worthless.
Today, Kos, the largest left-wing blog on the net, went after
"anti-Muslim" blogs and pundits. Robert Spencer, best selling author of nine
books (his latest is "The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran," which is about
to hit the book stores), renowned scholar on Islam and great friend of Atlas,
beheaded Kos's fallacious and intellectually dishonest argument.
This is the strategy. It is no accident that Kos decided to do a counter
jihad smear today. You can't attack a little girl every day and rally the folks.
So now it's time to take down her defenders.
Leftist/Jihadist Alliance Update:
"LoonWatch Explores the Underworld of Anti-Muslim Blogging," by Devon Moore at
the Daily Kos, August 24:
The anti-Muslim blogosphere is a cesspool of some of the most vile hatred and
misinformation on the internet.
It is not "hate" to report
accurately on how Islamic jihadists use Islamic texts and teachings to justify
violence against non-Muslims. Nor is it "anti-Muslim" to do so. If the Kos gang
is interested in actual "hate," they should write about those who kill
unbelievers and oppress women in the name of Sharia. It is not "hate" to defend
the equality of rights of women with men, freedom of speech, and other rights
that are denied under Sharia.
The anti-Muslims cover a wide spectrum though most can be found slithering in
the Right-Wing. They range from academics such as Daniel Pipes, self-declared
scholars like Robert Spencer and his JihadWatch, to open racists such as Debbie
Schlussel, Pamela Geller and the blog Gates of
Vienna.
"Open racists"? When the Left
can't argue (which is most of the time), they smear and lie. Schlussel and
Geller are freedom fighters, warriors for human rights. Only to a Leftist would
that be "racist." They are not open racists or closet racists or any kind of
racists.
It should be noted that the anti-Muslim blogosphere is not a monolith, they
come from various, mostly conservative backgrounds but are only united by a
hatred of Islam and Muslims. So it is no surprise that this bloc has in the past
turned on one another. The most glaring feud being the one between Charles
Johnson (Little Green Footballs) and JihadWatch's Robert Spencer; a feud that
broke out over whether or not the anti-Muslims should join forces with European
neo-fascists.
Just for the record, the "feud"
did not break out over "whether or not the anti-Muslims should join forces with
European neo-fascists." It broke out over a couple
of weblinks. No one was or is saying that anti-jihadists (which is not the
same thing as "anti-Muslims") should join forces with European neo-fascists. The
question was whether one could find wanting Johnson's "proof" that certain
groups were actually neo-fascist without in turn being defamed as a neo-fascist
and racist by Johnson. The answer turned out to be no. But the issue here was
never whether anyone should ally with genuine European neo-fascists. Of course
no one should.
Various websites have taken up the task of chronicling the exploits and
breaking down the hate of the anti-Muslim blogosphere. There is
Islamophobia-Watch, Islamophobia.org, and a few others though none seem to be as
organized, or updated as their opponents. However, LoonWatch, a site that I have
been following since I learned about it over 3 months ago and which I have
featured as an editor of the Islam page on Topix is one site that gives the
anti-Muslims a run for their money.
For one, they aren't defensive, instead they satirize and poke fun at the
lunacy that is Islamophobia such as: blaming every negative piece of news from
the Middle East on Islam, calls for nuking Mekka, the stereotypes of the
subjugation of covered women, evil Muslim cells lurking around the corner,
leftists colluding with Muslim terrorists, etc.
They "satirize and poke fun." In
other words, they can't answer the arguments presented (not that I do the things
enumerated above in the first place). It's straight out of the Left's playbook.
As Alinsky put it in Rules for Radicals, "RULE 5: 'Ridicule is man's
most potent weapon.' There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It
also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions."
I am pointing this out to you because this is a campaign that is being waged
by the left and the islamists to attempt to control the damage by one little
girl who dared to tell the truth. And this is just the beginning. It will not
end. In order to destroy Rifqa, they must destroy the truth. In order to
destroy the truth, they must destroy the truth tellers.
Not surprisingly, Rifqa is turning into a cause célèbre. Conservative
websites often accused of anti-Muslim agendas, such as the Jawa Report, Atlas
Shrugs and WorldNetDaily, have been lighting up over the Rifqa fight.
No doubt conservative and anti-U.S. Muslim will eventually step into the
media frenzy.
Rifqa is an apostate in America. The icon of freedom vs shariah. In
an Islamic country, she would be history. In America? Well, that is what is at
play here, is it not?
...a secret strategy meeting
conducted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) earlier this week
has conveyed the strategy that the media's favorite Islamist group has devised
to respond to the ongoing public relations crisis. According to my source who
attended the strategy session, CAIR officials handed out copies of this Orlando Sentinel article and want supporters to push the meme
that Christians have brainwashed and abducted this gullible teenage girl. They
have also instructed supporters to circulate rumors that Rifqa had been
carousing with infidel boys and engaged in acts of immorality. This CAIR
strategy takes the focus off the near-universal Islamic legal precepts and
Quranic injunctions that demand death for apostates and impugns the character of the
innocent girl at the center of this controversy who appears to be in genuine
fear for her life if she is returned to her parents.
Rifqa Bary faces death for her
apostasy from Islam, while the media ignores the solid religious and
institutional grounding for the practice. Today. In America.
Magdi Allam, is an intrepid
Egyptian-born writer and vociferous critic of jihadism who was publicly converted to Christianity from Islam by Pope Benedict
XVI during an Easter eve service in St Peter's Basilica broadcast worldwide,
Saturday March 22, 2008. Writing at the time of his public apostasy, Allam
highlighted the West's weakness and flaccidity, foremost, its stifling
multiculturalism.
Allam decried the multicultural
ethos for blandly asserting the "equality" of cultural and religious mores, even
abjuring rational criticism of Islamic religious bigotry -- such as
authoritative Islam's living, consensus jurisprudence that those who apostasize
from Islam must be killed -- lest the tender sensibilities of Muslims be
offended. He noted how in his adopted homeland of Italy, every Muslim can go to
a mosque, but in the Muslim world there is ongoing and long-standing
discrimination against religious minorities -- notably Christians -- entirely
ignored by Western multiculturalists, of all ilks. Allam
observed, moreover, the perverse phenomenon that in Western countries,
"When a Westerner decides to convert to Islam, that's fine, but
when a Muslim converts to Christianity, it is suddenly the end of the world.
Everyone condemns him, as though he has done something of which he should be
ashamed."
"I say that it is time to put an end to the abuse and the violence of
Muslims who do not respect the freedom of religious choice. In Italy there are
thousands of converts to Islam who live their new faith in peace. But there
are also thousands of Muslim converts to Christianity who are forced to hide
their faith out of fear of being assassinated by Islamic extremists who lurk
among us. If in Italy, in our home, the cradle of Catholicism, we are not
prepared to guarantee complete religious freedom to everyone, how can we ever be
credible when we denounce the violation of this freedom elsewhere in the world."
The unassuming and previously
unknown Rifqa
Bary, has now become, arguably, America's most conspicuous apostate from
Islam to Christianity. Truncated, grossly warped media depictions of her plight
demonstrate that the American chattering classes remain stubbornly unwilling to
even acknowledge, let alone confront Islam's malevolent doctrinal intolerance,
ignoring Magdi Allam's plaintive appeal.
Just for knowing, Rifqa Bary is the most courageous person I know. I
stand in awe of her and will protect her right to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness as steadfastly as I would protect my own.
These assclowns will be exposed every time they pull this. It looks
awfully bad to keep going after a little girl. Even these depraved evildoers
know that. So they alternate -- ruin the girl, then ridicule the truth tellers.
Labels, labels, labels. "Racist!" "Anti-Muslim Bigot!"
"Islamophobe!"
Everyone can breathe easier now that we have put Mike Thomas of the Orlando
Sentinel's feet to the fire. He is on da job, doing research the
Orlando Sentinel way! Rifqa Bary is in good hands with the dinosaur media.
Atlas reader Craig has been exchanging emails with the brain:
I am a resident of Orlando,
Florida. Have been here over 50 years.
I contacted
Mike Thomas by email and got these replies:
After I told
him that Honor killings were happening daily, all over the world, he said:
"Criag, when
did you become an Islamic scholar?"
He even
spelled my name wrong. It is Craig.
Then, after
I told him that I've spent the last two years investigating these things, and
have a hisitory of learning ancient langages so as to read religious texts in
the original as much as possible, he said,
"I
talk to Muslims, look at their crime rate compared to other faiths and read the
Bill of Rights."
Those intrepid geniuses over at The Orlando Sentinel are working
overtime! They haven't gotten off their fat asses and done any work, mind you.
But they are running more ads, asking you to do their work for them again on the Rifqa Bary case --
especially the anti-Muslim angle, as opposed to the "save the girl's life"
take.
May I recommend that my expert readers and pundits contact the vegetables and
leftools at the O.S. and see if you can edumacate 'em some :)
6. RELIGION: Teenage Convert from Islam to
Christianity Seeking Sanctuary -- Orlando Sentinel (FL)
I'm seeking expert insight (e-mail observations are welcome) regarding an
Ohio teenager who ran away to Florida, saying she was afraid her father would
kill her for converting from Islam to Christianity. She had been living with a
husband/wife pastor team, whom she met through a prayer group on Facebook. They
took her in after she ran away, rode a bus from Ohio and popped up unannounced
in Orlando. I'm looking to discuss the prevailing issues of sanctuary, religious
freedom, anti-Muslim bias, honor killings, jurisdiction, propriety of clergy
housing a teenage runaway, etc. The full story is found at:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-bk-rifqa-bary-ohio-teen-runaway-082109,0,2812365.story
Contact: Darryl Owens, dowens@orlandosentinel.com
UPDATE: Atlas Reader David H has more knowledge in his pinky
toenail than all of the useful idiots at the Orlando Sentinel. David was
responding to this editorial in the Orlando Sentinel
Mr. Thomas, your article asks a
number of questions and also contains some inaccurate information. I will do
what I can to address all the issues I take with it. First, I am not personally
involved in the case with the exception of advocating the life liberty and
pursuit of happiness for Rifqa Bary. I take the position of not returning Rifqa
to her parents or Ohio based on 10 years of living and working with the
officials and local populations in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan
and Afghanistan. I have also visited Jordan, Egypt and Kuwait for periods of
three to four weeks.. I have taught Middle Eastern Studies at a government
institution.
First, calling the struggle to
protect Rifqa Bary a “Second Crusade” shows a lack of history as well as a lack
of objectivity on your part. The Crusades were an attempt to retake land and
sites sacred to Christianity that had been conquered and occupied by the Muslims
since the 760's CE. To equate the attempts to retake those lands with genuine
concern for a young lady's safety is ludicrous. The Crusades were bloody as were
the wars wages by Muslims both prior to and following the Crusades. The efforts
to safeguard Rifqa Bary are peaceful and with the intent to prevent bloodshed.
The claim that her father wants to
murder Rifqa is a serious allegation and one that needs to be taken seriously by
the authorities. If you look at the recent honor murders in the US, Canada and
other countries you will find that in many cases there was no report of violence
with the perpetrators' until the actual murder, so you have to ask yourself what
prompted the murderous act? They all came about because a female member of the
family crossed a line in Islam that demanded their death as punishment. In Islam
the concept of shame holds the same significance as guilt does for Christians.
Usually the attack occurs when something the female has done becomes public
knowledge and this public "shame", whether it was filing for divorce, a
pregnancy brought about by rape or public knowledge of a relationship with
non-Muslims, no matter how innocent, is what sparks the murder.
In bringing up the Elian Gonzalez
case you are incorrect. According to Federal law, once that child reached our
shores, he was entitled to stay in the US. Elian was sent back by a Justice
Department and Administration wanting to curry favor with the Marxist regime in
Havana. Do you really think that Elian's father had a free choice in whether he
asked for him to be returned or not? Your words used in the Terri Shiavo case
shows your bias. Where was it proved that her mind was not working? The
husband's lack of following his stated purpose for the settlement should at
least have been cause for further scrutiny by the press, funny how no serious
follow-up investigations occurred.
The stereotyping Mr. Thomas, is
being done by you. You extrapolate the concern for Rifqa's life into an attack
on all Muslims. Should all Christians now attack you, Rene Stutzman and the
Orlando Sentinel for the "insult to all of Christianity" you have made in
questioning the motives of the pastor and the alleged hatred that Christians
bear for Muslims? Yet this is the rationale you use in saying that the concern
for Rifqa's safety is an attack on all Muslims.
In your article I do not see any
concern for Rifqa's safety whatsoever. You throw out her concerns due to your
and most of America's ignorance or complicity with Islamic doctrine and values.
If Rifqa was trying to get away from her family's strict Christian of Jewish
beliefs (even there would be no threat to her life as you have admitted in your
article) you would be championing her cause. Why is it in all of these
proceedings you do not wish to possibly err on the side of caution? Do you not
understand that the dictate to murder Rifqa is incumbent on every member of the
Islamic community and not just her parents? You admit you do not know the Bary
family dynamics, yet you are willing to risk Rifqa's life on your ignorance, how
generous of you.
The state of Ohio has the 9th
largest Muslim population in the US, following close behind Texas, Virginia,
Michigan and Indiana. The Noor Islamic Center is a documented center of Jihadist
support. If Ohio's public servants are so ignorant and inept that they can not
perform the mental arithmetic to conclude that a community that hosts speakers
who want to turn this country into an Islamic state with the possibility that
they will also follow the other tenants of their doctrine, then those
authorities DO need to be investigated. If you have not investigated the Noor
Islamic Center and discovered their Jihadist ties, then shame on you.
As for the activities that Rifqa
has been allowed to participate in at school: this is where each family has
exercised leeway, at least in countries not ruled by Islamic governments. A vast
number of Muslim men living in countries like the US do set different standards
for their daughters' conduct. But once that line is crossed, the response is
deadly. For the Said sisters in Texas, it was dating non-Muslim boys that
prompted their father to shoot them and leave them dying in his cab on New
Year's Eve two year ago. For Muzzammil Hassan it was his wife filing for divorce
that caused the man who had founded a TV station dedicated to showing how
moderate Muslims are, to chop off her head. Rifqa has alleged that her father
threatened to murder her. Do you think that her father is going to come out and
admit this freely? Especially when it is permissible for him in the Koran to lie
to Non-Muslims?
According to Rifqa, her parent
only recently found out about her becoming a Christian, again you are taking
sides instead of presenting Rifqa's side of the story as well. You sarcasm is
really inappropriate, your analysis one dimensional and your investigation
non-existent. So I will help you a little. First, the Bary's have sold their
jewelry business. Why would they choose this moment to liquidate their assets
and have a ready reserve of cash on hand? Since Rifqa is a minor she can be
taken back to Sir Lanka or another Muslim country and murdered there, where even
if the father does turn himself over to the police, the sentence will be light.
Rifqa could "run away again" and in fact be taken away by several young men from
the Mosque, this time never to be heard from again. The sorrowful parents would
then garner sympathy from the press and country about how they did everything
possible but "that Christian cult must have taken her away". All you have to do
is look at other murder cases which involve family members as the perpetrator or
accessory, including those who have fooled authorities for months or years. A
certain former policeman with deceased ex-wives and a missing wife comes to
mind...
Comparing the followers of the
Koran to Christians not following the dictates of the Old Testament is another
false analogy. Christian doctrine for the most part does not follow most of the
dictates of the Old Testament, not in the calendar, holidays, personal or
congregational practices. There is nothing in western Christian teachings that
calls for members of the faith to kill those who leave the faith certainly not
in the New Testament and not in theological writings of mainstream Christianity
for the last several hundred years. But killing apostates does exist in the
Koran and in the teachings and commentaries throughout the history of Islam and
are currently endorsed by Islamic Religious leaders and institutions around the
world.. Evidence of its practice can be seen almost daily around the world if
you care to look. Anything that can be seen as an affront to Islam can result in
death, especially when it comes to women.
hear is an example: Last year in
Pakistan three teenage girls announced that they would go to the magistrate and
file proceedings that would allow them to marry whoever they wished. The mother
and aunt walked with them to the magistrate. They were intercepted by an
official car carrying the uncle and several men. All the women were shot and
buried alive along the road. Their uncle is a member of the Benazir Bhutto's
Pakistan Peoples’ Party in Baluchistan Province. One of the PPP’s MP in the
national Parliament even spoke out in favor of the murders saying it was
justified.
I am not saying every Muslim
abides by the "dark saying of their faith". What I am saying is that those who
attend Muslim controlled education have these ideas drilled into their heads to
some extent. Whenever "shame" is brought to the family by a female, the
inclination is to remove the stain from the family honor. This inclination is
reinforced to the same extent that the larger Islamic community surrounds and
exerts control over the family. This is the true danger of sending Rifqa back to
Ohio, especially since the authorities are clueless as to what they are dealing
with.
My question to you is where is
your concern for Rifqa to be protected from Islamic religious teachings and does
the rule of law apply to her rights as well? The rule of law has not prevented
honor murders yet, just as it has not stopped murders for any other reason. Once
the crime is committed, any concern or outrage will be too late to help the
victim.
Here is a "French" take on media malfeasance in the Rifqa Bary coverage.
Nidra Poller responds to this Atlas post exposing the shills over at the Orlando
Sentinel:
Dear Pamela, I wanted to
give Amy Edwards a chance to reply to my letter before eventually forwarding a
copy to you. But to my surprise and astonishment I received an "out of office"
reply.
Rifqa Barry's case is going to
be heard today, and the journalist who is "covering"
it for the Orlando Sentinel isn't available until Monday. She asked people to
send her information...and closed her doors and windows.
So
here is the letter, which you are free to publish.
I
understand that you have been covering the Rifqa Bary case. You claim that there
have been exaggerations "on both sides." I assume that you don't know how these
situations are handled in France.
We
have the largest Muslim population of any western European country. France has
made major concessions to Muslim demands on all levels while at the same time
taking a firm stand on certain questions, such as the prohibition of hijab in
public schools and government offices.
Both sides, you might say, are discontented. No
matter how many accomodations made by French authorities, the Muslim Brotherhood
is never satisfied . But liberated free-thinking Muslim French women are
constantly urging the government to offer greater protectionagainst extremists
who want to impose sharia.
That, in a few brief words, is the context.
Now for the specifics: on the question of
runaway Muslim girls and women, French authorities consistently provide refuge.
Offering refuge to Muslim girls and women who flee oppression and death threats
from their families is so commonplace it rarely gets into the news. I can't
imagine a French social worker refusing to believe that the woman'who seeks
refuge is not truly in danger.
Because we have a huge Muslim population and
extensive experience with these situations, the danger of "honor" killings is
taken seriously. Runaway girls and women are housed in secret locations where
family members can not reach them.
Rifqa Bary would be given refuge without a
sliver of a doubt.
Muslim families often try to marry their
teenage daughters to men in the home country during school vacations. When the
girl's classmates--Muslim or not--suspect this has happened because the girl
doesn't return to school after the vacation, they report it to the authorities
who investigate and intervene when necessary. These Muslim girls are French
citizens--as Rifqa Bary is American. As citizens they are entitled to the
protection of French authorities. Whatever their origin or religious beliefs,
families do not have the right to deprive their children of the freedom granted
to all citizens.
It
is curious to observe the ignorance of American authorities and media on such
fundamental issues. And it is troubling to see that the freedom of a young woman
is taken so lightly in the United States, the land of liberty.
Finally, FOX news has someone on that knows what they are talking about.
Atlas props to Brigitte Gabriel, who kicks the clueless to the curb. Go
Brigitte! Holding my breath waiting for Spencer's appearance on FOX (right
behind Ibn Warraq, Sultan, Bostom). My kingdom for Bat Ye'or!
Killing Rifqa Andrew
Bostom Rifqa Bary faces death for her
apostasy from Islam, while the media ignores the solid religious and
institutional grounding for the practice. Today. In America. More
Rifqa Bary’s public apostasy from
Islam is a watershed event which will gauge just how far into the depths of
stultifying Islamic correctness we have descended.
The mainstream media narrative, in
stark contrast to Pamela Geller’s hardboiled (while patent) shoe leather
reporting, was apparently developed via inept, lazy and uninformed
pseudo-investigation, and imbued with an impenetrable “see no Islam” mentality.
Hence the repeated media portrayals of Rifqa Bary as a delusional teenage rebel,
“brainwashed” to leave her loving middle-American Muslim home by a Florida-based
fringe Christian cult. Although Fox News television has at least reported the
story, it has also been a (the?) major purveyor of this warped narrative, and
its coverage has been devoid of the critical Islamic context—in legal theory and
practice—regarding apostasy.
Fox News legal analysts—with the
exception of one who hosted a pellucid ~ 4-minute discussion by security expert Frank
Gaffney—have blathered endlessly regarding “jurisdiction,”Florida versus Ohio, yet they appear incurious about the corpus of
germane Islamic jurisprudence—which remains applicable in our era—sanctioning
the killing of apostates. Fox News has ignored moving and informed written
public appeals in support of Rifqa Bary by two prominent, remarkably courageous
Muslim apostate intellectuals who have sought refuge in America , Nonie Darwish, and Wafa
Sultan. Fox News has also failed to provide its vast audience with the
insights of the most authoritative contemporary scholar on apostasy in Islam—Ibn Warraq , author of the definitive modern work on the
subject, “Leaving Islam.” Mr. Warraq is also
a refugee from lethal Islamic intolerance now living in America. All
three of these individuals—Nonie Darwish, Wafa Sultan, and Ibn Warraq—are readily accessible
to Fox News, but the media giant has thus far chosen not to interview them and
share their views.. ...
...The media’s ignorance (or
denial) of relevant Islamic jurisprudence on apostasy is compounded by
its obliviousness to public pronouncements by North American Muslim
legal scholars and clerics urging draconian punishments for Muslims who renounce
Islam in Canada, or the US.
Syed Mumtaz Ali, the ate architect of Canada's Sharia (Islamic Law)
tribunal, and law professor Ali Khan, for example both advocated extending
Islamic apostasy laws to the West. Mumtaz Ali, in a disturbing essay, affirmed
the traditional Islamic legal viewpoint that apostates must “choose between
Islam and the sword,” arguing further that if Canada were to act in accord with
its own Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Canadian government must grant the
country’s Islamic community authority to punish those Muslims who apostasize, or
malign their faith. Washburn (Topeka, Kansas) University Law Professor, Ali
Khan, another practicing Muslim, provided a more original, but no less chilling
rationale for Muslims in the West to violate—fatally—the basic freedom of
conscience of their co-religionists. Khan argued in The Cumberland
Law Review that apostasy from Islam is an “attack” upon
“protected knowledge,” which if deemed (i.e., by some Islamic tribunal one must
assume!) to be “open, hostile, and voiced contemptuously,” justified punishment
by death. Ali Khan is convinced that traditional Islamic law precepts
antithetical to freedom of conscience nevertheless trump this foundational
Western freedom, because,
“Islam is the truth beyond doubt.
[And] [t] hese rules preserve the dignity of protected
knowledge, discouraging an ‘easy in, easy out’ attitude toward Islam.”
“There is great wisdom
(hikma) associated with the established and preserved position (capital
punishment), and so, even if it makes some uncomfortable in the face of the
hegemonic modern human-rights discourse, one should not dismiss it out of
hand.”
Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wafa Sultan, Geert Wilders ........ these
truth tellers live under 24-hour guard because of Islamic death threats against
them, which they received because they spoke the truth about Islam. Rifqa Bary's
crime of apostasy is far worse. Her testimony is far more egregious.
Rifqa Bary is the highest value target in America.
She should be under 24 hour guard. Period.
There is an almost incomprehensible, misogynist column over at the Orlando Sentinel that is so inaccurate, so misinformed, so
dangerous, that "columnist" Mike Thomas ought to be charged with incitement to
violent honor killing.
This tool, who wrote this at the behest of his masters, got nothing right.
Not one detail. Further, at no point did he consider Rifqa's testimony. At no
point did he consider the consequences of Rifqa's testimony. At no point did he
consider the risk to Rifqa's life.
Mike Thomas decries an "anti-Muslim" bias in the media coverage. I posit the
opposite. There is an anti-Christian bias. They are vilifying the good
Christians who provided sanctuary to Rifqa, who sought only to escape a promised
violent end. They have been reporting only the parents' Islamist
narrative -- giving Rifqa's story no air time or ink. They repeat the lies
over and over again. Folks have to go to you tube to hear Rifqa in her own words. Why has not one
media outlet had on an expert/scholar on apostasy in Islam? Why hasn't Ibn
Warraq or Wafa Sultan been called? This borders on criminal. I heard that the
completely uninformed Walid Phares was on today. The man is a political pundit,
he is clueless. Robert Spencer, wherefore art thou? The only responsible expert
who weighed in was Frank Gaffney here.
Not one scholar on Islam. Anywhere.
The Islamic machinery is in full swing. The ruling on Friday was unexpected.
They never expected that G-d, Rifqa and the people would prevail upon the powers
that be in Florida. So now they are in overdrive. Just watch.
CAIR officials
handed out copies of this Orlando Sentinel article and want supporters to push
the meme that Christians have brainwashed and abducted this gullible teenage
girl.
Dr. Andrew Bostom states in tomorrow's American Thinker, "Rifqa
Bary’s public apostasy from Islam is a watershed event which will gauge just how
far into the depths of stultifying Islamic correctness we have descended".
Fathima Rifqa Bary is playing a
familiar role in Florida's latest cultural clash, a symbol who
personalizes a much
broader conflict.
Claiming her Muslim
father is going to kill her for converting to Christianity, Rifqa fled her Ohio
home and was taken in initially by Blake and Beverly Lorenz, who head the Global
Revolution Church. Blake has been quoted as saying Christians are at war
with Islam and that Islam is evil. And those who share that view have embraced
this case.
It brings back memories of Elián González, the Cuban
boy whose arrival in Miami caused a furor as the exile community tried to block
his father from bringing Elián back to the island. And then there was the
right-to-life battle over Terri Schiavo, waged between her parents, who wanted
to maintain her mindless body on a feeding tube, and her husband, who wanted the
tube removed.
And the left was wrong on both issues. Elián Gonzalez was
never given a shot. Clinton went in there with guns and kidnapped this child
from his loved ones. His mother died trying to escape Fidel's Cuba. It was a
crime against humanity to send Elián back to that hellhole.
And Terry Schiavo was murdered by the left. Murdered. Are they bragging that
they ripped this girl from her loving family's arms and killed her? (Check out
all of Atlas Shrugs' Terri Schindler Schiavo coverage here). The left loves
to instruct us on whose life is valuable and whose is not.
It's clear that Mike Thomas is a mental vegetable, but you don't hear me
advocating for euthanasia in his case :)
Rifqa, 17, is a symbol
for those who believe we are fighting Round 2 of the
Crusades.
For them, the stereotype falls
perfectly into place: Conniving Muslim extremist plans to murder his innocent
daughter for turning to Jesus.
The case went to court last
week. And in a rather
surprising twist, rather than send Rifqa back to Ohio, Circuit
Judge Daniel Dawson decided to investigate Ohio. And so the Florida Department
of Law Enforcement is off to determine her survival chances there.
And in a "rather surprising twist," Governor Crist stepped in to
save a child's life. SHOCKING!
One assumes this had something
to do with the intervention of Gov. Charlie Crist, who faces a conservative challenge from Marco Rubio in the Republican U.S. Senate primary. Not to be left out, Rubio promptly issued
a statement in support of Rifqa and spammed it to the
media.
Left
unanswered is what business Florida has involving itself in this
matter. The people best suited to determine the threat level to
Rifqa are the cops and social workers in Ohio familiar with the Bary
family and the Muslim community. It appeared they had worked out a good
compromise plan, allowing Rifqa to go into foster care while they ensured her
safety.
Yes, that's why Florida needs to investigate. The corruption of Ohio law
enforcement deserves a special prosecutor. OHIO Law Enforcement COVER-UP on Rifqa Bary's Abuse. A
police officer involved in this case from Columbus told my source that he had
talked to 20 people, and almost all 20 said she was in fear for her
life.
One of Rifqa's out of state friends used to talk to Rifqa frequently on the
phone. She said they had to use code words (that they had established earlier)
when talking about Christianity, so that her parents would not know what she was
saying on the phone.
And one of Rifqa's teachers said she knew Rifqa's life was in danger, but
became very frightened when told by the school to "stay out of this"...
If there is evidence that the
folks in Ohio are incompetent and need Florida's assistance, I would like to
hear it.
I just presented it, asshat. And it was published here and also here by International Christian Concern. Why don't you get off
your fat ass and get to Ohio and do something really cutting edge - like
questioning Rifqa's friends or doing some actual reporting?
I do not know the Bary family's
dynamics.
Bingo! Investigate, man!
From what I have read, Rifqa's
father, Mohamed Bary, brought his family to America from Sri Lanka in 2000, at
least in part to seek medical treatment for Rifqa after she lost the sight in
one eye.
Did Mike Thomas bother to find out the circumstances behind the loss of the
eye? Does Thomas know that Rifqa was forced to lie by her parents on how
she lost that eye?
He sends her to a top
high school, where she has excelled and where she is a
cheerleader.
Somehow I can't imagine a Muslim extremist
allowing his daughter to wear short skirts and shake pompoms in front of a crowd
of infidels.
This is America, the West. Not an advanced Islamic state (at least not yet).
You knew this was coming because Thomas is utterly clueless. This man knows
nothing of honor killings in the West. Look at the girls here -- all of them beautiful, Westernized,
dressed in a manner that perhaps Mr. Thomas would term "provocatively", eh?
Those misogynists all have the same vocabulary.
Muslim girls who live in the West lead two lives. Just as
Amina and Sarah Said were honor students, star athletes, soccer players, tennis
players, etc., so was Rifqa. Amina and Sarah did it all. These girls led double
lives. The murder always happens when the parent/family sees they have lost
control of the child. In the case of Amina and Sarah, the girls ran away. The
mother lured them back, and they were both dead less than 24 hours later. Aqsa
Parvez had left the house and was staying with friends when she too was lured
back, only to be murdered.
The girls live in a constant state of war, negotiating the terms of
surrender. The tug, the back and forth, goes on for years. The negotiation
precedes it for years. It is only when the parent loses control of the child --
either they run away, file for divorce, leave the faith, etc., act independently
in some way, that they are murdered in the final act of control. They "win" and
cleanse the family of the dishonor of their daughter's un-islamic behavior.
Bary is a middle-class jeweler
with no documented history of abuse and no record of radical actions or beliefs.
Whatever his disagreements with Rifqa — and what parent of a teen hasn't had his
or her share? — he obviously had invested a lot in her care and
upbringing.
Most of the girls who are honor murdered in the West suffer abuse unknown to
law enforcement authorities. But the friends know. Teachers know. Amina and
Sarah told teachers, friends etc. So did Rifqa ....for years.
Yet last month — long after
learning she had become a Christian — he suddenly decided to kill her over
it.
He forced her to take Islamic classes. She promised she would try to
"return". Rifqa said here: "A couple of weeks later, after I told my
dad that I would follow -- I wouldn’t follow Islam, but would learn more about
it. Then he put me in
class after class after class after class, thinking that, you know, that my mind
was gonna be back in it, but of course not, I’m a follower of
God, Jesus, the true living Jesus! But a couple of weeks later my mom found a
Christian book and I knew right then that it was over for me. I had to
leave.
So Mr. Thomas, you lie. Her mother discovered
her journal. She called the father home -- he was on a business trip which he
abruptly cut short to "deal with Rifqa". Her mom packed the bags and Rifqa
.........ran for her life.
I think ole' Mike ought to take the boys out for a beer (non-alcoholic, of
course).Yaser Said, Chaudhry Rashid,Mohammad Parvez -- all dear men. And so was Mohammed Shafia............. lovely men all, "obviously
invested a lot in the care and upbringing of their daughters".
And Rifqa had to flee for her
life to the Lorenz family, whom she first met on Facebook. By coincidence, her flight apparently
followed a
confrontation with her mother over her coming home
late.
Lie.
Not content to just be rid of
their apostate daughter, the parents immediately contacted police to bring her
back so Mohamed could carry through with killing her. Mom and dad put on a good
act, fooling the investigators, who reported they were like any typical,
concerned parents worried about their daughter.
Obviously, this murder wouldn't
be a whodunit. So Bary would wind up on death row, leaving behind a wife, sons
and life he worked hard to build for his family in America.
When a moderate Muslim, Mohamed Hassan, chopped his wife's head off, he called police
and said, I killed my wife. He was a pillar of the Muslim community, a
television producer who started a TV network called Bridges because he "wanted to improve the image of
Muslims." He ripped a sword off the wall when his wife filed for divorce,
and beheaded her. And then he called the cops and said, I did it. It's what they
do. Who says Bary would run away?
13 February
2009:Muzzammil “Mo” HASSAN, the founder and
chief executive
officer of Bridges TV, a Buffalo, NY based Islamic
television
Network he helped pioneer in 2004 amid hopes that it would help portray
Muslims in a more positive light, reportedly admitted to police
that he beheaded his
wife at the television
station yesterday afternoon.The victim was identified as
Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37, who just last
month, filed for and received an order of protection against her
husband.
According to police, HASSAN
walked into the Orchard
Park police station shortly after 6:00 om.
Frankly, I think the Bary bags were packed to flee the country, with the
killing of Rifqa taking place shortly before or after their speedy departure.
Nobody would possibly
believe such a scenario if not for the fact Bary is a Muslim.
Exactly. Because Christian and Jews do not kill apostates. Muslims do.
The anti-Muslim groups that have
embraced Rifqa say his faith requires that he kill her, as if he has no say in
the matter. As proof, they point to a passage in the Quran mandating death to
Muslims who reject Islam. They back this up citing "honor killings" in Muslim
countries.
Rifqa's father is not judged as
an individual. He is judged by the actions of others and quotes in a religious
text.
There is no individualism in Islam. There is only the Koran, the immutable
word of allah. No one can reform it or reinterpret it. To do so is be a
"hypocrite", punishable by ... death. Secular Muslims do not subscribe to this,
but devout Muslims do, and clearly Mohamed's Bary's mosque, The Noor Islamic Center, was fundamentalist and extreme.
I could go through the Old
Testament and cherry-pick any number of quotes demanding death for nonbelievers,
nonvirgin brides and blasphemers. No Christian I know endorses that, yet it
seems every Muslim abides by the darker writings in the faith.
What difference does that make. The Christian and Jews are not killing their
daughters and wives to restore their honor. Muslims are. Christians and Jews
have not conducted close to 14,000 (it changes daily)
Islamic attacks since 911 in the name of their g-d. These facts are
.....irrefutable.
Imagine if Rifqa fled a
Christian family and wound up in the home of an anti-Christian imam in Florida.
And like Blake Lorenz, he delayed notifying authorities about her arrival. She
would be on the next flight back to Ohio.
Fortunately, we have a rule of
law to protect individuals from the political passions and religious doctrine of
others. It is what separates us from Iran and Saudi
Arabia.
The man just made the case for Rifqa. This is lefopathic mental
illness.
The rule of law blocked
Gov. Jeb
Bush from imposing his personal beliefs in the Terri Schiavo
case.
The rule of law sent Elián González back to his
father. And ultimately, the rule of law
will send Rifqa back to Ohio.
Here's a google map of the business - looks residential:
4282 Nafzger dr, Columbus OH 43230
This flies in the face of what he and his wife testified to in the case of
the thwarted honor killing of Rifqa Bary. Mohamad Bary and his wife signed
affidavits declaring themselves indigent, and that is why the Florida court
appointed a lawyer for the father and a lawyer for the mother. Both their
lawyers are being paid by the taxpayers of Florida. Worse still, Aysha
and Mohamed Bary's lawyer asked the court for more money at the hearing on
Friday, so that they could wage a campaign (depositions, legal docs, filings
etc.).
The above is a copy of the Dunn and Bradstreet report filed by Mohammad
Bary for his business, Bary Gems. He states his business does
$237,561 per annum.The wife, Aysha Bary, makes high-end bridal
gowns (that income may be off the books, but she works every
day). It would appear that she works for CUSTOM BRIDAL VEIL -- a company owned by Risana
Bary. The same Risana Bary who works with Mohamad (Rifqa Bary's father) here at Bary
Gems. There's more on this thriving bridal company here.
My name is Risana, I have been
doing crochet hand beading since 2000. and making custom bridal veils, bridal
dress and broadway show costume bead work for many Bridal Stores. One of a kind
Custom bridal veil with illusion tulle,crochet hand beaded and individual
design, High end quality with reasonable price.feel free to call me
614-934-2212. E-mail custombridalveil@yahoo.com Columbus, OH 43081 FREE SHIPPING
Is Mama Bary reporting this income?
http://www.sewingwishlist.com/
07/06/2009 : Hi
there! I am a 7 yr experienced embellishment in Columbus OH. I have a workroom
in my home.. I have a passion for embellishment. I am willing to work with out
of state customers. You can visit www.custombridalveil.ecrater.com If you have a
need for a embellishment... please contact me. custombridalveil@yahoo.com
(Much thanks to Kitten, who researched the various businesses, and Armaros,
who furthered the story) Any Atlas readers who can provide more financial data,
please get to work.
Dee notes (in
the comment section):
Custom Bridal Veil's
phone number at My Party Planner above is the same as the one for Bary Gems as
shown at the Intergalactic Bead and Jewelry Shows screen shot posted
yesterday.
Bary Gem's My Party
Planner post phone number (posted here yesterday) is the same as shown above in
the screen shot from the islamic website.
If he dissolved the business in early July, where are the proceeds? Where is
the inventory? They owned a gem import business. If they liquidated, they must
have had some inventory or orders or cash on hand. Some of his money may be
overseas, as when you import/export, you try to save on taxes (not necessarily
illegal). In order to qualify for Gem shows, you need some background and
ability to deliver goods. We know he attended these. We know he is still
attending these, because he went to one earlier this summer in Georgia. It seems
he even attended them overseas. He was more of a gem dealer than a retailer. That means bigger numbers and a
faster supply chain.
Each state requires filings from LLCs and Corps. They need to state income
there. They have to file taxes. The fact that the NY company was alive for at
least nine years shows there was income, as otherwise, why file? And if you
don't file, your company loses registration. The rules for this are similar but
not the same in each state. (hat tip to Armaros for that background)
The Barys live in a very affluent neighborhood in Westerville, Ohio, in a
house they rent. Practicing Muslims aren't supposed to take on mortgages. They
either pay cash, rent or buy through a Sharia schedule which is usually like a
"rent to own" program you see for buying TVs. In other words, title will be in
the name of whomever "lent" to them.
Here is a screen shot of their neighborhood. Pretty ritzy.
Things began to disintegrate at home fairly rapidly once the parents were
aware that Rifqa had converted to Christianity (watch her here). Her parents threatened her, but she never left
Christianity. In mid July her mother went through Rifqa's private things and found her journal. It was then
revealed to her mother that Rifqa was a practicing Christian. Rifqa's mom, Aysha, called the father and alerted him that Rifqa was still practicing Christianity in secret. Mohamed cut
his business trip short in order to return home immediately while Aysha packed
the family's bags to go back to Sri Lanka. Whether Rifqa would have been honor
murdered before or after they returned to Sri Lanka is known only to the Barys.
He dissolved his business in early July when it became increasingly clear
that Rifqa was a true convert to Christianity. It was at that time
that he waved her laptop at her and said, "You are dead to me. "You are not my
daughter". And he promised, “'I will kill you.
Tell me the truth.' In these words, bad words, cuss
words." He filed to dissolve his business, which was registered in New
York, but did not file in Ohio. Is he doing business in OH without a
business license? Why didn’t he file for a business license in OH when he
submitted his request to dissolve the business in NY? (thanks to
Paula)
I was threatened by my dad.
When my dad found out – I had a Facebook, that’s how he found out – and phone
calls from the Muslim community started coming in with emails that
confronted me. And I had a laptop and he took that laptop and waved it in the
air and he was about to beat me with it, and he said, “If you have this Jesus in
your heart, you’re dead to me. You’re not my daughter.” And I refused to speak
but he said, “I will kill you. Tell me the truth.” In these words, bad words,
cuss words. So I knew that I had to get away.
A couple of
weeks later even, I told my dad that I would fol — that I would begin to learn
more about Islam, because I was scared. And I said that because when I had come
to know the Lord, I dropped everything about Islam. I mean, I had to hide my
Bible for years, I would go outside to pray. When my dad was asleep was when I
went outside to pray. I snuck out to Christian prayer meetings in fear of my life. And
finally this day had come, when I was confronted by my dad. A couple of weeks
later, after I told my dad that I would follow -- I wouldn’t follow Islam, but
would learn more about it. Then he put me in class after class after class
after class......
[...].
.....
it was Saturday night. In the morning I left to go to a friend’s house. And I
asked her, I begged her to take me to church. I needed to get to church. I
needed to pray, I needed to seek the Lord to know what to do. And so that entire
day from seven in the morning to late at night I prayed and prayed and prayed,
and finally I was able to get a ride back home to that person’s house. And I stayed there
Saturday, Sunday night because my dad was coming back home from his trip
that night, and so I stayed there that night and I just left. I hitchhiked to a
bus station and I got a ticket to Florida because I had met them through a
prayer ministry on Facebook. And this was the farthest away from Ohio – you
don’t understand, if I had stayed in Ohio, I wouldn’t be alive.
