As we suspected all along, Shaima Alawadi of El Cajon, California, was not the victim of a hate crime when she was found murdered in her home back in March. Now her husband has been arrested and charged with her murder.
http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2012/11/kassim-alhimidi-arrested-for-murder-of.html
I may be wrong here, but if I am not mistaken, Alawadi would have represented the first case of a Muslim being murdered in the US in a true hate crime since 9-11. (I am aware that a Sikh was killed in the days after 9-11 by someone who assumed he was a Muslim, and there was the recent attack on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, which some are blaming on a false assumption that Sikhs are Muslims.)
After the press made such a big deal out of the "hate crime" aspect of this case, will they now give equal attention to the "honor killing" aspect? Here is ABC's report.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/husband-held-killing-iraqi-american-woman-17682687#.UJ6OQYdZWSo
USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/09/iraqi-american-woman-death/1696129/
Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/10/police-husband-arrested-in-killing-iraqi-american-woman-initially-feared-as/?test=latestnews
Not much there. How about the feminists? It is time for them to speak out and defend their Muslim sisters in America.
Right?
Update: the Jihadist apologists at Loon Watch have reported on this with their own spin. I am currently in a good back and forth with them in the comment thread.
http://www.loonwatch.com/2012/11/breaking-husband-charged-with-killing-of-shaima-alawadi/#comments
That one always sounded like a hastily and clumsily faked crime scene. No surprise here. She's not the only woman in America to be killed by her husband, ex-husband, or boyfriend. He should be treated just like all the rest. His motive, like all the other motives, is not an extenuating circumstance.
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