Whitewashing the murder of Aqsa Parvez…and remembering the murder of Tina Isa
Aqsa Parvez’s Facebook photo
What is it with our craven mainstream media? They simply cannot give you the news straight when it comes to bloody sharia and bloody jihad. A Muslim girl was murdered over her refusal to wear a hijab, for crying out loud, and this is how it’s headlined:
Canadian Teen Dies; Father Charged
Meantime, the Canadian press is pulling out its “Broad Strata” card again.
Five Feet of Fury and Halls of Macadamia spotlight the press quoting spin doctor Mohamed Elmasry, President of the Canadian Islamic Congress, claiming it was a “teenager issue.”
“I don’t want the public to think that this is really an Islamic issue or an immigrant issue,” said Mohamed Elmasry of the Canadian Islamic Congress. “It is a teenager issue.”
Blood pressure rising yet?
Keep reading.
Jihad Watch catches the National Post in the act with this quote:
“The strangulation death of Ms. Parvez was the result of domestic violence, a problem that cuts across Canadian society and is blind to colour or creed.”
The only ones blinded here are the dhimmi journalists wielding the whitewash brush over Aqsa Parvez’s dead body.
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Several readers remind me of the horrific murder of Tina Isa by her Muslim jihadi father (aided by her Brazilian mother) in St. Louis in 1989. Zein Isa had been plotting to bomb the Israeli embassy at the time he murdered his daughter for taking a job and dating a black student. Journalist Ellen Harris wrote a book about Tina, which Daniel Pipes reviewed:
In November 1989 in St. Louis, the FBI inadvertently tape recorded the entire episode of a teenage girl’s being killed by her Palestinian father and Brazilian mother (the Feds were looking for evidence of terrorism, which they also found). In a ghastly eight-minute sequence, Zein Isa stabbed his daughter Palestina thirteen times with a butcher’s knife as his wife held the girl down and responded to Palestina’s pleas for help with a brutal “Shut up!” The killing ends with Zein screaming “Die! Die quickly! Die quickly! . . . Quiet, little one! Die, my daughter, die!” By this time, she is dead.
Harris, a St. Louis television reporter, has done admirable spade work going through the court transcripts and interviewing everyone connected to the case in an attempt to piece together the interlocking stories of family murder and active support of Abu Nidal’s terrorist organization. In addition, she successfully conjures up the small and exceedingly unpleasant world of Zein Isa and his family of rabid anti-Americans living right in the American heartland. The murder culminates their lives of frustration, greed, and vulgarity. Unfortunately, Harris spent more effort digging up information than she did writing the book; so the more-than-casual reader must read and reread its pages to piece together the sequence of events and the scope of the Isa family’s involvement with Abu Nidal. Doing so repays the effort, however, for Harris has compiled a treasure trove of materials on two usually elusive subjects.
A 1991 New York Times article gives you details of the tapes and the trial:
The jury deliberated more than four hours Saturday before asking for the death penalty against Zein Isa and his wife, Maria. On Friday, the jurors had convicted them in the death of their daughter Tina, the father for stabbing her and the mother for holding her down.
The girl’s screams and moans as she begged her parents not to kill her were captured by devices secretly planted in the apartment by Federal agents who were looking into possible illegal activities by Mr. Isa on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Cultures and Generations Clash
Instead of international intrigue, the tapes captured a sometimes chilling, sometimes heartbreaking family drama involving clashes of cultures — Mr. Isa was born in Palestine and his wife in Brazil — and the parents’ attempts to control their daughter who, it seems, wanted to be an American teen-ager.
