VIDEO: Pamela Geller on FOX News Report of Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference and Family Cover-Up

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Note: All the pictures in the news segment have Jessica in the hijab; all the snaps of her that I have seen are sans hijab.

Here is the segment on the April 29th AFDI/SIOA Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference that was supposed to air on FOX news (Detroit) last Sunday when the multiple first degree murder verdict came down in the Shafia mass honor killing — not because of the Shafia honor killing verdict, but because family Mokdad members, one in particular, were livid that we were using Jessica's name in connection with "honor killing." Jessica mokdadVarious female Mokdad family members, including Cassandra Mokdad, alleged that Jessica's murder was not an honor killing, despite the overwhelming evidence that it was. We filmed last week.

Family members have been apoplectic about the conference, more concerned with offending Islam than with the honor murder of Jessica Mokdad. Jessica's "stepmother" Cassandra, though just a few years older than Jessica, has been particularly vocal and vicious. Nasty facebook comments, denials and cover for the honor killer, first claiming that Saddam Hussein was responsible, then that the murder was an act of passion — all this is part of the reason we are holding this conference: the cover-up of honor killings, despite their rise, in the West. The family of Jessica should be joining forces with me, like Amina and Sarah Said's family (on her mother's non-Muslim side), to educate the public on this horrible Islamic practice.

Although it is usually the father and/or brother commits the honor killing (although Tooba Shafia was a willing killer to her daughters), the mother almost always has a role. It was Patricia Said who lured her daughters home after Amina and Sarah ran away. They were honor murdered by their father Yaser Said upon their return home. Who lured Jessica Mokdad home?

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The last recorded dispute between Jessica Mokdad and her stepfather was over the Aqsa Parvez's honor killing). She didn't want to wear it, thereby bringing shame on him and the family. This report is typical for the mainstream media and unworthy of FOX, which, while not perfect, is generally much better than its competitors: Alexis Wiley doesn't bother to give even a shred of the evidence that it was an honor killing, and instead gives the impression that it is something I am making up. She doesn't mention that initial reports were quite clear — a shocking thing for the mainstream media — that her stepfather killed Jessica because she "wasn't following Islam" (report from TwinCities.com) and was "not adhering to Muslim customs" (Star Tribune).

The Daily Mail reported here: "Devout Muslim stalks his step-daughter over four states 'before killing her for being too Western."

The Daily Tribune Reported: Stepfather charged with murder in Warren, upset victim didn't adhere to Muslim customs.

And Alexis Wiley's own report for FOX Detroit reported it as an honor killing as well: Wiley reported, "He forced her to wear a traditional head scarf instead of allowing her to make that decision on her own, and when she stopped wearing a scarf, friends say he became furious."

But Wiley gives no hint of the existence of these reports or her own. Why? Who is paying off Alexis Wiley? Or is it that she is scared, intimidated, afraid to "offend Islam"? Or is it that her political correctness makes it impossible to think of Muslims as anything but victims?

But in that case, why doesn't Jessica Mokdad matter? Here's the accompanying news article (and do check out the comments):

Slain Woman's Name on Conference Upsets Her Family FOX Detroit, Alexis Wiley

Loved Ones Dispute Her Murder Was an Honor Killing

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (WJBK) — It's been almost ten months since Jessica Mokdad's murder. She was just 20 years old.

"It's like still in disbelief," said Mohammed Mokdad, her father.

Jessica's murder made international headlines. She left Minnesota to escape an allegedly physically and mentally abusive stepfather, but in April of 2011, her stepfather, Rahim Alfatlawi, drove from Minnesota to her grandmother's Warren home and shot her in the head.

Her family calls it an awful tragedy, but others are calling it an honor killing.

"We know that this is a practice under Islamic law. The honor killing is the final act. People know very little of the terror … that these girls live under," said Pamela Geller.

She is the head of Stop the Islamization of America. Geller is hosting a conference on the anniversary of Jessica's death in Dearborn. It's called the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference.

"We cannot sanction this gendercide. We cannot sanction the diminishment and dehumanization of women. We must speak up," Geller said.

We asked Jessica's stepmother, Cassandra Mokdad, whether her murder was an honor killing.

"Absolutely it was not," she said.

She told us this disgusting act had nothing to do with Islam, a religion she said Jessica practiced proudly.

"It was nothing about religion or anything. It was just about a sick human being," Mohammed Mokdad said.

"He wanted to have a relationship with Jessica as more than her stepfather. He wanted to have a more romantic relationship with her," Cassandra Mokdad explained.

Even the Macomb County Prosecutor on the case said Alfatlawi murdered Jessica because he was obsessed with her, not the religion, and Jessica's family wants her name taken off the conference.

The city of Dearborn is being sued for covering up honor killings.

"She's using Jessica as her poster child for anti-Islam," said Cassandra Mokdad.

"What gulls me is that there is this prohibition on discussing it and the ideology that inspires honor killings," Geller explained.

She said this conference will happen and the name won't be changed.

"We're definitely going to have this conference and it will not be stopped. Their directing their barbs at me. I didn't kill Jessica. I'm trying to save the next girl. They should be helping me save the next girl," said Geller.

"Absolutely I'll go. I won't let her sit there and misuse Jessica's name, and I will let her know exactly how I feel," Cassandra Mokdad told us.

The conference will be held at the Hyatt in Dearborn at the end of April.

