I was supposed to be on FOX news (Detroit) to discuss the AFDI/SIOA Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference we are holding on April 29th in Dearborn, Michigan. On Sunday night, FOX was scheduled to run a segment on the conference -- not because of the Shafia honor killing verdict, but because family members, one in particular, were livid that we were using Jessica's name in connection with "honor killing." A Mokdad family member, Cassandra Mokdad, alleged that Jessica's murder was not an honor killling, despute the overwhelming evidence that it was. We filmed last Friday and it was scheduled for Sunday.
One would think that FOX would have been eager to run a segment on honor killings on Sunday, considering the guilty verdicts in the mass honor killing Shafia case that came down that very day.
Instead, FOX killed the segment.
Family members have been apoplectic about the conference, more concerned with offending islam than with the honor murder of Jessica Mokdad. Jessica's "stepmother" Cassandra, though just a few years older than Jessica (!), has been partciualrly vicious. Nasty facebook comments, denials and cover for the honor killer, claiming that Saddam Hussein is responsible -- all this is part of the reason we are holding this conference: the cover-up of honor killings, despite their rise in the West. The family of Jessica should be joining forces with me, like Amina and Sarah Said's family (on her mother's non-Muslim side), to educate the public on this horrible Islamic practice.
The last recorded dispute between Jessica Mokdad and her stepfather was over over the wearing of the hijab (head scarf), which he originally forced her to wear (just as in Aqsa Parvez's honor killing). She didn't want to wear it, thereby bringing shame on him and the family.
Look at the vile Jew-hatred and racism posted by Cassandra Mokdad, Jessica's "stepmother" (below, screenshots of her Facebook page). Shouldn't her anger be directed at the honor murderer? But this is typical. The father, brother or any male relative actually do the killing, but it is the female members of the family who aid, abet, excuse or otherwise sanction the honor murder. The mother played an active role in the mass honor killing of three Shafia girls and another female, and was just convicted in Canada. So Cassandra's strange and vicious behavior is hardly surprising. What is surprising is that Cassandra is not much older than Jessica -- this is the mindset of a young Muslim woman in America.
Did FOX kill this segment because they couldn't figure out a way to make the odious Cassandra look sympathetic? Or perhaps they fear the large Muslim community in Dearborn, and didn't want to "offend them." Girls who are honor killed are expendable, but offending Muslims is unforgivable.
When I asked Alexis Wiley, FOX producer for comment on why the segment had been killed, I was met with a wall of silence.
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"There is broad support and acceptance of this idea in Islam, and we're going to see it more and more in the United States," says Robert Spencer, leading scholar on jihad and Islam, NY Times bestselling author of ten books on Islam and jihad.
Twenty-year-old Jessica Mokdad just wanted to live a normal American life.
But her stepfather, Rahim Alfetlawi, wanted to control her every move in an effort to force her to live his idea of a very conservative Muslim lifestyle, her family and police said.
Now Alfetlawi is in jail, awaiting trial on charges that he killed his stepdaughter. With his hands and feet in shackles, the Iraqi refuge who said he was a victim ofSaddam Hussein's regime listened in court May 12 as his attorney, Richard Glanda, asked to have him examined to see whether he's mentally competent to stand trial.
The proceedings were translated into Arabic.
"He thought she was becoming too Westernized," said Macomb County Assistant Prosecutor Bill Contaldo. "I think this was a very nice young lady wanting to experiment with Western culture without control and without abuse."
[...]
Jessica Mokdad's parents were divorced; Alfetlawi became her stepfather shortly before her ninth birthday. The family moved to Minnesota, where Alfetlawi forced his stepdaughter to wear a hijab and made her almost a prisoner in their home, said her father, Mohamad Mokdad.
Her mother told police Alfetlawi felt shamed by his stepdaughter's Western ways: She wore shorts and sleeveless tops. She didn't want to wear the hijab.
Jessica Mokdad also had a boyfriend. When Alfetlawi found out the relationship had been physical, he forced them to marry in 2009 in a religious -- but not legally binding -- ceremony in a mosque, Mohamad Mokdad said.
The couple lived in the Alfetlawi house, but Alfetlawi wouldn't allow them to sit next to each other on the couch, Mokdad said.
"The poor kid. I don't know how she just didn't go insane," he said.
She tried to escape Alfetlawi as soon as she turned 18.
The police and Macomb County prosecutors say Alfetlawi shot her execution-style.
Mokdad's mother told police that Alfetlawi felt so shamed by her daughter's Western ways, he killed her in an honor killing, Warren Police Sgt. Stephen Mills said.