The surveillance unit was not staffed on Nov. 6, 1989, the night Tina Isa was killed. Soon after the killing, the F.B.I. turned over a number of tapes to the prosecutor, Dee Joyce-Hayes. They included a number of phone conversations with Zein Isa and several other daughters in which he seems to discuss various methods of getting rid of Tina, including accusing her of attacking him with a knife. Since the F.B.I. has refused to discuss the tapes, only some of which were used at the trial, it is not clear whether the authorities could have intervened to prevent the killing. Translated for Jury
The seven-minute tape of the killing, on which the father is heard shouting in Arabic “Die quickly!” in answer to his daughter’s cries, chilled the jury of seven women and five men and shocked court officials who thought they had seen and heard everything.
“It’s worse than any movie, any film, anything I thought that I would ever hear in my life,” said Bob Craddick, an assistant prosecutor for seven years, who has heard the tape seven or eight times.
Stomach-turning:
…On the night of her death, Tina’s parents express anger on the tape that she was at work, then seem not to believe that she was at work at all. Then Tina’s father says: “Here, listen, my dear daughter, do you know that this is the last day. Tonight, you’re going to die?”
Tina responds: “Huh?”
Zein Isa replies: “Do you know that you are going to die tonight?”
The girl’s mother asks her questions about items in her schoolbag. In the midst of her conversation with her mother, Tina begins to shriek in fear.
“Keep still, Tina!” says her father.
“Mother, please help me!”
“Huh? What do you mean?” the mother says.
“Help! Help!”
“What help?” the mother responds.
Tina screams, and Maria says: “Are you going to listen? Are you going to listen?”
Screaming louder, Tina gasps: “Yes! Yes! Yes, I am!” then coughs and adds, “No. Please!”
The mother says, “Shut up!”
Tina continues to cry, but her voice is unintelligible.
“Die! Die quickly! Die quickly!” the father says.
The girl moans, seems to quiet, then screams one last time.
“Quiet, little one! Die my daughter, die!” the father says.
Tina was stabbed six times in the chest with a boning knife, which pierced her heart, one lung, and liver, investigators said.
More here:
An honor killing is usually a private family matter. One family member, usually the father or oldest son, kills the family member who has disgraced or dishonored the family, usually a female who has either had premarital sex or been unfaithful in her marriage. Honor killings take place mostly in third world countries, although in November of 1989, Saint Louis gained National attention in what became one of the most publicized honor killings in the world.
The FBI unintentionally taped the brutal murder of 16-year-old Tina Isa, while doing electronic surveillance of the Isa’a home. Zein Isa, Tina’s father was a suspected Palestinian Terrorist and had been under FBI surveillance for some time. The first clue to Tina Isa’s death came one morning as FBI agents listened to the surveillance tapes from the night before. Imagine the difficulty the agents must have experienced listening to Tina’s terrifying screams, as her Palestinian father kills her and her Brazilian mother Maria helps him.
The agents quickly realize with horror, they are already hours to late and that Tina is already dead. The agents hear Tina screaming, begging her mother please help me and her mother says only shut up. Tina’s father stabs her with a butcher knife 13 times in the chest, while Tina’s mother Maria holds her daughter down. The murder of their daughter Tina Isa takes eight minutes. The tape ends with Zein Isa telling his daughter die, die quickly, quiet, little one, die, my daughter, die. Then there is silence on the tape and it is obvious Tina has died.
After hearing the murder of Tina Isa on the surveillance tape, agents must make a difficult decision. Do they blow FBI cover, turn over the audiotapes, allowing the prosecutor to prosecute the Isa’a for murdering their daughter. Do they continue their surveillance and hope that Zein and Maria Isa lead the agents to terrorists. In the end, the agents turn over their evidence to the prosecuting attorney’s office and prosecute the Isa’s for the murder of their daughter.
Tina is an honor killing. A daughter killed by her father for causing dishonor for her family in her father’s eyes. Earlier in the day, Tina had applied for a part-time job at a local Saint Louis Wendy’s Restaurant against her parents wishes, and with out their permission. Recently she had begun seeing a black boy from school. Both of these behaviors disrespect the family, enough that her father felt justified in killing her. The number of honor killings worldwide is difficult to detect. Honor killings are a taboo subject. Killing your child because they are disrespectful is not open for discussion in any country.