The honor killing was widely reported:

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Look at the vile Jew-hatred and racism posted by Cassandra Mokdad, Jessica's "stepmother" (below, screenshots of her mass honor killing of three Shafia girls and another female, and was just convicted in Canada. So Cassandra's strange and vicious behavior is hardly surprising. What is surprising is that Cassandra is not much older than Jessica — this is the mindset of a young Muslim woman in America.

Here are some screenshots of Cassandra Mokdad's (Jessica's "stepmother" though very close in age) — she has since gone dark on FB.

 

Cassandra Mokdad Jew hate geller hate

 

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Cassandra mokdad FB profile

 

'US Dollars Feed Israel War Crimes'

 

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"There is broad support and acceptance of this idea in Islam, and we're going to see it more and more in the United States," says Robert Spencer, leading scholar on jihad and Islam, NY Times bestselling author of ten books on Islam and jihad.

 

Twenty-year-old Jessica Mokdad just wanted to live a normal American life.

But her stepfather, Rahim Alfetlawi, wanted to control her every move in an effort to force her to live his idea of a very conservative Muslim lifestyle, her family and police said.

Now Alfetlawi is in jail, awaiting trial on charges that he killed his stepdaughter. With his hands and feet in shackles, the Iraqi refuge who said he was a victim of Jessica mokdadSaddam Hussein's regime listened in court May 12 as his attorney, Richard Glanda, asked to have him examined to see whether he's mentally competent to stand trial.

The proceedings were translated into Arabic.

"He thought she was becoming too Westernized," said Macomb County Assistant Prosecutor Bill Contaldo. "I think this was a very nice young lady wanting to experiment with Western culture without control and without abuse."
[…]
Jessica Mokdad's parents were divorced; Alfetlawi became her stepfather shortly before her ninth birthday. The family moved to Minnesota, where Alfetlawi forced his stepdaughter to wear a hijab and made her almost a prisoner in their home, said her father, Mohamad Mokdad.

Her mother told police Alfetlawi felt shamed by his stepdaughter's Western ways: She wore shorts and sleeveless tops. She didn't want to wear the hijab.

Jessica Mokdad also had a boyfriend. When Alfetlawi found out the relationship had been physical, he forced them to marry in 2009 in a religious — but not legally binding — ceremony in a mosque, Mohamad Mokdad said.

The couple lived in the Alfetlawi house, but Alfetlawi wouldn't allow them to sit next to each other on the couch, Mokdad said.

"The poor kid. I don't know how she just didn't go insane," he said. Jesscia mokdad 8

She tried to escape Alfetlawi as soon as she turned 18.

The police and Macomb County prosecutors say Alfetlawi shot her execution-style.

Mokdad's mother told police that Alfetlawi felt so shamed by her daughter's Western ways, he killed her in an honor killing, Warren Police Sgt. Stephen Mills said.

"I thought it was a sick joke," her father said when he heard of her death. "Then I found out it was for real."

Contact [email protected]
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To register for the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference, please email [email protected] with your name, email address and number of people. The Hyatt is providing this room free of charge as an apology for their error in canceling a Tea Party event that I was scheduled to speak out in Texas. The conference is a victory for free speech.

 

AFDI/SIOA, VAST to Host Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference in Dearborn, Michigan at Hyatt Regency Yahoo News

 

NEW YORK, PR Newswire: The prominent human rights organization American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), its Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) program and the Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force (VAST) will be hosting the first-ever human rights conference dedicated to exposing the plight of women under Islamic law in Dearborn, Michigan on the anniversary of the honor murder of Jessica Mokdad: the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference.

 

The Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference will be held at the Hyatt Hotel in Dearborn. After bowing to Islamic supremacist pressure and canceling a speech by Pamela Geller that had been scheduled for a Hyatt in Nashville, Tennessee, the Hyatt reversed its stance, recovered its understanding of the American principle of free speech, apologized and offered AFDI space in a Hyatt for a future Conference to make it up the human rights organization. Geller chose the Hyatt in Dearborn to stand in solidarity there with girls who are in danger of being victimized like Jessica Mokdad.

 

Jessica Mokdad was a 20-year-old Muslim woman in Warren, Michigan, who was brutally murdered in  Reliance of the traveller copy May 2011. Fox News Detroit reported: “Authorities say a Minnesota man killed his 20-year-old stepdaughter in Michigan because she left home and wasn't following Islam.” Jessica’s stepfather, a devout Muslim, tracked his stepdaughter over four states to murder her for bringing dishonor on her family.

 

AFDI Executive Director Pamela Geller said in a statement: “We’ve named the Conference after her as part of our ongoing campaign to raise awareness and bring a stop to the phenomenon of Islamic honor killing. These girls have rights, too, they’re human beings, and yet they’re completely forgotten in our politically correct culture, in which speech that is offensive to Islam is increasingly forbidden. We’re standing for the human rights of girls like Jessica Mokdad.”

 

Geller added: “AFDI tried to place ads on Detroit-area buses offering help to people wishing to leave Islam and threatened by their families. Detroit SMART Transit refused the ads, and we sued on free speech grounds. We won, and the ads were scheduled to run, but Detroit SMART still refused to run them – and the same week they were supposed to run, Jessica Mokdad was murdered. Perhaps if she had seen one of our ads, she would be alive today. This underscores the cowardice of Detroit-area officials and the need for this Conference in Dearborn. We welcome women seeking help and resources to escape dangerous and misogynist households.”