According to one anti-Rifqa pro-Islam website (hat tip Kitten):
CAIR is supporting Bary and are involved in this case. CAIR in Ohio
is handling this case.
a secret strategy meeting
conducted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) earlier this week
has conveyed the strategy that the media's favorite Islamist group has devised
to respond to the ongoing public relations crisis. According to my source who
attended the strategy session, CAIR officials handed out copies of this Orlando Sentinel article and want supporters to push the meme
that Christians have brainwashed and abducted this gullible teenage girl. They
have also instructed supporters to circulate rumors that Rifqa had been
carousing with infidel boys and engaged in acts of immorality. This CAIR
strategy takes the focus off the near-universal Islamic legal precepts and
Quranic injunctions that demand death for apostates and impugns the character of the
innocent girl at the center of this controversy who appears to be in genuine
fear for her life if she is returned to her parents.
According to Ohio
State Law this is a kidnapping case and the lawyers from Bary's side are trying
to bring this Revolutionary group to Justice. We need to support Br. Bary and
his phone number is (347)
247-6568.
Please talk to him for further information. Also CAIR is supporting Bary
and they are involved in this case. CAIR in Ohio is handling this case.
Rifqa Bary is the cross to CAIR's dracula -- I
expect they'll create a huge negative campaign to destroy this child.
Rifqa Bary's testimony validates what every scholar on Islam has been
writing for years. All those "Islamophobes" and "anti-Muslim bigots" who write
of the violent ideology have been exculpated. CAIR must destroy this young girl
as she has destroyed them with her words of truth and of ..... Christ.
She is an apostate.
Bukhari (84:57) - "[In the words of] Allah's Apostle,
'Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'"
Quran 4:89 "If they turn back from Islam, becoming renegades, seize them
and kill them wherever you find them".
Quran 4:115 "If anyone
contradicts or opposes the Messenger after guidance has been conveyed to him,
and follows a path other than the way, We shall burn him in Hell!"
Why
has not one media outlet had on an expert/scholar on apostasy in Islam? Why
hasn't Ibn Warraq or Wafa Sultan been called? This borders on criminal. I heard
that the completely uninformed Walid Phares was on today. The man is a political
pundit, he is clueless. Robert Spencer, wherefore art thou?
In other
Rifqa related news:
The dhimmi Orlando Sentinel is running a poll. They are dying for
Rifqa to be sent back to that hell hole. VOTE NOW. How in the bag is the Sentinel? Check out the tool
Mike Thomas today in the Sentinel. Whose payroll is he on?
Rifqa, 17, is a symbol for those who believe we are fighting
Round 2 of the Crusades. For them, the stereotype falls perfectly into place:
Conniving Muslim extremist plans to murder his innocent daughter for turning to
Jesus.
The case went to court last week. And in a rather
surprising twist, rather than send Rifqa back to Ohio, Circuit Judge
Daniel Dawson decided to investigate Ohio. And so the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement is off to determine her survival chances there
BTW, she
does not call herself Fathima, ever. She is Rifqa (like in the Bible). And if
there has been any bias at all, it has been an anti-Christian bias. It's been
vile. I may have to fisk this fool in another post; it is rich in dhimmi
subservience.
Is it any wonder that the press is biased against Rifqa?
The reporter loves the hijab. Barbarossa's got it here. It's
no wonder that CAIR-Ohio thinks they got it (uh, Rifqa) in the bag:
Last week Columbus Dispatch
reporter Meredith Heagney (mheagney@dispatch.com) published an article attacking the credibility of potential honor killing
victim Rifqa Bary. In that article, Heagney quoted a Columbus Police official
who assured the public there was NOTHING to worry about, flatly contradicting
her claims of potential danger from her family. This quote has been reprinted
and widely circulated by her parents' supporters, including the Council of
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in their claims that she has been brainwashed and
abducted by Christians.
But speaking to sources in the
Columbus area, it seems that Ms. Heagney is more than just a neutral or
objective observer. According to these sources, Heagney has used her position
with the Dispatch to serve as the de facto press agent for the
extremist Noor Islamic Cultural Center, where Rifqa's parents attend (the
mosque's ugly ties to terror covered here
at Jawa a few days ago).
One such example is an article in the Dispatch yesterday where Heagney promotes
Noor's current "Holy Month" celebrations. Earlier this year, Heagney penned a glowing account of the Islamic hajj featuring the outreach
coordinator for the Noor Center. Last November, she plugged the mosque's Somali conference, failing to note the
presence of Hassan Mohamud, who has recently been in the news for a promotional
video complaining about "the hell of living in America" and for his advocacy in
support of suicide bombings (something a real reporter, Katherine Kersten of the
Star-Tribune, has been willing to cover) . Mohamud and his mosque have been mentioned
in connection with the current nationwide counterterrorism investigation
concerning young American Somalis who have left the country to train in the
Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab camps. But no need to worry - the Dispatch waved off any Columbus connections to the terror case long
ago.
And during last year's Eid al-Fitr
celebrations, Heagney authored a whining piece about the mosque's services
entitled, "Muslims still look for acceptance". While conducting her
reporting at the mosque she was photographed sporting her hijab along with her
Dispatch ID card:
UPDATE: Thanks to Kristie who tracked down the video:
Muck-it-up-a-bee was spouting nonsense about Rifqa Bary.
Mike Huckabee weighed in on Rifqa Bary yesterday and displayed an almost
breathless stupidity and deliberate delusion that speak to the deeper inadequacy
of this man.
Atlas reader Palin opined,
I just watched Huckabee on Fox. He, like everyone else, is completely
clueless about this. He started by emphasizing that most Moslems are peaceful,
trivialized her conversion to Christianity, raised concerns about sexual
predators on the Internet luring kids with religion, stated the family has no
history of violence, and stressed that this is "a very complex case."
Huck - this is not about an "angry family." This is about Islam, which loves
death and which demands death for apostasy. Rifqa faces death from any and all
devout Muslims. Moderate Moslems are simply unserious Moslems - they are
irrelevant. This is about blind, clueless people who would send a girl to her
death without even realizing the nature of the problem.
I understand now how the holocaust happened.
If anyone has a copy of Huckabee's dhimmitude, send the embed
code.
It is important to point this out. Huckabee is surely on the
2012 radar screen. And so is rampant Islamic supremacism and the West's refusal
to acknowledge the enemy within and without. Islamic domination is the defining
issue of this young century.
Honor killings (outside of Islamic countries where the practice is rampant)
in the United States, Canada and Europe are increasing dramatically as Islamic
(shariah) law continues its creep apace. These brutal murders are well documented, even as the media caves to
Islam by their refusal to cover them. The New York Times finally did a piece on Rifqa and never once
mentioned "honor killing".
Swami points out in "Her father, Mohamed Bary, told the judge
that Rifqa would be able to practice Christianity if she returned home."
Allah has no
partner. To ascribe a partner to Allah is a great sin. It is called 'shirk'. 'I
and my father are one'...is shirk. Shirk is also apostasy. All Christians are
shirkers. It is unlikely that Riqa's parents are going to tolerate a shirking
apostate under their roof. This will cement the fathers loss of honor, and cause
him to be scorned at mosque.Not only is he a failure at his family
responsibilities, he is a failure to Allah. There is only one Islamic way to fix
that and regain his lost honor, as well as getting right with Allah and we know
what that is...
The thing is, how can a man who makes this commentary on the
ideology that motivates devout Muslims who practice jihad disconnect so
thoroughly on Riqfa Bary's plight? It is the same book, the same ideology.
Devout is devout is devout.
UPDATE:Den transcribed the Huckabee video for us:
Title of Video: Rifqa Bary Maligned and Islam defended? Mike Huckabee's
unbelievable comments
Transcript, skips straight to the interview with Huckablahblah....
Interviewer: She claims that she was afraid of an honour
killing, being the victim.
H: Yep.
Interviewer: Of an Honour Killing at the hands of her
parents, for converting, in this day and age, an Honour Killing? This seems so
impossible to believe
H: It would be very very difficult to believe, in the
culture of the United States, it would not be difficult to believe in cultures,
lets say, in the Middle East and the Far East and other parts. But, let me be
very quick to say, there are millions of Muslims across the World and not all of
them believe in killing their children. And it is very important to separate
radical Islam from the really more, eh, traditional and peaceful practice of
Islam. So, I think it very important not to act like not every Islamic parent,
eh, could, on any given day, could get a knife and hack up their child. Thats
just not what is going on here (indistinguisable word - anyroads?).
Interviewer: Furthermore her parents say they don't believe
in Honour Killing, they say they have never threatened her whatsoever. This must
be a real pickle for the authorities in Florida to figure out if she is a
run-away and she just wanted to leave home and go to Florida or if she really is
in danger.
H: Well if you are 17 years old and you want to get away
from your parents one of the things you do is you create the best barrier you
can, and saying I think my parents are going to kill me, cos being an Honour
Killing, would do it.
Now, the Florida authorities have to take that seriously, they can't just
say, ah, it's just a kid talking. If they send her back and something
happens then they are going to really feel horrible about it. So you have
State Law in Ohio, State Law in Florida, you have parents rights, you have
childrens rights, this is a very complicated case. The implications are much
larger and it is very important that they get it right.
I think what they are doing is the right thing, and thats taking it slow,
step at a time. Do all the investigations of the eh eh, child's home situation
and see if there is any indication whatsoever that these parents have ever given
an indication that they are radical Jihadists. Because that again, you just
can't go around saying, oh eh, they are muslim, therefore they are liable to
kill their children, that is an insult to all the muslims who love their
children as much as I love my children.
Interviewer: It is also complicated because she disappeared
from her home and the Police tracked her, eh, using phone and computer records,
she went to be with this church group, the Global Revolution Church, who she had
met online through a facebook Prayer Group.
All of this scares parents of teenagers, because you don't want your teenager
heading off to be with strangers, even if they are a Christian Prayer Group.
H: Well, and, eh, and a lot of things, in the, eh eh, I
don't know about this group, so I am not going to say anything good or bad about
them, I mean I am divorced from that group.
But, lets face it, religion is often used as a lure, to say that, look, we
really love you, we really care...We just had a case in Arkansaw in which a man
will spend the rest of his life in prison, and Tony Alamo(?), err, a horrible
case there, its been nationally known, but here is a case where he sexually
abused children, he used his religion to take kids as young as, 8, 9 years old,
marry them, eh, it's a horrible thing, so, just because somebody waves a flag
and says I am religious and I am a christian you still have to ask in what
manner, and how does that relate to you.
Interviewer: Rifqa is in foster care, right now, until this
next hearing on 3rd September, so we know that she is safe at the moment. This
is really in the hands of Governor charlie Crist of Florida, to decide whether
or not she is going to go back home. Here is his statement, let me tell you what
he said:
"I am grateful for the good work of Department of Children and Families...for
personally advocating the administrations position by attending (the) Hearing,
we will continue to fight to protect Rifqa's safety and wellbeing as we move
forward"
Interviewer: Does that go far enough?
H: It's all he can say at this point, because the interest
of the child is what matters, BUT you can't ignore the parents rights to be
parents. If everytime a kid doesn't like what's going on at home, and runs away,
and say, oh and by the way my parents are religious nuts and are going to kill
me, eh, you know, you would have most children in America cos they didn't get to
go out with their friends, or they didn't get to use their computer when they
want to...
Interviewer: What happens though if the Authorities do
determine that her parents are extremists at some level?
H: If that were to happen then she would most likely end up
in Foster Care and until she meets maturity age, where she would make her own
decisions
Interviewer: it's scary stuff.
H: Strange stuff. No doubt about it, no easy answer here,
none at all.
Interviewer: I bet you are glad you are not the
Governor?
Much thanks to Diane and Julie for uncovering this information. Mohamed Bary,
Rifqa Bary's father, is a jeweler. His company is Bary Gems, of Columbus
(apparently near Gahanna, OH). According to very recent documentation, Muhammad
Bary dissolved his business on July 29,2009 - after Rifqa ran for
her life (fearing an honor killing for her apostasy) and was discovered in
Florida.
He moved the business from New York to Columbus in 2004. It was dissolved it
on July 29, 2009 the same time frame as Rifqa's disappearance.. Rifqa's story hit the papers August 3rd (go here).
And this was not insignificant business (click here for Dunn and Bradstreet report). Bary had over 20 employees and was doing
$100,000-350,000 a year in sales. I registered at D&B and got the
actual figures Bary submitted. Annual sales: $237,561 per
annum and three employees. That's a lot to give up
.... why? He obviously did not expect Rifqa to prevail in Florida court. Like
all the pundits, he expected that Rifqa would have to go back to Ohio.
INACTIVE - Dissolution by Proclamation /
Annulment of Authority
(Jul 29, 2009)
BARY GEMS INC. 3434 75TH STREET JACKSON HEIGHTS, NEW YORK,
11372
Registered Agent
NONE
It's no wonder that Muhammad and Aysha are so
anxious to get Rifqa back to the state of Ohio. Her parents had signed papers in
Ohio with Franklin County Children Services, saying they would be okay if she
was brought back to the state and placed in a foster home for at least 30 days.
They just want to get her back in Ohio and out of Florida and Floridian
interference.
30 days in foster care in Ohio (and what good does
that do?) and then they wing her to Sri Lanka. Rifka said here:
....in 150 generations of my
family no one has known Jesus. I am the first one. Imagine the honor in killing
me. There is great honor in that. Because if they love Allah more than me, they
have to do it. It’s in the Koran. And you can, like, give them knowledge about
it [gestures to someone off camera, who says something unintelligible]. He
really will explain it and break it down. They have to do this. They just have
to. Either they do that or they send me back to Sri Lanka. There’s an asylum
there where they put people like me, like, think I’m
crazy.
Mohamed Bary of Bary gems inc
selling gem stones and jewelry in new york. And in 2004
we have moved to Columbus oh as our head office. Most of our gemstones
are from Sri Lanka and most of them are natural and unheated, and cut in our
lapidary. Most of the jewelry are hand made pices one of a kind with unique
designs which creates a good value for the finish product. selling gem
stones and jewelry in new york. And in 2004 we have moved to Columbus oh as our
head office.
INACTIVE - Dissolution by Proclamation / Annulment of Authority (Jul 29,
2009)
Information to reinstate a corporation that has been dissolved by
proclamation or annulment of authority by proclamation is available on the New
York State Department of Taxation and Finance website at
www.tax.state.ny.us keyword TR-194.1 or by writing to NYS
Department of Taxation and Finance,Reinstatement Unit/Bldg-8, Rm
#958,W.A. Harriman Campus,Albany, NY 12227 or
by telephone at 1-800-972-1233
Selected Entity Address Information
DOS Process (Address to
which DOS will mail process if accepted on behalf of the
entity)
BARY GEMS INC. 3434 75TH STREET JACKSON HEIGHTS, NEW YORK,
11372
Registered Agent
NONE
This office does not require or maintain information
regarding the names and addresses of officers, shareholders or directors of a
corporation.
*Stock Information
# of Shares
Type of Stock
$ Value per Share
200
No Par Value
*Stock information is applicable to domestic business
corporations.
Name History
Filing Date
Name Type
Entity Name
JUL 03, 2000
Actual
BARY GEMS
INC.
UPDATE:Bary dissolved his business in early July
when it became increasingly clear that Rifqa was a true convert to Christianity. It was at that time
that he waved her laptop at her and said "you are dead to me. "you are not my
daughter" and then promised, “I will kill you.
Tell me the truth. In these words, bad words, cuss words."
Mohamed Bary filed to dissolve his business, which was
registered in New York, but did not file in Ohio. Is he doing business in OH without a
business license? Why didn’t he file for a business license in OH when he
submitted his request to dissolve the business in NY? (hat tip
Paula)
Rifqa Bary reads a Bible during her court
proceedings
Rifqa is a good friend of mine.
I met her just before she became a christian, and even then she was talking
about how she had to hide her bible, and her religion from them. she is
authentically afraid and scared for her life. I agree with you all the way. God
be with her and the decisions that are going to be made about her.
Despite the media's deliberate silence on Rifqa Bary's terrible story,
either they didn't report it or when they did they deceived to advance Islam,
Rifqa prevailed. The media demonized Christianity ("brainwashed by a cult")
while inaccurately reporting the facts in order to avoid the violent ideology of
Islam, at any cost, even the life of Rifqa Bary. They have become as depraved as
the murderers they cover for.
Rifqa has been given a reprieve. SHE
WILL NOT BE SENT TO OHIO! Praise G-d. She will not be
sent back to her terrorized home in Ohio, at least not for now. Next
hearing September 3rd at 2:30 p.m.
Staying in Florida, her
legal team argues, would keep her safe.
Judge Dawson said he has had no
contact with Ohio courts, so he doesn't know if Ohio wants jurisdiction in this
case.
"Rifqa wants to be here,"
said one of her lawyers.
He told the court the teen's safety
would be compromised back in Ohio, referring to some 'terrorist activity' in the
region where she lived. He did not elaborate.
Judge Dawson says "at
first blush" it appears his court has jurisdiction in this custody matter, since
no Ohio court has taken up the matter.
Obviously, they will start a motion in Ohio. So get ready for the
next battle.
Attorneys for the parents are
citing a ruling that Judge Dawson could request an Ohio court to initiate a
hearing, but Dawson said he didn't feel that was the case, although he
appears willing to make contact.
The judge says he's inclined to refer this
matter to mediation and keep this matter in his court.
Update: A hearing is set
for September 3rd at 2:30 p.m.
A dependency petition
will be argued at that time.
Update: Rafqa is making her
statement to the court. "I've been a Christian for 4 years of my
life. I
love my parents but I am in fear of my life because of the past abuse. I
assure your honor Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. I am a Christian, a
believer."
Consistent with her previous testimony.
I was threatened by my
dad. When my dad found out – I had a Facebook, that’s how he found out – and
phone calls from the Muslim community started coming in with emails that
confronted me. And I had a laptop and he took that laptop and waved it in the
air and he was about to beat me with it, and he said, “If you have this
Jesus in your heart, you’re dead to me. You’re not my daughter.” And I refused
to speak but he said, “I will kill you. Tell me the truth.” In these words, bad
words, cuss words. So I knew that I had to get away. (more of Rifqa's statement)
First, let me thank each and every one of you who took the time to write,
call, email, fax, Governor Crist and the Attorney General and the Secretary of
State to save this girl's life. You made a difference.
UPDATE: STATEMENT BY HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER ADAM HASNER ON
THE RIFQA BARY CASE
House Majority Leader Adam Hasner
issued the following statement on today’s court ruling regarding Rifqa Bary, a
young Christian convert who fled her parents’ home in Columbus, Ohio. She is
currently in Orlando, Florida.
“I appreciate the efforts of
Secretary Sheldon and the Department of Children and Families, Attorney General
Bill McCollum, and the countless advocates who have worked tirelessly to put the
safety of Rifqa Bary first. The court’s decision and the forthcoming involvement
of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement – facilitated by the Attorney
General – to investigate this young girl’s safety if she is forced to return to
Ohio may save her from an unthinkable fate.”
“No one, child or adult, should
have to fear for their lives because of their religious choices, and I am
hopeful that Rifqa’s best interests will be safeguarded as this process moves
forward. I will continue my communications with General McCollum and Secretary
Sheldon, and will be closely monitoring the ongoing investigation and
developments in this matter until there is a final resolution that guarantees
the permanent safety of this young girl.”
UPDATE: And this from MARCO RUBIO COMMENTS ON RIFQA BARY
CASE (Rubio is running for Senate this fall, if I was a Floridian, he'd
get my vote);
Miami, FL–U.S. Senate candidate
and former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio today issued the following
statement regarding Rifqa Bary's court case:
"America has a rich tradition of
religious freedom that is enshrined in our First Amendment. Today in Florida,
this freedom could be at stake as a court considers the case of 17 year-old
Rifqa Bary.
"This young woman fled from Ohio
to Florida, fearing she would be killed for converting from Islam to
Christianity. As the court weighs the facts of this case, I hope it will take
her expressed fears seriously and not rush to an irreversible decision that may
ultimately endanger her.
"It is imperative that state
officials use every legal tool at their disposal to properly evaluate Rifqa's
best interests. Florida has a responsibility not only to protect her innocent
life, but also to defend her sacred right to worship freely."
GOVERNOR CRIST: THANK
YOU!
Thank you for contacting Governor
Charlie Crist. The Governor asked that I respond on his behalf.
Governor Crist today
expressed his gratefulness to Circuit Judge Daniel Dawson for his decision to
grant Fathima Rifqa Bary the right to remain in Florida. In this case, the first
and only priority of Governor Crist's administration is the safety and wellbeing
of this child. The Governor also expressed gratitude for the good work of
Department of Children and Families Secretary George Sheldon and his General
Counsel, Rob Wheeler, for personally advocating the administration's position by
attending today's hearing.
Please be assured Governor
Crist will continue to fight to protect Ms. Rifqa Bary's safety and wellbeing as
this case moves forward.
Thank you again for taking the
time to contact Governor Crist.
"heavy Media coverage" "maybe 75 people" "A handful of demonstrators
outside" "No recording allowed"
Others milling around the courthouse and inside the lobby said they were
praying for the judge to keep her away from her parents.
Usama Dakdok, an ex-Muslim, was one of them. He came from an organization in
Venice that tries to help Muslims who convert to Christianity.
"We have people all over
the country praying for this," he said in the parking lot.
"Honor killing is not a joke,"
said Usama Dadok, who says he's a Muslim evangelist specialist speaker. "It's
real, it's practiced, it's fact in the Koran."
He said he would rather see the teenager in a foster home than with her
family.
Rifqa walked in after her parents
sat down with their attorney Craig McCarthy at one table.
She is seated at another, but
facing her mother, who is wearing a scarf and wiping her eyes with a tissue.
Rifqa wants to make a
statement before the hearing begins.
The attorneys are huddling before
the judge for a decision on whether he will allow that.
UPDATE: Judge Dawson has
decided to let her speak, saying it his policy to let anyone speak in open
court.
This case is about jurisdiction,
whether she can stay in the care of the Florida Department of Children and
Families, or whether she has to be turned over to Ohio authorities.
A representative from DCF has told
the court that the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement has agreed to investigate the matter, because DCF fears she is in
danger.
An attorney for Rifqa's
parents said Ohio has investigated this matter and if there's any question about
her safety, then Ohio is the place for that to be determined.
"There is no basis," the attorney
said, for her to stay in Florida since her life is in Ohio.
McCarthy said it would
"enormous prejudice" to try this matter in Florida.
They want to get her back there in the worst way.The fact
is that Rifqa is dead to her devout parents. Now it's about
honor.
A legal representative for Rifqa
says since Ohio has no prior legal proceeding in this case, then Florida can
claim jurisdiction.
Staying in Florida, her
legal team argues, would keep her safe.
Judge Dawson said he has had no
contact with Ohio courts, so he doesn't know if Ohio wants jurisdiction in this
case.
"Rifqa wants to be here,"
said one of her lawyers.
He told he court the teen's safety
would be compromised back in Ohio, referring to some 'terrorist activity' in the
region where she lived. He did not elaborate.
UPDATE: Rifqa is sitting with her
attorneys, reading a book that she brought in. She glances at the judge
and her legal team, but not her parents.
Judge Dawson says "at first
blush" it appears his court has jurisdiction in this custody matter, since no
Ohio court has taken up the matter.
Attorneys for the parents
are citing a ruling that Judge Dawson could request an Ohio court to initiate a
hearing, but Dawson said he didn't feel that was the case, although he
appears willing to make contact.
The judge says he's inclined to
refer this matter to mediation and keep this matter in his court.
update: A hearing is set
for September 3rd at 2:30 p.m.
A dependency petition will be
argued at that time.
Update: Rafqa is making her
statement to the court. "I've been a Christian for 4 years of my life. I
love my parents but I am in fear of my life because of the past abuse. I assure
your honor, Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. I am a Christian, a
believer."
Her mother cried, "I need my
daughter back."
He father said "I love my
daughter, I have no problem in her practicing another religion."
She is free to come and practice
what she likes in my home," he said.
Rifqa will spend some time with
her younger brothers, but does not want to meet with her parents at this
time.
The court will allow it.
Update: Rifqa is staying
in a foster home. Her foster parents are not willing to allow supervised
visitation of Rifqa's family or friends right now. The judge is recommending
DCF take charge of the issue and hold these meetings in an outside location
where it can be videotaped.
Update: Rifqa is staying in a
foster home. Her foster parents are not willing to allow supervised visitation
of Rifqa's family or friends right now. The judge is recommending DCF take
charge of the issue and hold these meetings in an outside location where it can
be videotaped.
Judge Dawson asked if Rifqa is a
legal immigrant. She was born in Sri Lanka. Her attorneys say they are trying to
determine that and need the parents' cooperation.
Her father, Mohammed, said she
arrived in the U.S. on a visa. Since she has turned 17, her legal status is in
question.
CAIR officials
handed out copies of this Orlando Sentinel article and want supporters to push
the meme that Christians have brainwashed and abducted this gullible teenage
girl.
I am not sure if you read the Orlando Sentinel today, but here is a portion:
The incident has left her family
in suburban Columbus befuddled. "Honestly," said her father, Mohamed Bary, "we
didn't know why she left."
There is no evidence, according to
Columbus-area authorities that her father poses any threat.
The girl's father, a jeweler,
insisted he never threatened to kill his daughter.
A police officer involved in this case from Columbus, told my source
that he had talked to 20 people and almost all 20 said she was in fear for
her life.
Rifqa Bary said in her interview that she left a note for her parents telling
them why she ran away. They are questioning why she would run away? Did they not
read the note?
Rifqa
Bary: I ran away from home. I wrote my parents a note, I said, I
refuse to deny Jesus and He’s my Lord and Savior and I pray you find His
forgiveness and mercy and I love them both dearly. I wrote that, but they never
showed it to the police
officers. They want me back
home, I can’t go back to Ohio,
you guys don’t understand. That community,
they’re like – I will die within a week. My life is at stake. My dad threatened
me.
One of Rifqa's out
of state friends used to talk to Rifqa frequently on the phone. She said they
had to use code words (that they had established earlier) when talking about
Christianity so her parents would not know what she was saying on the phone.
And one of Rifqa's teachers said she knew Rifqa's life was in danger, but
became very frightened when told by the school to "stay out of this"...
Personally, I think this is a giant cover-up by the city of Columbus.
Thank you for contacting
Governor Charlie Crist and sharing your concerns about Ms. Fathima (Rifqa) Bary.
The Governor asked that I respond on his behalf.
Governor Crist is committed to
protecting Ms. Bary's health, safety and welfare. Governor Crist directed the
Secretary of the Department of Children and Families, George Sheldon, to
petition the court for placement in shelter and custody under the Florida
Department of Children and Family Services (Department). As a result, the court
placed Ms. Bary in protective custody and she has been placed in a licensed
foster care home under the supervision of the Department.
The Secretary of the
Department of Children and Family Services and the Governor's General Counsel
will be at today's court hearing. Please be assured Governor Crist will make a
decision that is in the best interests of and ensures the continued health,
safety and welfare of Ms. Rifqa Bary.
Thank you again for taking the
time to contact Governor Crist.
Attention Atlas readers, going forward I will be calling "Gaza" and the
egregiously stolen from the Jewis people "Palestine" and any other
"Palestinian" stolen land by its rightful name - Islamic occupied
Israel.
On September 18th (18 is chai [life!] in Hebrew), the dedication for
the Aqsa Parvez Memorial Peace Park will take place at
4:30.
This is so wonderful. If you are nearby, come! Today, Scott and the city of
Pelham honored Atlas readers who contributed to Aqsa Parvez's memorial. The
city of Pelham included a list of all the Atlas readers, installed at the foot of Aqsa's memorial.
For those of you who have written and wanted to attend, it is recommended to
me that the best place to stay is in Niagara Falls in Canada. Lots of cozy
hotels :)
Pelham/Fonthill is about 20 minutes west of Niagara Falls on Highway
20. Here is the video of Sharon Cook and Scott McLeod dropping the
parchment with our names into the footing of Aqsa's memorial. Cook
is the city councilwoman who responded to Scott McLeod's proposal and introduced the Aqsa Parvez resolution. Scott McLeod created a dedication prefaced with the
following:
This memorial is dedicated to
the life of Aqsa Parvez
The
following, is a list of people from around the world who came together to ensure
that this child would not be forgotten. While we have attempted to gather all
who supported this endeavor, however it is likely that some are not noted in the
following. We believe that those unknown hero’s prayers and support are in this
document, as though printed. We have gathered as a family, who cross
religious, ethnic and geographic boundaries to create this memorial
which represent, what we as a global community believe is the ethical and
honorable thing to do. We have included the prayers, comments and statement of
values which we as citizens of the world hold dear. Rest
in Peace Aqsa, you will be remembered
A 10-year old Muslim girl was
married off to a Muslim man, aged 42. The child was so unhappy with the arranged
marriage that she ran away on a number of occasions but was forced by her family
to return to her “husband.” Finally her husband and family had enough of the
child’s disobedience and decided for the sake of her husband and family’s honor
that she should be killed. Which they did by mutilating, dismembering and
finally beheading her. Her body was discovered by a Thai couple out walking in a
public park close to where the child’s family lived.
UPDATE: Much thanks to Micha in Germany for tracking down a picture for us.
Notice that the man's face is protected and the victims of these "honor" murders
are always beautiful. The savage Önder B. and Müjde
Very difficult to track down photos of victims of honor murders. I am still
waiting for pictures of the three young girls and their "aunt" (the murdering
father's second wife), who were honor murdered and found in a submerged car in
Canada. The media doesn't run the photos of the victims. It's rare. They
don't want to humanize these brutalized girls. It's more of the abject
immorality of a corrupt, debased media.
This honor killing is difficult to stomach. This is a culture from some other
planet.
"And because she was 'already so
disfigured from the stabbing and beating that she would hate me for the rest of
her life,' he got into his car and ran over her body several times."
"Muslim man sentenced to life in jail after killing his German-born wife
because she was 'too independent'," by Allan Hall for the Daily Mail, August 20 (thanks to Lazy Buddha):
A Muslim asylum seeker has been sentenced to life in prison after killing his
German-born wife because she was 'too independent', a court in Germany heard
today.
The 27-year-old Kurdish man, identified only as Onder B, was found guilty
today of stabbing his wife in the eyes, beating her with a billiard cue and then
running over her in his car.
His mother-in-law had once told him to be 'strict' with her
strong-willed daughter, Mujde - who was also Onder's
cousin.
On New Year's Eve 2008 he stabbed his 18-year-old wife Mujde 46 times
and beat her with a billiard cue.
And because she was 'already so disfigured from the stabbing and beating that
she would hate me for the rest of her life,' he got into his car and ran over
her body several times.
Bielefeld District Court judge Jutta Albert convicted him on a charge of
murder arising from base motives, and one of cruelty, because the defend ant stabbed his
wife in both eyeballs while she was still
alive.
He stabbed her so hard in
the head with a fruit knife that the blade broke off in her
skull.
The case has pulled into sharp focus the cultural differences between
Western values and the estimated three million Muslim immigrants living and
working in Germany.
Bielefeld District Court judge Jutta Albert clashed repeatedly this week with
family members of both victim and defendant as details of the horrific case
unfolded.
'One more remark from you and you'll be removed!' she told the victim’s
mother. 'Do you think you can behave here as if you were in a Turkish
bazaar?'
The killer arrived in Germany as an asylum seeker, in 2001. He was 19 and
Mujde was 11 at the time.
He married a Turkish woman 10 years his senior, but the couple soon
separated.
He returned home to Turkey in 2003, where he performed his mandatory military
service, coming back Germany in 2006.
Under a deal between their
families a marriage was 'arranged' between him and Mujde, in which he then
viewed her, according to prosecutors, 'as his property'....
Ugh. Note "the refugee camp" from the year of the flood.
Woman Killed in Jabalya to
"Maintain Family Honor"
On
Thursday, 23 July 2009, Fadia Jawdat al-Najjar, 27, from Jabalya refugee camp
was killed allegedly "to maintain family honor."
According
to police sources in Jabalya, at approximately 09:30 on Friday mourning, 24 July
2009, Jawdat al-Najar, from Jabalya, gave himself up to the police station in
Jabalya. He confessed that he killed his daughter, Fadia, inside his home in a
late hour on Thursday. He claimed that he found a mobile phone with his daughter
and she was talking with someone, which he suspected as an illegitimate
relation. As soon as the police have received this confession, the police moved
towards the scene of the crime and examined the victim's body. They found signs
of torture on her body. The police transferred her the victim's body to Kamal
'Edwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, and from there to the forensic medicine
department at Shifa Hospital in Gaza city.
Sources
of the forensic medicine department at Shifa Hospital reported that there were
signs of torture throughout the victim's body, as well as a fracture in her
skull due to her was hit by an iron chain.
According
to PCHR's documentation, the number of people killed allegedly "to maintain
family honor" since the beginning of 2009 has amounted to 9 (6 women, two men
and a child) in 7 crimes. One of these crimes was committed in the West Bank,
whereas the rest of the crimes were committed in the Gaza Strip.
PCHR
strongly condemns this latest crime, and:
1)Expresses concern over the recurrence of murders against
women in the Occupied Palestinian Territory allegedly "to maintain family
honor." Such recurrence may be attributed to the relative impunity granted to
murderers, who are often sentenced to less than 3 civil years of imprisonment,
equivalent to 24 months of effective imprisonment.
2)Calls for suitable deterrent penalties to be applied to
"family honor" murders. These murders must be dealt with in the same manner as
other crimes of willful killing, taking into consideration international human
rights standards. Many murderers use the claim of maintaining family honor as a
justification for the crimes they commit in order to benefit from more lenient
sentences.
These are the victims of Western
apathy and silence, and it’s only getting worse. Almost no one in the dinosaur
media talks about honor killing. All those loud mouthed charlatans talk big when
excoriating and trashing those who fight for these women and
recognize their plight, but they cower when forced to report on Islam. Instead,
they search for benign euphemisms for this most brutal and ugly ideology. Thus
as the Islamists, the leftist apologists, and useful idiots continue to
obfuscate the truth behind these terrible honor murders and attacks, Muslims who
engage in such practices are sanctioned by society at large. As the West bows to
Islamic supremacism, it’s the women and children, who in Sharia states are
nothing more than chattel, who suffer the brunt of it. Our silence, and in
effect complicity, has consequences. Honor killings in the West are on the
rise.
Why don't they run pictures of the murder victims? Take it from someone who
follows these terrible murders, pictures are rare. In the case of Amina and
Sarah Said, they seemed know the fate that awaited them. They almost appear to be posing for their eventual end.
The devout murderers hatched their plan in May.
Canwest News ServiceLeft to right:
Mohammed Shafii, Hamid Mohammed Shafii and Tooba Mohammad Yahya have been
charged with four counts of first-degree murder and four counts of conspiracy to
commit murder, Kingston police said at a news conference Thursday.
Kingston police said
Thursday they are pursuing allegations the murders were carried out as so-called
honour killings, a homicide where the victim is killed by their own kin for a
perceived violation of a religious code.
In an interview with the
Kingston Whig Standard, Diba Masoomi - a woman described as Mohammad's
sister - said that Mr. Shafia "believed his daughter had dishonoured him
and the family by having a romance with a young Pakistani man in Montreal."
Joyce Gilbert, a St. Leonard,
Que., resident and neighbour of the Shafia family, said Zainab ran away from
home for a couple of weeks a few months ago. At issue with her parents was her
relationship with a young man they did not approve of, Ms. Gilbert said.
"It was during the spring," Ms.
Gilbert said. "I don't know where she went. Her parents could not accept it. But
she eventually came home."
Ms. Masoomi, a resident of France,
could not be reached for comment. But she is believed to be the author of an
e-mail sent out to various media outlets and the Kingston police a week after
the submerged vehicle was discovered.
The author of the e-mail obviously
possessed intimate knowledge of the Shafia family, including the fact that
Shafia first married Mohammad in either 1979 or 1980, and then married Yahya in
the late 1980s. Both marriages took place in Afghanistan, where it is legal for
a man to have more than one wife.
The author of the e-mail alleged
Yahya "was the privileged one" because she could have children.
"The
girls were not allowed to go out alone, for example, neither to the cinema nor
to meet friends and they were not able to dress freely. [Mr. Shafia] often
criticized the influence of the Western culture on his family since they were
not living in an Islamic country anymore," the e-mail read.
Photo: This photo is said to show Rona Amir
Mohammed, second from left, and Mohammad Shafia, centre, at their engagement
ceremony in Afghanistan circa 1980. It was emailed to the media by a purported
family member.(Canadian Press)
On Friday, Quebec's Youth
Protection Services confirmed reports that the organization was involved with
the family in the months preceding the murders.
"We can say that Youth Protection
Services did intervene with the family," said Jocelyne Boudreault, a spokeswoman
for the government organization that is now taking care of Shafia and Yahya's
three surviving children, besides their son Hamed.
Ms. Boudreault said Youth
Protection Services was required to intervene in a family matter months ago, but
could not elaborate, citing privacy issues.
Whose privacy? The dead girls? Or the cover your ass cretins at
Protection Services?
UPDATE:Despite the outward
appearance of being a quiet family, there were signs of conflict within Mohammad
Shafia's Montreal-area home in the weeks leading up to the murders of three of
his daughters and his first wife.
When allegations of a sinister
plot of inter-family homicide reached the tree-lined street where Mohammad
Shafia lived with two wives and his seven children this week, the Montreal
suburb of St. Léonard found itself dragged into a convoluted narrative involving
the death of three daughters and their father's first wife, and accusations it
was triggered by the disapproval of the eldest daughter's love life and the
refusal to end an unhappy marriage.
In St. Léonard, the family's
cramped seven-bedroom home, in one of a series of identical square triplexes
running through the prominently Italian neighbourhood, sat empty on Friday.
The stories that have begun to
emerge in the aftermath of this week's murder charges have been filled with
shocking revelations about the residents.
Montreal businessman Mohammad
Shafia, 56, his wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 39, and their 18-year-old son, Hamed,
were charged for the June 30 deaths of his three teenaged daughters -- Zainab
Shafia, 19, her sisters Sahari, 17, and Geeti, 13 -- and a woman originally
believed to be their aunt, Rona Amir Mohammad, 50.
All were found in the family's
Nissa Sentra, submerged at the bottom of a Rideau Canal lock near Kingston, Ont.
On
Thursday, police confirmed the woman found dead with the three girls was Mr.
Shafia's first wife. Her family members told CBC Radio's As It Happens on Friday
how she was caught in loveless, abusive marriage with Mr. Shafia, but unable to
convince her husband to allow a divorce.
Wali Abdali and Diba Masoomi, who
live in France, said Mohammad and Mr. Shafia were married nearly 30 years ago in
Afghanistan but she was unable to bear children. About 10 years later, he took a
second wife and had seven kids, but would still not give Mohammad a divorce.
Wali Abdali said he had
urged his sister to go to the police, but her husband kept her passport,
wouldn't let her use the phone inside the [sic]
Montreal home and threatened her
with beatings.
"We wouldn't be grieving today if
our sister had accepted, to go see the police," Mr. Abdali said through a
translator from France.
Friction was also reportedly
growing in St. Léonard over a romantic relationship 19-year-old Zainab had
developed with a young Pakistani man, of whom her father disapproved. According
to reports, Zainab ran away for a couple of weeks during the spring and upset
her parents.
Ms. Masoomi has said her
sister overheard Mr. Shafia talking to his wife about the idea of killing Zainab
some weeks ago, and was convinced the deaths of her sister and the three
children were the result of an honour killing.
In an email to police, she told
authorities Zainab had been beaten by her father and older brother and had
received death threats. She also broached the topic of Ms. Mohammad's desire for
a divorce.
"In Afghan tradition, only the
husbands are allowed to divorce their wives, which [Mr. Shafia] had refused to
do for my sister for 20 years," she wrote.
On Friday, Quebec's Youth
Protection Services confirmed reports that the organization was involved with
the family in the months preceding the murders. The family's three other
children, a 15-year-old boy and two young girls, are being cared for by Quebec's
youth protection services.
Originally from Afghanistan, the
Shafia family lived in Dubai for more than a decade before moving to Montreal
about three years ago. A spokeswoman with the federal Immigration Department
could not provide information about the family's Canadian citizenship records,
citing privacy concerns.
While not much is known about Mr.
Shafia's business dealings, he appears to have been a successful businessman
overseas and in Canada.
While the family continues to rent
their modest home in St. Léonard, he has said he is having a house built in
Brossard, Que., which will reportedly be worth $900,000.
According to land registry
records, he has purchased a commercial mall in Laval, Que., for $2-million since
moving to Montreal three years ago, paying $1.6-million of the cost in cash.