During their trial, the Zein Isa tried to get the surveillance tapes thrown out as evidence because they captured events that had no relevance to the FBI’s investigation. The court allowed the tapes as evidence, which allowed the jury to hear Tina’s voice from beyond the grave, and the stark cold method in which her father and mother murdered her in cold blood in her own home. Zein and Maria Isa both found guilty of Murder and sentenced to death.
Zein Isa died from illness while waiting on death row in 1997. Maria Isa’s sentence was commuted to life imprisonment without parole.
May they both rot in hell. And may Aqsa Parvez’s father rot there with them.
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Someone recently stated that PC would lead to our downfall-I believe it.
The daughter was murdered by her radical Islamist father.
Thanks for the spike in blood pressure.
I pray again, May her Soul rest in peace.
That just about says it all. The dhimmi journalists must be cowards, unwilling to follow their calling to report the news. Cowards.
The PC crap is not ment to bring our down fall, but to bring change. Just like illegal immagration, or secular humanism within our schools.
One war, many fronts.
If you do a search on facebook for “Aqsa Parvez” you’ll see about a dozen groups that are all memorializing her (except the hateful “the father did nothing wrong” one). In about all of these groups if you look at the forums, not one of them blames Islam. All of them say “it was abuse” etc. etc. How do people defend this faith? I really don’t get it
Like as IF he was actually going to admit this was a radical Islamo-nut job killing his own daughter over not wearing a hijab?
The father should be fed to Robert “Willie” Pickton’s HOGS! It is the only punishment that fits this crime!
A close second behind the outrageous behavior of the fathers (and a mother) is the outrageous behavior of the media who willingly aid and abet the diligent members of CAIR, et al, to hide the stone-age moral code of these animals.
“Broad strata”, indeed. All you J school graduates out there: What the hell do you think the common thread is in these atrocities??
I can only hope that the tipping point in the battle against galloping sharia arrives soon. Very soon. I wonder what it will take for the MSM to see the problem in its awful reality.
I believe the tipping point in the battle of illegal immigration was May 1, 2006. Maybe that will be a national holiday in the future when we again have control of our sovereignty.
I just don’t get it.
How can any human being believe that murdering a defenseless girl could ever restore honour, or in and of itself represent anything but the worst dishonour to you and your family imaginable?
It’s such barbaric thinking that it’s utterly alien to me.
This is sickening to the core.
I just sent 18 emails to news outlets and made a dozen calls.
PLEASE do the same in your areas if at all possible.
CAIR IS WINNING, PEOPLE.
I read an article on Newsbusters.org that quoted a MSNBC political analyst stating he is scared as hell to insult the muslim faith. So what we have is a bunch of pansy ass people in the press and government. Don’t worry too much, there are plenty of us that will fight.
I will not submit!
Link to article I’m referring to.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2007/12/12/lawrence-odonnell-too-afraid-criticize-islam
Incredibly despicable, barbaric honor killings aren’t just common they’ve been happening for a very long time.
The difference being that before anti American groups like the ACLU and CAIR, immigrants were forced to leave horrific customs in the old country.
Modern cultures should be forcing change world wide, instead tolerance of subjugation, mutilation and murder in western societies is forced assimilation in the wrong direction.
I didn’t realize murdering your child is a “teenager issue”. Guess that is yet another difference between Islam and Christianity.
I would really like to know what kind of father could murder their child by stabbing her and hearing her screams? What kind of mother could listen to the pleas for help from her daughter and do nothing? It is sick beyond my comprehension. All in the name of Islam, the peaceful and loving religion.
Does anybody know if Louis Farrakhan had any comment on the Zein case? One of the “dishonorable” things the daughter did was date a black boy. Would the leader of the Nation of Islam agree that dating a black person is grounds for death?
NOW sings crickets again.
I can’t imagine having a President that likes these people.