Here's a site providing the Traveller as searchable pdf file. Using Adobe's snapshot function you can create images of every section of the book.

 

*Above scan  is from these pages from one of the most important English-language sources for the content of Islamic law: Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law: It is certified by Al-Azhar University as a translation that "corresponds to the Arabic original and conforms to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni Community…":
In Book O, titled "Justice," in section 1, "Who is Subject to Retaliation for Injurious Crimes," section o1.1 reads, "Retaliation is obligatory … against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right…"
However, o1.2 clarifies (above) that "The following are not subject to retaliation" and then lists — after the lovely, egalitarian "Muslim for killing a non-Muslim" and "Jewish or Christian subject … for killing an apostate" — "(4) a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring."

 

Join us  at the AFDI/SIOA  Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference on Honor Killings…

 

OT but related: NBC, AP Avoid 'M-word' in Report About 'Honor Killings – NewsBusters

Two Islamic texts stressing the immunity for honour killings: An answer to Ziad Hashmi’s National Post challenge

Écrit par Point de Bascule on 09 Décembre 2011. Posted in Articles par Point de Bascule

Version française ICI

hashmi s zWhile the Shafia trial is on in Kingston, Sikander Ziad Hashmi, Imam at the Islamic Society of Kingston, has challenged the National Post’s readers on December 6, 2011 to find one Islamic text that sanctions the murder of a family member to preserve honour. Here is his exact request:

"I ask you to find me one classical Islamic religious text that sanctions the murder of a family member to preserve honour. It just doesn’t exist."

Point de Bascule answers the Imam’s request by producing not one but two Islamic texts stating that a father who kills his child must not be subject to retaliation. Both texts do not specify any particular motive for granting immunity to the father. Therefore, honour killings are covered by the exemption. Both texts were presented by Point de Bascule in an article published when the Shafia trial began.

A Sunni text endorsing the immunity of a father who kills his child

The first text comes from the Sharia manual Umdat al-Salik (Sunni). Section o1.2 lists many cases of murder for which the murderer is granted immunity. Case #4 refers specifically to that of a parent who kills his/her child:

"o1.2 The following are not subject to retaliation:

  1. A child or insane person, under any circumstances … ;
  2. A Muslim for killing a non-Muslim ;
  3. A Jewish or Christian subject of the Islamic state for killing an apostate from Islam … ;
  4.  A father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring ;
  5. "

 Ahmad ibn Naqid al-Misri (1302 – 1367), Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller), Beltsville (Maryland), Amana Publications, 1994, pp. 583-584

A reproduction of the book is available HERE.

The Umdat al-Salik is available on the University of Waterloo’s website.

The English translation of the Umdat al-Salik is endorsed by al-Azhar University in Egypt, a leading institution for the study of Islam in the Sunni world and by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), an organization of scholars based in the United States and affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.

It is opportune to add that the Islamic Society of Kingston represented by Sikander Ziad Hashmi promotes the IIIT as a reference and an educational Islamic website

This text from the Umdat al-Salik proves that Imam Hashmi was trying to fool the National Post’s readers by distorting a very basic Sharia principle.

http://www.kingstonmuslims.net/more_links.php

A Shiite text endorsing the immunity of a father who kills his child

The second text stresssing the immunity of a father who kills his child comes from Ayatollah Khomeini (1902-1989), an authority of Shia Islam.

In the section 2.3 of Appendix II that he added to his book A Clarification of Questions, Ayatollah Khomeini mentions specifically that, in order to be punished, the murderer must not be the slain’s father:

RETALIATION (GHASAS)
2 – Conditions of retaliation

  1. Equality in liberty and bondage, and therefore a free will be retaliated vis a vis a free.
  2. Equality in religion, therefore Moslems will not be retaliated for infidel, unless a Moslem has a habit of killing infidels.
  3.  The slayer is not the father of the slain, nor the parental grandfather (apparently).
  4. Reason ans wisdom.
  5. Puberty.
  6. That he religiously does not deserve to be killed, such as when a person is forced to kill in self-defense.

   Ayatollah Khomeini, A Clarification of Questions, Westview Press, Boulder (Colorado), 1984, p. 429

A reproduction of the excerpt is available HERE.

Additional information

The issue of Islamic religious texts being settled, here is some additional information demonstrating that Islamists support the immunity for parents who kill their children as well as the concept of honour.

Jordan

In 2009, Queen Rania from Jordan gave her support to women's rights groups that wanted to change laws amounting to legal impunity for men involved in honour killings. Rania denounced the fact that such crimes were on the rise and that murderers were getting away with sentences as little as six months. At the time, the Islamic Action Front, an organization linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, managed to block any changes to the law.

The Age : Jordan's Queen joins fight for action on honour killings

Canada

In 2006, Mahmoud Ayoub, a Muslim expert who is a member of the International Institute of Islamic Thought’s Council of scholars, testified in a Canadian court in favour of a Muslim man who had already been convicted for the murder of his wife. His testimony aimed at reducing the charge from first degree murder to manslaughter. A positive outcome would have reduced the murderer’s sentence.

On this occasion, Ayoub stressed that “the Islamic culture … place(s) great significance on the concept of family honour.” (R. vs Humaid – section 67)

He also stated that “many Islamic societies permit men to punish wives suspected of adultery and sometimes even kill them” (Canwest / National Post, November 10, 2006 – Top court refuses to hear whether religion can be a murder defence).

