Texas honor-killing: the manhunt continues

There's still no word on the search for Yaser Abdel Said, accused of shooting his two teenaged daughters and leaving them to die in a Texas parking lot. Police surrounded and entered a home in the Said's town of Lewisville, but the bastard wasn't there. Here's a picture of Daddy-dearest, just in case:

Let's just say I hope this cockroach resists arrest....

Speculation about motive has centered on honor killing, in which women (and gay or bisexual men) who shame their families by violating Islamic law or custom (even when they're the victim) are killed by their relatives, usually, but not always, their fathers, brothers, and male cousins. Friends of the murdered girls reported they were terrified of their father, who didn't approve of their American lifestyles. Phyllis Chesler looks at the stresses the conflict between traditional Arab Islamic society and life in America created and speculates on what may have lead to this:

Perhaps how Amina and Sarah dressed, and how they thought, shamed their father Abdul. He was no longer in control of his women -- a mark of shame which provoked his need to kill them. Perhaps their flowering sexuality enraged him because it made him desire them -- ”and from this he concluded that other men might desire them too and if he could not have them, no man could.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali has made the point repeatedly that the power structure of Islamic society rests on the subjugation of women, on totalitarian control. If Said felt he was losing that control, he may have justified his actions as a religious duty. Feeling unmanned, it was the only way to recover his honor.

And two young women -his children- died for his "honor."

LINKS: Regarding honor killings in America, Fausta asks "How many more have been murdered under similar circumstances and the real reason has never been identified?" Good question. More at LGF, Gateway Pundit, and Michelle Malkin, which reports one of the daughters may have started dating and feared her father would find out. Abe Greenwald at Contentions marvels at how desperately the MSM  avoids any mention of the obvious. Classical Values wonders why NOW and other women's groups are so quiet about this outrage. Robert Spencer wonders, too, about the silence of the Left in general. Gates of Vienna thinks we have little room to judge. I disagree. Strongly. Finally, Jihad Watch reprints and comments on a timely article from the Yemen Times on Islamic attitudes toward domestic violence: There must be violence against women.

UPDATE: It occurred to me I only put up a photo of the father. Well, here is a photo of his two daughters, Sarah and Amina, whom he killed for his "honor:"

 

Technorati tags: honor killings, Sarah Yaser Said, Amina Yaser Said, Lewisville, Yaser Abdel Said, murder, women's rights, misogyny, Islam

Comments

[Fausta]

"There must be violence against women."

And we're supposed to respect that??

[Anthony (Los Angeles)]

You're just not multicultural enough. :P