Media-types looking up at the ceiling and whistling while Mohammedans practice 7th Century barbarism in our midst is like being trapped in a “Seinfeld” episode: as they regard the bloody remains of a 16 year-old girl murdered in the name of a perverted, twisted belief system no more humane than the pagan savagery practiced by the Aztecs, you can hear them saying –
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that…”
Bottom line is, “journalists” of the liberal ilk don’t want to have to make judgments.
Judgments imply an objective sense or right vs. wrong; judgments require you to take a stand and defend your decision. Judgments strip away the false veneer of “I’m-somehow-above-it-all” pseudo-ethical preening and make you get your hands dirty.
Judgments require the mental effort to draw distinctions that are distinguishing. They require you to risk unpopularity with the admirers of the Emperor’s New Clothes, many of whom you may count among your “friends.” Judgments do not lend themselves to postmodern psychological avoidance-mechanisms designed to hide moral rudderlessness and intellectual bankruptcy.
Judgments require courage. The courage to look a murderous barbarian in the eye and say, “You, sir, are a murderous barbarian, and your hiding behind the teachings of your death-cult doesn’t change that fact or justify it in the least.” The courage to say that, even knowing that the barbarian will respond with at least threats of violence toward you if not the real thing, because you know it is the truth and it is your j-o-b to report the truth.
They don’t teach courage in J-school. At least not the kind that ordinary people would recognize. And all this “teenage wasteland/broad strata” mumbo-jumbo is what we get for it.
OH PLEASE, someone find him and ask him.
Nation of Islam, though crazy as hell, are a different kind of crazy than this kind.
Must be all the estrogen in the ecosystem, gumballs are shrinking everywhere :p
NEWSFLASH: CHRISTIAN FATHER CHOKES DAUGHTER TO DEATH FOR WEARING A THONG.
Oh wait, that never happened in the history of Christianity. Maybe Christianity and islam are different. Maybe one is not evil and the other is horribly so?
Regulus, the MSM journalists practice making judgments every day. They judge conservatives to be evil and malicious, homophobic, racist, etc. etc. ad nauseum. Listen to the questions they ask Republican vs. the ones they ask Democrats. They don’t lack judgment, just good judgment!
I hope the father and any member of the family that supported him gets the death penalty.
You guys are right a Christian would never kill their children in the name of religion.
Andrea Yates did not say “My children weren’t righteous.” Here She did not use religion as an excuse.
It would not be fair to judge all Christians by her actions. She’s just deranged.
American’s do not kill their children.
“Baby Grace” did not happen. Here. They’re just deranged as well.
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Wrong.
It is murder.
Muhammad Parvez’s invocation of sharia is no defense.
Perhaps the lack of denunciation of this brutal killing by Muslims is a sign. Perhaps they agree with what was done? Perhaps that is the true face of Islam? Where are the so-called “moderate” and “liberal” Muslims? Why is there merely silence?
Yes, pgtips the silence is here:
20 Muslim Groups Urge ‘Zero Tolerance’ for Domestic Violence
Here
#2 said:
In my estimation, this is correct.
The journalism community’s majority hatred for President Bush is quite evident. While they paint him as a “criminal” for the Iraq War and a “liar” over national intelligence, they refuse to easily hit him over the head for whitewashing the hideous aspects of the Islamic faith. Why?
Because they themselves are scared doo-dooless by a sworn enemy who they know has the potential of hitting back in very dangerous ways.
The same for radical feminists. I never hear these predominately white, intellectual women say boo about Islam, or the shamefully advertised treatment of women by a majority within the “hip-hop” community. Why?
Because they are scared doo-dooless by these groups and what they are capable of doing in return.
Yes domestic violence is a tragedy. To condone it and even to encourage it under whatever guise is nothing less than pure evil. For a pseudo-religious political cult to actively preach it as a means of achieving or saving honor is more than just a disgrace. One day soon there will be a call to arms and it will not be from the radical muslims or liberal elite but because of them.
