The big crime story on the right side of the blogosphere is the brutal murder of Dallas teens Sarah and Amina Said by their Egyptian born father who was said to be angry at their “western lifestyles.” He shot his two daughters in his cab and is still on the loose after police failed to find him after an early morning raid on his posh Lakeland Drive home.

The media bent over backwards to avoid calling this crime an honor killing, though it’s all but proven that these girls died because they dared to be independent of the brutally repressive culture of Wahabbist Islam that plagues the once proud land of Egypt. Interviews with the girls’ friends prove they were terrified of their tyrant of a father and his views:

Sisters, Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, were each shot to death. Friends of the girls say their father was Egyptian and critical of popular American lifestyles. “I’m definitely 100% sure that it was her dad that killed her,” said Kathleen Wong, a friend of the dead teenagers.

Wong says the girl’s father was verbally abusive and that Sarah, especially, lived in fear. “She’s always told me that she was always so scared of her dad,” says Wong. “Even at school if a teacher joked around like, ‘I’m gonna tell your parents about this’, she would like totally flip out and start crying like, ‘please don’t tell’.”

Though there are many abusive fathers of all religious persuasions, it is wrong to ignore the radical motivation for this crime, an expression of “Sudden Jihad Syndrome” according to some. Though others, like Wonkette, scoff at the theory and these girls’ deaths.

On the heels of this is this news from England, where it’s said that a conservative estimate places the number of women in England who have undergone genital mutilation at 66,000.

66,000!

Gateway has news of another “Honor” Killing, this one in Chicago where an Indian man killed his daughter and her husband and children because the husband was of “a lower caste” and thus beneath him. The killer may be Hindu or Muslim, it isn’t being reported but the spread of such evil cannot stand in our country.

Aqsa Parvez was murdered in Toronto less than a month ago in similar circumstances. She attempted to flee her Jihadist father to no avail. The reaction from an increasingly radicalized Muslim community shocked older Muslims who were otherwise at odds with those of us who think Jihadism is a dangerous threat to our national security. From Khalid Hasan’s Daily Times piece:

The most shameful part of the Aqsa tragedy lies in the on line and off line rumors that those who consider themselves “rightly guided” have been circulating. Some suggested that she had a black boyfriend (note the racism), others that she was sexually promiscuous, and some even called her a drug pusher. In other words, her father had every moral right to kill her, is the message. The Canadian imams, many of them in their self-styled attires and operatic headgear came out with other justifications. Sheikh Alaa El-Sayyed, imam of a Toronto mosque, said, “Women who wear hijabs occupy higher positions in Islam, according to religious teachings.” Where did the imam get that because nowhere does Islam lay that out? He also said, “We cannot let culture supersede religion. If we stay away from the teachings of Islam, we will pay for it.” Translated into straight language, it means that since Aqsa stayed away from the teachings of Islam, she had to “pay for it”. Imam Iqbal Nadvi of Oakville’s Al-Falah Islamic Centre mosque said, “Parents fail and bring shame upon themselves if a child chooses to abandon holy writings and not wear the hijab. It is their duty to convince their kids that this is part of their culture.” In other words, Aqsa’s father was justified in killing her because she would not wear the hijab. He also said that Aqsa was “going in the wrong direction, going with some other boy or some other thing.” That being so, she got what was coming to her and good riddance that was.

These attitudes are not just prevelant among a new generation of Muslims here, but prevailing world wide. There is a new column out in the Yemeni Times stating clearly that violence against women is not only justified, but necessary. How many Muslims in the West are reading it now and applying that “wisdom” to their own families?

We in the West sit silent as Muslim women, seeking only to enjoy the same freedoms as every other westerner, are massacred. Why?

Is it because to discuss assimilation into Western society, even of the most basic value of not murdering your daughter, has become off limits due to political correctness? Is it an affront to multiculturalism to tell Muslim men that religious beliefs aside women cannot be treated as property here?

Would we be as forgiving of any other group?

It is both bigoted and treasonous for Americans particularly, but the West in general, to abandon the ideal of gender equality for the Muslim women who live among us. It is a betrayal of our culture and heritage that undermines our society in a thousand different ways, most importantly by robbing us of these bright young women who were slaughtered by our cowardice.

Hot Air has a new Jihad Watch dealing with the left’s inaction in the face of these barbaric murders. It makes a good point, but what’s our (the right) excuse for inaction?

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