Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:56:40 PM
Texas-born Patricia (“Tissie) Said, formerly of the Owens family, is the mother who lured her two teenage daughters, Sarah and Amina, to their deaths at the hands of their own father this past New Years Day in Dallas. How can a mother do such a thing? Even if her own life was threatened, even if her husband Yasser had literally held a gun to her head and told her to trick her daughters into returning, isn’t a mother supposed to sacrifice herself for her children? Or at least to protect them? What can explain such a perversion of maternal instinct and of the life force itself?
“Tissie” Said is not the first mother to have participated in an honor killing on American soil. In 1989, in St Louis, Missouri, Brazilian-born second wife, Maria Isa, held her daughter Palestina (“Tina”) Isa down for twenty minutes as her father, Zein Isa, a Palestinian Abu Nidal terrorist operative, viciously and repeatedly stabbed her to death. The entire murder had been taped by federal authorities who were tracking the Abu Nidal group. The jury got to hear the girl’s heartbreaking cries and found both parents guilty. (Unsurprisingly, Zein Isa had the same mind-set that Islam Said, the brother of the honor murdered Dallas girls has. Isa said that “he had stabbed his daughter in self-defense, that she had so shamed him, that he had to commit a crime to restore his honor.”)
Palestina tried very hard to please her parents. She was overworked, treated “like dirt,” chronically beaten and constantly abused, both verbally and psychologically. But, like Amina and Sarah Said, Palestina also had academic ambitions—and she had an African-American “boyfriend.” Such Americanized behavior doomed all these honor murdered girls.
Both research and anecdotal evidence document that women collaborate, both directly and indirectly, in honor killings. According to a study which I cite in my 2002 book, Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman, Arab girls and women gossip about and slander others' girls and women in a way that demands that the men “do something” to restore their families’ honor. Palestina Isa’s three sisters kept pestering their father to “do something about the nig*er-loving whore.”
Sometimes, a mother might physically murder her own daughter on her own, by herself, directly, not indirectly. For example, in 2003, on the West Bank, Amira Abu Hanhan Qaoud, brutally murdered her 13 year-old daughter Rofayda who had been raped and impregnated by her two brothers. Amira was quoted as saying that “I had to protect my children. This is the only way I could protect my family’s honor.”
Follow the link above and read the whole story, written in great detail by Phyllis Chesler at Front Page Magazine. The interviews, reports, and descriptions in the article are extremely disturbing. How a religion can spread this kind of abomination throughout its population of mothers is almost unbelievable; but it's true. Mothers aid fathers, brothers, and uncles in the cold-blooded murdering of their daughters. That is the nature of Islam. Demonic. The violent and hideous acts of Islamists are unforgiveable. The parents, mothers and fathers, who commit these sort of blasphemies against God and the world should be quickly executed for the sake of protecting civilized society. An innocent child should not be murdered by their own parents simply because they were born into Islam.