If you keep pushing someone, sooner or later you will force them up against the wall. Some will stand there and accept their punishment. Others will fight back. Which party will you belong to then? Religion of peace? Yah right!
Chew on this, libs: in 1991, FBI surveillance of a suspected terrorist revealed rock-solid evidence of a totally unrelated cold-blooded murder, and his lawyers tried to get him off in typical low-down litigator fashion. Thank God the judge (and presumably appeals judges as well) didn’t fall for it, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t many that would have.
Think about all that the next time someone either weeps over Guantanamo and says a) enemy combatants should be treated as common American criminals and subject to our court system with its William Kunstlers, Ron Kubys and Lynne Abrahams, or b) cries foul about recording audio of suspected terrorists when they’re as really paranoid about the Secret Service as they say McCarthy was about communists.
hey umair01, nice job finding ONE (ONE!) example of a supposed Christian killing their kid(s). How does the Baby Grace story fit in at all? The parents in that case were just evil, there was no mention of religion. Oh, and nevermind the fact that everyone and anyone that interviewed Yates said she was a nutbag. ONE example in the past, what, 5-6 years? Is that the best you can do?
Do me a favor and go read thereligionofpeace.com for a month, and keep track of all the honor killings done in the name of f’ing Islam. Just read it for one month, and then come back here and try to play this equality of religions b.s.
Ah right. Dodge the issue and call it domestic violence. Thanks for the link.
Regulus #18, woot, woot, right on. You know the subject matter.
Umair01 #24, so if I understand, Andrea Yates a mentally ill woman is the Aqsa Parvez Islamic moral equivalency. Yes I see that.
The “mother” is just as guilty as the father….aiding in the crime by standing there watching her own flesh and blood slaughtered.
There aren’t enough hells for these radical perverts.
In all religions, there are fanatics. If a Christian kills for religion, he gets the maximum sentence, if a Jew kills, he get the max plus 10 years, if a Moslem does it, he goes free. If “separation of church and state” doesn’t do it, “temporary insanity due to religious beliefs” will do it. If the Saudis complain, he goes free with an apology.
The death sentence for these Newspapers is getting closer and closer, when they refuse to report the truth and the internet calling them out on each story they try to spin will be another nail in the coffin for them.
A “teenager issue”?
Are you %$#&!* kidding me? A “teenager issue”?
So exactly how many stories do we have of parents strangling their teenagers for refusal to obey?
Not many.
These people are just so downright ignorant, naive and stupid that it’s amazing they can make it through the day without walking into walls. Seriously.
Political correctness will kill them, and they don’t care so long as they feel morally superior to those of us who look at the murder of a 16-year-old by her Islamic father as an indication something’s rotten in that culture. Because, you know, we’re so intolerant.
As has been repeated, had this been a Catholic father…one can only imagine the screaming headlines of “Catholic Father Murders Daughter”, etc.
Umair01 #24: There is a vast difference. Andrea Yates and the horrible parents of Baby Grace are sick, evil people. They are in prison and facing trial for their misdeeds.
Unlike this case, no one – not even their fellow Christians or Christian defense groups (like the Thomas More Society) came to their defense. Because what they did has no defense. It is inexcusable. They will not be treated as special, protected groups on the basis of their religion.
Beyond that, I dare you to find an equivalent amount of cases of Christians slaughtering their children for disobedience, treating women as possessions and sub-human creatures, or advocating the advance of Christianity through violent means.
It isn’t going to happen, because – unlike Islam – Christianity is a religion founded on love and respect for the dignity of life. Murder, rape, genocide and war do not pervade Christian teaching. Abuse is not a Christian teaching, and those who do abuse are NOT Christian.
Meanwhile, read pretty much any passage in the Koran or the Hadith and you’ll come across SOME teaching advocating all the above as a means to break the world to the will of Islam.