He owns a real-estate management
company and another, La Gestion Amanat Inc., which imports, distributes and
sells clothing and household accessories and construction material.
In an email sent to Kingston
police and leaked to the Kingston Whig-Standard, Ms. Masoomi alleged
Mr. Shafia was planning to travel to Dubai and Afghanistan to sell some land he
owned.
It is believed that Mr. Shafia
married Ms. Mohammad in either 1979 or 1980 and then married Ms. Yahya in 1988.
Both marriages took place in Afghanistan, where it is legal for a man to have
more than one wife.
Tooba Mohammad Yahya's aunt,
Zarmina Fazel, has denied the four deaths were the result of an honour killing.
She publicly aired her belief that Zainab was abnormal and had intentionally
driven the car into the canal. She denied the parents had anything to do with
it, calling them kind and honest.
The three co-accused have been
charged with four counts each of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit
murder and are being detained in a Kingston prison. No charges have been proven
in court.
You can't make this shiz up. Muslims could get their own police to -- get
this -- investigate “honour” killings. What's would the Muslim police investigate?
It is part of shariah law. In many Muslim countries, it is legal to
kill your wife or daughter or sister if she "dishonored" the family (i.e. not
wearing a hijab, leaving the house, talking to a non-Muslim boy -- essentially
taking a Western breath).
It is open season on women. These
girls, these women, these victims are the spoils of the war on the west.
This is not surrender, this is submission. Why is England submitting to
Islam?
MUSLIM crime victims
could gain the right to have their cases overseen by police from their own
religion, it emerged last night.
Police
in London already give victims the right to ask for a Sikh officer to be
involved in an investigation but the scheme could be introduced for other religions elsewhere.
Chief
Supt Joanna Young, from the Met’s Criminal Justice Policy Unit, said: “If it’s a
success, I would encourage the other (police) associations to do likewise.”
The project is intended to help investigate “honour”
killings and forced marriages but Metropolitan Police Federation chairman Peter
Smyth said: “We’re stretched thin enough already. Are Sikh officers going to
have their rotas changed so there’s always one on duty?
“It’s political correctness gone mad. We talking about
the creation of a separate force within a force.”
But
Palbinder Singh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Sikh Association, said: “I
don’t believe a white officer is ever going to be fully conversant with a
Sikh.”
A couple of days ago I reported on an 8-year-old girl getting raped by four
boys. The girl's parents, in keeping with shariah law, blamed her. They
have been shamed, embarrassed, dishonored by their child.
The outrage over the allegations
has intensified when police said the girl's parents criticized her after the
attack and blamed her for bringing shame on the family.
"The father told the case worker
and an officer in her presence that he didn't want her back. He said 'Take her,
I don't want her," Hill said.
Hill cited the family's
background as the reason the family shunned the girl. All five children are
refugees from the West African nation of Liberia.
In some parts of Africa, women
often are blamed for being raped for enticing men or simply being in the wrong
place at the wrong time. Girls who are raped often are shunned by their
families.
"It's a shame-based
culture, so the crime is not as important as protecting the family name
and the name of the community," said Tony Weedor, a Liberian refugee in
Littleton, Colo., and co-founder of the CenterPoint International
Foundation, which helps Liberians resettle in the United States
(CNN) -- With four
Phoenix, Arizona, boys ages 9 to 14 charged with sexual assault on an 8-year-old
girl, a prosecutor vowed Thursday his office will "seek justice for the young
victim in this heartrending situation."
Police say a girl was lured to a storage shed at an
apartment complex where she was sexually assaulted.
"This is a deeply disturbing case that has gripped our
community," said Maricopa County attorney Andrew Thomas.
According to Phoenix police, the girl was lured to a storage
shed at an apartment complex on July 16. The four boys, who had offered the girl
chewing gum, allegedly restrained and sexually assaulted her. At a news
conference about the case Wednesday, police did not release any information on
the girl's condition,
but officers called the case one of the worst they have investigated in many
years.
The 14-year-old was charged as an adult and will face two
counts of sexual assault and one count of kidnapping, Thomas said Thursday. The
other three boys were charged in juvenile court with sexual assault, and two of
them also were charged with kidnapping, Thomas said.
All the suspects
except for the 14-year-old live in the same apartment complex, according to
Phoenix police Sgt. Andy Hill.
The
victim and the boys charged are all from refugee families that have come to the
United States from the war-torn West African nation of Liberia, police
said.
Detectives said the girl was placed in the custody of
Phoenix child protective services after the attack because of her parents'
attitude toward her.
"The parents felt
that they had been shamed or embarrassed by their child," Phoenix police Sgt.
Andy Hill said.
The Phoenix
Police Department has a community response unit that assists with such sensitive
cases. "They made some initial contacts with the refugee community. They acted
as liaison and were present when the child protective services agency took the
victim," Hill said.
Protective
services officers "will determine what's going to happen in the days ahead and
they'll look at the past history with that family, if there is one," he
said.
CNN affiliate
KTVK said it interviewed the girl's 23-year-old sister, who said she was
baby-sitting the girl at the time of the alleged attack.
The sister, who
was not identified by name by the station, expressed mixed feelings about her
sister's attack. "I came to her and said it's not good for you to be following
guys because you are still little," the sister told KTVK. She also said that she
wanted the suspects to be released from jail because "we are the same
people."
"When she comes
back I'm going to tell her don't ever do that again because all of us, we are
the same family, we are from the same place. Now she is just bringing confusion
among us. Now the other people, they don't want to see her," the sister told
KTVK.
Tony Weedor, a
Liberian who fled civil war with his family and now lives in the Denver,
Colorado, area, told CNN that cultural aspects are deep in the case. In Liberia
rape was not against the law until 2006, he said.
"The family
[believes they] have been shamed by her, not a crime, but the name of the family
has been degraded and news will get back to Liberia. And they're more concerned about that than the
crime," said Weedor, who is co-founder of the CenterPoint International
Foundation, which aids Liberian refugees in the United States and provides aid
for those still in Liberia.
Edwin Sele, the
deputy ambassador of Liberia to the United States, also responded to the
incident.
"Having heard the
story myself, I'm outraged," he said. "In Liberia, the family and law
enforcement officers would be embracing the victim. To hear that the family is
not doing that, that should be an isolated case."
Resettlement
groups around the country help refugees settle into life in the United States.
Among them is the Refugee and Immigrants Relief Center in Phoenix, where Omar
Dolleh, a refugee from Sierra Leone in West Africa, is the program director.
Here is a transcript of the Rifqa Bary video. We failed Amina and Sarah Said, Aqsa Parvez, and thousands of other women
held captive by the "devout". This young woman's testimony is a plea
to the free world to stand for its values and its principles. How far we have
fallen when a young woman is pleading to be free in the land of the free, home
of the brave.
Back story to Rifqa's tragic plight here and here.
I hope Rifqa's lawyer plans to call experts on Islam, i.e., Ibn Warraq,
Robert
Spencer, Wafa Sultan (who is forced to live in hiding in the US because
of Islamic death threats) etc.
Rifqa Bary: Well, I’m a Christian, and
my
parents are Muslim. They’re extremely devout. And they
can’t know
about my faith – well, they do now. But they’ve threatened to kill me. I
don’t know if you know
about honor killing….You guys don’t understand. Islam is
very
different than you guys think. They have to kill me. My blood is now
halal, which means that because I am now a Christian,
I’m from a Muslim background, it’s an honor. If they love God more than me, they
have to do this. And I’m fighting for my
life, you guys don’t understand. You don’t understand.
What
did your father say to you?
He said he would kill me. Or he’d have me
sent back to Sri Lanka where they’d put me in the asylum…
I ran
away from home. I wrote my
parents a note, I said, I refuse to deny Jesus and He’s my Lord and
Savior and I pray you find His forgiveness and mercy and I love them both
dearly. I wrote that, but they never showed it to the police officers. They want
me back
home, I can’t go back to Ohio, you guys don’t understand. That
community, they’re like – I will die within a week. My life is at stake. My
dad threatened me. I was ready to die, these were my thoughts, that I’ll be a
martyr for Christ, let it be so! But the Lord led me here somehow through His
grace. I rode20on a bus for 27 hours, to 30 hours, to get here. And yes, it’s
been God’s hand protecting me the entire time. But I’m fighting for my life, so that prayers
are appreciated. I don’t know what – Today’s my birthday, my seventeenth
birthday, and I might even die, I don’t know what’s going to happen to my own
life.
Can you tell
me why you ran away?
I was threatened by my
dad. When my dad found out – I had a Facebook, that’s how he found out – and
phone calls from the Muslim community started coming in with emails that
confronted me. And I had a laptop and he took that laptop and waved it in the
air and he was about to beat me with it, and he said, “If you have this Jesus in
your heart, you’re dead to me. You’re not my daughter.” And I refused to speak
but he said, “I will kill you. Tell me the truth.” In these words, bad words,
cuss words. So I knew that I had to get away. A couple of weeks later even, I
told my dad that I would fol — that I would begin to learn more about Islam,
because I was scared. And I said that because when I had come to know the Lord,
I dropped everything about Islam. I mean, I had to hide my Bible for years, I
would go outside to pray. When my dad was asleep was when I went outside to
pray. I snuck out to Christian prayer meetings in fear of my life. And
finally this day had come, when I was confronted by my dad. A couple of weeks
later, after I told my dad that I would follow -- I wouldn’t follow Islam, but
would learn more about it. Then he put me in class after class after class after
class, thinking that, you know, that my mind was gonna be back in it, but of
course not, I’m a follower of God, Jesus, the true living Jesus! But a couple of
weeks later my mom found a Christian book and I knew right then that it was over for
me. I had to leave.
How did you end up in
Florida?
Here? What happened is that night, I had to leave. So I
left that Saturday night, was it? Yeah, it was Saturday night. In the morning I
left to go to a friend’s house. And I asked her, I begged her to take me to
church. I needed to get to church. I needed to pray, I needed to seek the Lord
to know what to do. And so that entire day from seven in the morning to late at
night I prayed and prayed and prayed, and finally I was able to get a ride back home to that
person’s house. And I stayed there Saturday, Sunday night because my dad was
coming back
home from his trip that night, and so I stayed there that night and
I just left. I hitchhiked to a bus station and I got a ticket to Florida because
I had met them through a prayer ministry on Facebook. And this was the farthest
away from Ohio – you don’t understand,
if I had stayed in Ohio, I wouldn’t be alive. And so I was able to do t hat. I
called them from the bus. On the bus there were nice people there that I was
able to talk to, and I used their phone to call them.
Have
there been any type of killings at all in your family? Have you ever seen
anything like that?
I’m not sure, but in 150 generations of my family no
one has known Jesus. I am the first one. Imagine the honor in killing me. There
is great honor in that. Because if they love Allah more than me, they have to do
it. It’s in the Koran. And you can, like, give them knowledge about it [gestures
to someone off camera, who says something unintelligible]. He really will
explain it and break it down. They have to do this. They just have to. Either
they do that or they send me back to Sri Lanka. There’s an asylum there where
they put people like me, like, think I’m crazy.
Do you really think that
this is true or do you think that this is just a threat?
There’s
actually hundreds of cases that are backed like me. Amina and Sarah, they were
forced to go back
home. They were killed by their dad! This is not just some threat!
This is reality! This is truth! This is reality! How many more cases do you
want? There’s case after case. There’s hundreds of them. I am one. I am one of
hundreds. They have to. You guys don’t understand. They have to. I don’t know what else to say,
but they have to. If you want proof, there’s hundreds of cases tha t can
validate my story. Even my friends and people from back home, they knew what
would happen to me. My own brother knew about my faith and he didn’t tell my
dad. What does that say? He knew the consequences! He knew!
So
what do you want at this point now?
I want to be with them.
I want to be free
from my
parents. I
want to be free. I want to worship Jesus. I want to go to church on
Sundays and read my Bible and see Jesus alive, whenever I want to. You talk
about religious freedom? No! I don’t have that. I want to be here. I want to worship Jesus
freely. I don’t want to die.
A grove of trees has been planted in Israel in Loving Memory of Aqsa Parvez
and All Victims of Honor Killings Worldwide. The journey that got us here is all here.
Congratulations, Atlas readers -- to each and every one of you who
contributed to the Aqsa Memorial fund (please click here). You did something wonderful. A grove
of trees has been planted, made possible by your kindness, your empathy, your
love. When I saw the plaque, I cried. The plaque at the grove in American
Independence Park in Jerusalem will be up early next year. And the
ground breaking for the Aqsa Parvez Peace Park in Pelham,
Canada will be in early fall.
I am proud to walk with each one of you. G-d bless you. Each and every one
of you. The fight for these girls is more critical than ever -- hear their cry.
Last December, when I read that
Aqsa lay in an unmarked grave, I felt sick. I started a memorial fund to get her
a headstone. But I had no idea how difficult and ugly it would be simply to
honor a teenage girl in Canada who just wanted to live free -- and how eagerly
Western non-Muslims would aid and abet the family's efforts to dishonor her in
death as they did in life.
Readers of my weblog,
AtlasShrugs.com, opened their hearts and their wallets, and contributed $5,000
for a headstone for Aqsa. Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch joined the effort, and
we approved a design for a headstone that read, "In loving memory of Aqsa
Parvez, Apr. 22, 1991-Dec. 10, 2007 -- Beloved, remembered and free." All was
going according to plan until, after much silence, Meadowvale Cemetery in
Brampton, Ontario, where Aqsa is buried, advised me that the family (yes, the
family that murdered her) had refused to "sign off" on the headstone. The
director of the cemetery said: "The family wants changes and is planning on
coming in to see me. They did not book an appointment yet but I hope to see them
soon."
Of course, the family never came,
and when we inquired as to purchasing a plot near Aqsa's body, we could not. Not
a tree. Not a rock. Not a bench. All the plots were owned by the Islamic Society
of North America. I tried to contact the family at that time, but they would not
take my calls -- I spoke to the them once, but they pretended not to speak
English. And they were adamant: the family refused to allow the headstone to be
put on Aqsa's grave, and according to the cemetery, could remove it if it were
placed there by others.
But those of us who had
contributed to the Aqsa Memorial Fund were determined to make sure that Aqsa
would be memorialized. We checked into other locations, made plans, only to see
them canceled at the last minute out of ... fear. We checked into the arboretum
at the University of Guelph in Ontario, but a university official wrote me to
say that "no matter how worthy, a memorial to Aqsa Parvez would draw much public
attention and would thus be inconsistent with current use of The
Arboretum."
But not everyone was ready to
cower before Islamic anti-woman violence. Scott McLeod, the fire chief in
Pelham, Ontario, proposed a resolution honoring Aqsa to City Councilor Sharon Cook -- and she went to work getting it
passed. The Aqsa Parvez Memorial will be erected in Pelham this summer! A
granite bench will be inscribed: "In loving memory of Aqsa Parvez, Beloved,
Remembered and Free."
This will be
placed in the Aqsa Parvez Peace Park.
Yes, the Aqsa
Parvez Peace Park. I think she'd like that.
And in addition, there is the
Aqsa Parvez Grove we are planting in American Independence Park in Jerusalem,
Israel, where the plaque will read: "In Loving Memory of Aqsa Parvez and All
Victims of Honor Killings Worldwide."
The memorials in Pelham and
Jerusalem are the first indication that in the Free World we are not going to
stand by silently while the Islamic world brutalizes women and treats them as
worthless trash. They are two small steps toward widespread resistance against
honor killing in the West and elsewhere.
This is happening in America. Listen to her cry. This is here now. WATCH THIS
VIDEO. It is the most compelling plea I have ever seen.
This is so tragic, so frightening - we must act. Can someone get the name of
this girl's lawyer? Experts must testify on her behalf. We will raise the money
to fly scholars on Islam to Orlando to speak for the veracity of this girl's
claims. Please contact me off line if you know anything. Please.
Quickly.
The court does not know what it is dealing with: the
obfuscation and lies of the propaganda wing of Islam. Florida took emergency
jurisdiction until the court can confirm, but Ohio will take over the case and
investigate........"the child should be returned to Ohio".
Girl Says Family Wants To
Kill Her For Being Christian
ORLANDO, Fla. -- An Ohio girl ran
away to Orlando because she said her family threatened to kill her for
converting to Christianity. Rifqa Bary, 17, said she was threatened by her
family because she converted from Islam to Christianity.
"What did your father say to you?"
WFTV reporter Mary Nguyen asked.
"He said he would kill me!"
replied Bary.
They
have to kill me. My blood is now halal which means because I am now a Christian,
I am from a Muslim background, it is an honor, if they love god more than me,
they have to do this."
This
is not just some threat. This is reality. This is truth. This is
reality.
This is to break the heart. The status hearing is set for next Friday.
Something must be done. You can hear the cries of Amina and Sarah, Aqsa, Rand
............. all of those girls, you can hear them in her voice.
I beg you to help this child. This girl is in real trouble. The court does
not understand. They will buy into the Muslim lies. Apostasy is death in Islam.
If this girl is sent back to her family, they will ship her off to Sri Lanka and
we will never hear from her again.
Police had been looking for information about Rifqa, a central Ohio teenager
who vanished nearly three weeks ago.
The teenager's cell
phone has been turned off and her Facebook account deactivated, Kocot
reported.
According to police, the
girl's friends told
detectives that it was possible she ran away because of conflicting religious
beliefs in her home.
She's alive! And in court in a custody battle that
could send the girl to her death. I pray they have experts who know about honor
killings testify. Family members who have lost their relatives to honor killings
(for less) should be giving testimony. Amina and Sarah Said's aunt Gail Gartrell should speak; Robert Spencer should speak;
Phyllis Chesler and friends of Aqsa Parvez should speak.
She made it. I am so happy I could cry. The West should do everything in its
power to save this girl's life.
This girl's life hangs in the balance.
The headline was written by a dhimmi - Christianity is clashing with no one.
Islam, OTOH, will sentence this girl to death for
apostasy.
ORLANDO -An Ohio runaway teenager, Christianity and the Muslim religion met
head-on Monday during a custody dispute in an Orlando courtroom.
Dhimmitude.
The girl, 17-year-old Rifqa Bary,
recently converted from her family's faith to Christianity and she is worried
about her family's reaction to her change in faith.
"She says her life is in danger and
she could be killed in an honor killing," Rosa Gonzalez, the
teen's lawyer, said after the hearing. "Unfortunately it happens every
day in the U.S."
The young woman has been staying
with an Orlando family she met through a prayer group
on Facebook for several weeks.
The teen had been staying with
Beverly Lorenz and her husband, pastors of the newly launched Global Revolution
Church in Orlando. Bary is now in the custody of the Department of Children And
Families.
Lorenz said the teen hitchhiked to
a Greyhound station in Ohio, and then took a bus to Orlando.
The girl asked Lorenz if
she could come to her house. Even though she barely knew the girl, Lorenz said
it was OK.
The teen, a non-citizen, told
Lorenz she was fearful that her father would send her to Sri Lanka.
After the girl arrived in Orlando,
Lorenz said they called an abuse hotline and started calling lawyers, asking
what they should do.
Another hearing is scheduled on
Friday. However, DCF officials say it a matter to be decided by Ohio
authorities
I think as many good folks as possible should contact the court. Try and
track down the info and I'll post. This girl must be saved.
Is prosecution for honor killings defamation of Islam? Are Western societies
guilty of the tragic curse on infidels, "islamophobia," in the criminalization
of "honor killings"?
Why don't they run pictures of the murder victims? Take it from someone who
follows these terrible murders, pictures are rare.
The family wasn't happy with their teenage daughter, so they killed her. Not
enough penalty, they killed her two sisters and her second mother. Only in
Islam, my friends, only in Islam.
Obama on Women's Rights in Islam:"Now let me be clear:
issues of women’s equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam. In Turkey,
Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia, we have seen Muslim-majority countries elect
a woman to lead. Meanwhile, the
struggle for women’s equality continues in many aspects of American
life"
Someone out to tell the President that if that is indeed so, it is because we
tolerate Islamic misogyny in the West.
During the two years her family lived in Canada, Zainab Shafia was constantly
at odds with her parents as she pushed for more freedom from their conservative
[Islamic] ways, says the man who was married to
the 19-year-old woman for one day shortly before she was killed.
Ms. Shafia was found on June 30, along with two sisters and her father's
first wife, in a car submerged in the Rideau Canal near Kingston.
Mohammad Shafia, 56, wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 39, and son Hamed
Shafia, 18, are charged with four counts of first-degree murder.
Kingston police have
said they are investigating the possibility the homicides were so-called honour
killings.
Now details are emerging about Zainab's relationship with her parents and how
she chafed under their tight control after the family moved to Canada from Dubai
two years ago.
Ammar Wahid, a 26-yearold Montrealer, told The Gazette that he and Zainab
were married in May but that immediately after the religious ceremony her
parents convinced her to end the union.
[...]
The Shafia family was originally from Afghanistan but moved to Dubai
in the 1990s. Mohammad Shafia married both his wives in Afghanistan where it is
legal for a man to marry more than one woman.
Mr. Wahid said Zainab talked often of her father and how he tried to control
her. He also said he believes Zainab was engaged to another man "about 18 months
ago."
[....]
Zainab had just arrived in Canada but made friends quickly, he said. "She was
the kind of person everyone got along with."
Mr. Wahid said he and Zainab were married at a mosque in the Montreal suburb
of St. Leonard on May 19. They decided to end the union the following day after
seeing how both of their families reacted. They tried to hold a reception but no
one from Mr. Wahid's side of the family showed up and Zainab's parents convinced
her to end it. Mr. Wahid said he never filed the document to have the marriage
officially recognized in Quebec.
Mr. Wahid said he was disappointed but felt "there was nothing I could do
about it. It's about the culture. They wanted to follow their culture."
[...]
Mr. Wahid said Mohammad Shafia not only disapproved of Zainab's choice in
men, he debated his daughter on whether she should work or continue to
pursue her education.
She left the family home in St. Leonard earlier this year after arguing over
the topic, Mr. Wahid said.
Also found dead were Zainab's sisters -- Sahari, 17, and Geeti, 13 --
and Rona Amir Mohammad, 50. Ms. Mohammad, who was said to be close to the girls
even though they were not her children, was Mr. Shafia's first
wife.
A 10-year old Muslim girl was
married off to a Muslim man, aged 42. The child was so unhappy with the arranged
marriage that she ran away on a number of occasions but was forced by her family
to return to her “husband.” Finally her husband and family had enough of the
child’s disobedience and decided for the sake of her husband and family’s honor
that she should be killed. Which they did by mutilating, dismembering and
finally beheading her. Her body was discovered by a Thai couple out walking in a
public park close to where the child’s family lived.
Unreported World travels to Turkey to
investigate honour killings, which have now reached record levels with more than
200 girls and women killed in the past year alone. The programme
highlights a chilling new development in which a new law outlawing
honour killings may have led to a huge increase in girls being forced to commit
suicide instead.
Watch the video - read it all here and comprehensive coverage on honor killings at Atlas here.
Unreported World travels to Turkey to
investigate honour killings, which have now reached record levels with more than
200 girls and women killed in the past year alone. The programme
highlights a chilling new development in which a new law outlawing
honour killings may have led to a huge increase in girls being forced to commit
suicide instead.
Sharia Law.
[...]
He says women can be killed for violating
the rules of honour. When a woman is accused of dishonour, a family council will
decide her fate. He says that honour killings are really effective in sending
out a strong message to everybody. Local women tell Unreported World that they
live in constant fear and that their brothers would beat them over mere
rumours.
The team meets Husna, who is willing to talk openly
about an honour killing that happened less than five weeks previously. She says
she suspects her niece's new husband was killings are common and three have
happened in the area recently.
Moving on to a village close to the Iranian border,
the team hears about Nazime Alir, who was 21 years old when she was murdered.
Her father-in-law tells Navai that his son gouged out her eyes, cut her
tongue off and put her remains in a plastic bag before burning her. Nearly all
the men in the village say they would kill their wives and daughters for honour
- life without honour is not worth living.
Until recently, under Turkish law honour killers
could get a reduced sentence by claiming provocation. However, four
years ago, as part of Turkey's campaign to join the European Union, it
introduced a mandatory life sentence for the crime. But the change in
the law hasn't reduced the killings. Instead, as Unreported World reveals,
it appears to have given rise to a sinister new twist.
The team travels to the city of Batman, nicknamed
'suicide city' because in the last few years
hundreds of women and girls have committed suicide. Like other areas of the
country, female suicides rocketed after the change in the law. Batman's chief
prosecutor tells Unreported World that he believes many of the suicides in the
town are forced, but that they're almost impossible to investigate. Those women
who escape the attempt flee into hiding.
One young woman, Elif, claims that when she
was 18 years old, her parents wanted to force her into marriage. When she
refused, she claims her family told her that if she didn't marry him, she would
have to kill herself. She says her father told her if he, or her brother, was
forced to kill her they would go to prison so she should think of them and kill
herself. She said she considered doing it because she loved her father
so much, but she realized she didn't want to die. Instead, she ran away.
Ending up in Istanbul, the team finds that
even the most modernised city in Turkey hasn't escaped the tradition. According
to a government report, it now has one of the highest levels of honour killings
in the country, with one happening every week.
First Ramita meets the relatives of a
young bride called Sever, who is believed to have been killed to spare her
husband’s blushes after he was unable to have sex with her.
According to Sever’s aunt
Husna, the 24-year-old was strangled in her bed just ten days after her wedding in Karajada, near
Diyarbakir in the south east of Turkey.
Sever’s husband confessed to her
murder and is awaiting trial, adds Husna.
Ramita says Sever still had henna on
her hands — a marriage custom — when she died last December. She adds:
“Husna said the autopsy showed she was still a virgin. The
family suspects Sever’s husband was unable to consummate the marriage and killed
her to spare his honour.
“Husna told me these
killings are common here, and three have happened in the area recently. She said
brothers and husbands will kill a woman just for being seen with a
man.”
Ramita also meets the father of a man
who killed his wife.
Cavus Alir’s son Ferzende suspected
his wife Nazime of infidelity — and was “driven mad” by the thought of his
honour being betrayed.
The EU is considering letting Islamic Turkey into the EU. I can hear the
bells .......... toll.
Fatima contacted the BBC World Service
citizen journalism project, Your Story, because she wanted to share her
experiences of sexual abuse growing up within a strict Muslim family in Abu
Dhabi.
She suffered many years of abuse before she finally told her mother what had
been going on.
Fatima is now 26. She lives in the United States of America, where she has
just been given asylum and citizenship after establishing that she would be in
danger if she returned to her home country.
Publication date 27 March 2009 BBC (hat tip
Kirill)
As you know, the Aqsa Parvez resolution passed and a beautiful memorial
garden in honor of Aqsa Parvez is going to be erected in the town of Pelham in
Canada (more here). Most of what's needed is being donated, so in
addition to the Aqsa Parvez garden Atlas readers have planted a grove of trees
in American Independence Park in Jerusalem, Israel, through the Jewish National Fund.
The total cost is $5,000. We raised $ 4,985. 83. I completed the necessary arrangements
today, and received this from the JNF.
Thank you again for recognizing Aqsa’s memory
through JNF. The plaque will read as follows:
A laminated plaque will be created in addition to
the plaque in Israel.
Thank you for your support of JNF and
Israel, and I look forward to speaking with you soon.
It will take about 24 months to put the plaque up at American Independence
Park in Jerusalem, but we can do a GREAT dedication any time you go to Israel. I
think we should all go when the plaque goes up.
Our plaque is 4 X 4. It will also be green to
indicate our designation to the grove.
I want to thank my partner in crime Robert Spencer, for helping me
orchestrate and navigate the various minefields, fire chief Scott McLeod for pursuing the Aqsa Parvez resolution in Pelham
and for the memorial in honor of Aqsa in Peace park, and all the other Atlas
readers who contributed, scouted, fought, wrote, shone in the fight for Aqsa.
Mensches all.
(India) Villagers burn girl alive in 'honour killing' -- (hat
tip Rea) "Four residents of her village in Ghaziabad, north India, allegedly
set the 16-year-old Muslim girl alight after they suspected her of having a
relationship with a boy." -- "Police claim residents kept a vigil on her
house as they noticed the boy visited her frequently when her father was
away. The four men then beat her, doused her with kerosene and set her
on fire."
--- "The victim had screamed for help for about
20 minutes before neighbours arrived only to find her still smoldering"
A 16-year-old girl, Imrana, was set on
fire inside her house on Monday in a case of what the police called ‘moral
vigilantism’. The victim had screamed for help for about 20 minutes
before neighbours arrived only to find her still smoldering. She was admitted to
a local hospital where she later succumbed to her injuries.
Two of the four accused — Arif and Asim — arrested on Monday
night, told the police that Imrana’s father had himself asked them to
straighten out his daughter as one Irfan was visiting her too
frequently. Imrana reportedly used to weave carpets at home for an export firm.
On Monday, her father, Abdul Hakim, had gone to Hapur to visit someone, while
her mother, Vakila, had gone visiting someone in the village.
Weeping
bitterly, Imrana’s sister Afsana (14) told Times City, ‘‘Arif banged hard on the
rear door of our house. I thought he would break the door, so I unlatched it.
While he was accusing my sister of befriending Irfan, three others, including
Zalis and Asim, barged in. They threw me out and locked the door from inside. I
heard my sister’s screams for 20 minutes.’’
Jordan's prosecutor has charged a man and his two sons for the
premeditated murder of his 19-year-old daughter Saturday, in the latest "honour
killing" to take place in this conservative desert kingdom.
"Conservative" - there's that buzzword again when speaking of
Islam.
The man and his two sons were charged with
beating to death the daughter for leaving the house in makeup and talking to a
stranger, according to prosecutor Salah al-Taleb's indictment
sheet.
The father brought his daughter to the hospital
after she lost consciousness and turned himself in.
Autopsy showed severe injuries to the head
which caused brain hemorrhage and the body was covered with
bruises.
[...]
In Jordan, an average of 20 women are killed by
male relatives each year. Men have the final say in all family matters in this
largely
conservative society, where many consider sex out of wedlock an
indelible stain on a family's reputation.
International human rights organizations have
condemned honour killings in Jordan and appealed to King Abdullah to put an end
to the practice.
The government urged judges to consider honour
killings equal to other homicides, punishable with up to life in prison.
But attempts to introduce harsher sentences
have been blocked in Jordan's parliament, where the predominantly conservative
Bedouin legislators argue that tougher penalties would lead to
adultery.
It has been well over a year
since the Said
girls were brutally murdered in a sharia killing (aka ''honor' killing) by their Muslim father in Texas,
after a life of abuse and terror in the name of Islam. The heinous crime
was whitewashed by the dhimmi media
who live in fear of the religion of peace.
No arrests have been made. The murdering father is still at large and the
radical ticking time bomb brother, Islam Said, is threatening non-Muslim father
members (in this case Gail Gartrell) with a violent death.
Over at the delicious niche blog, Combatting Moonbat News, Islam deposits his fetid imbecilic
remarks -- another fabulous product of an Islamic edjumacation.
Here are the latest two murderous (gun and "bom") threats by the girls'
brother Islam, written in his signature style -- gangsta stoopid. He claims to
be in the US, but his IP still says Cairo, Egypt.
kill
gall fu.gall@yahoo.com 82.201.179.161
Submitted on 2009/03/13 at 10:01pm i
will shot you gall like a dog your time is coming it may take years but you will
diey by my hands we will show you a honor killing so smok your weed if you can i
will get you all
kill all them
82.201.179.161
Submitted on 2009/03/13 at 10:16pm i will
show you a honor killing gall will be shot frst i am in dallas going too a gun
show i am buying gun and boms to get you all no one is going to step on us you
think you can run but cant your time is come we will fight for yaser . all i can
say fuck the u.s.a and kill them all this sunday you will see i will kill one of
you god is god good. do not play games all the time Islam Said Will Not Defend
Yaser Said
A senior judge today condemned the idea that arson and murder were
matters of 'honour' within a Muslim family.
Lord Justice Wall, giving a ruling on a case involving three Muslim
children put in the care of white foster parents, said the time had come to
're-think the phrase honour killing'.
He had heard that a mother had set fire to one of her three children and
tried to burn down the house where they lived in an attempt to incriminate her
sister-in-law.
The sister-in-law
'presented a problem to the family' and had fled the home after being beaten and
her first child murdered by her husband, the mother's brother.
The judge said: 'The message from this case, which must be sent out
loud and clear, is that this court applies a tolerant and human rights based
rule of law: one which... regards parents as equals and the welfare of the child
as paramount.
'That is the law of England, and that is the law which applies in this case.
Arson, domestic violence and potential revenge likely to result in abduction or
death are criminal acts which will be treated as such.'
He said the activities brought to light by the case had 'nothing to
do with any concept of honour known to English law'.
'They are acts of simply sordid, criminal behaviour and a refusal to
acknowledge them as such.'
In a statement issued with the judgment, it was pointed out that this was the
first time that so-called 'honour' conduct within an ethnic minority
community had reached the Court of Appeal in a care case.
The 41-year-old father of the children had tried to appeal against a
High Court Family Division ruling which had refused him contact with his
children and had rejected calls for them to be placed with a Muslim
family.
The local authority had acknowledged that the placement with a white,
English non-Muslim family was 'culturally and religiously
inappropriate'
Photo: The Royal Courts of Justice in London, where Lord
Justice Wall handed down his decision in the case
[...]
The mother of the children - a girl aged 11 and boys of nine and five - is 32
and serving a five-year jail sentence for arson.
One of her brothers had contracted a second marriage to a woman in Pakistan
who came to England in 2003 pregnant with her first child.
That child was taken to hospital aged 27 months suffering from
multiple injuries and died.
It was not known the motivation for the killing but among the
injuries on the child were signs of chronic sexual abuse.
Both the brother and his wife were arrested - the man was convicted of murder
and the woman cleared of neglect.
Some Muslim women who refuse arranged marriages
can face physical abuse for smearing their family's 'honour'
The grandfather in the family is recorded as saying that the death was an accident and the
will of God.
He has made it clear that the son will return to live at the family home when
he is released.
His daughter-in-law returned to live at the family home and gave
birth to her second child, a son.
She was illiterate and while in Pakistan was effectively a prisoner
in her own home, her role in life destined to be that of a wife in an arranged
marriage, said Lord Justice Wall.
The judge said she remained 'under virtual house arrest' in England,
not even aware of the name of the city where she was staying.
In May 2005, she fled with the help of the police and social services
after complaining of severe ill-treatment.
She was moved to a
secret location after saying the family would track her down and kill her - they
would not allow her to 'disgrace' them. She is still in fear of her
life.
Later that year, the mother of the three children alleged her sister-in-law
and another had entered her home in burkhas, cut the mother's hands and neck
with a knife and poured white spirit on to one of the children's clothing before
setting fire to clothing at the bottom of the stairs.
There's more -- these vicitms have no shot. They are living in an Islamic
state.
Again, this is not some third world Islamic hellhole, this is
Germany. Another Muslim girl severely beaten (repeatedly), scared to death of
her family (and rightly so), and ultimately brutally murdered because she
refused forced Islamic marriage in Turkey.
And again a case of brutality of
Immigrant shocks the land.
The young Turkish woman
was beaten to death with a stick, her face unrecognizable, because she loved the
wrong man and was pregnant with his child. Finally her parents searched
for another man for her. She should have a traditional arranged marriage like
her sister.
There is no trace of the attacker, but her
boyfriend Altin P. age 25 complains: "She must die, because she wanted to live
like a normal woman!" An honor killing? That is what her
acquaintances believe.
Over the last year had the Altin and Gülsüm gotten
to know each other. From the beginning Gülsüms family was against the
relationship. Altin: "Gülsüm was promised to a man in Turkey for
marriage. Like her sister she should have an arranged marriage."
Many times had her brother and father beaten her.
One time she went to the hospital with a broken jaw.
By the end of November Gülsüm was pregnant
with Altins baby. The boyfriend: "We were very pleased, but Gülsüm had panic
stricken fear of her family."
Her sister persuaded Gülsüm to have an illegal
abortion in the 5th month in Amsterdam. Back in Nord Rhein Westfalen the woman
had to go to the hospital because of sever bleeding.
Two days after being released from the hospital, she was dead.
Readers who can translate German - please go here -- thanks to Eric for the
above.
Look at this gorgeous document! (Click to enlarge.) This is a copy of the
resolution passed on March 2. The project is a go!
Scott McLeod, Fire Chief and driving force behind the Aqsa Parvez memorial resolution that was approved this
past week, gives us the following wonderful news about the Aqsa Parvez Memorial
being erected in Pelham.
The town is going forward and going to build a memorial, later in the year.
There will be an official ribbon cutting taking place. I think we should all
go!
A generous local monument company has offered to donate a granite bench and
will inscribe the stone with the memorial we had wanted - In loving memory
of Aqsa Parvez, Beloved, Remembered and Free.
Scott tells me they have tentatively planned an area which would create an
arboretum as part of this project, a memorial garden. Splendid.
They are uncertain as to the final costs of the project, but it appears that
most of the items will likely be donated to the project, and McLeod suspects
that it will not require anything like the funds we have collected. So we will
do more for Aqsa .......... how great is that?
He also said there has been wonderful positive feedback on this from so many
good folks in Canada, and the local paper has been very supportive as well.
sigh
This is just beyond my wildest dreams. I think Aqsa would be deeply
moved.
BTW, I still love the idea of a grove of trees - of any of my readers know of
an arboretum or park where we could plant an orchard or grove please contact me
at writeatlas@aol.com
UPDATE: Want to write to the Town of Pelham and praise them?
clerks@pelham.ca (thanks to Jane)
UPDATE: Scott McLeod, the fire chief responsible for
introducing the idea of a resolution to City Councilor Sharon Cook left this in
the comments section:
NOT HONOR KILLINGS
I have been giving a lot of thought to the events
leading up to and the final resolution of the Aqsa Parvez memorial. I truly
believe we need to rethink our comments regarding this and many other similar
events.
In my opinion the term honor killing is not
appropriate for these tragedies. The reality is they are narcissistic/shame
killings and should be referred to as such.
More importantly the conduct of many organizations
and individuals after the event certainly does not meet the term honor in any
respect. The members of the family, academic organizations, and many others
should also hang their head in shame over their conduct.
I have been fortunate that for most of my adult
life I have worked with people who understand what honor really is. During my
time in the military and my career as a firefighter I have seen on a daily
basis, citizens and people in uniform performing honorably.
Honor, is the Soldier who gives up his life for a
higher purpose, in defense of citizens of Afghanistan or Iraq. They are there,
knowing that when they leave, some small bit of freedom which we hold dear is
being left behind.
Honor is the Police Officer who goes to work every
day knowing that he may not return to his family, when daily dealing with some
of the worst elements of our society. While giving respect and in fact life to
the most downtrodden.
Honor is the Paramedic who lay in a pool of
gasoline trying to keep a survivor of a car accident alive, long enough to get
to a hospital.
Honor is the firefighter who crawls through hell to
bring a victim of a fire out of a building.
Honor is the residents of Pelham who have little
tolerance for people who are afraid to act as they should, with respect for
children like Aqsa.
I have been lucky enough to work with people like
this and the truth is, we are surrounded by these heroes every day. If you look
around yourself you will see honor and honorable acts.
What happened to Aqsa, was not and never should be
considered in any way related to honor. It is shame and narcissism which caused
this incident, the narcissism of her father who would not allow a child to
become an ordinary teen of her country.
My friend Neo has a posting on his blog in which he
describes the event as “Dying to become Canadian”, I can’t really state it any
better than that.
The real heroes and the persons of honor in this
incident are the Aqsa, who died for her beliefs, Pamela Geller and Robert
Spencer who created the fund in her memory.
In addition my friend Norman, a fellow firefighter,
who worked so hard to make this happen and was confronted with PC madness. I
have to thank my personal heroes, Councilor Sharon Cook and John Durley who
ensured that the memorial would be created.
I am not articulate enough to tell the story of the
honor and shame of this horrible event, but I know what honor looks like, I
truly believe it’s easy to see who carries the shame, and who acts with honor
UPDATE: THE DAILY MAIL, DHIMMI PRESS IN BED WITH THE ISLAMIC SUPREMACISTS,
REMOVES REFERENCE TO MUSLIM HUSBAND TELLING HIS WIFE TO READ THE QUR'AN AS HE
STRANGLED HER. Jihadwatch has the
story.
Here is a Google search indicating that the original paragraph
did indeed appear in the Daily Mail story before it was revised. And just in
case that disappears, here is a screen capture:
Why would the Daily Mail remove its reference to
Malik Mannan telling his wife to read the Qur'an as she strangled her? Because
if it had left it in, Muslims would have been angered? Shouldn't they instead be
angered, if what the mainstream media endlessly tells us about the Religion of
Peace were true, at Malik Mannan and all the others who find justification for
horrific acts of violence in the Qur'an? Shouldn't non-Muslim authorities in the
UK and elsewhere in the West take note of this use of the Qur'an by Muslims, and
reevaluate their immigration policies and other policies accordingly? Shouldn't
they be calling upon Muslims in the UK and elsewhere in the West to institute --
immediately -- honest, transparent, and inspectable programs that teach against
the Islamic attitudes and beliefs that lead to honor killing? Shouldn't a well
informed public call upon their elected officials to do all this? Is that what
the Daily Mail is trying to prevent?
