Media Largely Ignores Texas Honor Killings

Yaser Abdel Said allegedly murdered his daughters six days ago now, and outside of the blogosphere and the Washington Times, the honor killing angle is being largely ignored. In fact, the story itself is being ignored by the majority of media outlets?

Why is that?

Phyllis Chesler notes:

If Abdul Said's photo had been plastered all across our television screens and on the pages of our morning newspapers maybe -- just maybe -- someone might have recognized him or maybe --- just maybe -- someone at a mosque might have been shamed by this dishonorable act and encouraged to mount a Muslim religious campaign to find and turn him over to the police. . . .

Where is Abdul [sic]? Did he shoot himself? If so, where's the corpse? Did he flee the country after a well-planned murder? If so, what plane did he board and where did he go? . . .

I have no inside information but I assume that the police are asking all these questions. Authorities have offered a $10,000.00 reward for Abdul Said.

Indeed, we noted last Thursday Said could be anywhere in the world, and since then, even police have been mum on this case.

More today at FrontPage.

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Could you imagine the same dearth of coverage if this were, say, a phony CAIR hate-crime story?

Laura Ingle at Fox has more.

I’ve also been told that he has a brother in the New York area. A brother, and uncle who did not come for the double funeral yesterday, and has not once called the family to express any condolences. We know that the taxi cab was found about 15 minutes from the airport, so in theory if Yaser Abdel took off, he could have shot his daughters and easily ran to the airport and got on a flight. New York? Egypt?