“Me mina and my mom r running away! ..My dad found out abt mina and is goin to kill us….B4 he tld me that he was goin to put bullet thru her head…today he tld me to get used to my sis bc shes not goin to b w us lng.”
Honor Killing noun- an ancient tradition still sometimes observed; a male member of the family kills a female relative for tarnishing the family name.
New Years Day 2008 - Sarah Yaser Said 17, and Amina Yaser Said 18, where killed by their father Yaser Abdel Said inside a taxi cab in Texas. Sarah was shot 9 times and her sister Amina was shot twice. Sarah still managed to call 911 and tell them that he father shot her and her sister, and that she was dying but was not able to give a location of where her and her sister where. Their father left them there and fled, he has not been seen since.
When the two sisters where only 7 and 8 years old they reported that they were being raped by their father, their mother even signed off on an affidavit that it was the truth. But only a month later they both took back what they said stating that they had made the whole thing up. But the truth is that the two girls where abused for years by their father, who was a born and raised Egyptian man and believed that the family had to practice the Islam religion strictly. They had a brother as well who's name is Islam, and he defends his father saying anything from Mexicans did it to they killed themselves, he has even said they got what was coming to them, great bro right? His grammar is something I can not even believe its like broken English and yet his American MOTHER home schooled this kid. So basically the whole family failed these two girls.
It was all started about a week before their deaths, Yaser found out that Amina was dating, and told them that he would take her back to Egypt where it was ok to kill someone for ruining the family name, and they fled the house with their mother as well as their boyfriends after he said this. They burst into their moms job managing to get out of the house, where Tissie's coworkers pulled together money for them to go into hiding, because they knew that he would hold true to his word. Yaser called the cops and reported the girls missing on Dec 26, but the case was closed after they called the police department to say that they were actually hiding from him.But Tissie was talking to him the whole time, he said that he would move out so that they could all work things out, but this was not really his plan, and I think the mother was well aware of this. This man probably also abused his wife, I mean why else would a women allow such horrific things to happen to her daughters? One time Amina went to school with her lips attached to her braces from her father kicking her in the mouth! No one noticed?? They wanted to be doctors, Amina got accepted into every school she applied to but when she asked her father when she could go to college he laughed and said if your husband lets you. She was to marry a 40 year old man from Egypt after highschool.
Sarah called 911 after her father shot her. This is the part I don't understand, Amina, was shot twice, point blank, killed instantly. Also killed sometime before Sarah because rigor mortis was more set in then in Sarah. Sarah had been alive long enough for a bruise to form on her forehead. She was shot 9 times, all in places that would not immeditly kill her, but actually make her suffer. I have to believe this was done on purpose considering she was in the back seat of the car. WITH THE CHILD SAFETY LOCK ON! Something else that doesnt jive well with me, Amina was furious at her mother fir tricking her to go back, she had lied and said that they were going to go put flowers on their grandmothers grave, but instead she decided that they were going home. Despite the fact that she told her aunt that he would kill them if she took them home, despite that they put two months down on an apartment in Tulsa, Ok, and despite Amina kicking and screaming and crying in her back seat. So she wen to stay at her boyfriends, at that time Sarah went home, and the next day they were calling her begging her to come home. Amina was not a stupid girl, she was well aware of the fact that their father was not normal, she got the brunt of the abuse IMO. Sarah had wanted to be good, and please her father. She broke up with her boyfriend as her father asked and figured that she, like Amina had been years earlier, would be forgiven. Now for the part that does not jive for me, after the whole day of begging her daughter to come, Tissie drives to her boyfriends house and pulls her by the arm out and Amina, crying and saying no, reluctantly follows. One way or another the other those two girls were in this car with their father. The STORY IS that they were going to go out to eat and talk about everything, Yaser was going to change and all would be forgiven. THIS IS A LIE! Amina, was way too smart to fall for another of her fathers games. Sarah might have since he had more time with her in those last hours, who knows what those 3, Tissie, Yaser, AND ISLAM, said to her, but no not Amina. I believe that as soon as Tissie pulled up with Amina in the front seat she jumped out and Sarah got in the back and Yaser got into the front and drove off not giving Amina a chance to get out. I mean who knows maybe Amina never even made out the driveway alive, and maybe Sarah had some hand in helping her father, I do not know this but in her 911 call she said my father shot me, she never mentioned he sister. They could have had her thinking whatever they wanted all 3 of them against just her, she could have been angry with Amina for leaving her to go home alone and her father could have prayed on that. We will never know until someone starts talking.