-------------------END UPDATE-----------------
Honor killing. The West denies it and acts as accessory to murder, and
furthers the devaluation of women.
But the police thought they knew how to handle
Muslim/immigrantdomestic related
violence. They released Malik Mannan on bail
on condition that he be good and stay away from his property!
Guess what?
It didn't work
"Using both hands to
squeeze her windpipe he told her to read her Koran adding:
'Read whatever other stuff you need to read now. This is your final
hour.' The arrival of his brother stopped the attack but Mannan left
shouting: 'I'm going to get a knife and when I return I'm going to
slaughter you."
After being freed by police officials who deemed
that there was not enough evidence to hold him, Malik Mannan texted his wife to
boast: 'I am a free man, since 1.30. Case file
closed. Isn't it great?' This stems from a multi-cultural political
correctness, that refuses to acknowledge the role violence plays within
Islamic/cultural settings. It's results in the fears of the victims not being
taken seriously by city or police officials. KGS
A terrified wife who predicted her cheating
husband would kill her, was stabbed to death by him just days after he was freed
in a legal blunder. Sabina Akhtar, 26, went to police in fear of her life after
Malik Mannan subjected her to a string of vicious beatings.
The taxi driver was jailed for life today at
Manchester Crown Court after being convicted of her murder yesterday. He will
serve a minimum of 17 years. Speaking outside court, Ms Akhtar's family accused
the Crown Prosecution Service of negligence. Her uncle, Reaz Talukder, said his
niece would still be alive if her husband had been charged after being arrested
for a second time.
Mannan was held after she gave a heart-breaking
statement detailing 25 different assaults but was released when a prosecuting
lawyer said there was not enough evidence to charge him. The 36-year-old then
texted his wife to boast: 'I am a free man, since 1.30. Case file closed. Isn't
it great.'
Ms Akhtar had a panic alarm fitted to her home
and warned friends and police that her life was in danger while he remained
free. But nothing was done and five days later he burst into the marital home in
Levenshulme, Greater Manchester, and stabbed the mother-of-one to death.
In her statement two months before the murder,
she said: 'I have become extremely concerned about my personal safety. 'My
husband is a man of an extreme violent nature. I genuinely believe if he gets
the opportunity he will not hesitate to kill me.'
An inquiry is underway into the Crown Prosecution
Service's handling of the case and it has said it will offer a face-to-face
apology to Ms Akhtar's family. The matter has also been referred to the
Independent Police Complaints Commission. A CPS spokesman said: 'We accept that
the wrong decision
A TAXI driver stabbed his wife to death just days
after his second arrest for allegedly abusing her, a court has been told.
Sabina Akhtar was murdered by Malik Mannan
within five days of police cancelling bail conditions which banned him from
contacting her, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Mr
Mannan had been arrested for defying those conditions - imposed after Sabina
told police she had been attacked by him as many as 25 times, the jury heard.
Sabina, 26, the mother of their three-year-old son,
was found dead at the family home in Charlton Road, Levenshulme.
Hallelujah! Deepest thanks and gratitude to Atlas reader and Fire Chief, Town
of Pelham, Scott McLeod, a wonderful man who contacted one of his Municipal
Councilors regarding an Aqsa memorial. Councilor Sharon Cook presented a motion
to offer an area in the Pelham Peace Park for a suitable Memorial. Sharon Cook,
you are a righteous woman!
Yesterday Scott wrote,
".....on Monday, this week the council of the
Town of Pelham passed a resolution to install a memorial to Aqsa Parvez in Peace
Park in Fonthill (Smaller community within the Town) We expect to be ready some
time later in the year and it likely will be placed in one of the areas where
people rest during the day. As indicated before, I will send photo's of the
general area where we propose to locate the memorial. I have requested the Clerk
of the Town create a copy of the resolution and approval in PDF, which I will
then forward to you."
Scott has been working on this for months. There are indeed wonderful souls
in this bizarre world we are living in. None of this would be possible without
the Atlas readers who contributed and others who worked on
scouting locations, Gerry Vincent, Norman Traversy, and, of course, Robert
Spencer who joined me in this effort to honor this lovely, young honor killing victim.
The link to this map will show the relationship between
Mississauga and Hamilton. It is not far at all, maybe 45 minutes at the most.
Visit www.randmcnally.com
for maps, driving directions, and road trip planning.
March 4, 2009 07:19 AM - A memorial is being
erected in a Niagara area park to honour the life of Aqsa Parvez, an Applewood
Heights Secondary School student who was strangled to death inside her family's
Mississauga home.
The Town of Pelham will install a bench and plant a
tree at Peace Park to honour immigrants who are caught between cultures "and are
challenged to conform to both." Pelham councillor Sharon Cook said the bench and
tree will honour Parvez.
On Dec. 10, 2007, Parvez, 16, was rushed from her
family's Longhorn Trail home to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She
died later that night. An autopsy revealed she was strangled to death, police
said.
The high-profile case garnered international
attention. Friends of the slain teen said she feared for her life and had been
threatened by family members in the weeks prior to her death, over a religious
dispute.
Parvez's father, Muhammad Parvez, 57, and her
brother, Waqas Parvez, 27, are each charged with first-degree murder in her
death.
The case remains before the courts. The preliminary
hearing for the accused resumed this week.
Scott will be sending us photos and I promise to keep you apprised ever step
of the way.
Previously related sturm and drang at Atlas : Just Aqsa
Has the mainstream media called this domestic abuse, or are they waiting for
the CAIR press release so they can file it as their story?
(Russia) "Chechen leader imposes strict brand of Islam" -- hat tip
Jeffrey Imm "The bullnecked president of Chechnya emerged from afternoon
prayers at the mosque and with chilling composure explained why seven young
women who had been shot in the head deserved to die"
-- "Ramzan Kadyrov said the women, whose
bodies were found dumped by the roadside, had 'loose morals' and were rightfully
shot by male relatives in honor killings. 'If a woman runs around and if a man
runs around with her, both of them are killed,' Kadyrov told
journalists in the capital of this Russian republic."
-- UN's Yakin Erturk: "In these countries, those who speak on behalf of Islam
still justify things like stoning or killing a woman for this or that reason as
being part of their religion. I have heard this at the most official of levels".
(more here)
In Islam, a woman who supposedly shames her family
not only has her life taken, but also her memory. Every attempt is made to erase
her existence, thus, the shame. That includes an unmarked grave.
What Pamela and Robert have
attempted is to sustain Aqsa Parvez’s memory with a simple headstone that
reads, “Beloved, Remembered, Free.” It isn’t political, it isn’t anti-Islam, and
it doesn’t serve to personally benefit either Pam or Robert.
It is just a reminder that Aqsa Parvez’s life did
matter, even if her family, by virtue of their inhumane and cold ideology,
doesn’t agree. It is also a gesture to remind ourselves that we will not
devalue any life, and that we fight to defend all innocent life
A number of brave souls and OTOH, complete fools have weighed in on the Aqsa
Parvez memorial fund and the ensuing leftist-apologist outrage at the thought of
decent individuals righting a wrong, a fundamentally Western value.
The hatred of the good for being good. When I read of Aqsa's unmarked grave
-- I was stunned. I know that girl. I am that girl. If I had been born into
those circumstances, I too would be a member of the tragedy club. It seemed that the least good men
and women could do was put a headstone with her name.
It is not a big deal. It was the decent thing to do.
Back in early December right after Warmington ran the crushing article of
Aqsa's unmarked grave, I ran the post to raise money to right the wrong. Good folks near and far contributed what they could. We worked with
the cemetery. It was done ...... I called her 'family'. I asked them what they
would like -- they said "we don't speak English". I went through Mr. Porter at
Meadowvale, willing to accept any changes the 'family' wanted to make.
Needless to say, the 'family' never looked at the artwork via email or snail
mail. I didn't go to the press. I didn't go to anyone. I worked with readers on
finding another location. And we did. And again, this time is was the University
of Guelph who canceled at the last minute, telling the University newspaper they
didn't want to appear to support my 'politically charged views'. They are liars.
They are afraid of Islamic reaction to a plaque for a victim of an honor
killing. They blame me because I will not burn, sue, deface, harass, intimidate
-- I will be civilized.
How would the University be supporting my views or me in any way? The plaque
said Aqsa Parvez -- Beloved, Remembered Free. It
doesn't say Atlas Shrugs or anyone's name or organization. Just Aqsa.
I did not alert the media. Press conferences were not called. The objective
was respecting Aqsa. Period.
Her friends wrote me privately. Thanked me and helped to suggest alternative
locations that reflected Aqsa's life, joys and happiness outside her
house.
It was not until Joe Warmington did a follow up piece on the difficulty to
honor Aqsa (alerted by the reader who had been working with me on Guelph) that
the leftist apologists jumped all over ..... me. Yes. The murdering family, the
frighteningly bamboozled cemetery administrators (I couldn't get a bench or tree
at the cemetery), the University cowards -- they were sanctioned but I was the
bad guy. I had no idea that this would blow up into some leftist orgy of blame.
But not the family of course.
The reaction is ugly and mean. What is the objective of such invective and
personal attacks on me? Perhaps to discourage others who might get it into their
heads to do the right thing undertake a similar effort. I can't say. To appease
their overlords? I don't know, but it is disturbing to read Selley deride me and
in the same malodorous breath refer to the number stamp on Aqsa's grave this
way, "her remains currently lie beneath a simple steel plate bearing
the number 774" as if this were somehow an elegant, suitable
tribute to this terrorized child. And while
Selley is a sorry little man, he opened up the door to the jackals laying in
wait to pounce. And they have. I have been working quietly on this for months -
why suddenly are the charlatans expressing disgust? Disgust. Imagine that.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be
conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.Ayn Rand
For reasons best known to
himself, The National Post's Chris Selley chose to pick a fight with the few people who
want to ensure that Aqsa Parvez's short life is memorialized by something more
than the plot number of an unmarked grave. Pamela Geller and Kathy Shaidle can
take care of themselves, and have done, but the reality is that if
it weren't for the frothing loony ranting wackjob haters of the blogosphere a
16-year old girl murdered for not wanting to be imprisoned by her family's
culture would be entirely forgotten.
So what's more offensive?
The moral outrage of Pamela Geller at
the westernization of "honor killing"? Or the mainstream coverage by
a politically correct media? Here's what the lunchtime poll at Toronto's CITY-TV
thought was the big issue arising from Aqsa Parvez's murder:
Do you think society
discriminates against women who wear a hijab?
To be honest, I’ve not read
much or heard of Chris
Selley before (more here), though Google says he has written for MacLeans, and
dislikes TorStar Islamist Harpoon Siddiqui. Hmph.
That there is a problem, Mr.
Selley apparently denies; that trying to make a decent memorial for a murdered
teen is worse than the act that likely put her there (and thousands others like
her– it’s heardly a unique and inexplicable event), he seems to assume. Giving
him the benefit of the doubt, he’s a clueless liberal and not a deliberate liar
or an Islamophile. A Scaredy-Mouse, not a pro-cat mouse. Or maybe a journalist
who thinks that unless he thinks it’s a big deal, it isn’t. Whatevers.
That Pesky Body-Count
That still leaves us with the
problem of slaughtered women and the degrading position of women in jihadist
culture. The cat’s standing right in front of us, and demanding more and more
space.
Will we look at what’s there,
or deny it? On that, Mr. Selley, hangs the future of the culture which includes
the clueless such as yourself, the slaughtered, such as Aqsa and her sisters
worldwide; and the truth and principle that says all people are created equal
under God, and have the rights of freedom, free speech, citizenship, equality
under the law, the good things of this life, and the actual life with which to
enjoy them.
My Sister Aqsa
As a proud donor to the Aqsa
fund, I will not let anyone leave her unremembered, nor her memory and example
deliberately erased, because we’re afraid of confronting a death-dealing
religion– and some of its societies– with the higher and better claims of the
West.
Even if we’re not directly
related, we are connected by our common humanity, and our Canadian citizenship:,
and the moral claim of the hurt or helpless on all of us. So I am honoured to
call this discarded young woman a sister, if her own family would rather have
her forgotten and her memory neglected, for the ’shameful’ attitudes they judged
to be dishonourable to their religion and homeland norms. So back in the day, I
referred to Afghan Christian refugee Abdul Rahman as my B-FAM– ‘Brother From
Another Mother’– for the same reason, plus he’s a Christian, and thus my brother
in the Lord.
Decisions, Decisions
So either Aqsa is our sister,
or we’re in on the murder and coverup. It’s part of being a morally-aware and
awake person. The moral claims of the mere existence of ‘another-such-as-I’ lay
hold upon me, and if I should shrug that duty off, I shrug off my very humanity,
and that for which 3500 years of religion, philosophy, and law has prepared me
to be.
Feminists might claim her as a
sister– only if he has the right opinions. They’re sad liberal tribalists
anyway.
I am– at least according to
the gutless, soulless, witless commandments of political correctness– a
sh*t-disturber.
Where are the horrified Muslims taking to the streets against the violence
against women? Phyllis Chesler here:
Daniel
Pipes just called my attention to something a reader of his blog recently
shared: There is another case which resembles that of Muzammil Hassan’s. It took
place in India. Mohammed Suhaib Ilyasi, “is a famous journalist who started
the TV Show “India’s Most Wanted.” He also married a non-Muslim, Anju Singh, and
converted her to Islam. She became Mrs.Anju Ilyasi. He took all her property,
cash and jewelry. She came to know his real face and his connections with the
Muslim Mafia. So he managed to murder his wife by slitting her throat with a blade. He was
caught by Police and was in prison. But he managed to escape as his father is
leader of the All India Islamic Cleric Association.
Now he is released with the help of politicians who
are begging for Muslim community votes in elections. He is back in the media.
Anju lost her life…and people forget.”
They knew, and apparently kept silent. "Muslim
community knew of Hassan's abuse," by Mylous Hairston for WIVB, February 19 (thanks to Axel):
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) - A grand jury will now decide whether the founder
of Bridges TV will go to trial for the decapitation murder of his wife, Aasiya
Zubair Hassan.
"Everyone in the Muslim community was aware that she was indeed going through
abuse," said Attorney Nadia Shahram." [sic]
Did anyone in the Muslim community report Muzzammil
Hassan to authorities?
Although not evident in family pictures, investigators say the 37-year-old
mother endured abuse at the hands of her husband, Muzzammil Hassan.
Hassan is accused of beheading his wife last Thursday at Bridges TV in
Orchard Park.
He walked into Orchard police headquarters and told them that his wife is
dead. "Well, obviously that statement is part of the case and will be part of
the proof the prosecution has," said James Harrington, Hassan's Defense
Attorney.
Hassan founded Bridges TV following the 9/11 attacks against America. He
wanted to dispel stereotypes about Muslims and to bridge cultures.
"We have to make sure act of one Muslim does not create any doubt on the
religion of Islam," said Shahram.
Shahram added, "This act has no roots in the religion of Islam. It's just
unfortunate that we have a bad practioner [sic] of Islam."
Yeah, there are so many of those -- Muslims who
believe that violence against women is justified. The Pakistan Institute of
Medical Sciences has determined that over ninety percent of Pakistani wives have
been struck, beaten, or abused sexually — for offenses on the order of cooking
an unsatisfactory meal. Others were punished for failing to give birth to a male
child. Dominating their women by violence is a prerogative Muslim men cling to
tenaciously. In Spring 2005, when the East African nation of Chad tried to
institute a new family law that would outlaw wife beating, Muslim clerics led
resistance to the measure as un-Islamic.
The Qur'an says: “Men shall take full care of women
with the bounties which God has bestowed more abundantly on the former than on
the latter, and with what they may spend out of their possessions. And the
righteous women are the truly devout ones, who guard the intimacy which God has
guarded. And as for those women whose ill-will you have reason to fear, admonish
them; then leave them alone in bed; then beat them…” (4:34)
The Islamic prophet Muhammad was once told that
“women have become emboldened towards their husbands,” whereupon he “gave
permission to beat them” (Sunan Abu Dawud, book 11, no. 2141). He was unhappy
with the women who complained, not with their husbands who beat them.
Muhammad even struck his favorite wife, Aisha. One
night, thinking she was asleep, he went out. Aisha surreptitiously followed him.
When he found out what she had done, he hit her: “He struck me on the chest
which caused me pain, and then said: Did you think that Allah and His Apostle
would deal unjustly with you?” (Sahih Muslim, book 4, no. 2127).
Nothing in there about killing one's wife, of
course. But when it comes to honor killing, there is the fact that some majority
Muslim countries, even modern, moderate Jordan, have lesser penalties for honor
murders -- it is understood that such crimes are justified in the right
circumstances. This is the kind of thing that has to be confronted, or there are
going to be more Aasiyah Hassans in the United States.
Aasiyah had recently filed for divorce and got a court order of protection.
"Divorce means shame for Muslim woman," said Shahram.
And shame, of course, leads others to try to
restore their honor.
Sandeela Kanwal, 25, was found dead on her bedroom floor last
July. Her father told police he strangled his daughter with a bungee cord
because she wanted a divorce.
Morsal
Obeidi (stabbed to death 23 times by her brother - for "turning away from her
family").
Hatin Surucu Germany Muslim brothers gunned her down for
adopting Western ways.
Hina Salem Italy ("Mohammed Saleem cut his daughter’s throat
because she refused an arranged marriage and instead wanted to integrate into
Italian society".)
Methal Dayem, a 22-year-old Cleveland State student, USA.
Zahida Peeveen at 29, before the malicious attack by her
husband. At the time of the attempted honor killing, she was six months
pregnant. After attack: WARNING GRAPHIC
The killing of Ghazala Khan in Denmark by her brother may be the only
instance where an 'honour' killing has been photographed while being
perpetrated. This picture was captured on cell phone camera and shows the
woman's brother aiming the gun at his sister, lying on the ground. Her fiancee,
also seen, was wounded, but survived. The killing was planned by her entire
family, and Pakistani taxi drivers were used as spies to spot her and alert her
family.
As a 13-year-old girl in Turkey, Rojda was raped, then forced to
marry her rapist under Islamic law. Her face was mutilated by her
"husband's" family when she refused to prostitute herself after he
was imprisoned for raping another child.
Rim Abu Ghanem 19 (Dr. Suliman Abu
Ghanem, a 33-year-old pediatrician at Assaf Harofeh Hospital, who along with his
three brothers decided to murder his sister for refusing an arranged marriage)
Israel
1/3 of the women murdered in Jordan are a result of Islamic
"honor" killing. And yet I could not find one picture of a murdered girl in
Jordan.
"It was a brutal scene. One victim's head was nearly cut clean off," an
official is quoted as saying. (here)
And the thing is, this is the end - the final act, the culmination of the
subjugation, oppression, violent abuse of women in Islam. The terror that
precedes the murder is almost unimaginable. Living in fear, every day,
living in fear of physical and mental abuse and still, standing up and living
their own lives -- only to be murdered for it.
UPDATE:
Sabia Rani 19 UK (not only did four members of her husband's
family do nothing to help her, they turned a blind eye as he continued the
beatings and ultimately murdered the helpless young woman at the house they all
shared).
Have you seen this? It is a disgusting pack of lies. This dhimmi tool, Chris
Selley at The National Post, did a hatchet job on yours truly. No good deed goes
unpunished, especially by a witless asshat who does nothing to help. Leftists
have no conscience. He piles on lie after lie to discredit me and my
motives.
My motive? To honor this girl. But what is this vulture's
motive in smearing me? My readers and I raised funds for a gravestone.
Period.
I cribbed the headline from a comment Robert Spencer left over at The
National Post: To call Pamela Geller an "anti-Muslim maniac," and to dismiss
her noble effort to stand up against honor killing and memorialize one of its
victims, and to do so over the bones of Aqsa Parvez, is the bitterest irony of
all.
That’s pretty much how I feel about the battle
over Aqsa Parvez’s spartan gravesite at Meadowvale Cemetery in Brampton, Ont.
Aqsa was the 16-year-old Mississauga girl murdered in December 2007, prosecutors
allege, by her father and brother. Because the family is Muslim, and because
Aqsa fought bitterly with them over her adopting a more Western lifestyle—most
notably refusing to wear a hijab—some have suggested this was, as Toronto
Lifeput
it, the city’s “first honour killing.” Her remains currently lie beneath a
simple steel plate bearing the number 774, and this anonymity understandably
dismays many of her friends. But as teenagers of limited means, they haven’t
been in much of a position to do anything about it.
Enter the blogosphere.
Enter the bloviating, corrupt big media
dinosaur doing nothing but slinging arrows.
As the Toronto Sun’s Joe Warmington reported last week, the online campaign to properly
memorialize Aqsa has been led by one Pamela Geller, proprietor of the blog
Atlas Shrugs, with support from other prominent right-wing bloggers on
both sides of the border. It hasn’t been going so well. Geller raised
more than $4,000 US for a headstone—it was to read, “Loved, Remembered,
Free”—but apparently you can’t just plunk down whatever you want atop somebody
else’s daughter’s grave.
"Somebody else's daughter's grave" -- the murderer's daughter's
grave. Selley stands with the murderers.
A correspondent reasonably suggested paying for a
tree, bench and memorial plaque to be installed in the arboretum at the
University of Guelph, but again, no dice. The manager of the arboretum replied
that as it would “draw much public attention,” it would be “inconsistent with
[the area’s] current use” as a sort of oasis.
Warmington, Geller et al profess
bafflement at all this, the former suggesting last week that “the politically
correct police seem to be winning out.” I have another theory. I think
the cemetery and arboretum managers typed Geller’s name into Google, backed
slowly away from their computers and decided they weren’t touching this thing
with a ten-foot pole. A wise choice, I’d say; in my non-professional opinion,
she's at least a few chickpeas short of a falafel.
Falafel? Anti-semitic too, eh,
Chris?
What's his gripe? That I report news that this coward
won't? What has Selley done to fight the misogyny in
Islam? What has Selley done to fight Islamic supremacism?
She seems to believe, just for example, that the
presidency of Barack Obama—whom she refers to, variously, as “Obambi,” “B.
Hussein” and “the Jihadists’ President”—is the result of a calculated
infiltration of the U.S. government by radical Muslims.
This is a lie. Where?
In December, when Obama advisors indicated he was
considering delivering a foreign policy speech in an Islamic capital, she
declared “America will be unrecognizable after Hussein’s first and last term (if
we live through it).”
True. The man is President a month -
and the country's economic and foreign policy is
unrecognizable.
She does not think highly enough of Muslims
to expunge words such as “raghead” from her comment threads.
This is a lie.
She reacted to a particularly gruesome report of an
honour killing last year in Pakistan, in which three teenage
girls were apparently buried alive, as follows (her italics): “The bodies of the
five women … were desecrated by the wild animals. This is Islam. … I
have utter contempt for any human being who will not call this death cult what
it really is. Pure evil. The horror.”
Honor killings are pure evil. What has Mr. Selley done to fight
this terrible evil? What succor does Mr. Selley provide to Muslim girls living
in homemade concentration camps looking to the West for any escape? No, instead
you have apologists like Selley apologizing for the murdering family and
choosing instead to vilify me.
Perhaps not surprisingly, given the foregoing, she
also advocates banning all Muslim immigration to the United States.
Jihad legislation, yes.
I never said what he is accusing me of.
Her most prominent Canadian blogging
supporter, who calls Arabs “violent retards,” advocates the same in
Canada. The irony is overwhelming. The people leading the charge to
memorialize the purported victim of Toronto’s first honour killing would have
preferred she grow up in Pakistan—which, you will remember, is the place where
the punishment for teenage uppitiness is being buried alive, without so much as
a trial for those wielding the shovels.
I have never called Arabs "violent retards" - why is he
associating me with this? "The people leading the charge" care deeply about
women who want to escape oppression and brutality. What's your excuse, Selley?
Who's paying you, Selley? Who'd you sell out to, Selley?
Just so we’re perfectly clear, I can certainly
understand Aqsa’s still-young friends latching onto anything that would honour
her memory, and I’m sure many who donated to Geller’s quest had the most
honourable intentions. And hey, if a tasteful memorial is eventually erected, 20
years later it might not matter who came up with the idea. I don’t know. I do
know that as an anti-Muslim maniac, Geller makes a very poor spokeswoman for the
cause, and that it’s no help to anyone to pretend, as Warmington did, that her
motives are pure.
UPDATE: I am humbled by wonderful comments left at Smelley's
"blog" and here at Atlas. Smart, reasoned, passionate rebuttals. G-d bless you.
And to blogger supporters - thank you! If you missed Kathy
Shaidle's priceless post - go. Now.
RE: Chris Selley's post yesterday regarding Aqsa
Parvez and Pamela Geller:
The commenters have already
done a fine job castigating Mr. Selley for his perceived sins.
I only wish to add that, the next time Mr.
Selley and your newspaper decide to call me out in public, I request that you
spell out my name, the name of my blog, and give me a link.
I realize that the National Post and other newspapers
make what's left of their revenue by ripping off bloggers, but the least you can
do is give us credit.
It gets better. Go, read it all.
UPDATE: Nidra Poller over in Paris weighs in:
Selley wrote: "Perhaps not surprisingly, given
the foregoing, she also advocates banning all Muslim immigration to the United
States. Her most prominent Canadian blogging supporter, who calls Arabs “violent
retards,” advocates the same in Canada. The irony is overwhelming. The people
leading the charge to memorialize the purported victim of Toronto’s first honour
killing would have preferred she grow up in Pakistan—which, you will remember,
is the place where the punishment for teenage uppitiness is being buried alive,
without so much as a trial for those wielding the shovels."
The overwhelming irony of this comment is lost on
its author. He begins by taking a slap at you "The people leading the charge to
memorialize the purported victim of Toronto’s first honour killing..." and goes
on to accuse you of wishing uppity teenagers like Aqsa Pervez would stay in
Pakistan where they could be murdered impunitively. The fact is, her parents
were allowed to immigrate to Canada AND remain in Pakistan at one and the same
time. They killed their daughter, like they would have done in the old country,
and if people like Selley, leading the charge against Pamela Geller, have their
way, the relatives who murdered her will be allowed to prevail over her dead
body, hidden for eternity in an unmarked grave.
I did not assist Norman Traversy -- no one came to me with the idea of
honoring Aqsa. Norman sent me the Joe Warminton article that ran in the Toronto Sun back in
December, reporting on Aqsa's unmarked grave. I was so outraged that this poor
defenseless girl was lying in an unmarked grave that I decided to do some thing
about it, and created the Aqsa Parvez Memoral fund with the support
of Robert Spencer at JihadWatch.
In the course of raising the money, Norman Traversy wrote me and asked what I
thought of the University of Guelph. I liked the idea, and he volunteered to
look into for me. He was and is wonderful. But he was not alone. So many other
readers were and continue to be enormously helpful in scouting for a place for
Aqsa. Norman is but one of many readers who have worked to help make this
happen.
I would be remiss not to thank the legions of readers who have been looking
and continue to look into various locations. Two stand out for their
extraordinary efforts. Gerry Vincent has been working diligently for weeks in
the city of Surrey to see what is available in the Crescent Beach area. He has
been scouting White Rock as well, an idea I like very much. If nothing suitable
can be found near there, Gerry has volunteered to research the Vancouver and
North Vancouver waterfront areas.
I also must thank Scott McLeod, Fire Chief for the town of Pelham in the
Niagara Region of Ontario. Scott is a wonderful man who contacted one of his
Municipal Councilors regarding this issue. Councilor Cook presented a motion to
offer an area in the Pelham Peace Park for a suitable Memorial. Scott strongly
suspects that the Council, and more importantly the entire community, will
support this effort. On February 11th, Councilor Sharon Cook made a 'notice of
motion' regarding the memorial for Aqsa, to be placed in Pelham Peace Park.
Scott will provide pictures of the park for us at a later date, (he says it's
snowing out now).
I have been reticent to write of all these efforts. I did not want to
hurt any opportunity to pay tribute to Aqsa. And while Norman has been
wonderful, there have been a great many other wonderful souls working so very
hard to try to make my goal of a memorial possible.
Lastly, let me stop and thank Robert Spencer who was crucial in raising the
money and working with me on the headstone and in dealings with the cemetery. He
was a rock.
As far as the University of Guelph, they don't deserve Aqsa's memorial. What
cowards. What dhimmis. I am glad we found out first what slaves they were.
Someone ought to send those fools who wrote me this letter killing the memorial this photo gallery.
University spokesperson Chuck Cunningham
said Geller's blog is "politically charged" and voices strong views against
Islam. The university was leery that a memorial could be seen as an
endorsement.
"We don't want the Arboretum to
become a vehicle for someone's political agenda,"Cunningham said yesterday.
"The Arboretum serves many purposes in the
community -- it's a place for quiet reflection and contemplation. We will not
let our Arboretum get caught up in controversy."
Cunningham said since Traversy and Geller
learned the news, the university has received several nasty emails and phone
calls "calling us spineless cowards and worse. It's upsetting our staff here.
But it confirms that we made the right decision," he said.
Sly Castaldi was not surprised Traversy would have
trouble erecting a monument for Aqsa.
Castaldi is executive director of Women In Crisis
and one of five local authors who wrote the book Remembering Women Murdered by
Men, which outlines the difficulty and the importance of having visible
reminders that women are often victims of violence.
"This is not unlike any of the memorial sites we
documented in the book," Castaldi said. "Violence against women and children is
really hard to accept. When you stick up a memorial, that's hard.
"Not one of the monuments we profiled came about in
an easy way. It takes work and negotiations -- and perseverance."
I wonder if they see how foolish and sad they look.
Rest assured, I am looking into donating a portion of the contributions to the Youth Without
Shelter emergency shelter in Etobicoke, which is an area of Toronto near to many
poor and new immigrant families. Much thanks to JT for sending me the info. It
was a safe place for Aqsa, and had she stayed there, she might be alive
today.
Muzzammil “Mo” HASSAN, the founder and chief executive
officer of Bridges TV and moderate Muslim who chopped his wife's head off
yesterday, did so in a culture that sanctions depraved Islamic law. The USA.
Islamic culture thrives as a culture within a culture here. Media silence and
both their reluctance and law enforcement reluctance to prosecute Islamic crime
is a stunning victory for creeping Islamic supremacism - special rules for a
special class. This New York honor killing was not committed by some recent
third world immigrant. This was a successful business man, assimilated into
Western culture (as much as Islam allows). He committed no crime according to
sharia law. In the heinous Texas honor killings of Amina and Sarah Said, Amina
feared that her father would take her to Egypt to kill her (because, he repeatedly told her, "honor killings are legal
there").
One can only imagine the homemade prison, the abject terror the beheading victim, Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37, had to live in (and
die under). She sought to obtain an order of protection from her Muslim husband.
To no avail. It was, sadly, her final act of bravery, for which she paid with
her head.
HONOR KILLINGS SHOULD BE A CAPITAL CRIME. Period. Because this is war
...... and the war is about women, power, ownership, .....
dominance.
You can judge the health of any political system by how they treat the women.
Is this what America fought long and hard for? Why hasn't this received the kind
of coverage that Natalee Hollaway, Jesse Davis, Stacey Peterson
received?........ You think it's just Muslim girls who are at risk? We are all
at risk.
These girls, these women are ignored, relegated to the dustbin
of irrelevant news stories, so as not to insult Muslim men?
Check out his you tube channel. Here is the last segment the beheader
produced for Bridges TV. This segment promotes Islamic financing - a destroyer
of free markets and tool to finance jihad - and an Islamic interview with
notorious Jew hater Jimmy Carter.
My point is, this was not some deranged lunatic. This was a"good" Muslim who
followed the book.
He cut her head off for disobeying
him
District Attorney Frank A Sedita III said "Obviously, this is the
worst form of domestic violence possible." The man is clueless.
Davod points out, " This type of decrepitude could be called
"dhimmestic violence." We should not be surprised - here's a so- called
moderate who either in the heat of the moment of when the shit hits the fan
reverts to his true baser undeniable unavoidable islamic instinct and all the
moderation goes out the window, it was all a veneer (or what you might call a
veneereal disease). The messages overt and subliminal that he absorbed in
his youth stayed just under the surface, hovering, maybe just itching to get
out. Adds fuel to one's suspicions about O's madrassa youth and how it may be
influencing him. Scary."
Davod is right, lessons in his youth stayed with him even as he
became more sophisticated and subtle.
And now for the obligatory mainstream media
exoneration of Islam:
It would be a mistake to link an act of domestic violence to the couple’s
religion, he added.
“There is no place for domestic violence in our religion — none,” Qazi said.
“Islam would 100 percent condemn it.”
The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences has
determined that over ninety percent of Pakistani wives have been struck, beaten,
or abused sexually — for offenses on the order of cooking an unsatisfactory
meal. Others were punished for failing to give birth to a male child. Dominating
their women by violence is a prerogative Muslim men cling to tenaciously. In
Spring 2005, when the East African nation of Chad tried to institute a new
family law that would outlaw wife beating, Muslim clerics led resistance to the
measure as un-Islamic.
Why do things like this happen?
Because Islamic clerics worldwide have
spoken approvingly of wife-beating.
In 2004, an imam in Spain, Mohammed Kamal Mustafa,
was found guilty of “inciting violence on the basis of gender” for his book
Women in Islam, which discussed the methods and limits of administering
“physical punishment” of women.
Muslim men bring this religiously sanctioned
violence with them when they immigrate to the West, even to the United States.
The prominent American Muslim leader Dr. Muzammil H. Siddiqi, former president
of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), has said that “in some cases a
husband may use some light disciplinary action in order to correct the moral
infraction of his wife…The Koran is very clear on this issue.”
In 1984, Sheikh Yousef Qaradhawi, who is
one of the most respected and influential Islamic clerics in the world, wrote:
“If the husband senses that feelings of disobedience and rebelliousness are
rising against him in his wife, he should try his best to rectify her attitude
by kind words, gentle persuasion, and reasoning with her. If this is not
helpful, he should sleep apart from her, trying to awaken her agreeable feminine
nature so that serenity may be restored, and she may respond to him in a
harmonious fashion. If this approach fails, it is permissible for him to beat
her lightly with his hands, avoiding her face and other sensitive parts.”
Why do they say such things?
Because the permission to beat one’s wife
is rooted in the Islamic holy book, the Qur'an, and Islamic
tradition.
The Qur'an says: “Men shall take full care
of women with the bounties which God has bestowed more abundantly on the former
than on the latter, and with what they may spend out of their possessions. And
the righteous women are the truly devout ones, who guard the intimacy which God
has [ordained to be] guarded. And as for those women whose ill-will you have
reason to fear, admonish them [first]; then leave them alone in bed; then beat
them…” (4:34)
The Islamic prophet Muhammad was once told
that “women have become emboldened towards their husbands,” whereupon he “gave
permission to beat them” (Sunan Abu Dawud, book 11, no. 2141). He was
unhappy with the women who complained, not with their husbands who beat them.
Muhammad even struck his favorite wife,
Aisha. One night, thinking she was asleep, he went out. Aisha surreptitiously
followed him. When he found out what she had done, he hit her: “He struck me on
the chest which caused me pain, and then said: Did you think that Allah and His
Apostle would deal unjustly with you?” (Sahih Muslim, book 4, no.
2127).
Nothing in there about beheading, no. But the man
was talking about domestic violence.
Why does this matter? Because as long as no one has
the courage to call Muslim leaders like Qazi to account for statements like
this, and ask them about the clear justifications for domestic violence that
do appear in Islamic tradition, what can possibly be done to combat the
prevalence of domestic violence in Islamic communities? Ignoring the
Islamic justifications for domestic violence harms Muslim
women.
Sandeela Kanwal, 25, was found dead on her bedroom floor last
July. Her father told police he strangled his daughter with a bungee cord
because she wanted a divorce.
Morsal
Obeidi (stabbed to death 23 times by her brother - for "turning away from her
family").
Hatin Surucu Germany Muslim brothers gunned her down for
adopting Western ways.
Hina Salem Italy ("Mohammed Saleem cut his daughter’s throat
because she refused an arranged marriage and instead wanted to integrate into
Italian society".)
Methal Dayem, a 22-year-old Cleveland State student, USA.
Zahida Peeveen at 29, before the malicious attack by her
husband. At the time of the attempted honor killing, she was six months
pregnant. After attack: WARNING GRAPHIC
The killing of Ghazala Khan in Denmark by her brother may be the only
instance where an 'honour' killing has been photographed while being
perpetrated. This picture was captured on cell phone camera and shows the
woman's brother aiming the gun at his sister, lying on the ground. Her fiancee,
also seen, was wounded, but survived. The killing was planned by her entire
family, and Pakistani taxi drivers were used as spies to spot her and alert her
family.
As a 13-year-old girl in Turkey, Rojda was raped, then forced to
marry her rapist under Islamic law. Her face was mutilated by her
"husband's" family when she refused to prostitute herself after he
was imprisoned for raping another child.
Rim Abu Ghanem 19 (Dr. Suliman Abu
Ghanem, a 33-year-old pediatrician at Assaf Harofeh Hospital, who along with his
three brothers decided to murder his sister for refusing an arranged marriage)
Israel
1/3 of the women murdered in Jordan are a result of Islamic
"honor" killing. And yet I could not find one picture of a murdered girl in
Jordan.
"It was a brutal scene. One victim's head was nearly cut clean off," an
official is quoted as saying. (here)
And the thing is, this is the end - the final act, the culmination of the
subjugation, oppression, violent abuse of women in Islam. The terror that
precedes the murder is almost unimaginable. Living in fear, every day,
living in fear of physical and mental abuse and still, standing up and living
their own lives -- only to be murdered for it.
UPDATE:
Sabia Rani 19 UK (not only did four members of her husband's
family do nothing to help her, they turned a blind eye as he continued the
beatings and ultimately murdered the helpless young woman at the house they all
shared).
Sonay Mohammad, beaten unconscious by her father and thrown
in the harbour in Præstø, Denmark, in 2002. She was 14 years old.
Her 'crime' was living like most Danish girls live. The story has made
the headlines again, because her father, a Kurdish Iraqi, is due to be released
after having served s-e-v-e-n years, half the 'life' sentence he
received."The reason being a rule that says that perps who will be deported
from Denmark after having served time can be released after half the time, and
then be deported immediately." His wife has supported him all the way. At
least they will be sent back to Hellholistan, surely a worse fate than being in
a Danish prison and living off social benefits. Oh yeah, social benefits from
the Danish state have enabled Mrs. Mohammad to buy no less than TWO houses in
Kurdistan.
"When Fagirad left the home, his wife fled and went to the 109th Precinct
stationhouse, where she filed a domestic violence report, prosecutors said. She
then returned home.
"When Fagirad returned, he demanded his wife's cell phone and called
police to file a counterclaim, prosecutors said." What was his claim,
that he didn't finish the job?
During the attack, Fagirad bit, slapped, choked and
beat the 22-year-old woman with a belt, pushed her down a flight of stairs and
sat on her chest, prosecutors said.
At one point, prosecutors said, Fagirad threw his
wife up against a wall, held her there by the neck and then let her drop to the
floor, where he beat her with a belt.
Fagirad told police his "wife was a dog and he was
going to treat her like a dog," prosecutors said.
When Fagirad left the home, his wife fled and went
to the 109th Precinct stationhouse, where she filed a domestic violence report,
prosecutors said. She then returned home.
When Fagirad returned, he demanded his wife's cell
phone and called police to file a counterclaim, prosecutors said.
The woman, who was not named, was hospitalized for
bruises and scratches to her neck and back.
We have an entrenched judicial system that is based
on Divine Law and not personal whims. This is the reason why I could not
understand two recent court verdicts handed out on the same day.
In the first ruling, two thieves who stole
two rams were sentenced to three years imprisonment and 1,000 lashes each.
The
second ruling of two years imprisonment and 200 whiplashes was for a husband who
beat his wife until she swallowed her tongue and died.
I could not find any explanation for the
great difference in the two rulings although they were reached under the same
law. Are the two rams more valuable than the woman or is the life of a human
being cheaper than that of livestock?
I am not evaluating the judicial system or delving
into the parameters of the rulings. I’m just trying to understand how some
judges think and issue their verdicts? It might be true that the woman was
killed unintentionally and the rams were stolen with intent, but this will not
answer the questions that arise from the two verdicts.
I doubt very much the Ministry of Justice will
include the two verdicts in its records because they contradict the picture that
the ministry is trying to draw that court verdicts are based on principles of
fairness and not the personal views of judges.
AMMAN: A Jordanian
man has been charged with premeditated murder for killing his sister while she
was asleep over her alleged “suspicious behaviour,” a judicial official said
yesterday. “The 21-year-old man stabbed his 24-year-old sister 10 times in
different parts of her body with a kitchen knife while she was asleep on Tuesday
night over her alleged suspicious behaviour” in Sahab, south of the capital
Amman, the official said.