Ayoub was then trying nothing less than having Canadian tribunals acknowledging Sharia principles incompatible with the equality of all before the law. The judge rejected his plea.

The case was submitted to the Supreme Court. It refused to hear the case.

Mahmoud Ayoub is the same Muslim expert who testified in favour of an Islamist lobby that sued Maclean’s magazine for having published an article by Mark Steyn who quoted Muslim leaders advocating the conquest of the West by immigration and high birth rates.

Further reading

Institute for War & Peace Reporting (October 24, 2008): Syria – “Honour crime law is derived from Islamic sharia, and we cannot change it”

Point de Bascule: Procès des Shafia : Rappel sur les crimes d’honneur (Shafia trial : A reminder about honour killings)

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Walter Sieruk
Walter Sieruk
12 years ago

What a cruel evil and terrible reilgion Islam really is. There are some people who try to cover up the truth about how wicked religion, Islam. Nevertheless, the truth still gets out on this site and other like it. The ruthless, murderous and heartless actions ofthese Muslim males only show that Islam is a religion of misogyny as well as many other evil things.
Also, in the bookTHEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigtte Gabriel, who is the founder of ‘actforamerica.com’ she wrote “Honor killings are executed by slitting the victim’s throat, hatcheting them, stabbing, burning them to death, decapitation, bulluts to the head andchest,, or by any other means imaginable.” and “Honor killing have also come to the West thanks to the rise of Islamic immigration.”
The last sentence she wrote that was shown here is exposed in the above article.

Infidel
Infidel
12 years ago

American Islam = Nazism
Please stop referring to the satanic death cult of Mohammed as a “religion”. American Mohammedans, who adhere to Shari’ah and ritually slaughter their children, don’t do so out of any connection with the divine – but to establish Mohammed’s Empire.
And this reminds us what distinguishes us from them. American Mohammedans do not love their children.
Death to “Palestine”!

Brandy
Brandy
12 years ago

This is what Cassandra wrote on Jessica’s tribute wall on Facebook:(I’m sure it will be a private page soon). https://www.facebook.com/cmokdad?sk=wall#!/pages/RIP-Jessica-Mokdad/145312608873047
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“Cassandra Mokdad man o man. this woman wont give up. just to let you know. Dont you think that every islamiphobic conference she holds has just as many people rallying against her. do you know what thats doing???? MAKING HER FAMOUS!
2 hours ago · Like.”
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She thinks you (Pamela) want to be famous! She hasn’t a clue does she? If she only knew why you do what you do. But she’s so blinded trying to disguise the real reason Jessica was murdered. We all know why. I don’t know why they just don’t admit it. If they love Islam so much, why try to deny his teachings?

Jerome
Jerome
12 years ago

Why is it that when these types of things happen to non Muslims no one calls it honor killing? There is domestic and family killings they take place frequently in the US, every other week or so. If you’re not even handed, you lose all credibility Pamela and your pure hate for Muslims show.
The bible justifies parents killing their children for “honor” or when they disrespect them.
EX 21:17, LE 20:9, DT 21:18-21 A child who curses his parent(s) is to be put to death. A stubborn and/or rebellious child is to be put to death.

Brandy
Brandy
12 years ago

See, the thing that Cassandra doesn’t realize is that people are learning more and more about Islam. As more incidents happen here in the states, people are getting it. They’re curious as to why these murders keep happening and naturally, want to know why.
So while Cassandra and her ilk try to lie about the reason Jessica was murdered, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what they say because people can figure it out all on their own.
They can throw around “islamaphobia” as much as they’d like but you can’t change what people think and feel. What Jessica’s family should have done was call the police when her step-father was on his way to MURDER her! She’d be here today. She wouldn’t be a photo on a facebook page for people to write about how much they miss her. They would have been able to see her face to face and hug her. But instead, they all look around, “Oh, it was because of Hussein” or “He was obsessed with her”…blah, blah, blah. Give it up ladies, nobody believes you.

Brandy
Brandy
12 years ago

Jerome, when is the last time you read about an American girl murdered by her father/brother/uncle (take your pick, they’ll all do it) because she was dating? Or because she wouldn’t cover her head? Or because she wore clothes her father/brother/uncle thought were inappropriate?
You asked:
“Why is it that when these types of things happen to non Muslims no one calls it honor killing?”
Because Jerome, these things DON’T HAPPEN to non-Muslims!

fern
fern
12 years ago

I can not begin to imagine how frightened Jessica must have been.
Years of abuse (as has been confirmed by all those comments from family & friends) and as she got older islam tightened its grip, yet the man was never kicked out of the family! Sheesh.
Such a heavy price to pay for ignoring the obvious, as what helped put this child at risk, continues still, in the form of denial. A terrible injustice to Jessica and all those that will follow her, as sure as night follows day. Nothing to be proud of.
Poor Jessica x
I find it disgraceful that Pam is being dragged thru this mire. I’m sure Jessica would find it so too.