E-MAIL FROM AUNT- I am an aunt to these two beautiful girls! I am from the mother’s side. YES! This was an honor killing! You nailed it sweety! My sister tried to get those baby’s away years ago and you know…she was never allowed to see them again…well, they were brought to the hospital…only after she was comatose! My sister was punished for trying to tell the world what was going on! She died four years ago! But, these girls had no honor in life and no honor in death! Amina and Sarah both, told their mom if their dad killed them…they DID NOT WANT A MUSLIM funeral! Well, they had one anyway! Yeah, there was a “baptist” funeral before the muslim funeral….PLEASE, get out the word it was a farce! They were placed in a mUslim funeral home. The son, Islam…he walked out and went to get the Iman to stop it! My nephew got up and took him outside! The funeral proceeded but, many spoke and all but one…was a MUSLIM!
The Muslims who ran the funeral home…they had us all in a room a little larger than my walk-in-closet! The friends from school…..they could not fit in that room so, they lined them up, against the wall, and in front of the freezers for dead bodies! When it came time for the first song…we sat, sat, and finally, my husband told them he had a system just like theirs and would run it himself…OH…they miraculously got the music going! Then, they set it up so that they same song would play, instead of the other two. My hubby caught this and demanded it be paused, so that the other songs would play!!
As soon as the funeral was over, there was trouble, outside with the brother of Amina and Sarah, ISLAM, is his name! He got into it with one of his aunts and was telling her…get the f —, out of here and then started running through the parking lot yelling….this f-ing funeral is over ….LEAVE!
Yes, this was an honor killing and I believe with all my heart that ISLAM, the brother, is just as guilty as his dad. Why? Because Amina would not go back home! He went over, where she was staying and was crying. “Please come home Amina and talk things out with Dad! He will not hurt you, I give you my word! I promise, you will be safe!” She trusted those words and went with him. Not an hour later….Sarah made that infamous call! She died immediately after she called as he took his time killing her. In fact, all we have been told is, “she had multiple gunshots”…..I still have no clue how many bullets he fired at her. I do know she fought for her life as there is a bruise on her forehead which shows that she did not go out without a fight…one this precious and beautiful girl lost…to a man she knew as daddy!
Please feel free to contact me as I want their story told. They could not tell it but, Aunt Gail is making sure they are honored….even if it is by mere strangers!
Sincerely,
Gail
“He found notes from her boyfriend,” said a 17-year-old Trinity senior, who asked not to be identified. “Her lips were pretty much attached to her braces, but they wouldn’t take her to the doctor because her family feared her father would be taken to jail.”
She said the abuse continued and threats intensified.
“I remember her telling me that her dad told her he would take her back to Egypt and have her killed,” she said. “He said it’s OK to do that over there if you dishonor your family.”
E-MAIL FROM AUNT- I am an aunt to these two beautiful girls! I am from the mother’s side. YES! This was an honor killing! You nailed it sweety! My sister tried to get those baby’s away years ago and you know…she was never allowed to see them again…well, they were brought to the hospital…only after she was comatose! My sister was punished for trying to tell the world what was going on! She died four years ago! But, these girls had no honor in life and no honor in death! Amina and Sarah both, told their mom if their dad killed them…they DID NOT WANT A MUSLIM funeral! Well, they had one anyway! Yeah, there was a “baptist” funeral before the muslim funeral….PLEASE, get out the word it was a farce! They were placed in a mUslim funeral home. The son, Islam…he walked out and went to get the Iman to stop it! My nephew got up and took him outside! The funeral proceeded but, many spoke and all but one…was a MUSLIM!
The Muslims who ran the funeral home…they had us all in a room a little larger than my walk-in-closet! The friends from school…..they could not fit in that room so, they lined them up, against the wall, and in front of the freezers for dead bodies! When it came time for the first song…we sat, sat, and finally, my husband told them he had a system just like theirs and would run it himself…OH…they miraculously got the music going! Then, they set it up so that they same song would play, instead of the other two. My hubby caught this and demanded it be paused, so that the other songs would play!!
As soon as the funeral was over, there was trouble, outside with the brother of Amina and Sarah, ISLAM, is his name! He got into it with one of his aunts and was telling her…get the f —, out of here and then started running through the parking lot yelling….this f-ing funeral is over ….LEAVE!
Yes, this was an honor killing and I believe with all my heart that ISLAM, the brother, is just as guilty as his dad. Why? Because Amina would not go back home! He went over, where she was staying and was crying. “Please come home Amina and talk things out with Dad! He will not hurt you, I give you my word! I promise, you will be safe!” She trusted those words and went with him. Not an hour later….Sarah made that infamous call! She died immediately after she called as he took his time killing her. In fact, all we have been told is, “she had multiple gunshots”…..I still have no clue how many bullets he fired at her. I do know she fought for her life as there is a bruise on her forehead which shows that she did not go out without a fight…one this precious and beautiful girl lost…to a man she knew as daddy!
Please feel free to contact me as I want their story told. They could not tell it but, Aunt Gail is making sure they are honored….even if it is by mere strangers!
Sincerely,
Gail
Yaser, thats my baby, no Sir don't mean maybe. Hey, great first gig. Keep em comin.
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