This coming Saturday, November 22, 2008, at 9pm est, America’s Most Wanted, which is Fox-TV’s longest running program, will fictionalize the heinous double murder of Texas-American teenagers, Amina and Sarah Said, by their father, Yaser Abdul Said, and, in my opinion, by their mother Patricia (”Tissy,”) as well.
The producer told me that this created-for-TV drama will run for 13 minutes and will probably air as the second story of the hour.
Gail Gartrell, who is the heroically determined great-aunt of the two doomed girls, insisted that the producer call me herself to verify that the show was, finally, going to run. (Thank you Gail!) The drama was “in the can” long ago but producers wisely delayed airing it until after the Great Election Madness had died down.
As my readers know, I have written many articles about this case. You will find them HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. The FBI featured Papa Said on their Ten Most Wanted List; for about ten days, they described him as having committed an honor killing. Then, the FBI dropped this designation. Said again became a mere murderer. Some people believe that the FBI backed down due to Islamist pressure. That could be true. But I also think that describing Said accurately might lead Muslims to perceive him as a hero and/or as someone who is being persecuted because he is a Muslim. In either case, some Muslims might be further inclined to shelter him which would make it harder, not easier, to capture him.
I wonder: Will America’s Most Wanted present Yaser Said as a “psychiatrically deranged” killer or will they present his daughter-killing as a culturally approved and heroized act? One can see it both ways. From a western point of view, those men who kill their wives or their children are, by definition, “sick” and might be diagnosed as “paranoid,” or “sociopathic.” But from a non-western point of view, such killers are often seen as “heroic” or as “defenders of the faith.”
The drama, for me, consists of what approach Fox will take and what their decision implies.
For the answer: Stay tuned to Fox on Saturday night.
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1. George Jochnowitz:A whole society can go crazy. It happened to Germany, one of the most civilized countries in the world, in 1933. Societies grow and develop just as humans do. When a society goes crazy, its members find it hard to remain sane. Ionesco’s play RHINOCEROS shows us how individuals lose their individuality when their fellow citizens turn psychotic.
Nov 20, 2008 - 2:24 pm 2. Norman Simms:Crazy? Come to New Zealand. After two years, a jury just found guilty 5 people for killing a three-year old girl: spinning her on an outside clothesline, dumping her in an electric dryer, stomping her on her head, etc. The mother is guilty only of manslaughter and neglect. we get therse cases every few weeks. The only thing missing is honour?
Norman
Nov 20, 2008 - 4:10 pm 3. Gail Gartrell:Phyllis, I cannot thank you enough for advertising this program. It has certainly been a long time coming. Also, I agree with you…Patricia Said, has these girls blood all over her hands! Even so, she will never admit to this nor, will she help to ever get justice for her two daughters.
Thank you for caring and keeping my great-neices story out there for the world to see the truths. God bless you for this endeavor!
Gail Gartrell
Nov 20, 2008 - 4:43 pm 4. SeanLA:You know the answer Phyllis, you know what they’re going to say: Religion had nothing to do with it, nothing at all. Maybe some rage of the though of his daughters being with boys. But religion? No no. Especially not the `Religion of Peace’
Nov 20, 2008 - 10:17 pm 5. Jesus is Lord, A Worshipping Christian’s Blog » Blog Archive » America’s Most Wanted to Air Segment on Said Sisters “Honor Killing”:[...] Read the rest of Dr. Chesler’s post here. [...]
Nov 21, 2008 - 6:25 am 6. Tina Trent:As Elinor Burkett brilliantly puts it, everything is about gender in revolutionary Islam — she was referring to Afghanistan — but it might as well be here, too.
So, at the risk of being repetitive, why, exactly, aren’t these cases being treated as gender-bias crimes, then?
Because, of course, if we counted women as bias crime victims when they’re attacked for being women, there wouldn’t be enough newsprint left.
I wonder where the feminist activist groups are on this? Found nothing on the N.O.W. website except lots of criticism of Sarah Palin when I searched in several formulations for the girls’ names. Maybe they did speak out in some other form. I certainly hope so.
Nov 21, 2008 - 10:10 am 7. the girls cousin:This tragedy shocked all of us. We never thought this would happen nor were there any signs of this to happen. The girls were happy living a very healthy life, they had high achievements in school and sports, the whole family was happy and content. Yaser was a hard working man, that treated them with love and compassion. It is a true loss for all of us “THE SAID’S” We loved them all, and we shared their lives with them. We had helped them when help was needed. I know alot of people are talking like it was a family that had been deprived of everything they had, when in reality it was as normal as any other family. It is one of these things that NO ONE can explain why it happened or How it happened. Of course we live in a society where unfortunatley some hatred people always want to ride the wave to their own religious and financial gain (gail) to express their hatred that they other wise can not achieve. The mother of the children is one of the sweetest you will ever see, even though she went along with Gartrell’s decision to make a false sexual accusation against the father in 1998 for the purpose of taking the children. I believe that was wrong and I KNOW THAT THIS NEVER HAPPENED because Amina and Sarah told me so. Yaser was so disturbed that he decided to keep Gartrell out of the family’s lives. Unfortunately there is nothing we can do to save any of the 3 precious people we have lost, so our loss is great and our shock is beyond explanation.
