October 22, 2008
FBI removes 'honor killing' term from wanted poster
FBI removed the term 'honor killing' from a wanted poster of muslim immigrant, Yasser Abdel Said, who killed his two daughters. The FBI stated that they did not want to label the case as a religiously motivated crime. CAIR, the un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land trail, of course hailed the FBI's decision to remove the term.
From Fox News
Some Muslims have objected to the term "honor killing" because they say it attaches a religious motive to a crime, which could lead to discrimination against Muslims.Always playing the victum card. Two girls killed by their father for dating non-muslim boys and muslims at large are victums of non-existant discrimination.
The FBI said Tuesday that it had deleted the term because the FBI never meant to attach a label to the case. Special agent Mark White, media coordinator in the bureau's Dallas office, told FOXNews.com that the FBI changed the wording “because the statement was not meant to indicate that the FBI was ‘labeling’ anything.It's only a matter of time before there'll be a legal definition of an 'honor killing'."The person who wrote it up did not see the misunderstanding that [the original wording] would create,” White said.
White added that the FBI should not be in the business of calling cases anything that is not described in law.
“It’s our job to find the fugitive. It’s not our job to label this case anything other than what it is, what it is from a criminal perspective,” he said, noting that there was no legal definition of an “honor killing” and that such a motive had not yet been proven in court.