The death Aqsa Parvez is a microcosm of what Islamic fundamentalists would do to the rest of the world. Is that the fate YOU want to suffer?
I have to disagree with that. They do make judgements all the time, but only if it fits in with the liberal agenda.
There is no middle of the road with these people. They readily hand-out the death sentence for the minutest “offenses” how anyone could look at this case and blame Aqsa is beyond my comprehension.
They can save their platitudes, it’s their religion we shouldn’t judge them.
In a post 9/11 world, I am at a loss for words that we can still look at the Islamic community and still say that people with this mindset are in the minority.
Life means absolutely nothing to them – not your life, not my life and most certainly not the life of their own children. If they can so easily snuff out the life of a child they brought into this world – well I think that speaks for itself.
Aqsa & Tina – you are now in good hands. I am sorry you had to suffer for nothing. May God keep you.
What will it take for people to wake up about dhimmitude?
I’m afraid it will take Hillary kissing the feet of Ahmenijad (sp?) and putting on a hijab (much like the time she wore that hat while in China) once she becomes President.
(She’s well on her way.)
Anyone want to give me the odds that they’d feel that way if it was a Christian who killed a family member for wanting an abortion? An academic question, I know, since that tends not to happen.
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I always understood domestic violence to be the stuff that people did when they were drunk. This doesn’t make the offense any less serious, since you never be violent to your family and should never be drunk enough to forget that!
However, the tapes of how Tina Isa died shows how cold and calculating the parents were. They were fully aware and in control of their actions, and this is what chills me to the bone.
The piece of scum that happened to be Asqa Parvez’ father needs to be fed into a woodchipper. Hows that for honor?
Where is the outrage? Where are these so-called human rights groups now? When will there be an outcry against these ass-backwards fools? How many more people have to die while the MSM makes excuses?
SCREW ISLAM, SCREW MOHAMMED, SCREW ALLAH, SCREW THE KORAN.
The vile father needs swift justice, but the media, they are truly dangerous.
May I propose a new bumper sticker?
Michelle, feel free…
“Glocks, not Smocks”
I heard on the radio this morning that some Canadian muslim group was claiming that it was just teenage rebellion completly unrelated to islamic custom.
Yeah right.
pgtips, domestic violence does not just happen when someone is drunk. Most of the
time the perpetrator is drunk but it also happens when the perpetrator is enraged.
This wasn’t domestic violence and to say it was is to belitttle what happened to that
child. Most likely, the father went to his imam and asked permission and was assured
that Allah wanted her dead and would reward anyone that took part in her death. I
just added the last part, don’t know that that is what he said, but, betcha he did. I do
know they don’t make a move without the imam’s approval. I would think the imam
(if he was a true religious leader) would have said, “How dare you even think of harming this Unworthy! She has done nothing wrong except to want to be like her
peers in the way she dresses. She doesn’t want to be different and she certainly doesn’t want to look like a goof with her hair under a scarf like a babushka!”
But no, we know he didn’t say that.
As a rule, when Christians kill their children, they are usually mentally ill. They think the children are possessed or they are hearing voices. Now, there are so called Christians that have killed their children out of pure meanness and I think the Baby Grace killing was one of those. We must be careful here. Not all who call
themselves Christians are incapable of ugliness. If we cannot admit this, we are no
better than Muslims. Evil can creep in anytime and anywhere.
One of my cousins best friends was beaten to death by her father, in the early ’80s
when he found out she had had premarital sex. It started out as domestic violence
and ended in murder. Granted, he was so remorseful ( or afraid of punishment) that
he shot himself later that night but there was always the question of what did the
mother do to help her daughter because she was home but swore she was in the
house the entire time and didn’t know they were in the barn. From what my cousin
told me, no one believed her. They said that she was as bad as he about disobedience and would have either urged him to beat her or have beaten her herself.
God gives us a choice. We can either choose good or choose evil. Apparently Allah
either doesn’t care what choice you make or hasn’t quite made the concept clear
enough for his followers to understand it.