Frank
Frank
12 years ago

RE: “I’m Israel’s birtch. And so are you.”
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I understand this poster is meant to be upsetting and insulting, but I see it differently. I see it saying: “I’m Liberty and Freedom’s Bitch. And so are you.”
It is said “a logical picture of facts is a thought.” The two thoughts are rooted in the same logic.
I choose to look on the poster “I’m Israel’s birtch. And so are you” as a badge of honor.

fern
fern
12 years ago

You are being used as a scapegoat Pam….but you know that anyway.
You’ve trodden this murky path before and not been deterred. These people who condemn you, are a disgrace. You have saved a good few people from this evil and sad fate that has befallen Jessica, and you have shone a light on a cruel and evil ideology which puts so many innocents in their graves well before time. I hope Cassandra realises this one day, I won’t be holding my breath tho.
If people were wise and responsible, there would be no need for this blog.

Patti
Patti
12 years ago

The fact that these people basically LIED to the press is just further proof of how demented they really are. They are family members yes? Their demeanor in the interview was very cold. She will no doubt try to disrupt the event. Be prepared.

Rick
Rick
12 years ago

“The bible justifies parents killing their children for “honor” or when they disrespect them.”
“EX 21:17, LE 20:9, DT 21:18-21 A child who curses his parent(s) is to be put to death. A stubborn and/or rebellious child is to be put to death.”
The pointed difference is that non-muslims do not expect an outdated passage in a religious tome to stand up against the widely accepted foundation that murder is not tolerated. If/when non-muslims murder their children for , they do not quote the bible expecting leniency. The reason is that for many generations now, people in the civilized world actually go to jail for murder.
Time and again muslims have expected backing (and gotten it) from their state-sponsored barbaric form of law. Now, more than ever, they are trying to force non-muslim courts to honor their twisted views of justice. Pamela is helping stem the flow of misguided moral relativism and political correctness that has allowed honor killings to become common news in the civilized world.
It is the epitome of irony that non-muslims who silence or undermine attempts to identify and/or eliminate unacceptable islamic practices are actually commiting eventual suicide. Islam is coming for you if you do not adhere to their religion. They are merely nudging now because they do not have the numbers to simply demand otherwise. One day they might unless acted against.
Think I’m making that up or blowing something way out of proportion? In case you missed it in the article above, one of the types of people believed to be immune from retaliation for murder:
2. A Muslim for killing a non-Muslim
Their. Own. Words.
Wake! Up!
This is nothing new. This isn’t the first time this information has been presented. Muslims have been hanging on to this defense for centuries. What is new is the level of awareness in the information age. The question is will you stand against it or allow state-sponsored religiuos murder become accpetable by civilized people?

Jamadagnii
Jamadagnii
12 years ago

My concern is that Islam, and the practice of Sharia, does not insinuate itself into American culture. Isn’t that the point of the Jessica Mokdad Conference, whatever it is called?
Whether or not Jessica Mokdad was the victim of honor killing isn’t really the issue, is it? Do any of us really know the psyche or the motivation of the killer? All we know is what has been reported by the media. We don’t really know what the family thinks, just what the “step mother” thinks.
Rationally speaking, Is there a difference between the domestic violence in Muslim households and non-Muslim households? No, there really isn’t. The intimidation and violence always come down to the need for control over others and the rage of a narcissist in losing that control.
The only difference between the Muslim and the non-Muslim is the attempt to rationalize the violence — the contemporary pious Muslim can still cite the Qur’an and Hadiths to justify the action, and in Muslim countries that justification is accepted.
In free, modern countries that justification is not accepted nor tolerated, and I pray it never will.

Debi Brand
Debi Brand
12 years ago

Precisely what motivated this man to end Jessica’s life, I can’t claim to know.
What I can, however, and thus do claim to know is, anyone who knows Islam knows, once into the Medinah time of “revelations,” examples are aplenty attesting, Sunnah for those who offended Islam, or its Prophet by rejecting the faith in word or in deed, the Allah-order, The Messenger of Allah’s order for them was and is clear.
First, speak to them, give them, at times, a chance to repent; should they fail to do so, kill them.
What’s more, the injunction includes clear orders and examples, to do so, in such a horrific manner that one effectively places fear in the hearts of those who witness the severity of the punishment the offender to Islam and the Prophet’s community suffered at the hands of the Believers.
Anyone who refutes that is either an abject liar or one grossly uninformed with respect to Islam.

Brandy
Brandy
12 years ago

Jamadagnii, it isn’t domestic violence. It’s a way of life. It’s justice in their eyes because their daughters’ weren’t acting as they were supposed to. It’s acceptable to a large population of Muslims. Domestic violence isn’t accepted by most Americans. Our judicial system punishes those who do it. In majority Muslim countries honor killings are expected when women/girls stray from Sharia.
If my daughter doesn’t dress the way I want her to, my husband isn’t going to kill her. We sit down, discuss the issue and come up with a non-violent manner with which to handle it. Big difference.

Jamadagnii
Jamadagnii
12 years ago

Of course it is domestic violence. There are Muslim organizations dealing with the issue, like The Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation.
I don’t see why it is necessary to infer that all or most Muslims deal with family disputes by committing murder as if it is a normal way of life for them.
If you read my comment carefully I specifically stated that the difference between the West and the traditions of Muslim countries is that in the West we don’t justify or tolerate domestic violence on religious grounds. Traditional Muslim countries still do. So honestly, I don’t know that we actually disagree on that.
PS I was thinking about the unfortunate fate of Fatimah Abdullah — her murder wasn’t even acknowledged as a murder. Maybe she deserves a conference to honor her memory, too.