"I thought it was a sick joke," her father said when he heard of her death. "Then I found out it was for real."
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NEW YORK, PR Newswire: The prominent human rights organization American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), its Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) program and the Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force (VAST) will be hosting the first-ever human rights conference dedicated to exposing the plight of women under Islamic law in Dearborn, Michigan on the anniversary of the honor murder of Jessica Mokdad: the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference.
The Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference will be held at the Hyatt Hotel in Dearborn. After bowing to Islamic supremacist pressure and canceling a speech by Pamela Geller that had been scheduled for a Hyatt in Nashville, Tennessee, the Hyatt reversed its stance, recovered its understanding of the American principle of free speech, apologized and offered AFDI space in a Hyatt for a future Conference to make it up the human rights organization. Geller chose the Hyatt in Dearborn to stand in solidarity there with girls who are in danger of being victimized like Jessica Mokdad.
Jessica Mokdad was a 20-year-old Muslim woman in Warren, Michigan, who was brutally murdered in May 2011. Fox News Detroit reported: “Authorities say a Minnesota man killed his 20-year-old stepdaughter in Michigan because she left home and wasn't following Islam.” Jessica’s stepfather, a devout Muslim, tracked his stepdaughter over four states to murder her for bringing dishonor on her family.
AFDI Executive Director Pamela Geller said in a statement: “We’ve named the Conference after her as part of our ongoing campaign to raise awareness and bring a stop to the phenomenon of Islamic honor killing. These girls have rights, too, they’re human beings, and yet they’re completely forgotten in our politically correct culture, in which speech that is offensive to Islam is increasingly forbidden. We’re standing for the human rights of girls like Jessica Mokdad.”
Geller added: “AFDI tried to place ads on Detroit-area buses offering help to people wishing to leave Islam and threatened by their families. Detroit SMART Transit refused the ads, and we sued on free speech grounds. We won, and the ads were scheduled to run, but Detroit SMART still refused to run them – and the same week they were supposed to run, Jessica Mokdad was murdered. Perhaps if she had seen one of our ads, she would be alive today. This underscores the cowardice of Detroit-area officials and the need for this Conference in Dearborn. We welcome women seeking help and resources to escape dangerous and misogynist households.”
The confirmed list of speakers includes ex-Muslim human rights activist Nonie Darwish; Sudanese ex-slave and freedom fighter Simon Deng; and James Lafferty of the Virginia Anti-Sharia Taskforce (VAST), co-host of the Conference. Also speaking will be David Wood of Acts 17 Apologetics, a Christian group that is suing the city of Dearborn for covering up Islamic honor killings performed in the area – that cover-up, and the resulting suit, will also be a focus of the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference
Hosting the Conference and also speaking are Pamela Geller, publisher of the acclaimed AtlasShrugs.com blog, executive director of AFDI and SIOA, and author of Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance (WND Books); and AFDI/SIOA associate director Robert Spencer, the bestselling author and director of Jihad Watch.
*Above scan is from these pages from one of the most important English-language sources for the content of Islamic law: Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law: It is certified by Al-Azhar University as a translation that "corresponds to the Arabic original and conforms to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni Community...":
In Book O, titled "Justice," in section 1, "Who is Subject to Retaliation for Injurious Crimes," section o1.1 reads, "Retaliation is obligatory ... against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right..."
However, o1.2 clarifies (above) that "The following are not subject to retaliation" and then lists — after the lovely, egalitarian "Muslim for killing a non-Muslim" and "Jewish or Christian subject ... for killing an apostate" — "(4) a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring."
Join us at the AFDI/SIOA Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference on Honor Killings...
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alaweed bin talal.........
Posted by: axiom | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 03:42 PM
Love the picture of the little jewish kids with the Uzis...they'll need to know how to use them sooner or later...GO JEWS!
Posted by: zemplar | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 03:58 PM
The cancellation offended no muslims, i.e. The Only Halal Outcome®
That fox/news corp affiliate soon to receive the Alwaleed bin Talal dar al islam award for journalistic excellence.
Takbir!
Posted by: Jamal Awad | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 05:04 PM
A poor young girls life has been snuffed out and they want to protect the perp? Shakes head at the shocking madness of it all..
Fox, doesn't surprise me. (Best thing I ever did was cancel my sub)
Maybe you should try Beck's show.
{{RIP Jessica}} :-(
Posted by: fern | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 08:09 PM
"Girls who are honor killed are expendable, but offending Muslims is unforgivable".
Islam and Muslims should be insulted and offended each and every day like the rest of the population and every other religion. Welcome to the West, we actually love our children and would die to protect them.