Rant off.
Obscenity in the use of language does not always require vulgarity. the headline “Canadian Teen Dies; Father Charged” is an example of this.
The use of the verb “dies” is disgusting. It is essentially a passive type verb but, to the extent that it is active, it implies that the actor is the girl. The absence of context implies that she died peacefully at home. Perhaps there was a car accident…
Obviously this is not what happened…she was (may I suggest some more accurate verbs) killed/strangled/murdered.
Sorry to be a grammarian, but it is “1984″ all over again…whoever controls language controls thought…and clearly the media only wants the public to be able to think about this in a certain way.
I suppose if a radical Christian murdered a daughter over not wearing a cross, that would be a “teenage issue/rebellion” too. Fat chance! There would be nothing else on the morning news shows.
I would like to question the people that wrote the word dies. I would like an
honest answer as to why someone changed it from is killed to dies. Are they
afraid of citizen outrage over the killing of this little girl? Or are they afraid that
the Muslim father will not get a fair trial if the prospective jurors are allowed to
stew about this honor killing. (Not only does it make my brain hurt to write
honor killing, but it makes my eyes hurt to read those words together). There has
to be some sort of justification for changing this up to read dies. Someone must
be over the top pc.
I wholeheartedly believe that if it were Christians who committed acts of terror on 9/11, or Christians who riot whenever someone blasphemed Jesus, or Christians who murdered people (especially their own children) in cold blood for not being Christian that Christianity would be illegal and all Christians would be on government watch lists, rounded up, and “re-educated”.
For reasons clear only to liberals and secular fundamentalists, Christianity is considered the single most evil religion on the planet and therefore deserves no rights, only contempt and hostility.
For sure, Englishqueen, for sure. And, may I add, that the ones showing hostility and contempt, in this country, will certainly be at Church on Sunday, showing off their over-sized Bibles for the MSM.
Understanding Liberal Media Bias — aka inside a Democrats head — it’s just like their approach to gun control. Which is, no one but crooks and cops should have a gun.
Why they can advocate disarming Americans is that they personally have nothing worth defending. Not their own selves, friends and family. Not property, money, wealth or health. Not even their own children.
So when it comes to a clash between cultures, is it rational to expect the media to suddenly come to its senses?
Of course they get it wrong. They have already given up because they have nothing to protect. And nothing to defend. And not a damned thing to stand for.
A beautiful little girl born into a savage death cult. Islam: Where morons thrive.
Michelle & People:
Keep in mind what happened to Aqsa is a single instance of a crime. Comapre it like the video that pops up now and again of a stalker abducting a young woman who is later found dead. Aqsa Parvez’s death is NOT a normal “islamic event.” I remember a kid in 1st grade whose Christian mother forced him to kneel in rock salt when he was bad until his knees bled. When he was 12 she beat him so badly he lost hearing in one ear.
I have a few Muslim friends who are by no means whacked out on the fringe like Aqsa’s family obviously is.
Parents are sometimes overprotective, sometimes STUPID, like the woman who created the phony MySpace page that led to the suicide of Megan Meier. But that’s another story…
Mohamed Elmasry, President of the Canadian Islamic Congress,also stated Israeli’s were legit targets for suicide bombings. The CIC’s web site is defending and denying. these people are evil
Apparently, the term “Honor killing” is as oxymoronic as “civilized muslim.”
What sort of religion would abide by aberrant, uncivilized, murderous behavior such as this? A “religion of peace?” A “religion of tolerance?”
If Muslims want to be seen as modern, civilized people worthy of living here and elsewhere in western society, they have to act the part. We don’t want their 14th century crap here.
Heck, in Massachusetts, we are finally almost rid of the Puritanical blue laws! We don’t need any of this sharia crap!
I will be happy if the father and mother are prosecuted to the limits of the law and nothing less.
I won’t hold my breath.