Three days ago, the unidentified
suspect, who has confessed to the crime, “heard some men talking about his
sister, who was a trainee lawyer, and decided to kill her without checking the
truth,” according to the source, who did not elaborate.
“He said he regretted
murdering his sister, particularly after forensic tests proved that she was
virgin,” the official said. He added that the suspect will “undergo
a psychological examination to determine his mental state.”
The murderer "wanted to improve the image of Muslims." Head Under Heels In Love!
I wonder if he videotaped it - you know - jihad
porn.
These were moderate Muslims, right? "A prominent Buffalo area Muslim
businessman who founded the BridgesTV network to improve the image of
Muslims in the U.S. has been arrested and charged with murdering his
estranged wife – by beheading her at his company’s office in Orchard Park, N.Y.,
on Thursday."
We are throwing our women out like so much chattel. Where is the wall to wall
television coverage like you get with Natalee Holloway and Callee Anthony, Jesse
Davis? ..... Because the vulture media has already submitted to Islam and the
women who experience the worst abuse at the hands of shariah are on their own.
Rule of law has been trampled and discarded for multi-garbagism.
13 February 2009:Muzzammil “Mo” HASSAN, the founder
and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, a Buffalo, NY based Islamic
television Network he helped pioneer in 2004 amid hopes that it would help
portray Muslims in a more positive light, reportedly admitted to police
that he beheaded his wife at
the television station yesterday afternoon.The victim was identified as
Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37, who just last
month, filed for and received an order of protection against her
husband.
According to police, HASSAN walked into the Orchard
Park police station shortly after 6:00 PM
yesterday and admitted that he murdered his
wife earlier in the afternoon. While Erie County, NY District Frank A. Sedita
III stated about the murder that “”…this is the worst form
of domestic violence possible,” it is more pertinent to understand that the act
of beheading in Islam is frequently and closely associated with “honor
killings.”
The intentional mainstream media
obfuscation of honor killings and the act of beheading as both relate to Islamic
fundamentalist practices & beliefs is anticipated, especially in this case.
(For a good primer about Islam and honor killings, please read this 2008
article written by Robert Spencer).
HASSAN and Bridges TV
of Buffalo has been a focus of investigation by the Northeast Intelligence
Network in the past. The Northeast Intelligence Network made several inquiries
to HASSAN and Bridges TV about their relationship with al Manar
television - inquiries that HASSAN and his station refused to answer. (Photo:
Aasiya Zubair) (HASSAN)
Meanwhile, HASSAN was charged with
second-degree murder and has been arraigned by Orchard Park, NY Village
Justice Deborah Chimes. He is currently in custody at the Erie County Holding
Center
Searing piece on the Aqsa Parvez tragedy in today's Canadian news paper, The
Toronto Sun. Huge props for Joe Warmington of the Toronto Sun for shining the
media spotlight on the gross injustice that Aqsa Parvez suffers in death -- as
if her life wasn't tortured enough. Joe Warmington first reported the story
of Aqsa's unmarked grave that set in motion my call to readers to memorialize this honor
killing victim. Atlas readers did a wonderful thing and contributed generously,
and Robert Spencer of Jihadwatch was enormously helpful. Everyone responded to
this terrible injustice. Canadian Atlas reader Norman Traversy, who has been
helping scout memorial locations, put Warmington in touch with me - thank
you.
Let's pray that the family that murdered her is shamed into doing one small
act of kindness for this girl.
Notice how now the family is refusing it -- when, in fact, the cemetery had
told us the family wanted to make changes to the headstone. Their
refusal is new. I wonder who advised them to change their story.
Remember this:"The
family want changes and is planning on coming in to see me. They did not book an
appointment yet but I hope to see them soon."
"How could they let her rot in an
unmarked grave?"-- U.S. blogger Pamela Geller
Aqsa Parvez has been gone 14 months and still,
according to the frozen ground in Lot 17 of Brampton's Meadowvale Cemetery,
she's nothing more than No. 774.
If not for two flowers placed there recently, you
would not even know this is a grave.
"We had no idea we would not be able to build a
memorial to this girl," said a disappointed Pamela Geller from New York City.
Geller proudly boasts being the 34th best-known
blogger on the web -- her Atlas Shrugs site of stories that may have escaped
coverage in the play-it-safe, middle-of-the-road mainstream media.
When she saw my column on the anniversary of this
shocking Dec. 10, 2007, murder, she jumped all over it.
"I am always concerned about creeping Sharia law,"
she said, adding that her main interest is making sure people knew this girl did
exist.
It hasn't been proved in court that Parvez was the
victim of a heinous, cultural honour killing, but it has been well reported that
both her father and brother are currently before the courts facing first-degree
murder in what Peel Police have described as a "planned and deliberate act."
There has also been extensive media coverage of how
she had clashes at home over her not wanting to wear the traditional Muslim
hijab and had been staying with friends as a result.
When the story, and award-winning photographer
Michael Peake's stirring front-page picture of the little 774 marker, hit Atlas
Shrugs, Geller responded immediately. "I wanted to do something for her."
She set up a pay-pal system and started taking up a
collection -- starting with her own $180 donation.
"People sent in $5 and $10," she said. "Some sent
in $500."
So far $4,000 US has been raised and a small but
tasteful stone has been designed with the inscription "Loved, Remembered, Free"
under her name and dates of birth and of death.
Still Aqsa Parvez is no closer to getting a proper
gravestone than she was before.
The Meadowvale Cemetery has indicated the family
does not wish to accept the money and will handle the grave site however they
see fit. Geller says suggestions of buying a separate plot or erecting a
memorial were also rejected.
"They don't seem to have any interest," the
cemetery's assistant manager Patty Harris said yesterday. "The family wants to
do this on their own. Sometimes people take a long time in making their decision
-- if in fact they put one on."
Not having a stone is what Geller and others are
afraid of.
"It is sad," she says. "It is not acceptable. It
appeals to basic humanity."
Enter Norm Traversy, a former Mississauga
firefighter who has done talks about fire safety at Aqsa's school and "with
three daughters in the same age range," wanted to do something for her and had a
pretty good idea.
There's an arboretum at the University of Guelph
where he wanted to plant a tree and have a bench and a plaque in her name.
"Something low-key and tasteful," he said.
They had the money and were all set to go when
suddenly, the people at the university stopped calling back or taking his calls.
"Even the people at the women's studies office," he
said.
A call to the University of Guelph yesterday hasn't
been returned. They'll have their opportunity to explain their point of view in
this space in the future if they choose.
"There are times when I feel like beating my head
against the Islamist wall, partly in despair, but mostly in anger," said Tarek
Fatah, author and founder of the Canadian Muslim Congress, who has called what
he says is the hardline, radical Islamist approach to this girl's death
disgusting.
Although some say it's Muslim tradition to not mark
a grave, Fateh points out that the Taj Mahal was built to honour a Muslim woman.
You'd think sooner or later somebody would have the
guts to ensure this girl is afforded some normal dignity. Instead, the
politically correct police seem to be winning out and just when we need them,
the women's rights movement seems shockingly silent.
But Traversy and Geller aren't giving up. They have
$4,000 collected and are determined to make sure it somehow goes to mark and
celebrate the life of Aqsa Parvez.
"Maybe we will do something for her in Israel,"
Geller said. "Although, it would be a shame there is not some sort of memorial
for this girl in Canada, the country in which she lived."
And the country where she was allegedly murdered
for wanting to be Canadian.
As of today, all that highlights Aqsa's existence
is that cold grave marked by a number.
Who will stand up for these Muslim women and call upon Muslim
leaders to act against the Islamic texts and teachings that lead to
these abuses? Spousal abuse is cross-cultural and universal, but only
in Islam does it have divine sanction (see Qur'an 4:34).
"Calif. polygamist gets life term for family abuses," by Amy Taxin for Associated Press, February 13 (thanks to Pamela):
MURRIETA, Calif. – A self-proclaimed polygamist was
sentenced Friday to seven consecutive life prison terms for torturing
seven of his 19 children, abusing four others and imprisoning two of
his three wives.
Mansa Musa Muhummed, 55, also was sentenced to additional terms
totaling 16 years and eight months by Riverside County Superior Court
Judge F. Paul Dickerson III, who said Muhummed's treatment of his
family amounted to "a reign of terror over defenseless children."...
Muhummed was convicted in June of 25 counts, including torture,
child endangerment, false imprisonment and corporal injury on a spouse.
At his trial, several of Muhummed's children and stepchildren
testified against him, telling jurors they had been beaten, starved,
strung up by their feet and forced to eat vomit and feces.
Doctors had said the children were extremely malnourished, with one 19-year-old daughter weighing 56 pounds.
"I'm still having nightmares and flashbacks," said Marlon Boddie,
29. "He don't need no mercy. He don't need no type of mercy. He knew
what he was doing."
Muhummed — whose given name was Richard Boddie — denied the charges and blamed one of his wives for the alleged abuse. He was a convert to the Muslim faith, which he said gave him the right to have multiple wives.
"They need to adjust their lives as they see fit and hope and pray God has mercy on them," he said of his children. He also told the court that he accepted he may have made mistakes as a father.
He was arrested in 1999 after one of his wives slipped a 13-page letter to a postal service worker describing the abuse....
"Prosecutor Camille Palluel said Butt had meticulously planned his
attack 'to end the life' of his former girlfriend in an attempt 'to
restore his honour.'"
Love Is In The Air Update: "Jilted man jailed for fire attack," from the BBC, February 13 (thanks to Kapil):
A Pakistani man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by
a French court for setting fire to an ex-girlfriend who had refused to
marry him.
Amer Mushtaq Butt doused the woman with petrol and set her alight as she was leaving her home in a Paris suburb.
Chahrazad Belayni, a 21-year-old Moroccan-born woman, suffered third-degree burns to 60% of her body.
The case has highlighted violence against women in poor urban communities with large Muslim populations....
Prosecutor Camille Palluel said Butt had meticulously planned his
attack "to end the life" of his former girlfriend in an attempt "to restore his honour".
Butt set fire to Ms Belayni in the street in the impoverished Paris
suburb of Neuilly-sur-Marne in 2005 after she ended their
relationship....
“I am totally stunned. They were really more than married — they
encouraged each other in everything.” Probably she didn't encourage him
in this.
Moderate Beheading Update: "Orchard Park businessman charged in beheading of wife," by Fred O. Williams and Gene Warner for the Buffalo News, February 14 (thanks to Nicolei):
Friends expressed shock on Friday that the founder of a
Muslim TV channel — which he launched in order to counter violent
images of Muslims — has been arrested in his wife’s brutal slaying.
Detectives have charged Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree
murder after his wife was found beheaded Thursday at the offices of the
cable channel, Bridges TV, in the Village of Orchard Park.
The victim was identified as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37.
Police said they continued to search for the murder weapon on Friday and refused to discuss further details of the killing.
“I am totally stunned,” said Samira Khatib, a friend of the couple,
who lives in Hamburg. “They were really more than married — they
encouraged each other in everything.”
It was Aasiya Hassan who encouraged her businessman husband to
launch the cable channel, she said. “She was such a lovely person.”
Muzzammil Hassan launched the channel in 2004 in hopes of
dispelling stereotypes of Muslims as terrorists, and balancing
widespread images of Muslim extremism with moderate viewpoints.
Aasiya Hassan had filed for divorce and obtained an order of
protection on Feb. 6, barring her husband from their home in Orchard
Park, police said.
“There had been problems before — there had been prior incidents of
physical abuse,” said Corey Hogan, whose law firm, Hogan Willig,
represented Aasiya Hassan in the divorce proceeding....
The television channel, which Hassan had founded after leaving a job
at M&T Bank, had been under financial strain, said Khalid J. Qazi,
president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council of Western New York....
In late 2006 a report in Arab News quoted Hassan saying he was trying to raise $5 million from investors in Saudi Arabia....
Ah. Very moderate.
And now for the obligatory mainstream media exoneration of Islam:
It would be a mistake to link an act of domestic violence to the couple’s religion, he added.
“There is no place for domestic violence in our religion — none,” Qazi said. “Islam would 100 percent condemn it.”
The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences has determined that over
ninety percent of Pakistani wives have been struck, beaten, or abused
sexually — for offenses on the order of cooking an unsatisfactory meal.
Others were punished for failing to give birth to a male child.
Dominating their women by violence is a prerogative Muslim men cling to
tenaciously. In Spring 2005, when the East African nation of Chad tried
to institute a new family law that would outlaw wife beating, Muslim
clerics led resistance to the measure as un-Islamic.
Why do things like this happen?
Because Islamic clerics worldwide have spoken approvingly of wife-beating.
In 2004, an imam in Spain, Mohammed Kamal Mustafa, was found guilty
of “inciting violence on the basis of gender” for his book Women in
Islam, which discussed the methods and limits of administering
“physical punishment” of women.
Muslim men bring this religiously sanctioned violence with them when
they immigrate to the West, even to the United States. The prominent
American Muslim leader Dr. Muzammil H. Siddiqi, former president of the
Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), has said that “in some cases a
husband may use some light disciplinary action in order to correct the
moral infraction of his wife…The Koran is very clear on this issue.”
In 1984, Sheikh Yousef Qaradhawi, who is one of the most respected
and influential Islamic clerics in the world, wrote: “If the husband
senses that feelings of disobedience and rebelliousness are rising
against him in his wife, he should try his best to rectify her attitude
by kind words, gentle persuasion, and reasoning with her. If this is
not helpful, he should sleep apart from her, trying to awaken her
agreeable feminine nature so that serenity may be restored, and she may
respond to him in a harmonious fashion. If this approach fails, it is
permissible for him to beat her lightly with his hands, avoiding her
face and other sensitive parts.”
Why do they say such things?
Because the permission to beat one’s wife is rooted in the Islamic holy book, the Qur'an, and Islamic tradition.
The Qur'an says: “Men shall take full care of women with the
bounties which God has bestowed more abundantly on the former than on
the latter, and with what they may spend out of their possessions. And
the righteous women are the truly devout ones, who guard the intimacy
which God has [ordained to be] guarded. And as for those women whose
ill-will you have reason to fear, admonish them [first]; then leave
them alone in bed; then beat them…” (4:34)
The Islamic prophet Muhammad was once told that “women have become
emboldened towards their husbands,” whereupon he “gave permission to
beat them” (Sunan Abu Dawud, book 11, no. 2141). He was unhappy with the women who complained, not with their husbands who beat them.
Muhammad even struck his favorite wife, Aisha. One night, thinking
she was asleep, he went out. Aisha surreptitiously followed him. When
he found out what she had done, he hit her: “He struck me on the chest
which caused me pain, and then said: Did you think that Allah and His
Apostle would deal unjustly with you?” (Sahih Muslim, book 4, no. 2127).
Nothing in there about beheading, no. But the man was talking about domestic violence.
Why does this matter? Because as long as no one has the courage to
call Muslim leaders like Qazi to account for statements like this, and
ask them about the clear justifications for domestic violence that do appear in Islamic tradition, what can possibly be done to combat the prevalence of domestic violence in Islamic communities? Ignoring the Islamic justifications for domestic violence harms Muslim women.
Love is in the air. The family said she bore the guilt for her own
murder. And the murderer yelled "that had the trial taken place in
Kabul, Afghanistan, he would have already been released long ago."
Ahmed-Sobair O. must be some kind of Islamophobe; otherwise he would
know that honor killing has nothing to do with Islam, and that
therefore the good Muslims in Afghanistan would not let him off easy
for such a crime.
"German-Afghan gets life for 'honour killing,'" from The Local, February 13 (thanks to Larry):
A German-Afghan man was sentenced to life in prison for the
“honour killing” of his sister on Friday, creating mayhem in the court
room as family members screamed, assaulted journalists and attempted
suicide.
The 24-year-old Ahmad-Sobair O. was convicted of murdering his
16-year-old sister Morsal O. on May 15, 2008 because she had turned
away from her family. The girl died after suffering 23 stab wounds in a
Sankt Georg district parking lot in Hamburg. Both siblings, who
immigrated to Germany 13 years ago, have German citizenship.
“He killed out of pure intolerance,” Hamburg Judge Wolfgang Backen
said while reading the verdict, adding that the murder was
“treacherous” and a premeditated “bloodbath” after all other attempts
to “discipline” his sister had failed.
His verdict sparked dramatic scenes in the court room as Ahmad
Sobair O.’s family and friends wailed and hit the security glass behind
which he was sitting. The accused himself began screaming: “You son of
a whore! What is this, honour? I know no honour!”
He also yelled that had the trial taken place in Kabul, Afghanistan, he would have already been released long ago.
The murderer's mother then tried to throw herself out of a courtroom
window, but was restrained by family members. Relatives of the accused
also assaulted and threatened a journalist in the room.
According to Backer, the late Morsal O. had been victim to
“many years of martyrdom” in the form of threats and assault from her
brother.
Before she was murdered, Morsal O. had been seen by emergency youth
services on several occasions, suffering from pressures by her family, which
did not approve of her Western lifestyle. After the verdict, her
parents sharply criticised the judge, saying the girl bore some of the
guilt for her own murder.
Backer said her parents had made their son into the “executioner” of their “parenting methods.”
Ahmad-Sobair O. has already been prosecuted for assaulting her and
others. He was sentenced in March to one year and five months without
possibility of probation on an assault charge. He had requested his
March sentence be deferred, but was notified in writing - a day before
the stabbing - that the request had been rejected.
A series of six honour killings - including the shooting at a bus
stop of 23-year-old Turkish woman Hatun Sürücü in Berlin - shook
Germany in 2005. Sürücü's youngest brother, Ayhan Sürücü, later
confessed to killing her because his family did not approve of her
lifestyle.
According to news agency DPA, some 50 women have been the victim of honour killings in Germany over the last decade.
Founded TV network to combat negative perceptions of Muslims
Bridges TV founder and Chief Executive Muzzammil Hassan founded the TV network in 2004. According to a Reuters story at that time, "his wife came up with the idea in December 2001 while listening to the radio on a road trip.":
"Some derogatory comments were being made about Muslims
that offended her," Hassan told Reuters ahead of Tuesday's launch. "She
was seven months pregnant, and she thought she didn't want her kids
growing up in this environment."
But now that he has beheaded his wife, I'm afraid this prominent
moderate Muslim will only be feeding those negative perceptions.
"Prominent Orchard Park man charged with beheading his wife," by Gene Warner for the Buffalo News, February 13 (thanks to Jon):
Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly
gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband -- an
influential member of the local Muslim community -- reported her death
to police Thursday.
Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives
have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree
murder.
"He came to the police station at 6:20 p.m. [Thursday] and told us
that she was dead," Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz said late
this morning.
Muzzammil Hassan told police that his wife was at his business,
Bridges TV, on Thorn Avenue in the village. Officers went to that
location and discovered her body.
Muzzammil Hassan is the founder and chief executive officer of
Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004, amid hopes that it would help
portray Muslims in a more positive light.
The killing apparently occurred some time late Thursday afternoon. Detectives still are looking for the murder weapon.
"Obviously, this is the worst form of domestic violence possible," Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said today.
Uh, yeah.
Authorities say Aasiya Hassan recently had filed for divorce from her husband.
"She had an order of protection that had him out of the home as of Friday the 6th [of February]," Benz said....
Waheed Allah Mohammad
has pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree murder and first-degree
assault for trying to kill his sister, Fauzia A. Mohammad, by stabbing
her multiple times. Waheed Mohammad told investigators that Fauzia had
dishonored the family and was a “bad Muslim girl,” but no worries --
this wasn't an attempt to add to the growing list of honor killings in
the U.S. Oh, no. Waheed just snapped because of post-traumatic stress
disorder. His lawyer explained: “I think it was probably more of a
domestic violence incident than an attempted honor killing. It (honor
killing) is a nice headline but it doesn’t seem to fit what happened
here.”
This kind of denial will only make for more honor killings in the U.S.
An Afghan refugee admitted today that he stabbed and
seriously wounded his sister during an argument that began when she
tried to leave her family.
Waheed Allah Mohammad, 22, pleaded guilty to attempted
second-degree murder and first-degree assault in exchange for a prison
term of at least five years and no more than 15 years.
His trial was to begin next Monday.
During his plea before Monroe County Court Judge John J. Connell,
Mohammad said he intended to kill his sister, Fauzia A. Mohammad, 19,
when he stabbed her multiple times outside his family’s apartment on
Linhome Drive in Henrietta.
The attack occurred when a female friend of Fauzia Mohammad picked
her up at the apartment to take her to New York City, where she
intended to get a job and start a new life. During a heated dispute
involving the entire family, Mohammad got a knife from his car, chased
his sister, and stabbed her.
Mohammad told sheriff’s investigators that he attacked his sister
because she had disgraced his family and was a “bad Muslim girl,”
according to court documents.
Although he hinted to investigators that he was trying to restore
lost family honor, Assistant District Attorney Joseph Waldorf declined
to characterize the stabbing as an honor attack —an attack intended to
restore family honor that is not uncommon in South Asia but is rare in
the United States.
Mohammad’s lawyer, Assistant Public Defender John Bradley, said his
client snapped as a result of post-traumatic stress disorder brought
about by his harrowing life in Afghanistan. Before Mohammad left his
country in 2005, he was kidnapped by the radical Islamist Taliban,
witnessed the killing of a friend, and tried unsuccessfully to flee on
a boat of refugees.
“I think it was probably more of a domestic violence incident than
an attempted honor killing,” Bradley said. “It (honor killing) is a
nice headline but it doesn’t seem to fit what happened here.”...
"Begner hopes the state doesn't make this about Islam or ethnicity.
This death could have happened, he says, in any culture, with any
family."
Why does the mainstream media believe it necessary always to
exonerate Islam from any responsibility for violence committed by
Muslims in the name of Islam? Who decided that this must be done, and
on what grounds, and why do they all fall into lockstep without
question?
NPR and the others are only enabling the murders of more women like
Sandeela Kanwal. Why? Murders happen anywhere, among all groups, but
this is not just a murder, it is an honor killing, and it simply isn't
true that "this death could have happened...in any culture, with any
family." If that were true, then where are the Christian honor
killings, as one of the NPR commenters on this article said: "It would
be the same part of the story is a christian said God told him to kill
his daughter"? All right, put up or shut up: where are those Christians
whom God is telling to kill their daughters?
Where is the Christian sect that teaches that while "retaliation is
obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally
and without right," yet "not subject to retaliation" is "a father or
mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or
offspring's offspring"? In other words, a father who kills his daughter
incurs no penalty. What Christian sect teaches that? The quotes are
from a manual of Islamic law certified by the foremost institution in
Sunni Islam, Al-Azhar in Cairo, as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy:
'Umdat al-Salik (o1.1-2).
Where, if this murder could have happened in any culture, in any
family, are the courts in majority-Christian or culturally Christian
countries that teach that "murder to save a woman’s honour not a
crime," as the Lahore High Court (LHC) in Pakistan declared just last Thursday?
When NPR retails nonsense of this kind, it only deflects attention
from where it ought to be focused: upon Muslim communities in the West.
Instead of exonerating Islam, NPR and the rest of the mainstream media
ought to be calling upon Muslim leaders in America to acknowledge the
widespread acceptance among Muslims of honor killing as Islamically
correct, and calling upon them to begin to teach against it.
If they don't do this, there are certain to be more honor killings in the United States.
Yet it is unthinkable that NPR would start calling upon Muslim
leaders not only to denounce honor killing, but to institute
comprehensive, honest, transparent, inspectable programs in mosques and
Islamic schools in America that teach against it and call it the crime
that it is. And that in itself is a crime atop another crime.
An update on this story. "Man Accused Of Killing Daughter For Family Honor," by Jamie Tarabay for NPR, January 26 (thanks to Davida):
Morning Edition, January 26, 2009 · Police in Atlanta have
been investigating the death of a 25-year-old Pakistani woman, who was
allegedly murdered by her father in the name of family honor.
She wanted out of an arranged marriage, but her father thought a divorce would bring shame to the family.
Honor killings are old rites of murder within families, committed
because of some perceived dishonor or shame. The United Nations
estimates around 5,000 deaths occur each year — mostly women, mostly in
South Asia and the Middle East. [...]
It was around 1 a.m. on July 6 when police got several 911 calls
connected to that house. The first was from a man who told police, "My
daughter's dead." Then, at 1:55 a.m., Clayton County received a 911
call from a woman named Gina Rashid who was worried about her
stepdaughter Sandeela.
'My Daughter's Dead'
"I hear a lot of hollering and screaming," Rashid says, "and I just
woke up and I asked my family what's going on. They're from Pakistan.
They're not speaking any English to me. They're not telling me nothing.
Sandeela's dead. Sandeela's dead."
Sandeela Kanwal was the 25-year-old daughter of Chaudry Rashid.
Christian says when police arrived at the house, they found the
57-year-old pizza shop owner sitting cross-legged in his driveway,
smoking a cigarette.
"They talked to him and asked him what was going on," says
Christian, "and he said, 'My daughter's dead.' They asked him again
what he'd said and he said, 'My daughter's dead.'"
Police found Kanwal dead on the floor of her bedroom, still in her
Wal-Mart uniform. She'd been working the late shift that night. As they
surveyed the scene, police tried to piece together what had happened.
Rashid was taken into custody and questioned.
"He admitted to actually taking the life of his daughter," says Sgt.
Stefan Schindler, a 13-year veteran of the Clayton County Police
Department.
"And the reason he took his daughter's life," says
Schindler, "by his own words was that she wasn't being true to her
religion or to her husband."
Note that NPR doesn't say at this point exactly which religion she
allegedly wasn't being true to, but they can't help getting to it
eventually.
A Killing To Avoid Shame Of Divorce?
Police believe Rashid killed his daughter because she wanted a
divorce and he felt that it would bring shame on his family. Schindler
says Rashid told him killing his daughter was a right given to him by
God, and that God would protect him. To police, in other words, this
was an honor killing.
"Since my career begun here at Clayton County Police Department,
I've never encountered anything like this," says Schindler. "This was
the first time." [...]
Rashid remains in jail after he was refused bail. He's charged with murder and other felonies including assault.
"Here in Georgia, this is going to make me sound like a backwoods
cracker, but we don't have many Muslims," says Begner. "Not too much
diversity down here, at least that I'm aware of."
It sent a ripple through this swath of Bible-belt country.
"For me, and my upbringing, nothing in your life prepares you for that," he says.
'This Is American Law'
If it is an honor killing — and what really happened that night is
not yet clear — it would be one of a handful of such crimes in this
country.
In Dallas, an Egyptian man is wanted by police, accused of murdering
his two daughters, reportedly, because they had non-Muslim boyfriends.
In Scottsville, N.Y., a Turkish immigrant has been in and out of
psychiatric care since he was charged three years ago with killing his
wife and beating his daughters because of alleged sexual assault.
Cue the obligatory mainstream media exoneration of Islam section:
In some honor killings overseas, family members have killed
women who've been raped because they're considered to have brought
shame on their families. For Muslims in Atlanta, the attention was the
last thing they needed.
Shahid Malik is a local representative of Atlanta's Pakistani
population and one of the very few willing to speak about the Rashid
case.
"This thing hurt the Muslim community, Pakistani community," he says.
He says the killing has nothing to do with Islam, but that Rashid
has little education and comes from a small village in Pakistan where
tribal traditions are strong.
"I think in their mind, use the name honor killing, they give less
punishment," he says. "But that is wrong because law is changed. This
is American law."
But it is true that in some Islamic countries there is less punishment given for honor killings -- including modern, moderate Jordan.
Malik says years ago, Pakistan used to punish honor
killings with only seven years' imprisonment. Now, he says, the
sentence is greater. But he says Kanwal's murder doesn't fit in that
category of crimes.
"Whatever this case is or not, this is not an honor killing," he
says. "It is not based on Pakistani law. Chaudry Rashid loved his
daughter."
He just loved her to death, as they might say in Atlanta.
Begner hopes the state doesn't make this about Islam or
ethnicity. This death could have happened, he says, in any culture,
with any family....
"Arab-American Psychiatrist Wafa Sultan: 'The Subjugation of Women Reduces Them to a Level Lower Than Beasts,'" from MEMRI, December 4, 2008 (just posted there February 3):
Following are excerpts from an interview with Arab-American
psychiatrist Wafa Sultan, which aired on Al-Hayat TV on December 4,
2008.
Wafa Sultan: "If Islam really treated women with honor, we would see
the positive consequences of that honor over the course of the past 14
centuries. Islam did not treat women with honor. On the contrary, it has distorted the concept of honor.
"My brother Rashid, I can call this pen a knife for 14 centuries,
but it will never become a knife. It will remain a pen. Islam has
turned these concepts upside-down, and has forced its followers to see
things as their opposites - to view killing and beheading as an act of
tolerance, to view taking a woman captive as an act of compassion, to
view the plundering of spoils of war as their right, and to view
masturbation against a little girl's thighs as marriage.
"Thus, it has destroyed the intellectual structure of the
Arabic-speaking nation, and has produced people who cannot distinguish
between things and their opposites - people with distorted thinking and
warped mentality, as infertile as barren land, which cannot yield a
thing.
"The best proof of this is the reality of Islam. When the Prophet Muhammad married the child 'Aisha, this was not an act of honor toward her childhood.
When Muhammad married Zaynab, the wife of his adopted son, after seeing
her naked and desiring her, this was not an act of honor toward married
women. When Muhammad married the Jewish woman Safiya, upon his return
from a raid in which he killed her father, brother, and husband, this
was not an act of honor toward her. The same goes for all his
marriages."
"The Subjugation of Women Reduces Them to a Level Lower Than Beasts
- Not to Mention the Laws of Inheritance, Testimony in Court, The
Beating Of A Wife Who Refuses to Go to Bed With Her Husband, And
'Honor' Crimes"
"Accusing women of being 'lacking in brains' is not an act of honor
toward her. Human beings - whether male or female - are the property of
their Creator. No human being has the right to own another. The
subjugation of women reduces them to a level lower than beasts - not to
mention the laws of inheritance, testimony in court, the beating of a
wife who refuses to go to bed with her husband, and 'honor' crimes.
"Muhammad said in a hadith: 'Three things spoil one's prayer: a woman, a black dog, and a donkey.'
Do they ever give this any thought? Do they realize that Allah chose
the female body for his greatest invention - creation itself? Wouldn't
it be moral to bestow upon the female body a certain holiness, instead
of viewing it as impure?" [...]
"In my opinion, in the Arab countries in particular, you cannot say that the status of women has nothing to do with Islam.
You cannot deny that there is a connection between the two. Islam is an
all-embracing faith, which intervenes in the smallest details of a
person's life - beginning with the way he should enter the toilet, and
ending with - excuse my language - the way he should wipe his behind.
"Since Islam is an Arab religion, it has succeeded in erasing the
culture, customs, and traditions of the Arabic-speaking peoples, more
than in Islamic nations that are not Arabic speaking. Therefore, in the Arab world in particular, the status of women is an inevitable outcome of the Islamic teachings." [...]
"I Firmly Believe That the Islamic Faith Was Created to Serve Muhammad, and to Legitimize His Desires and Urges"
"I firmly believe that the Islamic faith was created to serve
Muhammad, and to legitimize his desires and urges. As evidence, we have
'Aisha's words: 'I see that your Lord hastens to satisfy your desires.'
These words, which she said with innocence and spontaneity, embody the
goal for which the Islamic faith was formed.
"Islam allowed men to marry infants in order to justify Muhammad's marriage to 'Aisha.
Islam forbade adoption in order to justify Muhammad's marriage to the
wife of his adopted son - a thing forbidden by the pre-Islamic moral
values of the Arabs. Islam permitted taking women captive and violating
their honor in order to justify Muhammad's marriage to Safiya, after
killing her husband, her father, and her brother that same night. Can
you imagine any woman on the face of this earth witnessing with her own
eyes the killing of her husband, her father, and her brother, and
accepting the religion of their killer on the spot, and sleeping with
him?! Can the human mind possibly accept such a story?" [...]
The West should build a shrine to this girl and every girl who
tried to escape Islam. The
garden is dead. I think I am going to be sick:
Dear Ms. Geller:
The prime purpose of The
Arboretum in the University setting is to provide a living outdoor laboratory
for education, research and outreach. As such it has developed into a well used
multi-faceted department as part of the institution. As you have discovered one
aspect is the memorial program. However from its inception, success of The
Arboretum dedication program has been due to it being a space dedicated to quiet
reflection and meditation. It is because of the peaceful nature of The Arboretum
that, over the years, many individuals have chosen to dedicate benches and to
plant trees in memory of loved ones. I believe that, no matter how
worthy, a memorial to Aqsa Parvez would draw much public attention and would
thus be inconsistent with current use of The Arboretum.
"Let the trees be consulted before you take any action" John
Wright
Were the trees consulted, dhimmi?
This girl can have no peace. No peace! Is it possible that Islam has us in
such a choke hold that a headstone, a garden any tribute to an honor killing
victim is controversial? Even a basic headstone?
What spinelessness!
Just for knowing, the
cemetery has stopped responding to both Robert's emails and mine. I wrote this to
them on January 13, responding to an email from Philip at the cemetery:
Hi Pamela,
I just had a conversation with
my boss and the conclusion is that the only option to memorialize Aqsa is the
marker for her grave. We do not have a Memorial tree option and the land on
Section 17 does not allow for a bench as you need a large open space for it and
the section does not have that
space.
Thanks,
Philip
Philip, The family is not going to memorialize
this girl. She has shamed the family. Sharia law will not allow this girl a
headstone. Am I to understand that if the family does not sign off on the
headstone that the cemetery in this free, western nation will submit to the
barbarity of a misogynist barbaric code and allow this girl to rot in an
unmarked grave?
Yours in liberty, Pamela Geller
And Spencer wrote this earlier today to the Meadowvale Cemetery:
Dear Mr. Porter:
The email address from
which I corresponded with you before seems to have stopped working, so I am
writing to you again on the off-chance that you wrote me and the email bounced
back. It has now been three weeks since I have heard from you; I don't know if
you have met with the family of Aqsa Parvez or not, or what their objections
could possibly be to the headstone we had hoped to place at her gravesite. In
any case, we are pursuing other options, but it is extremely unfortunate that we
were apparently blocked in placing this headstone, and the implications of this
are perhaps larger than you realize.
Not only is this a tacit
endorsement of the honor killing of Aqsa Parvez and of honor killing in general,
but please be aware also that the Islamic Society of North America, which
apparently owns a good deal of your cemetery, was named an "unindicted
co-conspirator" by the U.S. Justice Department in a case involving funding the
jihad terrorist group Hamas. It was also named as an allied organization in an
internal document of the international jihadist group the Muslim Brotherhood --
a document outlining that group's strategy for North America, in which it
declared its intention of "eliminating and destroying Western civilization from
within and sabotaging its miserable house...so that Allah's religion is
victorious over other religions."
I'm aware that our request may have
put you in a difficult position. These are times that call for hard decisions
and moral courage.
Cordially Robert Spencer
I will not be deterred. I will not stop. She will be remembered. You have my
word.
UPDATE: My thinking is this: Robert and I are going to
enlist help in contacting the city council of Mississauga (where Aqsa lived).
Perhaps we can identify a spot, a location that will be more meaningful and more
direct for Canadians, where we can plant a tree as a memorial.
But I am leaning toward a grove, an orchard of trees in Israel. The
Aqsa Parvez Orchard - In honor of All of the Victims of Honor
Killers. In addition, the designated name would be inscribed in American
Independence Park in Jerusalem. It's $5,000, so we'd have to raise $1,000
more.
Although it is condemned by helping organizations
around the world, wife beating is common
in many places. What’s worse is when health workers facilitate or
condone it as recently reported in a study done in
Turkey. In
Turkey which has wife-beating virtually institutionalized, a high percentage
of health workers don't respond or work with the victims of domestic violence in
sympathetic ways. That’s because the culture accepts wife- beating.
On a questionnaire 69.0% of the female and 84.7% of the male health
workers stated that the agreed to or partially agreed to at least one reason to
excuse physical violence.
The accepted grounds for beating
one’s wife in Turkey includes criticizing the man, lying to him or refusing to
care for the children. Deceiving the husband is the most serious offense with
over half of female doctors agreeing that the man should be able to punish the
wife physically if the wife deceived him. These are accepted grounds also for
honor killings.
Because of the cultural rigidity on the
matter of approving wife-beating most health care workers in Turkey don’t know
the legal issues nor is there any real training in the country to help medical
personnel identify and report signs of physical abuse.
Canadian Atlas reader Norman helped scout locations in Canada for an
appropriate memorial to Aqsa Parvez near where she lived. It was Norman who
suggested "an arboretum on the grounds of the University of Guelph. The more I
see of it - the more I love it. His wife collected some of the pictures she has
taken at the Arboretum and posted them to a blog.
Do I think this is a better and more fitting tribute to a young girl
viciously murdered for refusing to subjugate herself to the soul crushing
misogyny of Islam? Yes. Yes, I do.
The Guelph Arboretum is currently being
considered as a site for the placement of a bench and the dedication of a
beautiful tree with a plaque to honour the life of the young Aqsa Parvez, killed
over a year ago in Mississauga. For those of you who don't know this beautiful
location, it is in the city of Guelph, on the University of
Guelph campus. These photos were taken over the past few years and show you
the beauty of the location.
Several features of The Arboretum
include:
1) The World of Trees is our major botanical
collection, with over 400 species of woody plants. 2) Free from pesticides,
the shrub roses in the Frances Ball Rose Garden continue to bloom. 3) The
Leslie Hancock Memorial Rhododendron Collection is in bloom during May and
June. 4) The Dwarf Conifer Collection javascript:void(0)is a texture, colour
and sculptural delight. 5) Maple, Oak and Pine collections feature a wide
range of species from the northern hemisphere. 6) Wildlife friendly is the
theme of the Gosling Wildlife Gardens. 7) The Wall-Custance Memorial Forest
offers a living legacy of beauty for lost loved ones. 8) A peaceful Zen
garden awaits visitors to the David G. Porter Memorial Japanese Garden. 9) In
the Edna and Frank C. Miller English Garden you are greeted by two perennial
flower beds.
Development of the University of Guelph Arboretum began in
1970 when the Board of Governors approved a master plan that dedicated 330 acres
of campus property to provide a living laboratory for research and teaching at U
of G and an important resource for the community and the province.
With a
mandate to promote education, research and outreach, the Arboretum currently
includes almost every tree and shrub indigenous to southern Ontario (more than
1,700 different kinds) in an area covering 165 hectares (408 acres). The grounds
are open to the public year-round, and include more than 8 km of nature trails,
ideal for walking or jogging.
I want to thank magnificent Atlas readers for continuing to give to Aqsa's
Memorial Fund. Today I received the following generous donations. The
complete list is here. We have raised close to $4,000 - we will be able to
do the flowering tree and the bench and perhaps some pretty flowering plants
around the tree - I will know more as soon as the pictures and prices arrive.
Anonymous $500 (mensch!)
Frank Salvato $50
JJ Solari
$50
and these recent contributions from
Puneet
Madaan $50
Lydia Van Houten $100
Jose Llerena $20
David Cohen $20
Frank and Leslie Shelley $20 I am moved
beyond words. Here
is what we are going with. It is going to be gorgeous. Much thanks to reader
and horticulturist for his valued input.
I am thinking of a Flowering Dogwood, scientific name: Cornaceae Cornus
florida.
I chose it because it is beautiful year round - spring time flowering, bright
red foliage in autumn, small colorful (red) fruit after flowering, year round
very interesting bark ........
Also, I 'd like a few smaller woody/hardy flowering shrubs to surround this
tree.
Rose family - Flowering, interesting colorful bark, etc. Physocarpus
opulifolius Common Name: ninebark, eastern ninebark, common ninebark Rose family
http://www.evergreen.ca/nativeplants/search/view-plant.php?ID=00496&list_ID=00015
With even a few - yet smaller shrubs/or even flower type plants filling in or
extended from the escort plants.
And TC recommmeded a curved bench. Yes, that would be lovely .......
Here's part of a home movie taken in 2003 of Amina and Sarah Said filmed by
the Muslim father who murdered them in an honor killing. One big happy family --
Apparently it's edited -- working on getting the original. Yaser should not
be spared -- capital punishment. Islamic law will not be tolerated in America.
Vote for politicians who speak to that. Vote for politicians who value women
more than they pander to their Islamic paymasters.
Murdering the women -- cold blood. "The reason he took his daughter's
life," according to the Sergeant on the case, "by his own words was that she
wasn't being true to her religion....." And Muslim community? --
talking the jive taqiya of course ............
Shahid Malik is a local representative of Atlanta's Pakistani population and
one of the very few willing to speak about the Rashid case. He says that
the killing has nothing to do with Islam.
"Whatever this case is or not, this is not an honor
killing," he says. Chaudry Rashid loved his daughter."
"Police believe Rashid killed his
daughter because she wanted a divorce and he felt that it would bring shame on
his family. Schindler says Rashid told him killing his daughter was a right
given to him by God, and that God would protect him. To police, in other words,
this was an honor killing."
