FBI finally admits the obvious: Murder of Amina and Sarah Said may have been an honor killing

The FBI finally admits the obvious: a father in Texas may have committed an honor killing. And it only took ten months for them to catch on to what the girl’s aunt has been saying since the day of the murder.   Way to investigate, fellas!  I never expected they would say definitively a) that the father, Yaser Abdel Said, is the murderer and b) it was an honor killing.  But the fact that it took them ten months to even acknowledge the possibility is ridiculous, and a testimony to how deep the politically correct Islamic rabbit hole goes.

For the first time, the FBI has admitted that the murders of Amina and Sarah Said by their father may have been an honor killing on American soil.

…The girls’ great-aunt, Gail Gartrell, says the girls’ father killed them both because he felt they disgraced the family by dating non-Muslims and acting too Western, and she called the girls’ murders an honor killing from the start.

But the FBI held off on calling it an honor killing until just recently, when it made Yaser Abdel Said the “featured fugitive” on its Web site.

“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell everybody all along,” Gartrell told FOXNews.com. “I would say that’s a victory.”

The worst part is that they had escaped from Said, and then their mother tricked them into going back:

On Christmas Day, Mrs. Said, her daughters and their boyfriends fled the state. They stopped at a relative’s house in Kansas and then rented an apartment under an assumed name in Tulsa.

Mr. Said had filed a missing persons report with Lewisville police on Dec. 26.

Mrs. Said called Lewisville police Dec. 27 to tell them she and her daughters were safe. The report reads:

“Patricia stated that she was not going to call back again, as she was in great fear of her life. Patricia said she is very fearful of her husband harming her and/or her children, which is the reason she left her husband. Patricia further advised she and her children, Sarah and Amina, are just fine, and are going to continue hiding from her husband.”

The next day an officer filed a reported recommending the case be closed, citing an interview with one of Mrs. Said’s relatives.

“Patricia had told her that since they are Muslim that the daughter was only allowed to date other Muslims. Yaser had found out she went on a date with a non-Muslim and became very angry and threatened her with bodily harm. This concerned Patricia because Yaser has been violent in the past and Patricia was afraid that Yaser would severely hurt their daughter. At that time Patricia decided it would be best to leave her husband and take their daughters and go into hiding.”

On New Year’s Eve, Mrs. Said and her daughters returned to Lewisville. Amina told her aunt that her mother lied to her, saying the trip was to put flowers on their grandmother’s grave. Mrs. Said told police she felt guilty about leaving her husband.

No one has a problem examing the religious tenets, morals, and motives of Latter Day Saints adherents and offshoots where abuse of children is concerned.  As Robert Spencer has documented repeatedly, Said’s behavior was well within the boundaries of Islamic law.  We should be able to have free and open discussion of these matters, without CAIR screaming “Islamophobia!” and being taken seriously.

Steve at Careful Thought has been following this story since January and addresses the “Honor killings are not Islamic culture,” argument:

Maybe not, but it happens an order of magnitude more frequently under militant Islam than, say, in the Lutheran community.

And remember, Robert Spencer shows chapter and verse in the Quran which says it is, in fact, perfectly permissible in islam.  There is no New Testament in Islam.  In Christianity, Jesus came to fulfill the law and create a new covenant which means we no longer have to comply with all that stuff in Leviticus, for example.  What the Quran says still goes where orthodox Muslims are concerned; nothing has happened to “cancel it out.”