Nov 22, 2008 - 11:04 pm 8. Real Family:To the girls cousin. If you truly believe what you wrote, then perhaps,it is you who was kept from the girls.”Normal Families” do not treat their children like that.”Normal Husbands” and Normal Fathers” do not CONTROL their complete lives.A child should not be “scared to death” of their parents! FYI Gail has not had ANY financial gain from anything to do with the girls! So, you are saying Gail decided to get Patricia to go along with accusing Yaser of sexually abusing the girls! How ABSURD! The girls told on Yaser themselves! From the mouth of babes!Amina and Sarah,later,only said it did not happen because they were forced to,so Da-Da would not go to jail!Court records,and a physical exam PROVE he did! Don’t you get that? Or is the Court lying too? And Yaser was not “lost” he is in hiding.He is chicken-shit! If he was so innocent,why don’t he stand up for his innocence? There are some that know exactly where he is and are helping him! There is a LAW against that too! So,I guess you watched America’s Most Wanted? And what did you think of that? Was Yaser portrayed as “precious” and loved his family? What were the girls portrayed as?
Nov 24, 2008 - 10:53 am 9. FU.GALL@YAHOO.COM:GALL STOP CRIING A BOUT SHIT AND GOT OVER IT.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Dec 2, 2008 - 3:59 am 10. FU.GALL@YAHOO.COM:YOU AND FBI CAN GO TO HELL OK YASER DID NOT KILL AMINA AND SARAH THE MAXICANS BOYS KILL THEM ONE OF THE MAXICANS POT 9 bullets IN SARAH AND 2 bullets IN AMINA IF YOU HEAR THE 911 TAPE SHE SAID MY PRO BUBY IN ARAB SHE SAID MY PRO DAD IF YOU THINK YOU CAN STEP ON US YOU GOT ONE THINK COMEING FOR YOUR FAT ASS
ALL THE OWENS family ARE NIGGER LOVER AND MAXICAN LOVERS>>>>>>> I KNOW ONE THAT GOT A MAXICAN BABY ON THE WAY AND THE DAD IS SITTING LIKE A PIMP AT HOME
Dec 2, 2008 - 4:14 am 11. REAL FAMILY:To:#9and#10.
Dec 3, 2008 - 7:19 am 12. REAL FAMILY:Sarah did not say anything about “my poor dad.”
She was fighting for her life!She is not going to feel sorry for someone that she is fighting against! You really need to get a life and stop covering up for your murderous father!
FYI:America’s Most Wanted will be airing the story again on Dec.20 @ 8:00 p.m.
Dec 3, 2008 - 7:21 am 13. Chesler Chronicles » Take Them At Their Word Before It’s Too Late. Deeds Count Too.:[...] But now, even closer to home there’s this: Islam Said, Yaser Said’s son and the collaborator in the harassment and murder of his two sisters, Amina and Sarah, in Dallas on January 1, 2008, has started posting at my blog. Ordinarily I would not allow such scurrilous postings but I want everyone to see what he sounds like before I remove his comments. His email is: FU.GALL@YAHOO.COM, see Comment #9 and Comment #10. [...]
Dec 3, 2008 - 10:25 am 14. Colonel Robert Neville:Dear Islam[?!], the retarded Muslim pervert and psychopathic criminal embezzler:
Bravo, old loon of Mo.
You were born[?] or lived most of your miserable crippled and indoctrinated criminal life in the free and massively succesful fun West, and yet you’ve managed to learn exactly nothing, and understand even less, including the ability to write a single literate sentence or utter a single coherent statement. Excellent. Outstanding.
You have also apparently stayed at the rather typical Islamist level of some kind of parasitical two faced bug, but less productive and not as appealing. And all while contributing nothing, creating nothing, employing no one and lying about everything…Superb Taquiyaa, old boy!
I promote you to Muslim Loon First Class with honour killing Honours!
Your accomplishment of absoring one mans insanity, the superfreak pedophile Mohammad, the rapist and mass murdering Jew hating bandit, are Islamic world class. Again, top-po!
Um, now tell me, on your lost soul of Koranic mediocrity, envy and spite, um, did you molest your sisters before you helped your Father murder them? If so, you should become an Imam, an Islamic scholar or join CAIR and HAMAS etc.
You’re ready, crazy boy!
Seriously, you’re an inspiration to successful, intelligent attractive, mature, witty and popular people everywhere that no matter how bad things may get, they will never wake up and be you.
Good luck with your utter madness, criminal plans and beyond belief imbecility.
Remember, you’re never alone with 1.2 billion Muslims with 1/3 of the men and 50% of the women being illiterate, and millions more that are lazier than jello, dumber than dog hair, crazier than a cut snake and more dangerous than a tumble drier of rabid hyenas.
If only I could free the millions of victims born into the filth of Islam, but I can’t. Ah, to be so totally lost to the fraud of Mohammad…What’s it like? Oh, I can see from here. Never let anyone say you’re a loser. Just keep on showing them you are.
All the best you wonderful bastard. Keep smiling.
Colonel Neville.
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