Police in
Atlanta have been investigating the death of a 25-year-old Pakistani woman, who
was allegedly murdered by her father in the name of family honor.
She wanted out of an arranged marriage, but her father thought a divorce
would bring shame to the family.
Honor killings are old rites of murder within families, committed because of
some perceived dishonor or shame. The United Nations estimates around 5,000
deaths occur each year — mostly of women, mostly in South Asia and the Middle
East.
Atlas reader and godsend, Norman, has been scouting locations in
Canada for an appropriate memorial to Aqsa Parvez near where she lived. I was
leaning towards planting trees in Israel until Norman suggested this, "an
arboretum on the grounds of the University of Guelph. Guelph is not far from
Mississauga where a lot of kids from Mississauga go."
Yes, yes, a place in Canada, near where Aqsa lived where lots of young people
go. Perfect.
"The Arboretum, an integral part of the
University of Guelph, has a mandate to promote education, research and
outreach." -- (Arboretum Master Plan, December 2004)
The Arboretum at the University of Guelph is
somewhat modeled after the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University which is 100
years older.
Plantings started in 1971 and are now maturing
to produce a beautiful landscape, within which The Arboretum continues to
develop specialized gardens, botanical collections, and gene conservation
programs. Labels are maintained at the base of all woody plants in the
collections that are listed on The Arboretum map.
The Arboretum spans 165 hectares (408 acres)
with 8.2 km of signed trails. Observed at The Arboretum are 38 species of
mammals, 188 species of birds, 39 species of butterflies, 18 herptiles (reptiles
and amphibians) and 1,700 types of trees and shrubs. Almost every tree and shrub
indigenous to southern Ontario is growing at The Arboretum.
The Arboretum offers a pleasant stroll or a
study of the fabulous diversity in plants. It is a great place for weddings,
dinner theatre or memorial services and dedications. The
Arboretum offers Docent-led tours as well as naturalist / horticulturist-led
tours throughout the year. A wide array of adult and children's educational
programs are also offered covering art, botany, gardening and
wildlife.
The Arboretum has benches, trees and gardens
dedicated to various individuals. They all have plaques attached to them in
various styles. We know a brilliant woodcarver who could be commissioned to
carve a plaque.
Wonderful right? I asked Kathy Shaidle what she thought (she's
in Canada and totally gets it) and she said she thought "the Guelph plan may
be a blessing in disguise. Surely more people will see it there than in an
obscure cemetery where the stone could easily be removed or vandalized, which is
a great thing! The ideal solution."
I will be picking a
flowering tree this week with a bench. I will show you
pics of everything as it develops. Just so you know, I am moving forward on
this ........much thanks to Norman.
We lived in Guelph for over 10 years – my
parents for 25 years. I know the Arboretum well. I assure you it is absolutely
magnificent in every way. Guelph is a beautiful city, with warm, friendly and
caring people. The University Campus is lovely, and the Arboretum is
breathtakingly beautiful. In every respect the location is perfect. Aqsa can
rest in peace, lovingly surrounded by nature’s beauty, and the joyful exuberance
of the nearby University students.
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has
declared murder to save a woman’s honour not a crime, a private TV channel
reported on Thursday. According to the channel, Justice Asif Saeed Khosa ruled
this while hearing a murder case. The court acquitted Ghulam Nabi and
his son Iftikhar, saying murder to save a woman’s honour was not a
crime. The accused had killed one Yasin while saving a female
relative’s honour. The trial court sentenced them to 10 years’ imprisonment but
the LHC acquitted them. daily times monitor
"Saving a female relative's honour" ............ there are no
words for this death cult.
Robert Spencer and I have pursued the headstone marker furiously. We approved
the headstone
back on December 23rd (here), The bottom line is that the family (her
alleged murderers) has to "sign
off" on it. We are still waiting for them to look at the headstone. Clearly
they are the obstacle. We have tried to pursue purchasing a plot near, around or
in the vicinity of her
unmarked grave. The Islamic Society owns them all. *sigh*.
Here is the last exchange with the cemetery:
Hi Pamela,
I just had a conversation
with my boss and the conclusion is that the only option to memorialize Aqsa is
the marker for her grave. We do not have a Memorial tree option and the land on
Section 17 does not allow for a bench as you need a large open space for it and
the section does not have that space.
Thanks,
Philip
Philip, The family is not going to
memorialize this girl. She has shamed the family. Sharia law will not allow this
girl a headstone. Am I to understand that if the family does not sign off on the
headstone that the cemetery in this free, western nation will submit to the
barbarity of a misogynist barbaric code and allow this girl to rot in an
unmarked grave?
Yours in liberty, Pamela Geller
I refuse to be subjugated by the inhumanity of these barbaric "customs". One
of my readers is scouting other locations in and around where Aqsa lived. I have
also asked one of Aqsa's close friends if Aqsa had a favorite spot. She wrote,
"I'm sure we can plant a tree or ............ maybe start an Aqsa foundation
against abuse towards women within the family, call it Aqsa's wings or
something... I'm sure we can think of something = ) Or if we plant a tree or a
bench by Lakeshore in Mississauga to represent her free spirit and refreshing
personality, kind of like the lakeshore in summer. The waves are always coming
and going and it gives off the refreshing breeze."
My preference is
to plant 16 trees (Aqsa was 16 years old when she was murdered) and 18 more
(chai for life) in Israel overlooking Jerusalem. I would love to plant a grove,
but it's $5,000, and I ain't got that much green ......
I would donate whatever monies left over to Geert Wilders' legal defense
fund. Robert Spencer, who has worked with me on the initiative to memorialize
Aqsa from the beginning, loves the idea of a tree-planting dedicated to Aqsa,
and also supports donating any remaining money to a defense fund for
Wilders. Let me know your thoughts on this.................
UPDATE: I have been reading through the comment section and
there are some important ideas. I think it speaks volumes to how far down the
rabbit hole the West has gone that the family that murdered her in the name of
Islam, can stop a marker or headstone in the name of Islam.
That said, raising awareness with ads calling attention to this gross
injustice is a fine idea but it doesn't memorialize Aqsa which is what we set
out to do. Canadian reader Norman has been scouting out locations near Aqsa's
home and I think we have found the perfect spot. Yes, I too think it should be
in Canada. I will update as I firm this up.
These girls, these girls........ the cult of misogyny, murder and depravity.
This ideology must be destroyed. What is it going to take? If we do nothing, it
makes us as barbaric as the savages.
(IsraelNN.com) A 15-year old Israeli Arab Muslim
from the city of Kalansawa has admitted to murdering his 20-year-old sister. The
teen said he stabbed his sister on Monday morning in a so-called “honor
killing”--a killing in which the victim is accused of tarnishing family
honor by violating the tenets of Islam or flouting cultural norms.
The teen and his sister fought on Sunday night. The 15-year-old strongly
objected to his sister's expressed wish to leave the home more often and
purchase a cell phone.
The murder took place the next morning, as
the sister slept in her bed. The parents, who were out of the house at
the time, returned home to discover her body.
Police were called to the scene, and found the
brother covered in blood. “I murdered my sister,” he told them.
The youth was arrested. His remand was extended on Monday evening.
The murder is hardly the first of its kind
to take place in Israel. Several young Israeli Muslim women have been
murdered in recent years for allegedly dishonoring their families.
Police believe the previous victim was 16-year-old
Dalia Abu-Ghanem, who was reported missing in December of last year. The
teen was allegedly murdered for leaving her abusive husband. Eight other women
belonging to the 2,000-member Abu-Ghanem clan have been murdered by their male
relatives in the past decade.
I have been deliberately silent on updating
you on the Aqsa Parvez headstone for a reason. Meadowvale cemetery advised
me that the family (yes, the family that murdered her) had to "sign off" on the
headstone.
As I expected I heard that there have been typical delays - the family
wouldn't provide an email to send the artwork ("it wasn't working") so the
cemetery had to snail mail it. And so we waited for the "family" to receive it.
Now the cemetery has advised us -
"The family want changes and is planning on coming in to see me.
They did not book an appointment yet but I hope to see them soon"
I do not have a good feeling about this - nothing I say or don't say in this
post now is going to change what is coming down the pike. It is obvious what is
happening.
Canada lawyers, can I sue if I have to? Shouldn't the
murdering family be disqualified from standing in the way of giving this long
suffering honor killing victim a proper burial? Can I sue to install the
headstone, over perhaps, the objection of a family that all engaged in her
murder? Aqsa couldn't catch a break in lfe, must she continue to struggle
against the misogyny of Islam in death too?
Any Canadian legal help would be enormously appreciated.
Atlas reader J took this picture for us yesterday.
Amina and Sarah's Aunts will be holding a memorial ceremony in March
The non Muslim side of the family is asking everyone to light a candle for
the girls to keep them remembered!
Pink shoes, perfect for a coward that beats and rapes little girls.
The girls .......sigh
It is one hear ago today on New
Year's when Yaser Said, one
of the FBI's most wanted, brutally murdered
his two daughters in the name of Islam - in an honor killing right here in
America. The thug murderer got away with it because of a media too afraid to
call it what it was and an Irving police department too afraid of insulting the
Muslim population. Law enforcement still has not questioned or interrogated the
two alleged accomplices -
the mother from hell, Tissie, who dragged those poor girls home after they
ran away (only to be shot to death 24 hours later) and the radicalized
brother, who gave his father the gun and, to this very day, violently
threatens a family member who speaks the truth about the horror those poor girls
lived with. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?
There is a $22,000
reward for information leading to his arrest. Send it around. (never seen
before photos)
It will be
a year on New Year's day when Yaser Said, one
of the FBI's most wanted, brutally murdered
his two daughters in the name of Islam - in an honor killing a year ago right
here in Texas. He got away with Irving police being too afraid of insulting the
Muslim population. Law enforcement still has not questioned or interrogated the
two alleged accomplices -
the mother from hell, Tissie, who dragged those poor girls home after they
ran away (only to be shot to death 24 hours later) and the radicalized
brother who gave his father the gun and, to this very day, violently
threatens family member who speaks the truth about the horror those poor girls
lived with. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?
There is a $22,000
reward for information leading to his arrest. Send it around. (never seen
before photos)
It was a Muslim marriage so by rights he is entitled to as many wives as he
wishes (or is the limit four?). Whatever... How dare she not go along?
The UK pays multiple welfare benefits for multiple wives for Pete's sake so this
guy will surely get off.
I am not sure if he killed her because she wouldn't agree to a polygamous
arrangement (it was a Muslim marriage, she knew!) or if it was because she had
sex. Either way the punishment in Islam is death.
These are the pictures of the model who plunged 150ft to her death on what
was the happiest day of her life.
Radiating pure joy, Sahar Daftary 'married' property developer Rashid Jamil
in a Muslim ceremony in Brentford, west London, last December.
But what the 23-year-old didn't know was her new 'husband' was in fact
already married and that his wife had given birth only months before.
Ms Daftary fell from a balcony high up on Mr Jamil's luxury apartment block
in Salford Quays, Manchester, on Saturday.
Prior to the death, she had walked out on Mr Jamil after discovering the
truth behind his double life.
He has been arrested and bailed until February in connection with her
death.
Ms Daftary's family today urged police not to write off her death as
suicide.
Her brother-in-law Joe Karim said: 'She would never commit suicide. It was
against everything she believed in. She had everything to live for.
'She was a beautiful, intelligent, religious woman, why would she kill
herself ?'
A statement on behalf of Ms Daftary's family reads: 'The family are
devastated at the tragic loss of Sahar.
'She had booked a flight to Dubai to celebrate her 24th birthday on Christmas
Day with five friends.
'We firmly believe there is no way she would have committed suicide.'
It also emerged that a pornographic video clip apparently featuring
Miss Daftary and an unnamed man had recently been posted on a
publicly-accessible website.
Friends said the aspiring model, who last year won the title Miss
Face of Asia in one of Britain's biggest modelling contests, had discovered that
he was married and also had a young child about six months ago. They then split
up.
Just a quick post to let you know that Robert Spencer and I are working with
the cemetery in Brampton on
selecting and purchasing Aqsa's headstone. It is a process that I will keep
you posted on.
Islam Said, accomplice
in the honor killings of his sisters Amina and Sarah Said, continues to
violently threaten and harass infidels and family members with law enforcement
interference. The society so pathetic in its fear of insulting Islam is in a
state of inetia. Anything goes. Is it any wonder guns
sales are soaring. I am not surprised. This radicalized walking time bomb
should be arrested a/s/a/p.
Submitted on 2008/12/17 at 12:37pm I HOPE YOU GET SHOT 9 OR 10 TIME JEST
LIKE AMINA AND SARAH AND YOU CAN CALL 911 SAYING ISLAM SHOT THE MAXICAN AND I AM
DIYING PLZZ HELLP ME BUT NO ONE WILL COME FOR YOUR FAT ASS
Submitted on 2008/12/17 at 12:31pm GALL YOU ARE GOING TO BE SHOT YOU DAY
IS COMEING CALL THE .F.B.I ALL DAY NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU ITS TIME!!!!!! FOR
YOU TOO GO HELL BITCH THAY WILL NOT HELLP YOU AT ALL I LOVE YOUR HOME I THINK I
WILL LET YOU DIY IN IT OR THE MALL IF LIKE LOL
Thank you to the wonderful, good souls (infidels!) that contributed to the
Aqsa Parvez Headstone Memorial Fund.Not one Muslim contributed
Make that one Muslim turned infidel
Robert Spencer and I have spoken with the cemetery, they are sending us
information about headstones. I know one of my Canadian readers will take a
picture of the headstone once its been in place.
In addition to the $180 I donated, here are the great freedom lovers who have
contributed so far. We will purchase the best stone in our price range. Whatever
that is, it will be the best that our money can buy.
Sheri Celona $10
This is for Aqsa Parvez.
Gary Canale $10
hi atlas for AQSA PARVEZ. i live in toronto. this story was appalling. may
she rest in peace, with some recognition that she briefly lived and breathed on
gods good earth. what an utter shame. thank you for your kindness in doing this.
gary canale
Kenneth Solomon $18
Ms. Geller: God Bless You for everything you do. Kenneth L
Solomon............Pembroke Pines, Florida............Typical Bitter Jewish
God-Clinging Gun Owner And Barking Mad Insane NASCAR Fan...............Please
support the Jamie McMurray Foundation For Autism Speaks
George McCallum $25
For Aqsa Parvez
Rick Fuendeling $25
Please apply this contribution to the Aqsa Parvez Headstone Memorial Fund.
Thanks for doing this
Donald Mitchell $10
Ray Paradez $50
Hi, I was moved by this story. Hope this helps to get this young woman a
proper gravestone. Lord bless, r.c.paredez
John Thornton $35
Mark Peters $20
Let's cram the biggest headstone possible on her grave.
C.H. Christian $50
For marker for Aqsa Parvez's grave
Robert Spencer, Jihadwatch $180
Anthony Ragan $20
This is a contribution to the fund to get Aqsa a proper headstone.
Gavin Anger $30
Mitchell Carter $10
Thank you for what you do, Pamela. And please accept my small contribution to
the AQSA PARVEZ headstone fund. Best wishes, Mitch
Marilyn Lebez $20
Cindy Buxton $50
For Aqsa. Thank you, Pamela, for spearheading this--On JW, back when this
happened, one cold heart posted that "Aqusas will come and go". But, not in
obscurity, thanks to you. Best regards, Cindy Buxton
James Galbo $50
Tien Khoo $40
For the Aqsa Parvez Memorial Headstone Fund
Lewis Evans $20
THE AQSA PARVEZ MEMORIAL HEADSTONE FUND
Andrew Bostom $100
Bjorn Larsen $250
C. D. $25
Laura Welch $50
Heather and Daniel Covey $20
Nita Hardin: $15
Pamela If you would make my contribution listing as "in memory
of Kathie and MJ" my beloved daughter and grandson who were killed
by illegal drunk drivers in 2002... I miss them every minute of every day, and
cannot understand how someone could harm their own beautiful child. Regards,
Nita Hardi
Julia Rabadi $20
Aridium Internet Bookstore $20
Phil Averbuck $36
Even the most primitive prehistoric cultures recognized a solemn obligation
to erect a few stones over the grave of a person...What kind of "great" religion
makes it a point of principle to leave a murdered child in an unmarked
grave?
Morgaan Sinclair $15
Dear Pamela ... I'm in graduate school ... otherwise this would be more. This
is for the monument for Aqsa Parvez ... and BLESS YOUR HEART FOR GIVING THIS
GIRL A HEADSTONE. Much Love, Morgaan Sinclair
Tom Schaefer $15
That she would not be forgotten or become unknown.
Jakub Chromy $10
For the headstone, please :)
Mohammed S $20
Forgive me for the small donation; I'm a graduate student. BTW, if you want
to credit me on your site with the other 'infidels', please just write 'Mohammed
S' - as a Muslim-turned-infidel, less publicity is better for my safety.
Thanks!
Julee Freeland $10
December 12
Pamela Chachere Marcantel $25
Hi, Pamela. I've been out of the loop for a while, so I only just ran across
your fund for Aqsa Parvez's headstone. Please accept this small donation from
me. God bless you for all that you do. Best wishes, Pamela Chachere
Marcantel
Sean Carnegie $21.28
For Aqsa. I've had enough of the Muslims in Canada. Let this marker be the
first shot across the bow. This is the complete amount in my PayPal account for
you to get it immediately.
Anne Martin $10
For the Aqsa Parvez memorial fund. Thank you, Pamela. This Canadian truly
appreciates what you are doing. Anne Martin (ImNoDhimmi) Nova Scotia,
Canada
George Cooper $ 10
For the Aqsa Paravez Memorial Fund. Thank you so much, Pamela, for the work
you're doing. Let's none of us stop until everyone knows that Islam is death.
-Zero
Robert Stranger $20
RIP Aqsa Parez... All the reasoning of men are not worth one sentiment of
women...
Chelsea Jaetzold $50
Charles Blythe $25
"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always
eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life."
Ronald Reagan
Yavonne Hinton $50
God will bring justice.
Alec Rawls $20
For THE AQSA PARVEZ MEMORIAL HEADSTONE FUND. If you can, please have the
headstone note that she was murdered by her Muslim father for wanting to be a
normal American girl.
Robert Pitzer $10
for Aqsa. Rest in peace.
Francis Krikorian $25
In memory of Aqsa Parvez, a victim of Islam's hatred of the Other. May she
rest in peace. Francis K Krikorian
PC Macs $10
THE AQSA PARVEZ MEMORIAL HEADSTONE FUND I am the one who wrote you and said
that "I am Christian, Conservative American who supports Israel while clinging
to my bible and my guns. I believe we are to be a light unto the world. And I
know that your light is shining brightly. " May God Bless you.
Adam Eisenberg $18
I don't shed tears often or easily atlas, and yet your coverage of stories
like these gets me nearly every time. thank you for stepping up and doing this.
Francis Meaney $50
May the world realize the enemy that is attacking us.
John Koch $10
For the Aqsa Parvez memorial headstone fund. God bless you Pam! May the wrong
be made right!
Lucy Ossa-Bordes $40
Joseph Nevya $40
To honor Aqsa Parvez's life with a proper headstone.
Martin Frankland $20
Mark Thompson $40
THE AQSA PARVEZ MEMORIAL HEADSTONE FUND. I really like the pictures on your
web site showing the grave marker. Great job as always. Mark Winter
springs
Henry Kadoch $10
For the Aqsa headstone fund, from Henry Kadoch
Jason Routhieaux $20
Bring Aqsa Parvez the recognition and statement needed to the awake the
sleeping world around us. ISAIAH 48:16 Come LORD JESUS Come!
Patricia Munter $25
Update: The cemetery has been in touch and has sent us
information about plots. We will order one very soon within the price range made
possible by all your generous donations. Once again, thank you all, from the
bottom of my heart.
Randall Gregory $20
Khalim Massoud $35.55
I am embarrassed that I am the only Muslim contributing to this fund. I hope
it changes.
Lorraine Phillips
Hi, this is Shianne, I'm using my moms paypal account to send this for Aqsa,
thanks so much again for doing this for her. Shianne
John Brothers II $30
We all should honor this girl who has been dishonored in life. We must fight
the ideology and the religion that drives fathers to kill their daughters.
Robert Warren $25
Please accept this small amount towards the memorial for Aqsa Parvez. May she
rest in peace.
CyberWombat $10
It ain't much but I hope it helps. As a father, the motives behind this poor
girl's murder are just unfathomable. Please just use my nickname "CyberWombat."
December 14
Dan Pankowsky $10
I hope this helps
Amy Peterson $20
Kevin St.Clair $25
Thank you for setting up a fund to do this. I am thankful that I have been
graced with the opportunity to give to it.
James Tooley $25
For the Aqsa Memorial Fund. We must stop the evil of Islamism with no further
appeasement or slavish political correctness. It is not all right to beat,
mutilate and kill women in the name of some ignorant desert agricultural
interpretation of Islam which equates women with animals
Vallie Hodges $20
December 17
Shelly Taylor $20
Dear Pam: If you're full up on the headstone fund, please have some nice
flowers put on the grave, sent with love & prayers from fellow Canadians
Binks WebElf & Family. Blessings for this, Binks
FreemarkSteyn.com
Harry Moon $25
G. Vincent $25
Zeb Gardner $25
In today's mail THANK YOU TO THE KIND AND THE DECENT!
Cornelia and William Childs $180
Lewis Austin $20
Ann and Howard Corcoran $50
Cassandra $100
Paulette Metoyer $30
Shianne Phillips (Aqsa's excellent friend) $20
Edward Pope $50
Jeffrey Imm $100
Lance Hemmert $20
AQSA PARVEZ I have two daughters, and I while I cannot fathom harming them in
any manner I'm acutely aware of the kind of evil we must confront which creates
monsters out of men. Thank you for doing this. RIP Aqsa. - Lance
Hemmert
Chris and Paige Vallee $10
Philip Lavigna $10
Amy & Gregory Nagawiecki $25
Gift of $25 FOR THE AQSA PARVEZ MEMORIAL HEADSTONE FUND From Amy &
Gregory Nagawiecki Reader of JihadWatch.org, and future reader of your website!
Thanks so much for doing this, and please make sure the media know what happens
with the headstone. Keep up the good fight, for there is so much to
lose
Malcolm Atkinson $20
Michael Lutz $10
Thank you for doing this - the young woman deserves at least this
remembrance. Mike Lutz
Linda Blood $20
If I'm too late for the headstone fund itself, please use this towards
flowers or other remembrances. Let the people who commit these crimes understand
that we will not forget their victims, nor will we stop fighting against their
twisted code of "honor" that kills and enslaves women. Linda
Blood
Chris Panagopoulos $100
Susan and TJKJ $10
Michele Raiput $25
For Aqsa Parvez's headstone. Thank you for doing this. Michele
Rajput
My deepest thanks and love going out to Atlas reader Norman who went Aqsa
Parvez's unmarked grave and took these pictures for us.
Robert Spencer and I are working with the
cemetery to choose an appropriate stone in the $2,000 price range. This is
the second time we have requested our choices. Thye have promised twice to email
us the information. And still we have not received it. I am not sure if we are
dealing with laziness or dhimmitude. Perhaps it's the busy season at the
cemetery.
UPDATE: The cemetery has responded.PLEASE NO HATE EMAILS TO THE
CEMETERY. I WANT TO GET THIS DONE not alienate them.
I received the following letter from Shianne, one of Acqu'a close friends.
Aqsa had a dream. She loved to live and was brutally murdered because of it.
This cannot stand. We must crush the scourge on free people.
This heartbreaking letter should infuriate everyone that lives
free. Read the letter (emphasis mine).
hi,
My name is Shianne Phillips. Im was a really close friend of Aqsa's. I
actually went to the hospital the day it happened to see her but it was too
late. I was at her grave yesterday (it was a year ago she died ), and people
had been putting flowers and other items on the grave beside hers, because they
didnt know which one was hers because the snow was covering the name on the mans
plaque and because hers was unmarked. . .As you know. I actually wanted to
start a fundraiser to raise money to get Aqsa a nice headstone that she
deserves, but my mom came across your website. Im going to put your website in
my facebook name and e-mail it to people that i KNOW will want to donate. It
would be really nice to get a headstone that has her picture, date of birth and
death and something like " friend to many, loved by all, remembered always "
Aqsa was such a happy go lucky girl. She was always smiling and
cheerful despite her horrible home life. She loved to dance and tried to sing
lol. She loved photography and fashion and music. She had a lot of friends and
people who cared about her and she knew that. No one cared if she wore her hijab
or not, people loved her for HER not what was on her head. Her dad would come to
our school during school hours and walk around trying to find her, trying to
catch her not wearing it, talking to boys or hanging out with "non-muslims". I
remember one time we were sitting by the front doors at school when her dad came
in, she got up and ran away and hid, I'd never seen that terrified look on her
face before .
Im so happy that someone who didnt know her, has such a big heart , to take
on such a task and to all the people that are donating, no matter how much it
is, it helps so much. When I get paid tomorrow im going to donate some too
:)
So on Behalf of Aqsa, I want to say thank you to all of you guys that have
been touched by her story and who want to finally lay her to rest in peace and
where people can go to pay there respects to her and her memory. So From all of
us that love her regardless of knowing her well, or not at all... will let her
Legacy live on :)
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE. THIS DELICIOUS GIRL WHO FOUGHT TO LIVE A NORMAL
LIFE. AQSA PARVEZ IS BURIED IN AN UNMARKED GRAVE. NUMBER 774. IT'S
AS IF SHE NEVER EXISTED.DAMN THEM!
I AM STARTING A COLLECTION TO BUY A
HEADSTONE.
I WILL CONTRIBUTE $180. IF YOU WISH TO
HELP MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO WriteAtlas@aol.com Go to PAYPAL AND SPECIFY AQSA
PARVEZ AND WE WILL HONOR AQSA.
THIS WRONG WILL BE RIGHTED.
THE AQSA PARVEZ MEMORIAL HEADSTONE
FUND.
YOUR NAME WILL BE LISTED ON THE TOP RIGHT SIDEBAR - this wrong must be
undone. Islam will not win and this gentle soul will not have died in
vain.
In today's Toronto Sun...(hat tip Norman)
"Number 774. One year to the day Aqsa Parvez was stolen from this
world -- allegedly by two members of her family -- that is all there is at her
gravesite to show she even existed.
Section 17, plot number 774, in the Meadowvale Cemetery in Brampton, to be
precise. No name, no date of birth, no date of death. No nothing."
Speaking in general terms, Fatah said "a victim of an honour killing is
always left in an unmarked grave. Imagine caring more about your faith than your
child? When this happens, it shows they don't give a damn about her and the fact
a family has chosen to not put the name on a grave proves the point that they
are embarrassed and gives an insight into honour killings."
Proof, yet again of the miosgyny and horror of this death cult. It is
unconscionable of a civlized society to sanction the barbarity of
Aqsa Parvez, a Grade 11 studentm was strangled to death by hers 57-year-old
father, Muhammad Parvez. Aqsa’s 26-year-old brother, Waqas Parvez, has been
charged with obstructing police just as Islam Said should be charged with
same. “She wanted to live her life the way she wanted to, not the way her
parents wanted her to,” classmate Krista Garbhet said. “She just wanted to be
herself, honestly she just wanted to show her beauty, and not be pushed around
by her parents telling her what she has to be like, what she has to do. Nobody
would want to do that.”
Over the fall of 2007, Aqsa Parvez shuttled between friends’ houses and youth
shelters. She was afraid to go home. Her father, Muhammad, was enraged because
she refused to obey his rules. He swore he would kill her.
On the morning of December 10, Aqsa huddled in a Mississauga bus shelter
with another Grade 11 student, a girl she had been staying with for the past
couple of days. They had plenty of time to make it to their first class at
Applewood Heights Secondary School. As they waited, Aqsa’s 26-year-old brother
Waqas, a tow-truck driver, showed up at the bus stop. He said that she should
come home and get a fresh change of clothes if she was going to be staying
elsewhere. Aqsa hesitated, then got into his car.
Less than an hour later, Muhammad Parvez phoned 911 and told the dispatcher
that he had killed his daughter. Within minutes, police and paramedics arrived
at 5363 Longhorn Trail, a winding suburban street near Eglinton and Hurontario,
and found Aqsa unconscious in her bedroom. The 16-year-old wasn’t breathing. The
paramedics started CPR, found a faint pulse, and rushed her to Credit Valley
Hospital, 10 minutes west. A few hours later, she was transferred to SickKids
and put on life support. She died just after 10 that evening. The official cause
was “neck compression”—strangulation. (more
here)
But a Minnesotan suicide bomber gets his remains brought home from Somalia at
taxpayer
expense for what looks here like a very respectful and well-attended funeral.
An honorable death, presumably.
Sweet 16: more than 20 Facebook pages devoted to Aqsa Parvez were created
within days of her death Image credit: Facebook
UPDATE: From the Toronto Sun:
"For $580, the cemetery can put a flat marker there -- with her
name, date of birth and death, and at least people can find her if they want to
come to pay their respects. A cemetery employee said there is no
problem if others want to place a flat memorial there but it would be removed if
the family were to demand that."
Islam Said gets a disability check every month from the U.S. government
because of his allegedly "mental retardation" a new term for Islamism.He has
been receiving these checks for his "mental retardation: since his early teens.
Why wasn' he arrested as an accessory to murder like Waqas Parvez
who was been charged with obstructing police for allegedly misleading
investigators.
Aunt Gail has written me this latest update:
Now, consider this...Tissy (his mom and alleged accessory to Amina and
Sarah's murders) has been on the road with this new Muslim man, Jasim
Alhusseini, supposedly from Iraq. I have been told that his family lives in
Illinois somewhere. Tissy and this guy have been to Arizona, California,
Dearborn Michigan and now, Ft. Worth, Texas. All of this information was told to
me by a family member that does stay in touch with Tissy. WHO is collecting
Islam's checks and sending them to him in Egypt? Someone other than Tissy has to
be receiving these checks here and sending them on to Islam.
If so, this person has to commit purgery in order to get that check cashed.
Tissy, has no mailing address when she has been on the road most the entire time
she left Jasim! In fact, Tissy told me herself that Islam is angry with her! So,
who is the check going to? Who is signing these checks to cash them?
There has to be an address to have that check mailed to. There has to be a
person cashing these or, depositing it into thier own banking account and
sending Islam a money order for that sum.
This angers me because this boy is getting away with all manner of
criminal activity. Yet, no one focuses upon him because he was labeled
a VICTIM! All I have to say about this labeling...Bull droppings!!! There were
only TWO victims, Sarah and Amina! In my opinion, all others are up for grabs
legally because of the silence from the Saids and due to the fact that Yasser
did NOT walk away from that hotel.
I believe that many are guilty because they see Yasser as a hero who did as
Allah bade him too. With this mindset, does this not make them accessories by
reason of supporting the cleansing of a family name? In other words, Islamists
who supports the murders of women, for any reason, agree with this philosphy and
thereby becomes a distant supporter. Perhaps, a future murderer themselves! This
is sick and so very wrong.
Meannwhile, Islam is Egypt living for our taxpayer dollars and threatening
and harassing family members and bloggers who dare speak the truth. Once agian,
he is leaving his obscene bile on the intrepid blog,
Combating Moonbat News here.
I started posting his threats here: AMINA
AND SARAH SAID HONOR KILLINGS: OBSCENE RAVINGS FROM EGYPT.
These vile, belligerent "comments" are very much his "style" of
illiterate writing. He dropped out of school when he was 14 years old because
he was a spoiled, impossibly petulant child. Yaser never provided for the
family. H had Tissie file for a monthly disability claiming Islam was "mentally
retarded."
Here is the latest installment of the hatred from Islam (pun intended.)
Lowlights include "HI GALL ARE YOU COMEING TO HELL. ME AND YOU WILL BE THAR
SOOOOON!" (me and you? does that mean he's planning on being a suicide killer?)
and "I MAKE YOU AND TISSIE PAY FOR THIS THE FBI CAN NOT HELLP YOU AT ALL I WILL
GET YOU ONE BY ONE LIKE DOGS CAN YOU RUN GALL I WILL BE A NICE GUY ME AND MY GUN
LOL"
Previously at Atlas I have made
the case for the arrest of Islam Said, the brother and accessory to the
honor killing of Amina and Sarah Said. He is guilty and it would surely lead to
his terrorist father.
Their brother Islam has repeatedly said (and told his Aunt Joyce)
"the girls got what was coming to them". The girls got what they
deserved because they knew the rules". (here).
In many of the honor killings
I have documented here, the brothers
are almost always involved
and at the least complicit. The brother has repeatedly threatened family
members who have spoken out about the horror of the honor killing and the abject
terror these poor souls lived under. Why
hasn't he been indicted?(like
the brother indicted last week on obstruction of justice charges in a similar
honor killing in Canada). It is a crime that this walking time bomb is
allowed to threaten, harass, and intimidate any family members that speak out
against the honor killing of Amina and Sarah.
Why has he been allowed to threaten and intimidate the aunts, boyfriends (of
the girls) and anyone else that speaks out about the heinous crime.
In the latest escapades of the mad jihadi brother,
a blogger who picks up my posts on the Said honor killings has been
receiving these threats from Egypt. I was told my a family member that Islam
Said is in Egypt. How lovely for him that he can globe trot at
will
These vile, belligerent "comments" are very much his "style"
of illiterate writing. He dropped out of school when he was 14 years old
because he was a spoiled, impossibly petulant child. Yaser had Tissie file for
a monthly disability claiming Islam was "mentally retarded." The disability
check paid the rent. There was nothing wrong with Islam that solid parenting and
Western values would not have cured.
FUCK YOU!!! AND THE FBI YASER DID NOT KILL HIS KIDS HE LOVE AMINA AND
SARAH I DO NOT SEE YASER KILLING THEM SO THE FBI CAN GO TO HELL IF YOU THINK YOU
CAN STEP ON US YOU ARE SO FUCK UP!!! WE WILL SHOW ALL OF YOU TO PLAY THIS GAME I
HAVE YOUR NAME GET IT BITCH I LIKE YOUR KIDS LETS HOPE GOD GET TO THEM BEFOR I
DO LOLLOL
(Also, the author seems to think I am Gail Gartrell. He knows the
name but not how to spell it, and his other comments make it seem like he knows
American culture as well- reminded me of his myspace page with all the marijuana
leaves and violence)
I've shortened the comments in the other posts, they
are usually repeated a million times. I think I've deleted other ones. Here's
another one, again IP is from Cairo, Egypt.
IN THE SUMMER OF1999 GALL GARTRELL WAS BUYING WEED FROM A LAWYER NAME
BILL MANNY IN DALLAS TEXAS GALL WAS HAVEING AFER WITH HER HUBEN SHE NEVER TOLD
HER HUBEN AT ALL ABOUT THE AFER SHE WAS HAVEING A INTMED RElATIONSHIP WITH BILL
MANNY HE SAID HE WAS GIVING GALL GARTRELL WEED FOR SEX IN HIS DALLAS HOME HE
IS GOING TO FOX4NEW TO TELL HIS STORY TO GET STORY OUT THAR IN THE OPEN GO http://www.myfoxdfw.com TO GOT MOR INFO
During the vigil, the girls’ brother took the microphone, saying his father
did not kill his sisters.
“They pulled the trigger, not my dad,” he said.
What does that tell you? The control is inbred in the son.
"I remember her telling me that her dad told her he would take her back to
Egypt and have her killed," she said. "He said it's OK to do that over there
if you dishonor your family." (article here)
The deliberate silence of media, law enforcement, culture and the families,
this disconnect in the West, endangers our ability to fight the global jihad and
jeopardizes the lives of those who wish to escape the shackles of the oppression
of women in Islam.
I haven't seen it yet but here is their Aunt Gail's reaction. I am
vomiting.
I am livid! My heart is broken for poor Amina! They portrayed her as a
killer and even used a knife as an assumed weapon of choice. How dare they!
Then, to show these girls plotting against a man who they feared more than a
rattlesnake! How preposterous! In this airing, the producer and John Walsh made
the victims seem deserving of what Yasser did to them. Now, I see them as
victims of a show intended to bring justice!
You know, the facts were all wrong. Why? I know that I have spoken to
this producer for months now! So has Joyce Boucher as well! Let me do a reality
check! Here are the facts they misrepresented: My niece is not Arabic nor, is
she Hispanic looking! She is pale skinned and blue eyed! They represented this
as an Arabic family with a dictator father and husband. Another fact totally
avoided...ISLAM, the brother and son of the parents from hell. The very one who
promises to kill me? Where was Yasser's and Tissy's beloved son who spied on
these girls and bullied his mother? To me, this was an intentional omission! To
have added a character as radical as Islam, this might have given Cair, the
wrong impression! God forbid! Another, Amina DID NOT come home on her own! no
way as she told Connie that she would rather be dead than ever go back home. She
meant that too! Amina was co-hearsed by my own niece to go back. This, after
hours of calling Amina and telling her to come home. Tissy went as far as to put
Yasser on the phone but, Amina knew death was awaiting her if she returned. When
Amina did return, she and Sarah were taken into Yasser's cab and she did not go
into that kitchen and rummage through the frig. Give me a break! One of the
biggest misrepresentation of the facts, Amina was in the front seat and Sarah
was in the back seat. Amina, was sitting facing Yasser as a friend saw them and
said so. If you simply listen to the 9-1-1 phone call from the cabbie who found
them, he says there are two women, one in the front seat and one in the
backseat! He describes what he sees in this call as he was asked too. He saw a
woman in the front seat, "I have not seen her hand move, there is blood coming
from her ear and she is slumped over." THESE ARE EYEWITNESS FACTS! Yasser, also
knew exactly where to park that cab! It could not be seen by the cameras which
are on the Omni Mandalay. No mention of this premeditated fact! I could go on
and on about how they misrepresented the facts and truth about this tragic HONOR
KILLING of my sisters granddaughters.
Where was the part of Sarah's call where she says," no, not again, (door
opens) I'm dying, my blood baba...no, stop it!" These were Sarah's own words to
her father. She is telling him, LOOK, see my blood! I'm dying, you do not need
to do more to me! But, to no avail, he finishes her off as she is on the cell
phone with the police who placed her on hold! How dare they! I guess they did
not want everyone to hear the officer ask Sarah for the address and to hold on
as he called the fire department for paramedics. Oh yeah, let's not offend the
police and certainly not the radical Muslims!! Talk about political
correctness...what a joke.
I used to have a lot of respect for John Walsh as I know that man had to
walk through hell when his own child was abducted. Now, I resent him saying this
case was special to him! Yeah, right John John! I saw his true colors tonight
and he is definitely in this for the money...oh, of course, "in my opinion!!!!!"
He did not even understand the term, honor killing, " Some people say this was
an honor killing. But, there's no honor in this." Again, how dare he! I have
worked my butt off to educate and get the word out about honor killings and he
diminished what honor killings entail. You know, like usually, they are well
planned out in advance and others in the family often involve themselves as
well. How about this one? Yasser shoots the girls, gets out of the cab with not
a single drop of blood on him (after 11 shots were fired at close range) and
simple walks away. WHO PICKED HIM UP? He did not leave there on foot! Someone
picked his sorry butt up and fled with him. FACT!
Never, will I watch this comedy of errors again. If only they researched,
then perhaps I would believe this show has some credibility. I suppose no one read
the autopsy. Amina had more rigor mortis than Sarah. Does this not imply
that perhaps, Amina was shot before Sarah? After all, she was sitting in the
front, not the back! My niece told me herself that Sarah called not ten to
fifteen minutes after Yasser left with these girls and she did not answer the
phone. "I don't know why I did not answer the phone for Sarah." I think she did
and does know why she did not answer that phone to Sarah. Yet, AMW made Tissy
look like a beaten down puppy. If that were so, then why did Yasser not kill her
for running with his girls? After all, Sarah and Tissy did return before Amina
was brought back. Yasser had plenty of time to kill them both but, he waited! He
was waiting on Amina and Amina knew it too! My opinion, so did my niece!
By the way, those girls were not shot and left in the parking lot of the
Omni Mandalay! I believe Yasser shot them at another location. In fact, there
are two shooting ranges just a few blocks from the hotel. Had he shot them
there, no one would have been shocked to hear gun shots ring out. The cell tower
where Sarah's call came in...right near the shooting ranges! The cowardly beast
shot them and I think he thought they were dead until Sarah made that call. This
forced him to drive quickly to the Omni as Sarah gave away the location from
using that phone. If it had played out the way they portrayed this, it would
have meant that Yasser killed the girls in the daylight, at an exclusive hotel
on New Years Day, and no one heard 11 bullets ring out nor, saw anything. You
know, like a bloody mess walking down the sidewalk, in daylight?
You and I both know AMW made this Muslim friendly for their viewers. But,
we also know that the truth was NOT enacted. Simply, a fact! Someone please
write to AMW and define honr killings for these pseudo intellectuals! Oh! My
opinion, of course! Let's keep this politically correct! I DETEST THIS TERM! It
hides many sins of mankind! Truths, too!