Mzungu
Mzungu
12 years ago

I cry every time I read about this. She was so full of life and hope and just child-like luminance. I have said it before and I will say it again because the offer stands forever or until Yahweh says “Enough!” that any Islamic, female of legal adult age can find shelter, comfort and counsel at any Baptist church in the United States. If You’re a young woman and you feel that your life is in danger because of your Islamic family PLEASE just go to any Baptist church and ask to speak to the pastor’s wife. We just will recognize you as a fellow human being in need and do the best we can.

Mzungu
Mzungu
12 years ago

In response to Jerome who lists some scripture from the books of laws in the Bible I can only comment that you are logically wrong. You are comparing apples to oranges. First of all we have to ask ourselves “Are the Jews actively engaging in honor killings as a part of their religion?” The answer is no. Secondly, the family killings you refer to in the United States are not Jewish killings. They are acts of violence committed in passion and human faults of jealousy and rage just as Cain killed Abel in Genesis. Cain did not kill Abel because of his religion.
Now your scripture verse references beg the question- Why don’t Jews still follow Levitical law regarding the sentence of death for a child who curses his mother or father? The answer is that Yahweh’s laws were for a specific time, specific place and specific purpose. Not for ALL time. Israel was coming out of 400 years of slavery under the Egyptians and Yahweh was re-forming His people after rescuing them. He was purifying them and re-building them to be His chosen ones. Chosen ones for what you ask? Chosen ones to bring the Messiah to save you from your sins. Don’t place yourself above G-d by questioning His judgement and ways for His ways are higher. Cursing someone in that culture was different from you calling me a ‘b-tard’ it was telling your mother “I wish you had never been born.” Which is actually wishing that the curser had never been born. So the law was to protect the population and increase it not because of dishonor to a god that does not exist. God, little ‘g’ meaning Allah,who is Satan and Islam, which is the abomination that breeds desolation talked about by the Jewish prophet Daniel 11:31.
The mosque in Jerusalem is that abomination set up and referred to in chapter 11.
So there is nothing like Islam and there is no other system like Islam that is set up to promote, witness and endorse honor killings.

Omar
Omar
12 years ago

You better go into damage control Pamela. This was no honor killing, but a perverted step-father who wanted a relationship with his step-daughter.
I hope her step-mother comes to your event and exposes you for the opportunistic hate-mongering publicity whore that you are.

JakeTobias
JakeTobias
12 years ago

They wouldn’t put out for daddy, right? That is my guess. That is how they have “dishonored” their families, these victims of Islam. I thought the left were outraged by incest.

BUTSeriously
BUTSeriously
12 years ago

There must be 500 Million Muslims who have committed murders and will never face trial. Every Islamic murder was made with an Allah Akbar chant – they they dish out the sweets. The Muslim murderers remain at large protected in Islamic hellholes. Osama was a neo Islamic prophet no? And for Obama, Allah Akbar is the most beautiful sound he has ever heard.

demsci
demsci
12 years ago

Would Omar even ever admit that even one honourkilling done in the name or under the influence of Islam was ever committed or does he routinely ignore or deny all of them? If so, his words are meaningless.

wtd
wtd
12 years ago

Jessica was honor murdered by her ‘step-father’. Jessica’s “step-mother” Cassandra contests the honor killing characterization of this murder. Her step-mother?

“Jessica’s “stepmother” Cassandra, though just a few years older than Jessica”

How is it that 20 year old Jessica was beholding to the guardianship of not just a step-mother but a step-father as well? From the article:

“The last recorded dispute between Jessica Mokdad and her stepfather was over the wearing of the hijab (head scarf),”

and

her stepfather, Rahim Alfetlawi, wanted to control her every move in an effort to force her to live his idea of a very conservative Muslim lifestyle, her family and police said.

Then, a profound quote from her mourning [/s] natural daddy:

“”It’s like still in disbelief,” said Mohammed Mokdad, her father.

Begs the question, Where is Jessica’s natural mother? What role did dear grandmama in Warren play in connecting the step-dad to Jessica’s demise? What can she disclose about the absence of Jessica’s natural mother as well?
Inquiring minds would like to know.

Brandy
Brandy
12 years ago

Jamadagnii, we will just have to disagree. I see a big difference with domestic violence and honor killings. Two distinctively different things.

Brandy
Brandy
12 years ago

Omar, give it a rest with the personal attacks. I don’t know why you and those like you try so hard to cover up the truth.

bb
bb
12 years ago

Does it matter whether her father was a spurned pedophile or an honor killer? The result is the same. He could have wanted sex with Jessica but used the lack of hijab wearing as the excuse to kill her for spite. Islam is all about abuse and control of women. Why women defend it, like her wacky stepmother, I don’t know. They live in a land of freedom but would rather be enslaved. Maybe it makes them feel special that they are still alive because no one was obsessed enough with them to want to kill them.
How they can worship a deity who says this is all good is even sicker. I don’t know that it is the religion so much as the ideology that goes along with it that allows for killings at will. Islam is a mixture of corrupt politics and satanism disguised as just pagan worship. People behind the scenes are cooking up Islam into a mixture from hell, furthering the Nazi agenda that was reportedly squelched at the end of WW II.
The Nazis were good friends with the Muslims all along and helped to set up the PLO, which was the first world supported thorn in Isreal’s side. Nazis love to kill so they can take the money. These stupid Muslim men and women who support them in their killings will have a rude awakening when they find out that their own lives are expendable as well. Didn’t Christ say that those who live by the sword, die by the sword? So they may be on their happy kiling sprees now, but their fate awaits.

