Lo and behold, CAIR-NJ has condemned the vicious Armanious murders.

A few other new angles and developments:

ABC News reports that a cousin of the slain family has been a translator working for the prosecution in the trial of Lynne Stewart. She is the radical lawyer accused of smuggling messages from imprisoned Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, to terrorist cell members and associates.

Fights broke out at the funeral for the family when mourners confronted out-of-control protesters. From AP:

Protesters carrying anti-Muslim signs and shouting anti-Islam slogans prompted several scuffles with mourners, who rebuked the protesters for having no respect for the dead or the grieving relatives. One sign, above a photograph of the smiling family, read, “American Family Beheaded on American Soil. Welcome Bin Laden.” Another read “Terrorists Reached Our Home.”

“Muslims as a group kill people,” said Ashaf Baul, a marchers at the head of the procession. “Nobody else slaughters people. If it was a robbery, why tie their hands and cut their heads?”

But others in the procession took offense at such talk.

“Get out! We don’t need any talk about Sept. 11 or Muslims!” yelled Amil Sarofiem, a church official, to a man who was shouting anti-Muslim slogans.

Once the bodies were loaded into four black hearses to be taken to a cemetery, more clashes broke out in the street outside the church, including one in which about 35 people shoved each other and traded punches. Police officers pushed several against cars to separate them from the fray as the fight spilled into a parking garage.

The NY Daily News now says that the wound in daughter Sylvia’s wrist, tattooed with a Coptic cross, was a defensive wound, not a deliberate attack.

And the Coptic community is offering a $500,000 reward for information.

Update: A reader wonders if this gruesome discovery is related to the Armanious killings.

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