For weeks Gail Gatrell had been calling me to tell me with some measure of
relief that America's Most Wanted was working on her nieces' murder.
Today, Jenna Naranjo over at America's Most Wanted called to tell me that
this Saturday, America’s
Most Wanted will feature the story of the honor killings of Sarah and
Amina Said. America's Most Wanted traveled to Texas just after learning about
the girls’ murders, close to a year later .... it makes it to the air.
Finally. Atlas readers know this terrible story intimately. Law
enforcement has dragged their feet hoping time would dim their memory and the
abject horror of this "controversial" case. Irving law enforcement has been a
hindrance to the investigation fearful of offending the large Muslim population
int that part of Texas. The FBI finally designated the terrorist father, Yaser
Said, one of America's most wanted only to pull the "honor killing" description
for fear of offending Muslims by "labeling".
The media has gone out of their way to deceive the public into believing this
was not Islamic. It was all Islam, all of it. When the girls ran away, Amina had
told a friend that she feared her father would take her to Egypt to kill her
("because honor killings are legal there") and she told a teacher - that her
father was going to Egypt to marry her off to "an Egyptian Muslim".
A bitter life of beatings, rape, and psychological abuse ended in death.
Although they ran away, their complicit mother Tissie dragged them back to Texas
and within 24 hours, both girls full of life and hope -- were dead.
The piece is airing this Saturday will run about 13 minutes long – that’s a
lot of time compared to the stories they usually air on the show, but still it’s
not nearly enough time to encapsulate the tragic nature of this case.
Nonetheless, I truly hope that one of their viewers will come through this
Saturday and tell where brutal killer Yaser Said is cowardly hiding. To date,
their army of viewers have helped put 1046 fugitives behind bars. I’m praying
that Yaser Said will become #1047.
During their research they met with and interviewed three key people: The
girls’ Aunt Connie Maggio; their best friend Zohair Zaidi and their mother,
Patricia Said. You can see extended clips
of their interviews at this link.
Watch Tissie (the mother's) interview here. It is rare, one of the few she
gave, watch her lie through her teeth protecting Yaser. You could hurl listening
to her say, "he never let me punish them, he loved them so" ugh
The piece will air in the top half of the show this Saturday on Fox at 9 p.m.
ET.
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly was told on Thursday that more than 7,000
cases of rape and murders of women were registered between 2005 and 2007, in
addition to 1,019 cases of honour killings. According to statistics tabled in
the Lower House, the total number of honour killing cases is 1,019 – 321 in
2005, 339 in 2006 and 359 in 2007. Stove burning cases include 18 cases in 2005,
17 in 2006 and 10 in 2007. Meanwhile, 3,236 murder cases were registered during
the period between 2005 and 2007 – 1,075 in 2005, 1,084 in 2006 and 1,077 in
2007. Similarly, 4,971 rape cases were registered in this period. The number of
registered cases of domestic violence in the country is 4,290, apart from acid
attacks, honour killings and stove accidents. The statistics showed that 53
cases of acid attacks were registered between 2005 and 2007. staff report
Also, she, a non-Muslim -- Catholic no less -- was dating his Muslim
roommate. "Muslim killed Catholic girl in love with flatmate," by Jeni Harvey
for the Yorkshire Post, November 12 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
A TEENAGER was brutally murdered by her boyfriend's Muslim flatmate because
he did not approve of him going out with a Catholic.
Lidia Motylska, 19, was strangled in an alleyway in Leeds by
Iraqi immigrant Abobakir Jabari who objected to his Kurdish flatmate's
relationship with her.
Yesterday Jabari, 39, who was given British citizenship in 2005, pleaded
guilty at Sheffield Crown Court to murdering the petite Polish teenager.
The court heard he garrotted her from behind, using the cord from his
tracksuit bottoms, before inflicting "gratuitous" wounds on her lifeless body.
He stabbed her repeatedly in the chest and stomach and slit her throat.
Sentencing Jabari to life imprisonment with a minimum tariff of 19-and-a-half
years, Mr Justice McKinnon said the murder involved an exceptional
degree of violence.
"There is a suspicion that you lured this young woman to her death and marked
your disapproval of her and her relationship by gratuitous violence upon her,"
he said.
The latest case of Islamic intimidation and abject supremacy is against a
terrific Canadian magazine, Toronto Life, that did a piece on the brutal honor
killing of the tortured, tormented young girl, Aqsa Parvez. The objective - to
lie about the motive in the murder. How Islamic. If we censor ourselves and go
along with the silence of the media
concerning rape and killing of honor victims we are accessories to their
murder. The deaths are the horror of what we refuse to deal with. If we are
bullied into silence, they too will come for us, our daughters, our women.
It seems that apologists for honor-killing and other barbaric practices
imported into Canada have started a harassment campaign on Facebook and
elsewhere against Toronto Life magazine for daring to run an article that
exposed barbaric Muslim practices, including the murder of daughters to protect
family "honor". We all need to judge the contribution of Muslim immigration into
Canada.
The details of Banaz's murder are vile. Banaz went to the
police, four times, in desperate fear for her life. The police
are guilty of murder and ought to stand trial for life sentences particularly police officer Angela Cornes, who
dismissed the murder victim's account as fantasy and wanted to charge her with
criminal damage because she broke a window when she smashed her way out of her
grandmother's house to escape her family's first attempt at killing
her
Aqsa Parvez had a choice: wear a hijab to please her
devout family or take it off and be like her friends. She paid for her decision
with her life. When her father and brother were charged with her murder, it
raised the spectre of religious zealotry in the suburbs. Is this the price of
multiculturalism? By Mary
Rogan
Sweet 16: more than 20 Facebook pages
devoted to Aqsa Parvez were created within days of her death Image credit: Facebook
Over the fall of 2007, Aqsa Parvez shuttled between friends’ houses and youth
shelters. She was afraid to go home. Her father, Muhammad, was enraged because
she refused to obey his rules. He swore he would kill her.
On the morning of December 10, Aqsa huddled in a Mississauga bus shelter
with another Grade 11 student, a girl she had been staying with for the past
couple of days. They had plenty of time to make it to their first class at
Applewood Heights Secondary School. As they waited, Aqsa’s 26-year-old brother
Waqas, a tow-truck driver, showed up at the bus stop. He said that she should
come home and get a fresh change of clothes if she was going to be staying
elsewhere. Aqsa hesitated, then got into his car.
Less than an hour later, Muhammad Parvez phoned 911 and told the dispatcher
that he had killed his daughter. Within minutes, police and paramedics arrived
at 5363 Longhorn Trail, a winding suburban street near Eglinton and Hurontario,
and found Aqsa unconscious in her bedroom. The 16-year-old wasn’t breathing. The
paramedics started CPR, found a faint pulse, and rushed her to Credit Valley
Hospital, 10 minutes west. A few hours later, she was transferred to SickKids
and put on life support. She died just after 10 that evening. The official cause
was “neck compression”—strangulation.
In the days following her death, Aqsa’s story was widely reported in the
Canadian media as well as on CNN and the BBC. Was her murder an honour killing
or simply a gruesome case of domestic violence? Worldwide, an estimated 5,000
women die every year in honour killings—murders deemed excusable to protect a
family’s reputation—many of them in Pakistan, where the Parvez family had
emigrated from.
Canada prides itself on its multiculturalism and, to varying degrees of
success, condemns institutionalized patriarchy. But there is growing concern
that recent waves of Muslim immigrants aren’t integrating, or embracing our
liberal values. Aqsa’s death—coming in the wake of debates about the
acceptability of sharia law, disputes over young girls wearing hijabs at soccer
games, and the arrest of the Toronto 18—stoked fears about religious zealotry in
our midst. Is it possible that Toronto has become too tolerant of cultural
differences?
When police arrived in answer to his 911 call, Aqsa’s father, who worked as a
cab driver, was arrested and charged with second degree murder. Waqas was
charged with obstruction. The charges against both men were changed to first
degree murder in June, after police decided her death was a planned and
deliberate act.
The dhimmi FBI has flipped and caved to Islamic thuggery,
the same thuggery that murdered these girls. the same Islamic thuggery that is
murdering free speech.
FBI CAVES TO CAIR. Will those sweet, dear brutalized girls ever get justice?
They died in vain. The West failed them in life and the West has failed them in
death
I reported a pig flying moment, in shock, when
I joyfully posted here: PIG FLYING MOMENT: FBI "HONORS" AMINA AND SARAH
SAID
"As far as we're concerned, until the motive is
proven in a court of law, this is [just] a homicide," Mustafaa Carroll, the
executive director of the Council of American-Islamic Relations in Dallas, told
FOXNews.com.
WRONG! The dhimmi spineless, dickless FBI has
flipped and caved to Islamic thuggery, the same thuggery that murdered these
girls. the same Islamic thuggery that is murdering free speech. The FBI
is infiltrated. They have pulled the description of HONOR KILLING from the Said
honor killing murders/ wanted poster. The FBI CAVED TO CAIR "As
far as we're concerned until motive is proven in a court of law, this is just a
homicide".
Yaser Abdel Said is wanted for murder. On January 1, 2008, Said took his two
teenaged daughters for a ride in his taxi cab, under the guise of taking them to
get something to eat. He drove them to a secluded park in Irving, Texas, where
he allegedly shot both girls to death. They died of multiple gunshot
wounds. The 17- and 18-year-old girls were dating American boys, which
was contrary to their father's rules of not dating non-Muslim boys. Reportedly,
the girls were murdered due to an "Honor Killing." Said may have fled to New
York or Egypt.
I just hung up the phone with SA Mark Whitein the Dallas FBI office
and he confirmed that the FBI would not be calling it an honor
killing.He insists it
was a "mixup". Here is a excerpt
from our conversation:
WHITEIN: THE FBI PUT OUT A WANTED POSTER - UNLAWFUL FLIGHT
TO ...... IN THAT WANTED POSTER, IT WAS A REPORTED AS AN HONOR KILLER WE
REMOVED IT.
Pamela: Why?
WHITEIN: WE ARE NOT LABELING
IT AN HONOR KILLING. IT'S A DOUBLE MURDER .
Pamela: But it was an honor killing.
WHITEIN: YOU ARE ASKING ME TO READ HIS MIND -WE KNOW ITS A
DOUBLE HOMICIDE IT IS NOT OUR JOB IS NOT TO LABEL. WE ARE TAKING INTO
Pamela; I am not asking you to read his mind. I am asking you you look at the
evidence. These girls were terrorized all their lives. They told their friends
that Yaser threatened to take them to Egypt where honor killings are legal.
This is documented
WHITEIN: THAT MAY BE SO BUT THIS IS NOT OUR INVESTIGATION.
THE LOCAL POLICE HEAD UP THE INVESTIGATION WE ARE PURSUING THE FUGITIVE.
Pamela: But if you refuse to considerwhat it is, what the facts of the case
are, how can you bring Said to justice. What the motive for murder is
isessential. If the murder is money, it's one kind of case, if the death is a
boating accident its another case.
Pamela: WHATS THE FEAR? WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?
WHITEIN: THERE IS NO FEAR THE LABEL DOESNT MEAN
ANYTHING OUR ROLE IS TRYING TO BRING MR SAID TO JUSTICE
THE FBI
HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION, TRYING TO FIND FUGITIVE INVESIGATION THE IRVING
POLICE CONDUCTS THE CRIME
Pamela: Yes but what happens when the local investigation fails
miserably. Why hasn't the mother who delivered those girls to the death car
indicted? Why hasn't the radicalized brother, who violently threatens any family
members who speak up, been arrested. He brought his father the gun to torture
and murder those girls.
[....]Whitein is talking here of local law enforcement doing a good job.
WHITEIN:: WE DON'T LABEL
Pamela: THE LABEL MEANS EVRYTHING . hONOR KILLINGS IN THE WEST IS ON THE
RISE AT AN ALARMING RATE. There are girls living in abject terror on their
homes, living in fear of this fate and you are covering up for their
murderers.
EVIDENCE OF HONOR KILLING IN SAID CASE:
Gail Gartrell, the courageous Aunt that first spoke out and at the funeral
of Sarah and Amina Said and called it an honor killing is still being threatened
and harassed by members of the Said family.
(here)
The radicalized brother,accessory to the honor killing, said:Islam later told
his Aunt Joyce "the girls got what was coming to them". The girls got
what they deserved because they knew the rules". (here)
Yaser [the murdering Muslim] told Tissy
[mother from hell], when they had the two girls, they could NEVER date
or, marry an American. Only an Egyptian Muslim.
"I remember her telling me that her dad told her he would take her
back to Egypt and have her killed," she said. "He said it's
OK to do that over there if you dishonor your family."
(article here) and more
here
Raped and terrorized all their lives, weekly diet of brutal beatings.
They fled to Kansas, only to be returned by the dhimmi complicit mother to the
terrorist Muslim father to
be savagely murderd:
The Said family was against Yaser's marriage to Tissie from the
beginning, Ahmed Said says. He describes the Owens family as always trying to
sneak the children into Christian church.
"Help, help, my dad shot me..."
The call to 911 was routed to the Irving Police Department at 7:35 p.m. The
cell phone caught a girl's gasping voice.
"I'm dying, I'm dying Abu...."
The sound of a car door opening.
"Oh my God, not again!"
A struggle. "Stop it. Stop it. Stop..." The door slamming. Then only
whimpering.
The police dispatcher traced the number to Islam, who had loaned Sarah his
phone. Lewisville police arrived at the Lakeland house and picked up
Tissie and Islam, who said Yaser had taken the girls in his taxi "for
tea."
Again, this goes to the motive of the sadistic dad. I am not saying that he
raped them before he killed them, the negative general findings of the condition
of the bodies upon post mortem seems to indicate otherwise. but, from an
evidentiary standpoint, it would have been highly relevant.
How can a person go from being a cold blooded efficient executioner on the
one girl, relatively efficient in terms of target and shooting, to being unable
to kill Sarah with the same dispatch? We have absolutely no reason to believe
it was because the act of shooting somehow traumatized him, and rendered him so
distracted that he could not have killed the girls in the same manner, could not
have killed Sarah with the same dispatch he killed Amina.
He killed Amina relatively quickly. Perhaps because she was the willful one.
She wanted out. She had a mind of her own. She had the the boyfriend that the
Islamist father did not approve (apparently because he wasn't an
Egyptian Muslim). Sarah, on the other hand, was the dutiful child. She
tried to be a good little Muslim girl. Perhaps the father enjoyed torturing the
submissive child and getting sordid details out of her before she died.
(Remember, this man raped them at the ages of 7 and 8 and the mother from hell
brought them back to him)
Sarah's report was particularly horrible. She was very skillfully tortured,
quite deliberately, and quite expertly, by the sadistic son of a bitch. The
shots described as numbers 1, 2 & 3 [arbitrarily by the pathologist] are
very interesting, in a very peculiar fashion. They are fired point blank,
perhaps even next to the skin, the entrance wounds being described as elongated,
eccentric, and so on, which suggests distortion by the gun barrel and perhaps by
the blast of the powder, and one of the wounds has soot along the path of the
wound. Propellant gas was blown through her body.
Now, all of this upper chest area has all sorts of stuff in it, and something
called the aoritic bundle, and shooting at these ranges, the gun pressed against
her, to wound the upper lung area, he had to be consciously avoiding shooting
her in the heart of implicating the aoritic bundle. This is not easily
done, you would think that he would have hit it by accident.
This man received professional training, or was a very sadistic and talented
amatuer. You cannot shoot a person multiple times in this area, a little girl
like this, without stumbling onto some kind of major artery, and he tiptoed his
way around all of it. There are more arteries flowing around in there than you can shake a stick at, and he avoided all
of them.
When he finally shot the extremitis, it was just time to have fun, he must
have thought her nearly dead by then.
He tortured her, as surely as though he had put her on the rack, and
drawn and quartered her. I wonder if this sort of thing is
taught by al qaeda, or if it is on the net, or something. You cannot shoot
someone like this by accident without stumbling onto some major and instantly
fatal, and to miss it, at point blank range like this means it was purposeful
that he wounded her like this.
And he shot her 9 times.
In all likelihood the gun was held pressed directly to her torso: if he had
wanted to end it all quickly by shooting her in the heart, he could have done it
in an instant.
But, he did not. it could not have been accidental. Some shots had gunpowder
residue, some not, some seem like defense wounds(arms, shoulders).like she was
moving around trying to defend her self. Most slightly downward, one in
shoulder very downward, as if she hunched over and he shot at her. Is this a
terror technique developed by al queda, hezbollah, et al as an"interrogation"
technique.
Sarah was one tough little kid. She lived long enough for a bruise to form,
after being shot point blank in the chest ...........she lived long enough to
call the cops (Yaser did not know she had a phone with her).
He is still in this country hiding in plain sight with the aid of the Muslim
underground. The brutal deaths of these girls must be avenged.
UNLAWFUL FLIGHT TO AVOID PROSECUTION -
CAPITAL MURDER- MULTIPLE
YASER ABDEL SAID
Photograph taken in 2006
Aliases:
Yaser Abdel Fattah Mohammed Said, Yassein A.
Said
DESCRIPTION
Dates of Birth Used:
January 27, 1957; July 17,
1961
Hair:
Black (receding hairline)
Place of Birth:
Synai, Egypt
Eyes:
Brown
Height:
6'2"
Sex:
Male
Weight:
180 pounds
Race:
White
NCIC:
W964992437
Nationality:
Egyptian
Occupation:
Said has driven taxi cabs for a living.
Scars and Marks:
Said has dark brown spots of various sizes on
both sides of his neck, but primarily the right side.
Remarks:
Said has a mustache and always wears dark
sunglasses, both indoors and outside. He frequents Denny's and I-Hop
restaurants and smokes Marlboro Light 100's cigarettes. Said has ties to
New York, Texas, and Egypt. He also has Egyptian and United States'
passports. Additionally, Said is known to carry a handgun in his
taxi cab at all times. It has also been reported that Said always
carries a weapon with him, to include knives.
CAUTION
Yaser Abdel Said is wanted for murder. On January 1, 2008, Said took
his two teenaged daughters for a ride in his taxi cab, under the guise
of taking them to get something to eat. He drove them to Irving, Texas,
where he allegedly shot both girls to death. They died of multiple gunshot
wounds. Said may have fled to New York or Egypt.
On January 2, 2008, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Yaser Abdel
Said, in Dallas County, Dallas, Texas, on charges of Capital
Murder-Multiple. On August 21, 2008, a federal Unlawful Flight to Avoid
Prosecution warrant was issued by the United States District Court, Northern
District of Texas, Dallas, Texas.
"As far as we're concerned, until the motive is proven in
a court of law, this is [just] a homicide," Mustafaa Carroll, the executive
director of the Council of American-Islamic Relations in Dallas, told
FOXNews.com.
The bodies of the five women who were buried alive were
desecrated by the wild animals.This is Islam. What is wrong with
everybody? Where is the outcry of the world? The name of this religious
barbarity is distinguished -
honor killing. It is the abject hate and subjugation of women. Islam -
Religion of Misogyny.
This is what the war is really about. Women. Subjugation. I have utter
contempt for any human being who will not call this death cult what it really
is. Pure evil. The horror.
This is not random, this is increasing. This
is America. This Amina
and Sarah Said -- their terrorist father,
radicalized
brother and
mother got away with it and so will is Minister and his brother and every
other Muslim that took a hand in it.
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information
from a remote area of Balochistan province, that five women were buried alive,
allegedly by the younger brother of Mr. Sadiq Umrani, the provincial minister
and a prominent leader of the Pakistan People's Party, the ruling party.
However, police have still not arrested the perpetrators after one month of the
incident.
CASE DETAILS:
The Umrani tribe is mainly concentrated in the Jafarabad and Naseerabad
districts of Balochistan provice that are about 300 kilometers from Quetta city,
the provincial capital. Mr. Sadiq Umrani,
the provincial minister for housing and construction, was elected to the
Balochistan Assembly in the February 18, 2008 elections from Dera the Murad
Jamali constituency of district Naseerabad.
It is believed that due to the influence of the minister and his
brother the incident was not reported in the media.
According to the information received, five women were Ms. Fatima,
wife of Umeed Ali Umrani, Jannat Bibi, wife of Qaiser Khan, Fauzia, daughter of
Ata Mohammad Umrani, and two other girls, aged between 16 to 18 years. They were
at the house of Mr. Chandio at Baba Kot village and to leave for a civil court
at Usta Mohammad, district Jafarabad, so that three of the girls could marry the
men of their choice. Their decision to have marriage in court was the result of
several days of discussions with the elders of the tribe who refused them
permission to marry. The names of two younger girls were not ascertained because
of strong control of tribal leaders in the area.
As the news of their plans leaked out, Mr. Abdul Sattar Umrani, a
brother of the minister, came with more than six persons and abducted them at
gun points. They were taken in a Land Cruiser jeep, bearing a
registration number plate of the Balochistan government, to another remote area,
Nau Abadi, in the vicinity of Baba Kot. After reaching the deserted area of Nau
Abadi, Abdul Sattar Umrani and his six companions took the three younger women
out of the jeep and beat them before allegedly opening fire with their guns. The
girls were seriously injured but were still alive at that moment. Sattar Umrani
and his accomplices hurled them into a wide ditch and covered them with earth
and stones. The two older women were an aunt of Fauzia and the other, the mother
of one minor. When they protested and tried to stop the burial of the minors
that were plainly alive, the attackers were so angry that they also pushed them
into the ditch and buried all alive. After completing the burial, they fired
several shots into to the air so that no one would come close.
The minors were educated and were studying in classes from 10 to 12.
They were punished for trying to decide about their marriages.
After one month the police have still
not registered the case and it is difficult to get more detailed
information. The provincial minister is so powerful that police are reluctant to
provide details on the murder. When the AHRC contacted Mr. Sadiq Umrani,
provincial minister, he confirmed the incident by saying that only three women
had been killed by unknown persons. He denied his or his brother's involvement.
He went on to say that the police will not disclose any information about the
case as to do so now would be implicate themselves. However, concerned officers
of two different police stations have confirmed the incident and explained that
no one is providing any information. Also as they could not find the graves of
the victims it is difficult to register the case. The victim's family members
have since left the place and their whereabouts are unknown.
The alleged perpetrator, Mr. Abdul Sattar Umrani, the brother of the
provincial minister, was also involved in murder of three persons, including one
young woman, in January 2006. That case was similar
in that a school teacher, Mr. Mohammad Aslam, was going with his lover in a taxi
to a civil court to court marry. The perpetrators stopped them at Manjo Shori,
sub district Tumboo, District Naseerabad and killed all three persons by gun
fire. The dead included the taxi driver, Mr. Jabal Aidee. The
police were unable to institute a murder case for five months until the
intervention of Mr. Iftekhar Choudhry, the deposed Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court and also the deputy speaker of Senate. But only one person was arrested
and the perpetrator Abdul Sattar Umrani remained at
large.
I guess the FOX
news special on honor killings caught them with their burkas down, and so
the misogynists and Islamists at the Crecsent News Network have cleansed this
barbaric violence against women. Shame on those tools.
Quite a feat: CNN has pulled off the MSM equivalent of describing a spiral
staircase without using one's hands. It has managed to produce a segment on
"honor killings" and related violence in the UK . . . without using the word
"Muslim" or "Islam." CNN Newsroom anchor Don Lemon introduced the segment this
afternoon at 1:37 PM EDT.
DON LEMON: Women forced into marriages, or killed for having the wrong
boyfriend. So-called "honor crimes" are often committed by fathers or brothers
when daughters do something that supposedly brings shame on the family. It's on
the rise in Britain, and authorities, they are very worried about it. Our
Paula Newton reports.
There is a reason why the link to Islam of honor killings is so hard to
understand for the media and most people. The shame/honour culture (which
predates Islam) is a typical component of tribal societies. It exists well
beyond Islam and it means that many other cultures and peoples might feel the
same way if their daughters bring "dishonor" on a family, clan or tribe by
behaving outside of the culture's norms.
Islam brings several things to the picture that make it much more likely
that Muslim men (aided by their subservient women) will kill: The devaluation of
women (they're little but possessions in the Koran);
No clear prohibition on murder: the Koran is full of cases where it is
permitted to kill or when Muhammad personally killed or ordered someone to be
killed;
It's not that Muslims are the only people to commit honour killings, its
that their religion is specifically likely to remove the impulse control that
needs to be in place to stop humans behaving like animals.
Good religion provides a control on these base instincts. Bad religion
amplifies the most base instincts. You decide which one the father of those two
beautiful girls in Texas was acting under.
The murder is the final act in a life of terror, beatings and
oppression. And while it was reported that Sarah and Amina were raped by Yasser
when they were seven and eight. This has been inaccurately reported. Patricia's
sister, Gail's youngest niece, called Gail to set the record straight. She
corrected the ages in which the sexual abuse began with Amina. Amina
said that she was four when Yasser first started sexually abusing her.
These girls lived a life of pure hell short of
Despite the little media's coverage of these horrific murders,the stories
don't end with the burial of the victims. Family members that might speak out are
threatened, terrorized.
Law enforcement is hampered by a politically correct hands off policy for
fear of offending Muslims in the community. One only had to watch law
enforcement officials in Irving defensive and hostile posturing when
questioned about the lack of pursuit of double murderer Yasser Said. They still
refuse to call it an honor killing.
Gail Gartrell, the courageous Aunt that first spoke out and at the funeral
of Sarah and Amina Said and called it an honor killing is still being threatened
and harassed by members of the Said family.
It has become increasingly clear that Islam Said, older brother to Sarah and
Amina, had some involvement in their deaths. When Yasser lured the girls
back from Oklahoma (after they ran away from a brutal and violent home life), he
forced them into the back of his cab and yelled to Islam to "get me my gun".
Which he did. Why
hasn't he been indicted?
Islam later told his Aunt Joyce "the girls got what was coming to
them". The girls got what they deserved because they knew the
rules".
Islam, apparently is in Egypt,threatens Gail on relentlessly. Their mom,
Tissy (the
mom from hell), who dragged those girls back to their father to be
murdered has moved on to her second boyfriend and if what I have been told is
the truth (and this has been verified by three members of the
family) Tissy's new boyfriend is another Muslim man.
One relative has already been threatened by her new Muslim boyfriend. Why,
would Tissy choose to walk this road again? Why would she get involved with a
man like Yasser who murdered her girls ....unless, she is of the same
mindset.
Gail was told by my great-nephew, Islam Said , that he wants to
send her to hell so I can say hello to the bitches, Sarah and Amina!
Islam told Gail that Yasser was going to show her an honor killing and "send her
to hell to say hi to Sarah and Amina". Unspeakable. How could he speak of his
sisters this way? This seemingly endless cycle of terror is still being heaped
upon my family. Gail has an accordion file filled with these threats. Joyce,
the great-aunt from the paternal side of Tissy's family, set up a site for
information on the reward for Yasser. Islam, sent threats through this site as
well.
The fact that Tissy (Sarah and Amina's mom) would not talk to
FOX, that lured those girls back to Texas, called herself
Yasser's girl on her myspace page makes her an accessory to their murder.
Why hasn't she been questioned further. The only time the police questioned
Tissy was the night of the murders. And why hasn't Islam been indicted as an
accessory to the murders? Why has he been allowed to threaten and intimidate the
aunts, boyfriends (of the girls) and anyone else that speaks out about the
heinous crime. Why was there no one form the Said family wiling to speak on
camera to the
FOX news team (with the exception of the brother Yassein's expletive tirade,
Yaser Said's brother screaming "get out of here "m**erf**ckers!" "I hate
FOX news. You're racist!"
When will there be justice?
(Islam's myspace page. He has been described as
"radicalized" and a walking time bomb.
Atlas reader Eretz captured the video: IF YOU MISSED YOU CAN WATCH IT
HERE
I love your blog, and it is one (along with Gates of Vienna) that I follow
religiously. Because of your blog I was able to catch the Fox News special
Murder In the Family. It was on at 1 am so I taped it and watched it this
afternoon. The show was apparently edited for the international
audience because between the segment about the Texas sisters and the young woman
in Rochester, Allison Camerena (sp) broke in, announcing that there was a
special feature for the International audience, which was a three to five minute
feature about changing the fluids in your car frequently so it will run for over
200,000 miles, and the value of reading the automobile's manual cover to cover
(WTF?!) Then, after commercial and weather map The show came in midsentence to
a few lines about the possible link between terrrorist organizations and honour
killings. Could you tell me what the missing information would have been?
Would you know why this was censoured in Europe? Could it have to do
with what is going on in the UK?
My sons and I live in Ireland, have been here 5 years now. Most of our MSM
news comes from the UK and Ireland, but we get Euronews and Al Jazerra as well
over Sky. Sometimes I think Al Jazeera provides more neutral reporting than
either CNN International or BBC. (Actually, most of the time I think Al Jazeera
is less biased. Frightening thought, eh?)
Any info you could provide, or a YouTube link to the missing footage,
perhaps) would be greatly appreciated.
They did a terrific job. I know of no other network would have the courage to
broadcast a special of this nature. It is the best thing I have ever seen done
on Islam.
Expect CAIR to go berserk.
And if I may give a shout out to Phyllis Chesler for her appearance. She cut
through all the crap and spoke the truth in the straight talk.
If you missed it - do not despair, it will be on tomorrow, Sunday 8pm, 11pm
2am ET.
America - this is your wake -up call. The excuses the Muslim women and even
one victim makes for this barbarity is indicative of just how deep the
indoctrination is.
The money shot was Yaser Said's brother screaming "get out of here
"m**erf**ckers!" "I hate FOX news. You're racist!"
UPDATE: Atlas reader Eretz captured the video: IF YOU MISSED YOU CAN
WATCH IT
HERE
Tonight's feature is a documentary on the tragic honor killing of a
Canize, a mother and her four daughters in the UK (Asian - Muslim)
There's plenty of taqiya from the Muslims ..... watch Honor
Killings: Islam Misogyny
(their only mistake suggesting the girls were murdered because of their
"American" boyfriends -- not so. They were murdered because of their non-Muslim
boyfriends - Christians, and for the way they dressed and for embracing the ways
of the West etc.)
FINALLY! I am thrilled to report that FOX News will be doing a special on
honor killings broadcast on TONIGHT and Sunday night at 8 pm. It's been in the
hopper for months and I am proud to have provided input on this special.
And kudos to the NEW YORK POST for telling it like is and not
glossing over these Islamic barbarity: AN
AMERICAN 'HONOR KILLING'John Avalon
Aunt Gail (Amina and Sarah Said) -
Finally!
For seven months, I have tried to get out the word about the honor
murders of Sarah and Amina Said, my great-neices. No matter who called and no
matter who interviewed me, the actual airing was usually no more than a couple
of minutes. In fact, my very words have been "politically corrected" by many
writers! This angered me and made me think these media people were standing more
for the honor killers than for the victims!
Feeling defeated, I simply stood on faith as I know God is a God of
justice and that HE would bring light into the darkness, truth into the lies and
would bring justice to those who participate in such barbaric practices as,
Sharia Law. God, has heard my prayers and through most of this, has sent many
people into my life who understand the why's of the religious and cultural
mindsets of many Muslim's. Foremost, has been Pamela, who marches beside me, in
spirit and who has heard my pain, through the tears of confusion.
It was through Pamela's site, Atlas Shrugs, which brought about the
biggest break for getting the truth out about my great-neices! FOX NEWS! God
used Pamela's site for the sake of Amina' and Sarah's truths. HE, is like that
and will avenge the blood of the innocent. In as much, Fox will be airing a one
hour program about Honor killings, in America and Amina and Sarah's story will
finally be told, on a national level. This airing will be this Sunday, July 27,
at eight pm....I believe the time is set to Eastern time...not sure.
The Title :
Murder in the Family
Honor Killing in America
This will be aired on the FNC (Fox News Channel).
Also, I have been told that Bill O'Reilly, will be interviewing me this
Thursday night as well. I do not have the details as of yet but, I pray the
interview will be done, for the sake of Amina and Sarah and all those girls who
live in the shadow of Sharia Law.
[UPDATE O'Reilly did not have Gail on the show]
I am most grateful to God for these opportunities and for all those who
He has sent into my life, for this purpose. Please, get the news out as many
people are so blind to what is going on and the truth must be presented! This
Sunday night, many eyes will be opened to what many of us have been
shouting...AMERICA, is under attack through the Islamification process which has
been utilized by the radical muslims for centuries. WAKE UP, AMERICA and smell
the not so passive Jihad on our soil!
I implore you all, please try to get as many people as you can to see
this documentary. I believe it will be one which can save many lives, if enough
people watch and understand the creeping sharia which has and is being
implemented, in the land of the "FREE."
In an extraordinary act of dhimmitude and deception, staff writer Michael
Zeigler in the Democrat and Chronicle (in a terrible story getting little press)
goes to extraordinary lengths to paint this attempted Islamic "honor" killing
of a young girl as anything but Islamic -- even pulling that oldest and most
stale of canards out of his ass, "mental illness".
The first half of the article reports the story, an Islamic "honor"
killing. The second half the reporter turns himself inside out to assure
readers that it is not Islamic (though the would be murderer insists it
is). Zeigler digs up a a taqiya spewing Muslim who is a retired Professor of Pharmacology
as his expert. Got that?
Zeigler should be fired. He's not a reporter. He's a propagandist for Islam
and sharia law. Does he begin to understand the harm he is doing in
misleading the uniformed? Does he begin to understand the increased danger he
puts Muslim girls in by sanctioning the violent acts of their relatives. Their
terrible homes lives must seem inescapable when reading taqiya like this.
They must read Zeigler's accounts in sheer terror, thinking the United
States is sharia compliant as well? Where is the rule of law? When did it take a
backseat to Islam?
Infuriated because his younger sister was going to clubs, wearing
immodest clothing and planning to leave her family for a new life in New York
City, Waheed Allah Mohammad
stabbed her outside their Henrietta home, prosecutors
allege.
Afterward, he told Monroe County sheriff's investigators that he
attacked his sister because she had disgraced their family and was a "bad Muslim girl," according to court
documents.
Mohammad, 22, is scheduled to appear Friday in Monroe County Court on charges
of attempted second-degree murder and first-degree assault in the May 8 attack
on Fauzia A. Mohammad, 19.
The case is the second in four years in Monroe County in which an
immigrant from South Asia is alleged to have killed or tried to kill a family
member over the perceived loss of family honor — an occurrence that is
not uncommon in South Asia but is rare in the United States.
Although the defendants in both cases are Muslims, resorting to
homicide to restore family honor in mostly Muslim South Asia is a custom that
predates Islam, said Aly Nahas, a retired professor of pharmacology at
the University of Rochester who is a student of Islamic tradition.
"In my belief, it has nothing to do with Islam," said Nahas, a practicing Muslim. "I know Islam well,
and I do not believe it is Islamic. There is nothing in Islam that talks about
honor killing."
Nahas said, however, that many Westerners don't accept his
assertion.
Spit in my face and tell me it's raining.
"And they will not because it occurs in countries that have been Muslim for
1,000 years," he said. "People will ask, 'Why isn't it stopped?' I can't answer
that."
According to the United Nations Population Fund, up to 5,000 women
are killed each year in South Asia for allegedly disgracing
their families.Some of the women
are killed after becoming rape victims or rejecting arranged
marriages.
Assistant District Attorney Joseph Waldorf, who is prosecuting
Mohammad, declined to characterize the case as an "honor attack" or
otherwise.
Has Waldorf seen this?
Dis"honor" killings should be a capital crime. Women are chattel,
slaves.
Fauzia Mohammad is recovering from her wounds, Waldorf said.
During Friday's proceeding, Mohammad's lawyer, Assistant
Public Defender John Bradley, will ask Judge John J. Connell to schedule a
hearing to consider whether Mohammad voluntarily waived his right to a
lawyer before making the alleged confession.
Gotta get that confession waived eh?
A bigger question than Mohammad's purported motive, Bradley said, is whether
Mohammad, who emigrated to the United States with his family from war-ravaged
Afghanistan, is suffering from a
stress-inflicted mental disorder that could explain or mitigate
the alleged attack on his sister.
"Apparently the whole family was on the sidewalk, arguing with her, not
wanting her to leave," Bradley said. "It was getting to be quite a heated
argument. I suspect that at least some element of this triggered
something in him related to his past."
Mental illness became a defense in the
first case involving an honor attack in Monroe
County.
Do you see the pattern. Any crime related to Islam is a mental illness. Are
we to deduce Islam
is a mental disorder?
On April 15, 2004, Ismail Peltek, an immigrant from Turkey, stabbed and beat
his wife to death and wounded two daughters at their home in Scottsville.
He told investigators that he was attempting to restore family honor
that had been lost when his wife and one daughter were sexually assaulted by a relative and the other daughter was "sullied" by a medical
exam.
Peltek was allowed to plead not guilty by reason of mental disease or
defect and is being held in a psychiatric center.
Mohammad was
charged after his sister was stabbed outside their family's apartment on Linhome
Drive, west of East River Road and south of Jefferson Road.
According to court documents, a female friend of Fauzia Mohammad had
arranged to pick her up outside the apartment to take her to New
York.
During a family argument that spilled outside, Waheed Mohammad is accused of retrieving a knife
from his car and chasing his sister. He allegedly lunged at her with the knife
and stabbed her multiple times.
"He described her as a 'bad Muslim
girl' and (said) that he did not approve of her clothing," a
sheriff's investigator said in court documents. "They argued and he got
angry."
After the stabbing, Mohammad allegedly threw the knife into a pond behind the
apartment and fled in his car. Deputies stopped Mohammad minutes later at East
River and Jefferson roads. Divers recovered the knife later.
Mohammad's mother, two sisters and a younger brother came to the United
States in 2002 and Mohammad followed in 2005. He worked as a bus boy in
a restaurant and has no criminal record, Bradley said.
Above photo: Waheed Allah Mohammad, accused of trying to murder his sister
with a knife because he thought she had brought dishonor to their family.
Have you noticed how they always run a photo of the murderer or would be
murderer? It gets harder and harder to find pictures of the victims, like
they are phantoms or ideas, not people. I cannot tell you how long I search for
photos of these girls and they are impossible to find.
Zahida
Peeveen at 29, before the malicious attack by her husband. At the time
of the attempted honor killing, she was six months pregnant. After attack: WARNING
GRAPHIC
As a
13-year-old girl in Turkey, Rojda was raped, then forced to marry
her rapist under Islamic law. Her face was mutilated by her
"husband's" family when she refused to prostitute herself after he
was imprisoned for raping another child.
Rim
Abu Ghanem 19 (Dr. Suliman Abu Ghanem, a 33-year-old
pediatrician at Assaf Harofeh Hospital, who along with his three brothers
decided to murder his sister for refusing an arranged marriage) Israel
!/3
of the women murdered in Jordan are a result of Islamic "honor" killing. And
yet a could not find one picture of a murdered girl in Jordan.
"It was a brutal scene. One victim's head was nearly cut clean off," an
official is quoted as saying. (here)
And the thing is, this is the end - the final act, the culmination of the
subjugation, oppression, violent abuse of women in Islam. The terror that
precedes the murder is almost unimaginable. Living in fear, every day,
living in fear of physical and mental abuse and still, standing up and living
their own lives only to be murdered for it.
UPDATE:
Sabia
Rani 19 UK (not only did four members of her husband's family do nothing to
help her, they turned a blind eye as he continued the beatings and ultimately
murdered the helpless young woman at the house they all shared
Technically he's right, he is innocent, according to sharia law. I am sure
the most senior judge in England would agree with Rashid. He gave his blessing
to the use of sharia law to resolve disputes among Muslims
(article here). And they would let this savage
walk free in the newly democratic Iraq as they did here with Rand
Abdel-Qader who was stomped to death by her father and brothers (her mother was
gunned down, murdered in cold blood a short time later for attempting to leave
the murderer).
Will we dhimmis be cooking special meals for this pious Muslim?
A Georgia man facing charges that he
killed his daughter for disgracing his family declared his
innocence.
"I have done nothing
wrong," Chaudhry Rashid told Chief Magistrate Daphne Walker at
his Tuesday hearing through interpreter Younis Farhat, according to The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
During Tuesday's hearing, Rashid told the judge he wanted to observe his
Muslim beliefs while in jail, including a diet that forbids the consumption of
pork, the paper said.
For women who live in the shadows of Sharia Law, or some adaptation
thereof, there's truly no safe place to escape and not a moment of peace to be
had! At least, for those women who dare to think for themselves. Instead, they
are imprisoned emotionally and cannot see thier own worth! Thier religion,
customs and traditions become thier world. To me, this mindset has come to be
termed , the Arabic fog.
This fog seems to be dominant among those who seek freedom, self-awareness
and perhaps, a break in religiosity and arranged marriages. No matter what these
women hold onto, the above mentioned freedoms can and do bring about death for
many of these young women!
So, why do they even try to break free...only to bring about death?
Personally, I think it is an attitude of I'd rather be dead than living a life
of persecution, sub-human treatment and someone to think for me! They have an
existance which is mandated by males and glaring women who await any reason for
accusations towards others! Yes, these women can be killed for simple
accusations and many have met with death because of these accusations too! They
have nowhere to run and not a moment of peace to be had!