Madeleine
Madeleine
12 years ago

Pam, you are very familiar with the show they are putting on. You have a message and the American people have a right to hear that message. No one should have an issue with this crusade to wipe out honor killings, period. The fact that these Muslims are angry towards this effort makes ZERO SENSE! So they are worried that Islam will be exposed even more, and the more Islam is exposed to the AMERICAN THINKER (meaning real patriots) the harder time these people will have spreading the errors of Islam. So I guess it’s understandable why they twist themselves into pretzels trying to deny the truth. Light is the best antiseptic. You are a light and have always been a light in the darkness.
Just think of how hard you faught for Rifqa Barry, she is alive and well and that has everything to do with your unwavering compassion, sympathy, dedication.
You are the best!

Walter Sieruk
Walter Sieruk
12 years ago

This heinous cult of Islam is indeed very anti-female. Also,or that matter Islam is actually anti-humankind itself. Inspite, of what the imams and mullahs of this death cult may claim. For many people have died because of it. and sadly many will no doubt die because of it in the future. Furthermore. Islam also leads people astray in this life and beyond. Proverbs 14;12. John 14:6.

Nat's daughter
Nat's daughter
12 years ago

Pamela, you’re the greatest! omar, go f*ck youself!

Brandy
Brandy
12 years ago

Nat’s daughter…nice!

Mary
Mary
12 years ago

The reason we have domestic violence laws is because of the unique relationship between the abuser and the victim, which makes prosecution more difficult. The victim is typically dependent on the abuser (financially, emotionally, etc.), and has been isolated and conditioned to take blame and responsibility for the actions of the abuser and their own abuse. That isolation and conditioning by the abuser is extreme, long-term, deliberate planning in order to escape consequences for behavior. It is very hard to prosecute a crime when the victim covers up for the criminal, taking the blame out of fear of retaliation by the abuser.
Islam protects the abuser of domestic violence to the point of codifying it. Because the Qur’an and the Sunna extol and excuse the abuse of women (and it is there in the texts for anyone to find), Sharia law legally enforces that behavior. Sharia law also allows fathers and mothers to “legally” kill their children, giving them the legal “right” to kill children without even requiring any rationalization for the killing. But, because of the subjugation and legalized abuse of women who disobey men it is seen as shameful when women do not obey the men in their lives, especially their fathers. A father, husband, brother who feels embarrassed by gossip or even the fear of gossip and that other men will see him as not in control of the women in his life, is allowed and expected to defend his “honor.” Sharia law allows him to do this by abusing and/or killing the woman who disobeys him. He is killing a woman to save face with other Muslim men. Sharia law may protect this behavior, but U.S. law considers killing a human being (which women are considered to be under U.S. law) to save face First Degree Murder. That is, of course, if such criminal intent is allowed to be presented in court.

Mary
Mary
12 years ago

Let’s write to the media (ABC requires submission in parts):
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10285339/
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77538,00.html
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Dear Editor:
Per the media policy of refusing to report the actions of Muslims – even crimes – in a negative light, “honor killings” done under Islamic principles are not being reported for what they are. For instance, the “Santa killer” in Texas was reported in the mainstream media as simply having allegedly killed his family with no clear motivation and only after gushing praise for him, the Muslim father. Under Sharia law, which enforces Islamic principles, a father may kill his children for rebelling against Islam without incurring prosecution. (Sharia Law o2.4 (‘Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2.) “Reliance of the Traveller”).
President Obama is trying to give the Muslim Brotherhood’s global jihad a large loop hole in which to enforce Sharia law in the U.S. by preventing the criminal intent, as defined by U.S. law, of First Degree Murder (e.g., killing one’s child to save face/preserve Muslim honor under Sharia law) from being recognized, the evidence collected, and being used in prosecution of such crimes. He is doing this by banning/censoring even the words describing such intent from the U.S. Government and its agencies’ vocabularies. Such action is in itself enforcement of Sharia law which prohibits any critical analysis or criticism of Islam or Mohammad or Muslims enforcing Sharia law. For example:
Haddith: Sunan Abu-Dawud, Book 38, Number 4349:
Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib: “A Jewess used to abuse the Prophet (peace be upon him) and disparage him. A man strangled her till she died. The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) declared that no recompense was payable for her blood.”
Qur’an 33:36: “It is not fitting for a Believer, man or woman, when a matter has been decided by Allah and His Apostle, to have any option about their decision: If anyone disobeys Allah and His Apostle, he is indeed on a clearly wrong Path.” )
Your whitewash policy is in collusion with this seditious enforcement of Sharia law.
Muslims in the U.S. do have every right under the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights to believe whatever they want, but they do NOT have the legal right to enforce Sharia law on anyone. Let the crimes, as defined by U.S. law, that jihadists commit be prosecuted as crimes and reported as crimes. Let Muslims have equal protection under the – U.S. – law (not special protection) and let them be prosecuted for their crimes and let their crimes be accurately reported. Further, as we have “gang crimes” with stiffer penalties because of the extreme disregard for human life and property, we should also have “jihad crimes” which recognize the criminal intent of committing honor killings to save face under Islam and therefore given tougher punishment and also because they are seditious in attempting to enforce Sharia law over Constitutional law.
The question to you and your media outlet is: Which do you submit to and seek protection from, Sharia law or Constitutional law? The answer to this question is illustrated in your news stories and is important to your audience.