I was heartbroken to read about yet, another honor killing, in our country.
As I read this story, my ire went off the chart! This is why: "
The 25-year-old victim, Sandeela Kanwal, was wed in Pakistan in an arranged
marriage. Police said Kanwal hadn't seen her husband, who lives in Chicago, for
months.
According to police, there was "friction between father and victim" in the
weeks leading up to the killing. Rashid had not spoken to his daughter in more
than two months.
Police said Rashid was so angered that his daughter planned to divorce her
husband that he killed her after a heated argument at the family's home, FOX News affiliate
MyFoxAtlanta reported.
Police who arrived at the scene said they found Rashid's two sons at the end
of the driveway and their father sitting behind a car smoking a cigarette.
Officers said that Rashid appeared "distraught and possibly mournful" and told
police "my daughter is dead" when they arrived.
After entering the home, Kanwal's body was discovered in the doorway of a
bedroom, cold to the touch, officials said.
A police report said that there were possible "ligature marks" indicating
strangulation on the victim and noted that an iron and cord had been found near
her body. A necklace was also found on a table downstairs, according to the
report.
Rashid was taken to the Clayton County jail where he reportedly confessed to
strangling Kanwal." WHAT??? This woman fled a bad marriage and because she
sought a divorce...she had to die! What's up with this thinking? She went HOME
for the sake of safety, only to have her dad serve as executioner! Truly, there
was no place for her to run and no peace for her brokeness. The Arabic fog
surely had her confused as to what she should have done for complete safetys
sake.
As I thought about this woman's plight, I started to reflect on the honor
killings of Sarah and Amina. Had Yaser married them off, in an arranged
marriage, if they had left thier husband would Yaser have elected to murder
them? YES! You see, divorce is not accepted in the Arabic world and if the woman
leaves her husband, she has dishonored her family name! This equals death!
One huge difference between these honor killings...Rashid, waited for the
police, calmly. He did not run! Unlike Yaser Said, this man seemed to be content
with his actions and with the consequences of such an action! Yaser, on the
other hand, is still at large and living freely among those who support his
deadly cleansing!
One can only hope and pray that the judge trying this case will persecute
this man to the full extent of OUR LAW! There must be NO consideration of
Rashid's religious and cultural beliefs as MURDER is MURDER!! Let the Arab
population know, through this judgement, that our Constitution itself, is enough
to try and convict these acts as the EVIL that they are! Let the verdict be a
statement to all who shadow women with Sharia Law...stop your male dominated
acts on our soil or, be willing to die for the freedom to enact such barbaric
behaviors on American soil!
Rest in PEACE...Amina, Sarah, Sandeela and all those who have been murdered
for centuries, for the sake of keeping a man's name clean...the Arabic fog road
to death.
Have you been watching the honor
killing coverage on FOX? Rashad, Clayton County man, faces murder charges
in the strangling death of his 25-year-old daughter early Sunday over her desire
to end an arranged marriage in yet another honor killing in the West. A terrible
trend ignored by the media and on the rise.
At first I was so happy, that finally someone was paying attention to this
terrible trend and actually reporting on it in depth. But misinforming the
American people? They are in the dark enough as it is. It's bad when you don't
cover honor killings because you are afraid to "insult Muslims", it's worse when
you cover it and and deliberately obfuscate the truth and remove Islam from the
motive. This is sharia law. How dare they call it a "cultural" thing. And while
I am not saying it doesn't happen in other parts of the world, the majority are
Islamic and no other religious ideology advocates for it. How dare they say it
was not Islamic. The murderers were in full Muslim garb?
The "specialist" they had on was a criminal lawyer who didn't know her Moe
from her Curly. There are so mmany knowledgable sources on honor killings, they
couldn't find one? One reporter on the scene, called the arranged marriage
"sacred". GROAN.
Give me a few minutes. I am pulling the video of Martha McCallum's and Trace
Gallagher's taqiya. The money quote is Trace Gallagher saying you never hear
about these things in this country. Uh, yeah, because the media wont
cover.
Shakes head, walks away.
I received this heartbreaking note last night from one of the Aunts of the
Said sisters:
"I Am Afraid My Uncles Will Take me" Aunt Gail
Recently, an investigative reporter wrote on the honor killings of
Sarah and Amina. There was much information in the article but, I personally,
found it to be slanted. Even so, I read some things which disturbed me...one in
particular! It was what Sarah had said to a friend, "I am afraid my uncles will
take me". This quote sent shivers down my spine! Sarah was not only afraid of
her dad but, she feared her uncles too! Why?
In searching for the why, I recalled the sexual abuse "period." There's
something which has been overlooked in these girls tragic tales and one came as
a direct result from Yaser being reported for sexual abuse.
Not long after Patricia Said wrote out an affadavit which graphically
spoke of what had been done, Yaser picked the children up from school and ran
with them! I do not know how this situation was handled from a legal standing
but, I do know Yaser took the children and hid them out for months! In fact,
they were being hidden in Fairfax, Virginia and Patricia had no clue as to where
to look! The facts, they were known years after this happened.
Could this have been why Sarah was so afraid of her uncles taking her?
Did they help Yaser to hide these children as a punishment for getting the
police involved with the sexual abuse? Did the uncles remind these girls that
honor killings are legal in Egypt...like Yaser taunted them? I'm not sure but, I
know that Sarah had a reason for saying this and even though noone heard this
cry of fear then, I'm listening now and I want the why's.
Another honor killing in the US ........ how many is it? I would like to know
how many Muslim girls have died under the age of 25 in the US and what was the
cause of death. Anything that says domestic abuse or some such nonsense would be
a red flag. How can I get this info? How? The media and law enforcement are
always making excuses for the barbarity. Georgia law enforcement has done
it before.
A Clayton County man faces murder charges in the strangulation death of his
25-year-old daughter early Sunday over what police said was her desire to end an
arranged marriage.
Chaudhry Rashad, 54, apparently became angry during an argument in
which the victim, Sandela Kanwal, told him she wanted out of the marriage,
Clayton police spokesman Timothy Owens said.
The father and daughter are both of Pakistani descent, and
police said language barriers have slowed their investigation.
Authorities were called to the family's home, in the 9600 block of
Utah Drive in Jonesboro, just after 3 a.m. Sunday.
Kanwal lived with her father when she was not with her husband, who resides
in Chicago, Owens said. She hadn't seen the husband in three months, he said.
Rashad had a seizure shortly after the alleged attack, and he was taken to a
local hospital for treatment, Owens said. He was in custody Sunday at the
Clayton County Jail and could make an initial court appearance Monday.
Neighbors said there appeared to be several people living in Rashad's
home, but they were not sure who they were or how they were related. The family
moved in about two or three years ago.
"They were very nice, very quiet," said Jack Hannah, who lives a few doors
down from Rashad on Utah Drive. He said the family didn't socialize much but
would occasionally host large cricket matches for friends in their yard.
James Ambro said he chatted with Rashad regularly.
"Small talk, mostly," said Ambro, who also lives on Utah Drive. "He seemed
like a real nice fellow. A good neighbor, definitely."
Owens said he did not know whether there had been previous police calls to
the home. Neighbors said they couldn't recall any prior incidents.
"Things like that don't happen in this neighborhood," Hannah said.
Islam keeps telling Aunt Gail that he is "going to send her to hell so she
can say hi to the girls". Law enforcement should be tracking this head case and
monitoring Yaser's brothers as well.
Islam has recently deleted his vile myspace page that lauded his murdering,
raping, misogynist father. But he continues to post threats, most particularly
directed at Gail. But Gail will not back down.
Here, for the first time, Amina and Sarah's Great Aunt Sarah, writes
in her own words, a statement for the public. I love this woman. She is
brave. Gail is determined that Amina and Sarah did not die in vain.
The Terror Stops Here!
On January the first, my life was turned upside down. With one phone
call, and the news of my great-neices (Sarah and Amina Said) murders, I was
driven to explore the why's of thier deaths! In doing so, I was forced to face
something so very foreign to me..."honor killings". Indeed, Sarah and Amina were
murdered for the sake of "cleansing" the Said name! How did they dirty this
name? Both girls, thought for themselves, they saw education as an open door to
freedom and to a life they could only dream about! Amina, fought the idea of
having to go to Egypt, after graduation, only to be married off to whomever
daddy had chosen!
She spoke to one of her teachers about her fear but, truly, no one heard
her words of despair! No one heard Sarah's words when she would freely speak of
her fear of her dad! No one, listened to these girls except for the deceptive
dad and the spying brother! In fact, Sarah had proclaimed that she was afraid of
her uncles taking her away and yet, no comfort nor, security did she ever find!
Not in this life!!
These two brilliant girls are in a grave this very day because of a
terroristic family and not one single person to truly place trust. Instead, look
at the photos of these girls and you will see that they shared more than a
sisterhood...they shared pain, terror and eventually...death, together, at the
hands of thier dad and others who helped him accomplish his "duty".
In my search for answers, I discovered things which have just broken my
heart! Yaser Said, not only terrorized, sexually abused, and murdered his own
children...he raped my youngest niece and molested another one as well! I was
LIVID when I found this out! Especially, because my sister, the mother to these
girls, NEVER said a word to me about these things! Why? I asked myself for
months! Then, finally I was told why she could not tell me. She was afraid Yaser
would kill one of them. If her husband had tried to talk to Yaser, she knew
Yaser would kill him as, Yaser always drove around with a machine gun and he let
them know this too. Had she informed the police, I am certain he would have
retaliated. In other words, Yaser was terrorizing most of my sisters entire
family! She died at the age of fifty, from a major stroke....now, I understand
why! Her life was filled with the knowledge of what Yaser was capable of doing
and on many occasions, she would voice her fears to me, "I am afraid that one
day, Yaser will kill those girls and Tissy too"! Well, we certainly know that
part of her fears have come to fruition!
Finding out about Yaser's reign of terror, has made me realize that he
has terrorized three generations of my family! MY generation (my sister), my
nieces generation and his own childrens! That's three generations which have
suffered horribly, at his hands and yet, he is still a free man! How can this
be? I'll tell you! They all allowed him to terrorize them!
Now, the terror has been turned on me. No, not by Yaser but, by Yaser
JR., Islam, his stepford son! He has sent me phone threats, which I have
recorded, blogged threats and hopes to send me to hell so I can say hello to
Amina and Sarah! GRRrrrrr! See, he can't even threaten me without being nasty
towards his dead sisters!! What a loving brother, NOT! Islam, has sent threats
through the girls sight which was set up for the sake of advertising the reward
fund for Yaser's capture. This boy is one tacky, angry and militant thinker. It
is sad that he has so much hatred instilled within him but, he is Yaser's clone!
In as much, I want to freely state that I have not had one ounce of
fear from any of the threats! I will not fear because I do not have too! The
terror to this family STOPS here and NOW! They might as well throw the venomous
words of terror to the wind because they are not working on me! Unlike my
sister, my neices and Sarah and Amina, I understand my rights and the freedoms
given to me by the laws of my country. I am a patriot, in this country and this
means you cannot take my freedoms from me because you do not like my saying this
is an honor killing! TOUGH. Sarah and Amina were silenced...this is why I will
always speak for them until justice is served! You will NEVER hear words of
despair again, not from this family!
Killing girls. On the march. Domestic 'honour' Violence Cost
Britain 25.3 Billion PoundsHonor
killings. Aqsa's brother was arrested (watch video). Islam Said should be
arrested. He is alleged to have said they got what they deserved". He knows
what happened. He spoke to the father after he brutally murdered those sweet
girls. American girls who were all AP, excelled in soccer, tennis - they poured
themselves into everything American. School, sports, all of it in the hopes it
would save them. The West failed them in life and the West has failed them in
death too. The brothers hero is his father (see
here). He's a two bit punk threatening
anyone that speaks of the honor killing. Download
islamsaidthreat.mp3. Islam knows where the murderer is. He's a
walking time bomb - jihad boy all the way.
Police upgraded charges to first-degree murder against the father of a
teenaged Brampton girl who friends say was feuding with her family over her
refusal to wear a hijab.
And police say they believe Aqsa Parvez’s brother also bears culpability,
even if they cannot prove it.
The 16-year-old girl was killed after her brother brought her home to pick up
some clothes on Dec. 10.
Waqas Parvez, 26, has been charged only
with obstructing police for allegedly misleading
investigators.
“He did play a part in her arriving back at the home, as you well
know. I’m sure there’s more to this,” Inspector Norm English said on
Tuesday of Waqas Parvez’s role in the death.
“The one thing you need is evidence. There’s no point in going to court
without it.”
The girl’s murder gained international attention after high school classmates
claimed that the girl had clashed with her devout Muslim family about her
refusal to wear traditional clothes. The strained relations drove Aqsa out of
her home and to another Muslim family, who described her as a “typical” teenager
who yearned for acceptance while straddling the Muslim and Western cultures.
They disputed the claim that the friction was over a hijab, and said the girl
was repairing her relationship with her family in the days leading up to her
death.
On the morning of Dec. 10, her brother picked her up at a bus stop and took
her home, where police say she was strangled to death before 8 a.m. Police say a
man called 911 and said he had killed his daughter.
Muhammad Parvez, 57, was arrested that day and later charged with
second-degree murder. The charge was upgraded on Tuesday in a Brampton courtroom
to first degree, which suggests premeditation and planning.
Amina and Sarah Said Christmas
The savage father, Yaser Said, had pulled a gun on Christmas Eve 2007 and
threatened to kill Amina.
Tissie would leave with Amina and her younger daughter Sarah, 17, who also
feared her father. Her brother Islam had told their father that Sarah
also had a boyfriend, and Yaser threatened to kill her
too.
Tissie, who calls herself yaser's
girl on her myspace page is an accessory to murder. Amina's fiance Eddie
said, "I thought she [Patricia] had something against the
girls."
From the time they were little, Yaser told his daughters they were to have no
American boyfriends, ever. Yaser and Islam kept strict watch over the girls to
ensure they didn't disobey his command.
Yaser had big plans for both girls. Everything would begin in May, when Amina
received her high school diploma. She would get engaged to a man he had chosen
for her in Egypt, his birthplace. From the groom, Amina would receive a sizable
mahr, the traditional dowry. Yaser had scrimped for years to provide
his own contribution to the marriage: a small vacation "chalet" on the seaside
in the Sinai.
When Amina, who dreamed of becoming a doctor, asked her father when
she would go to college, Yaser had a simple answer: when—if—your
husband allows. The same was expected for Sarah.
Amina had no intention of marrying a much older Egyptian man, a stranger, so,
on December 26, Tissie, her daughters and their boyfriends fled. They made their
way to Attica, a small Kansas town where Tissie's aunt lived. But Amina, who had
been offered a scholarship by Texas A&M, knew immediately that Attica
wouldn't do. She had to live in a college town.
The group got back on the road and headed to Tulsa, where Eddie had
relatives. They planned to get an apartment, find jobs and enroll in school.
Their boyfriends would stay with them. "We were going to live with them so they
could be safe," says Eric, Sarah's boyfriend.
The group found an apartment; Tissie and Eric got jobs right away while the
girls checked out schools. Eddie drove back to Dallas for a DJ job and to get
his belongings.
Then Tissie lied.
She told her daughters that December 31 was her deceased mother's birthday
and she wanted to drive to East Texas to put flowers on her grave. Driving
through Denton to Lewisville, Tissie revealed the truth: She was returning to
Yaser.
Reluctantly, Sarah went home with her mother, but Amina refused.
"I'm never going back there," Amina told an aunt. She spent New Year's Eve at
Eddie's house.
The calls from her mother started early the next morning, but Amina refused
to come home. Finally, Tissie drove the few blocks to Eddie's house and pounded
on the door. Amina argued while her mother stood unmoving in the doorway, saying
her father had forgiven her.
"She said he just wanted to talk to
Amina and that everything was going to be OK," Eddie says.
"Amina was crying and didn't want to go, but her mom made her. I trusted her mom
to take care of her." So, he backed off.
A few hours later, the bullet-riddled bodies of Amina and Sarah Said
were found in a bloody taxi outside an Irving hotel. Yaser Said has disappeared
and now is a fugitive, wanted for their murders.
The mother is an accessory. She should be arrested. Arresting the son would
bring the cockroach father out from under his rock.
There is an article one of the very few as this story was virtually ignored
by the mainstream media afraid of insulting Islam. The reporter who wrote this
story ought to live in an Isalmic country for awhile. What an ignorant fool.
They promote the article as such: American Girls
"Crossing between American and Egyptian cultures, he
Said girls made one deadly misstep" Their misstep? MISSTEP?
Yaser's culture taught that a father's duty, his highest
responsibility, was to see his children wed into good households. Bonds with
well-to-do Egyptian families would secure his good name, his future financial
success and care in his old age. Now his daughters—sheltered and modest but
thoroughly American—were turning their backs on their father's
plans.
Yeah, you read that right. Did the reporter read
the autopsy report? Does she have any clue what a gruesome nightmare their
lives were in that house? This was not in an Islamic newspaper but the Dallas
Observer by one Glenna Whitley. Shame on the editor that ran this tripe. Notice
how Whitley neglected to mention that Yaser threatened to take the girls to
Egypt and kill them there because "honor killings are legal there".
Shame on Whitley and the Observer for misinforming the public yet again.
It's disgusting. Look how this clown of a reporter writes of Yaser and
Tissie's wedding.
Sitting on one side, the family of Tissie Owens, age 15: white, Christian for
the most part, working-class Texans who looked at the groom's relatives
and saw immigrants from Egypt who spoke with funny accents, had a funny religion
and whose women dressed in flowing robes.
"They had to poop in a bucket," recalls Tissie's aunt, Joyce Boucher.
On October 24, 1998, Tissie called a Hill County Sheriff's deputy to say her
daughters told their American grandmother, who lived in Garland, that
their father had been sexually molesting them for two or three years.
She had again left Yaser.
"The girls were staying with [the grandmother] and were afraid to go
with their father and told [the grandmother] that their father had put his
finger in their vagina and rectum and he had put his penis in Amina's vagina one
time," the sheriff's report reads.
"Complainant [Tissie] advised that Sarah told her that her father had
stuck his finger inside of her and that Amina told her that her father had stuck
his finger inside of her, touched her bottom and her top." The last alleged sexual abuse had
occurred about two weeks earlier, when Tissie was visiting her mother and the
children stayed with Yaser.
The last alleged??????????? Alleged? Says who? The reporter?
[...]
Tissie took the three children to the sheriff's office. Two deputies
conducted a taped interview with Amina, who, in very graphic language for a
child, described how her father had touched her, made her touch him, and that
her father had "put his front part in her front part." Amina said that "she is
afraid of her father...afraid he will hit her."
In an interview with Sarah, the 8-year-old told deputies about her father's
alleged sexual molestation and said she was afraid of "her dad and his
brothers...scared they will take her."
Yaser adamantly denied the charge and said he was willing to take a polygraph
test. He blamed Tissie for not providing for the children.
Yaser never took the polygraph. In Dallas County, he was
charged with felony "retaliation" after Tissie filed a complaint alleging he
threatened to kill her and take the children after being indicted on December
17, 1998, for "sexual penetration" of both girls.
But the charges were dropped on January 12, 1999, when Amina and Sarah
recanted, saying they had lied about the abuse because they didn't like their
school in Covington and wanted to live with their grandmother. (Yaser was not
arrested for alleged retaliation until March 22, 2001. That charge was also
dismissed after Tissie refused to cooperate with prosecutors and Yaser
agreed to take an anger-management course.)
After the sexual abuse case was dismissed, the couple again
reconciled. The family left Covington and lived in a series of dumpy
apartments in Dallas and Tarrant counties. Tissie and Yaser eked out an existence with the
help of a monthly disability check that began after Islam was diagnosed as
"mentally retarded." At age 14, he dropped out to be home-schooled by his
mother. The disability check paid the rent
Actual mugshot
Possible appearance
Wanted for Murder.
The brother, who won't reveal his name (!) was tight with Yaser. Check out
his racist remarks:
Only when it's Muslim do they call it an honor killing," says Yaser's brother
"Ahmed." (He spoke to the Dallas Observer on the condition his real
name wasn't published.) "They don't call it a Christian killing. They just say
they went nuts."
Dressed in gray sweats, running shoes and a Baylor cap, Ahmed stands on the
front porch of his two-story red brick house in suburban Bedford in mid-May.
A school bus drives by and discharges his teenage daughter, who is
carrying her backpack, her hair covered by a hijab.
I bet his daughter could tell us a thing or two.
The Said family was against Yaser's marriage to Tissie from the
beginning, Ahmed says. He describes the Owens family as "lower class,
uneducated, racist," always trying to sneak the children into Christian
church.
The reporter ran Ahmed's bullshit unedited. Puke, all of it.
The attempt to start new lives was aborted when Tissie told the girls that
December 31 was their grandmother's birthday and they had to drive to East Texas
to put flowers on her grave.
Did the girls know that Tissie and her mother had been estranged for years
before her death? Tissie's mother had been furious after her daughter returned
to Yaser despite the abuse allegations. The "flowers on the grave" story was a
ploy.
Yaser had promised Moggio that if Tissie and the girls came home, he would
move out of the house. As they neared Lewisville, Tissie announced she was
returning to Yaser. Their escape attempt was over. Sarah went home with her
mother, but Amina insisted on staying with Eddie. She called Moggio.
"She said, 'My mom just flat lied to us,'" Moggio says. "'She went back to my
dad. I'd rather be dead than go back there.'" Moggio told her to get a
restraining order against her father "immediately."
Tissie told Yaser that Amina had gone to a New Year's Eve party and was
spending the night with a friend.
The next day, however, Tissie told Yaser that Amina had spent the night at
Eddie's home.
Tissie called Amina for hours then appeared at Eddie's front door. All was
forgiven, her daddy had said, "the page flipped." Her father had changed, Tissie
insisted.
Amina didn't believe it. Eddie reminded Tissie about the fear of the previous
week.
"He's hurt her for 20 years," Eddie said. "He wouldn't change after five
days."
"I thought about it," Tissie said. "Y'all and Islam are going to get married,
and I don't want to be all alone. Nothing is going to happen [to Amina] with me
there. I really want them to finish high school, then you can run away." She
promised to protect her daughters.
"I don't want to go back," Amina insisted. In tears, she turned to Eddie.
"Let's go back to Tulsa."
"Patricia will know where we are," Eddie said. "I was like, 'It won't hurt to
talk to him.'" He breaks into sobs at the memory.
"I always thought that a mother would take care of her girls."
"You're letting me
down," Amina told Eddie. She took the memory card out of her
camera and threw it at him. "It's over. He won't let me see you again." She
refused to kiss him goodbye and walked out the door.
The last time Eddie saw Amina was in her father's taxi. Eddie and his father
were driving to meet a relative when Yaser's taxi crossed their path. Eddie
followed the cab and saw Amina sitting in the front seat facing Yaser, her knee
up and her back against the door.
"She looked nervous," Eddie says. "Sarah didn't look worried." After Amina
sent him a text message saying the situation was OK, he and his father drove on
to their destination.
Amina had only been home only minutes when her father had hustled both girls
into his taxi. Yaser had confronted Sarah and asked if she was having sex with
her boyfriend. She said yes.
"I think he was top-of-the-line angry," Eddie says. "He was like, 'How did
that happen?'"
————
"Help, help, my dad shot me..."
The call to 911 was routed to the Irving Police Department at 7:35 p.m. The
cell phone caught a girl's gasping voice.
"I'm dying, I'm dying Abu...."
The sound of a car door opening.
"Oh my God, not again!"
A struggle. "Stop it. Stop it. Stop..." The door slamming. Then only
whimpering.
The police dispatcher traced the number to Islam, who had loaned Sarah his
phone. Lewisville police arrived at the Lakeland house and picked up
Tissie and Islam, who said Yaser had taken the girls in his taxi "for
tea."
The Obama web site is hosting a page dedicated to
Mohamed Elmougy, who in front of the Dallas Morning News Editorial board, openly
supported honor
killings specifically in discussion of Amina
and Sarah Said.
Why does Obama (and his people) approve this garbage and leave it
up at his site?
Mohamed Elmougy, a prominent North Texas Muslim community leader and Egyptian immigrant, defended
violence, even deadly violence, against women and homosexuals.
Though the term "honor killing" did not come up in either discussion,
Mr. Elmougy explained that violence against sexual outlaws is acceptable
to defend the family and the social order.
"The way we view it, we don't
look at it as violent," he said. "We look at it as a
deterrent."
Well. When you have a community acculturated to the belief that women (and
gays) who break taboos deserve to be beaten, even killed, out of some twisted
concept of the common good, you can be sure there are innocent people enduring
silent, anonymous suffering.
And here is the Obama page paying homage to Islamist Elmougy hat tip
ceo)
We first sat and talked in those numb days right after the attacks of Sept.
11, 2001.We mourned together, and Mohamed Elmougy helped me understand a
little more about what had befallen us.
I returned several times over the years to visit with the local
Muslim community leader. And this week's fifth anniversary of the war
in Iraq seemed a good time to once again glimpse the world through his eyes.
Mohamed, 49, owns the Pyramids Hotel in Allen. He's Egyptian by birth and
American by choice.
He opposed the war from the start. "You will remember that I said getting out
won't be nearly as easy as going in," he said.
I remembered, particularly since I had bought the argument that Iraqis would
welcome us.
"We were fools to think we were going to be seen as liberators,"
Mohamed said. "We are seen as occupiers, and we always will
be."
HAPPY GRADUATION SWEETIE! I believe Amina will hear this poem...do you?
Amina, and Sarah were murdered by their dad on the first of
this year...in an honor killing. They are my great-nieces and I wrote this poem
for Amina's graduation.
O'er the years of your short life, You
persevered and overcame, All the grief and imprisoned strife Which left
you wise, To bear no shame!
Amina, your courage and strength desired
to be best. I understand with all my heart! You, set the bar and passed
your test! Now, in God's hands, you will never depart!
Depart from a
love so pure and so real, So, bask in His presence, I will see you
someday. This gives me comfort, my heart does thrill! Know I will see you,
in your heavenly array!
Tomorrow, you should be graduating, With your
classmates and friends. Congratulations Amina, your accomplishments
outstanding! Your life was taken by the one you called dad...still, no
amends. But, Amina, your deeds and works have proven resounding!!
Gail
Gartrell 2008 In loving memory of Amina
Tomorrow Amina would have attended her high school graduation. And all like
everything else American, Amina embraced these things with a passion few could
muster or understand. The only time the Said sisters had any life, any peace of
mind was when they were at school or anywhere else away from that homemade
concentration camp of a home. They were tortured, beaten, raped for years with
the tacit approval of their mom from hell, Tissie. They ran away, she brought
them home .... to be tortured and murdered shortly thereafter.
Those girls really believed the West would save them. They were all AP
classes, tennis, soccer, all of it. Top of the class. They thought the West
would save them. Not only did their teachers, the judicial system, child
services (who were notified many times) fail them in life. The West failed them
in death. They ignored their murder - the media, law enforcement, everyone in
the hope that this honor killing will get relegated to the dustbin of homicidal
history.
The time bomb brother of these tortured honor killing victms, Amina and Sarah
Said, is living in his own private jihad. Islam Said, brother of these poor
things, believed they got what they deserved.
He has decended into thuggish, bombastic, radical. Look at his comments on
his myspace page.
Photo Islam and his hero and father, brutal torturer murderer Yaser Said
I am going to SCREAM! They killed this woman. Leila Hussein had the
courage to leave the barbarian that STOMPED HER DAUGHTER TO DEATH
for talking with a British soldier. The brutal killer, the father,
was then allowed to walk free from the police station. Is this what we
spent all our blood and treasure for? Where is feminist outrage? Where are the
damn womens groups, the leftards, the commies, the socialists, all the
full-of-shitniks? Why wasn't this women protected? She was being threatened
daily.
"Death to betrayers of Islam who don't
deserve God's forgiveness".
Five weeks ago Leila Hussein told The Observer the chilling story of how her
husband had killed their 17-year-old daughter over her friendship with a British
soldier in Basra. Now Leila, who had been in hiding, has been murdered - gunned
down in cold blood. See the Observer story below for Islam's insatiable and
depraved misogyny.
The crime, so grotesque, is not the worst of it. After stomping to death, the
father was released from custody, "'Not much can be done when we have
an "honour killing" case. You are in a Muslim society and women should live
under religious laws". Read
her story her.
Hussein lived her last few weeks in terror. Moving constantly from
safe house to safe house, she dared to stay no longer than four days at each. It
was the price she was forced to pay after denouncing and divorcing her husband -
the man she witnessed suffocate, stamp on, then stab their young daughter Rand
in a brutal 'honour' killing for which he has shown no
remorse.
Why weren't the Americans protecting her? This is why we fought
and died? To institute sharia?
Though she feared reprisals for speaking out, she really believed that she
would soon be safe. Arrangements were well under way to smuggle her to the
Jordanian capital, Amman. In fact, she was on her way to meet the person
who would help her escape when a car drew up alongside her and two other women
who were walking her to a taxi. Five bullets were fired: three of them hit
Leila, 41. She died in hospital after futile attempts to save her.
Her death, on 17 May, is the shocking denouement to a tragedy which had its
origins in an innocent friendship between her student daughter, Rand
Abdel-Qader, 17, and a blond, 22-year-old British soldier known only as
Paul.
The two had met while Rand, an English student at Basra University, was
working as a volunteer helping displaced families and he was distributing water.
Although their friendship appears to have involved just brief, snatched
conversations over four months, Rand had confided her romantic feelings for Paul
to her best friend, Zeinab, 19.
She died, still a virgin, four months after she had last
seen him when her father, Abdel-Qader Ali, 46, discovered that she had been seen
talking 'to the enemy' in public. She had brought shame on his honour, was his
defence, and he had to cleanse his family name. Despite openly admitting the
murder, he has received no punishment.
Notice how the dhimmi media always points out that she was still a
virgin. So what? And if she wasn't then there might be cause. The status of the
girl's vagina has no place in this story NONE.
It was two weeks after Rand's death on 16 March that a grief-stricken Leila,
unable to bear living under the same roof as her husband, found the strength to
leave him. She had been beaten and had had
her arm broken. It was a courageous move. Few women in Iraq
would contemplate such a step. Leila told The Observer in April: 'No man
can accept being left by a woman in Iraq. But I would prefer to be killed than
sleep in the same bed as a man who was able to do what he did to his own
daughter.'
They didn't protect this woman who had been beaten and had her
arm broken?
Her words were to prove prescient. Leila turned to the only place she could,
a small organisation in Basra campaigning for the rights of women and against
'honour' killings. Almost immediately she began receiving threats -
notes calling her a 'prostitute' and saying she deserved to die like her
daughter.
Even her sons Hassan, 23, and Haydar, 21, whom she claimed aided
their father in their sister's killing, disowned her. Meanwhile, her
husband, a former government employee, escaped any charges, and even told The Observer that police had congratulated him on
what he had done.
All of our blood and treasure, for this. Why
didn't the Americans arrest him?
It is not known who killed Leila. All that is known is that she was staying
at the house of 'Mariam', one of the women's rights campaigners, whose identity
The Observer has agreed not to reveal. On the morning of 17 May, they were
joined by another volunteer worker and set off to meet 'a contact' who was to
help Leila travel to Amman, where she would be taken in by an Iraqi family.
'Leila was anxious, but she was also happy at having the chance to leave
Iraq,' said Mariam. 'Since the death of her daughter, her own life was at
serious risk. And this was a great opportunity for her to leave the country and
to fight for Iraqi women's rights.
'She had not been able to sleep the night before. I stayed up talking to her
about her plans after she arrived in Amman. I gave her some clothes to take with
her and she was packing the only bag she had. She was too excited to sleep.'
Mariam said that when she awoke Leila had already prepared breakfast,
cleaned her house and even baked a date cake as a thank-you for the help she had
been given. After the arrival of 'Faisal', the volunteer (whose
identity is also being protected), the three left the house at 10.30am and
started walking to the end of the street to get a taxi. They had walked less
than 50 metres when they heard a car drive up fast and then gunshots rang out.
The attack, said by witnesses to have been carried out by three men, was over in
minutes. Leila was hit by three bullets. Mariam was hit in her left arm and
Faisal in her left leg. 'I didn't realise I had been shot for a few seconds,
because as I heard the gunfire I saw Leila falling to the ground and saw blood
pouring from her head,' said Mariam. 'I was so shocked, I didn't immediately
feel the pain.'
Two men ran from their homes to help. They rushed Leila to hospital and a
passing taxi took the other two. But Leila died at 3.20pm, despite several
operations to save her. As she lay in her own hospital bed receiving treatment,
Mariam said that she heard someone saying that Leila had been shot in the head.
But there were other mutterings that were clearly audible. 'I could hear
people talking on the corridors and the only thing that they had to say was that
Leila was wrong for defending her daughter's mistakes and that her death was
God's punishment.
'In that minute I just had complete hatred in my heart for those who
had killed her.'
Police said the incident was a sectarian attack and that there was nothing to
link Leila's death to her family.
Read that again. This is the same police that let the stomping murderer
go. Do we need to believe anything they say?
'Her ex-husband was not in Basra when it happened. We found out he was
visiting relatives in Nassiriya with his two sons,' said Hassan Alaa, a senior
officer at the local police station in Basra. 'We believe the target was
the women activists, rather than Mrs Hussein, and that she was unlucky to be in
that place at that time.'
These men should rot in hell.
It is plausible. Campaigners for women's' rights are not
acceptable to many sections of Iraqi society, especially in Basra where militias
have partial control in some districts and impose strict laws on locals,
including what clothing they should wear and what religious practice they should
follow.
Dhimmi media happy to assist the jihad!
Since February 2006, two other activists from the same women's organisation
have been killed in the city. One of them was reportedly raped before being
shot. The other, the only man working for the non-governmental organisation
(NGO), and a father of five who was responsible for the organisation's finances,
was shot five months ago.
There could be many with a grudge against such organisations. However,
Mariam believes Leila was targeted, pointing out she had been hit by
three bullets. 'When we were shot, they focused on Leila, not us,' she
said.
d'oh
Since the attack the NGO has stopped its work in Basra. 'We daren't answer
the phones because we have received so many threats since we gave our support to
Leila's case,' said Mariam. 'Most of our members are preparing to leave
the city and even Iraq if they can raise the money.'
Iraq - the new democracy. Shining beacon of death.
A single mother since her husband was killed for refusing to join a militia,
she too intends to move when she can. Faisal, who also survived her injuries, is
still suffering post-surgical infection. She preferred not to speak, but her
mother, who wished to remain anonymous, said: 'My daughter is very shocked at
what happened, and my two grandsons can't stop crying since they saw her in
hospital.'
Leila's burial was arranged within hours of her death by the husband
of one of her cousins and Mariam's father.
The Observer visited Rand's father and two brothers at their Basra home, but
they refused to talk beyond Hassan proclaiming his father's innocence.
When asked if he would be visiting his mother's grave, he shrugged:
'Maybe in the future.'
Leila was an orphan, raised by an uncle who died in the Shia uprising against
Saddam Hussein in the early 1990s. Hamida Alaa, 68, a friend of the uncle, said:
'The poor woman was killed and now her name and history is buried with
her. No one wants to speak about it. She is just one more woman killed in our
country who has already been forgotten by the local society.'
In the last days of her life, Leila was suffering from the pressure of having
gone against her husband. 'She was sleeping with the help of sedatives,' said
Mariam. 'She would wake up at night with terrible nightmares, even dreaming of
being suffocated as her daughter was. She had been threatened so many times and
that's why she was so scared. Her indignation over Rand's death is what
led her to her own coffin. Their history ends here. But Leila was a hero. A woman
who was strong enough to say no to Iraqi men's bad attitudes. Sadly most
Iraqi women do not have the same strength and they will stay in their
homes.'
Leila is my hero.
Mariam has moved out of her home. But within hours of speaking to The
Observer a close friend went to her new address to deliver a message that had
been left for her at her front door. It read: 'Death to betrayers of Islam who don't deserve
God's forgiveness. Speaking less you will live more.' She
believes it was sent by Leila's killers.
'They want this story to be buried with Leila,' she said. 'But I cannot close
my eyes to all this.'
‘Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find
things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the
faith he preached."
At age 16, all Morsal Obeidi wanted was to live the
way other girls in Germany do. She paid dearly:
Obeidi's brother stabbed her 20 times. Her murder has sparked a renewed
debate in Germany about the failure of many immigrant families to integrate into
Western society.
This is a failure of the West???????????????
This is Islam.
Morsal met with Mohammed, her cousin, on the evening of May 15, a Thursday.
They were sitting in a McDonald's restaurant. Morsal had only been back in the
city for a few months, after a prolonged visit with relatives in Afghanistan. It
was spring in Hamburg. As they ate, Mohammed thought about the plan that he was
keeping a secret from Morsal. It seemed harmless enough. Mohammed said later
that Ahmad, Morsal's brother, had asked him to bring his sister to the Berliner
Tor train station. "He said to me: 'I want you to meet Morsal today. Then walk
to the Berliner Tor with her. But don't tell her anything. I just want to talk
to her."
It seemed harmless enough.
Morsal and Mohammed arrived at the suburban railway station shortly after 11
p.m. They walked around the corner to a small parking lot next to an apartment
building, where they sat down to smoke a cigarette. At 11:20 p.m., Ahmad
suddenly appeared out of the darkness. Morsal recognized him -- and froze. Ahmad
approached his sister and then, without saying a word, began stabbing her. He
stabbed her a few times. "I think he must've taken something first. Drugs. Or
maybe he got drunk. I tried to stop him, but he pushed me away," says
Mohammed.
Ahmad Obeidi, 23, is a strong, athletic young man. Morsal tried to run away,
but she stumbled and fell. Ahmad stood over her and continued to stab her, five
times, ten times, still silent as he swung his right arm up and down over his
sister's body. He seemed intoxicated. The
police counted 20 stab wounds, inflicted with such force that Ahmad would later
wear a bandage on his right forearm.
AHMAD SHOULD BE GIVEN THE DEATH SENTENCE. Make honorcide a
capital crime - -
go here.
Morsal screamed, waking up the residents of the apartment building. Passersby
called the police. Ahmad fled to a nearby subway station, and Mohammed followed
him. The two cousins boarded a train, where they sat silently across from each
other, a killer and his accomplice.
Morsal attended the Ernst-Henning-Strasse Schule, an elementary and junior
high school in Hamburg's Bergedorf neighborhood with students from 18 different
countries. In the same neighborhood, near a pedestrian zone, she would often get
together with friends after school. It was not a very attractive place to meet
but, being in a different neighborhood, it offered Morsal and her friends an
opportunity to get away from their families.
Cairo, May 25 (DPA) An Egyptian farmer who suspected his
16-year-old daughter was having an affair hanged her and then beheaded her body
in the southern province of Bani Soueif, it was reported Sunday. The
local daily Al-Akhbar said Abdel-Samad, 46, turned himself to the police after
the killing. It said a police investigation showed the father suspected his
daughter of having an affair.
So-called honour killings are not unusual in Egypt and other countries of the
Middle East, where families murder female members for having brought “shame” on
their name.
Not unusual? Where so they bury these poor things? In the clitorectomy
cemetary?
Such killings often involve a female member refusing an arranged marriage or
having a relationship that the family considers to be
inappropriate. DPA
Muslims Against Sharia has launched a campaign to quash the increasing
occurance of Islamic "honor"
killings int the USA.
I am enormously proud to have been asked to chair this campaign and I intend to
pursue this vigorously. I ask you to here - sign the petition and write,
write, write your Congress people, Senatros, Representatives ....everyone.
Please, I implore you to make a difference. Do
it for them.
There are girls across this great nation living in terror. We cannot sit idly
by.
Yaser Said is still at large, hidden by the Muslim underground. This must
end.
The STOP HONORCIDE! campaign was launched on Mother's Day 2008. The goal of
the campaign is to prosecute honorcides to the fullest extent of the law. We
want honorcide to be classified as a hate crime and we advocate for every
existing hate crime legislation to be amended to include honorcide.
If you would like to lobby your elected official(s) to amend current hate
crime legislation to include honorcide, you may use the letter below or you can
draft your own letter.
(As your constituent,) I urge you to amend name
or number of the statute law to include honorcide. Honorcide is a heinous
crime practiced in backwards societies. Honorcide or honor killing is a murder
of a female by her male family member(s), when a female is believed to have
brought dishonor on her family. This so-called "dishonor" includes, among other
things, refusing an arranged marriage, being the victim of a sexual assault,
seeking a divorce, dating a non-Muslim, or simply refusing to wear a hijab. It
is appalling that in twenty-first century America honorcides are still taking
place. But what is even more appalling is that honorcide is deemed to be
acceptable by members of some religious and ethnic communities. We must put a
stop to it. Any form of gender discrimination, especially honorcide, has no
place in any civilized society, but especially not in America.
Please introduce the bill to amend name or
number of the statute law to include honorcide.