Vera
Vera
12 years ago

Although BO’R is very often politically correct in his essays, this time he publish the really good one. Please read.
Political Correctness and Muslims
By Bill O’Reilly
2/4/2012
The story is grisly: a husband and wife murdering their three young daughters, ages 19, 17 and 13, by drowning them along with their stepmother. The couple was assisted by their 21-year-old son. All were found guilty of first-degree murder in Ontario, Canada. They were sentenced to life in prison.
Mohammad Shafia and his wife, Tooba, immigrated to Canada from Afghanistan in 2007.
In his eyes, Shafia’s three daughters were guilty of becoming westernized, wearing nontraditional Muslim clothing and associating with the dreaded Christians. So this demented father ordered the girls killed, as well as his first wife, whom he believed was aiding them in their alleged transgressions.
Reporting on the story in America has been scant and strange. According to the Media Research Center, the initial Associated Press report made no mention of the fact that the convicted murderers are Muslim. They were described as “Afghan.” In fact, the only theology mentioned in the AP dispatch is Christianity, used while describing the boyfriend of one of the daughters.
On NBC’s “Nightly News,” anchor Brian Williams said this: “A verdict has been reached in a murder case that’s gotten a lot of attention because it involved so-called honor killings of family members. In this case, an Afghan family living in Canada. It is a culture clash getting a lot of attention to our north.”
Culture clash? Between whom? Afghans and Canadians? What is Williams talking about?
The reporter on the story, Kevin Tibbles, also avoided using the word “Muslim.” He described the motivation for the violence as “a strict religious family that felt it had been disgraced.”
What religion? Incredibly, the reporter didn’t say.
This is no coincidence. The politically correct U.S. media are frightened by Muslim violence. They avoid the issue whenever they can.
Just think about what would happen if a Catholic father murdered his daughter for having an abortion. Would the AP and NBC News not have mentioned the religion involved? I think we all know the answer to that question.
Political correctness is dangerous because it obscures the truth. It allows certain people and groups to avoid scrutiny for destructive actions. Today, the press in America is dominated by liberal editors who believe they are protecting “minorities” by failing to mention facts that might cast them in a negative light. Thus, honest reporting is becoming almost obsolete when certain groups are involved.
Shafia, his wife and his son are Muslim fanatics who believe they have the right to commit murder in the name of their religion. Somebody get that dispatch to the media.
Bill O’Reilly
Bill O’Reilly is host of the Fox News show “The O’Reilly Factor” and author of “Who’s Looking Out For You?” and Pinheads and Patriots.

Larry A. Singleton
Larry A. Singleton
12 years ago

I think that maybe you should “think” about changing the name. My first thought would be out of respect for the mother but you you have a good point about mothers being in denial. However the girls “step-mom” didn’t seem like your typical hijab-wearing Muslim either. However I’m getting a feeling that maybe the guy didn’t kill her because of religious reasons. I’m wondering if you didn’t jump the gun on something that was a result of some scumbags infatuation with his step-daughter. And the male-ego part of him would rather have the public, (and fellow Muslims), see something different. Watching the interview with the step-mom made me see it in a different light. Maybe the Shafias would be a better “poster-child” for addressing the problem of honor killings in this country and I’m wondering if it’s not too late to change things.

Marsh626
Marsh626
12 years ago

Man, muslims really have this “Woe is me, I’m a victim of racist islamophobia” schtick down.
The Left is increasingly embracing muslims and islam and using it as their latest “human rights cause” to paint us right-wingers as deranged bigots.
Very dangerous. Once the Left adopts a cause, they’re like the borg. There’s no stopping them. You just have to accept their narrative or they’ll assassinate your character in the media.
Just look at how quickly they turned the gay marriage debate, a once obscure subject a few short years ago, into the #1 social issues debate.
The islamization of the West will occur at the speed of light now and there’s nothing we can really do about it.

natasha
natasha
11 years ago

i don’t beleive there was a jessica mokdad i think its jus crap jus like 911 stop lieing for no reason its not going to work get it? the more you hate the more you reveil who yall really are anybody with commonsense knows at least all the black peaple do don”t cause ilsam is the truth so you only lieing to yourself dear muslims do not get angry at these crazy people its jus a battle against good and evil and we know who”s going to win and since you don’t seem to know this is ALLAH’S world the more you fight against it the of your sons and daughters and daughters and moms and grandmoms etc will become muslim for exsample since 911 more people have br came muslim of all colors and pass religons you should be greatful there muslims here cause that day we leave this earth Allah will destroy it oh muslims we have nothing to br ashame about but they do

natasha
natasha
11 years ago

oh and another thing stop slandering isalm its jus highly offencesive and its hurts also it makes you look like satanic demons or something it jus shows who you really are oh i think i…. never mind i and tell that crazy lady to stop cutting off pieces of her nose she looks horrible shr look like a walking sin lol all the monry in the world can’t fix that face now see how it feels and i’m jus telling thr truth imagine being lied on thats i we as muslims feeland to my muslims brother and sisters please dont get angry rememberwhat the prophet (saw said don” get angry)its one of the ways the jinns get in you and posses the body and if i didn’t know any better id thinkthats what this woman and the medis wants hmm???

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