Islam is a tragic disgrace and a stain on humanity.
Posted by: Chrissy Lee | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 08:19 PM
Shame on canada's largest Police force that has more Cops that our Military forces , and shame on the lenral/leftist/PC/smug/elite/whites that tokk them over and made the Police Force the Police "Services" where they are now Social-Workers with guns they fear using because they have a List of Minorities with a dispendsations from canada's Laws from serious crimes ...and thus can assault the Police to storm a Highway with babies a shields (as the tamil terrorit supporters did), or spit on the Cops as they yell Death threats and genocide threat to jews and canada in general(Via jihad terrorism ACTS) as the pro-Hamas Muslims did in Toronto with the blessings form CAIR and Palestine-House .....and the endless conviction to terrorists named Muhammad that get lite Sentences and Prayer Rugs and an Arrow showing hwre Mekkah is while doing dawah in Prison.
Yes Folks... Toronto just paraded out the first Hijab wearing female Cop after months of work with 20 pro-Shariah/pro-Honour Killing radical Imam's that also made the Police Offices Halal/Shariah Complaint for Lunchrooms and a prayer room.
4 brown-females were just murdered by the new Aqua-cide Honour Killing to push a car in a canal with them in it and let them die a painful death, i know this because I Scuba dived since 1972 and was a top swimmers in the 60's and ther is now other panic like cutting off air and facing taking in water like those drowning from the Titanic in 30 degree salt water that burns the eyes and fills the lungs.
They die for the same Hijab issue that the Police now assert IS an islamic piece of headdress worn by CHOICE( they choice not to die so they wear it), this is the same Police that held a Press meeting in an islamic Centre after 18 MUSLIMS were arrested for their plot to slaughter 10'000 Civilians in Downtown Toronto via Truck-Bombs and behead our Prime Minister to get us out of Afghanistan.....and even then the PC Police Services was ordered to assure candian's that " islamic had NOTHING to do with it" , nor was this a Muslim issue since the youth crossed ALL sectors of society ( translation: 1 mass-murderer( potential) was an ex-Hindu lured into islam on campus and fed the Quranic hatred).
CAIR denied all of it and alleged Profiling, but once they boasted of it and got Convicted...CAIR changed it to misguided and untrue Muslims not link to islam.
The MSM rushed in to cover the Hijab Cop and show people canada was tolerant and Diverse to include the Hijab for true Muslims following the Quran......but during the Shafia slaughter of 4-brown females, the Liberal/White MSM then denied the Hijab had any link to it because the Hijab suddenly WAS NOT a forced islamic item of faith and the murders were male Misogyny and even CAIR started a Mosque campaign to denouce "Domestic-Violence" to also deflect the 1989 mass-Slaughter of 14 White-females from Jihad by gamil Gharabi who hated canada for letting females get an education and take jobs from muslim men.
The Bigotry and Racism of Lower-Expectations for muslims or Brown males murderng brown females is a blight on the white/liberal feminists like Naomi Klein and Judy Rebbeck whom both are Jewish but some how bash isreal and support hamas by their silence to condemn the terrorism and the use of their female female Brown-Sisters as suicide-bombers. The feminsts jumped on to the 1989 mass murders because the MSM refused to ID the killer by his real name and his Pro-Shariah Algerian father that practised this Sick Shariah on canadian soil as the white female stayed muted for 22 years now.
CAIR just came out with their taqqiyah to excuse away the Shafia mass-murders by claiming the Social workers failed Muslims and enabled the deaths, yet CAIR and Sheema Kahn crusaded for Shariah Law in canada for muslim females as Tarek Fatah can confirm because he debated Khan on a TVO show about Shariah in Canada as Khan said it would bring more RIHGHT'S to females that our Charter does now.
The whole this is sick and muslims must wear it for all the years of faux-islamophbobia rants and bogus hate-crimes to Mosques where nobody seems to ever be arrested but they leaves Tags as Jews and Christians who sprayed hated on the walls. CAIR's Psychic's quickly came up with a "Profiling" bigot that was a white/male/canadian/christian/welfare-bum , or white Zionist so the Police and Media could report this for the 6:00 O'Clock news from instant Photos and a 3 minute youtube during daytime to read the hatred sprayed on the mosque.
If only CAIR and Imam's put the same value on muslim females as their Mosques because THEN CAIR would call the Police to report the child brides in Mosques or muslim men beating the crap out of wives and daughters.
Oh well , hamas loves death more than their children's future or lives.
And now in canada Muslims get more outraged at vandalized Mosques than 4 females drowned to death by theirown within the Mosques.
Shariah: If their males or White , join their fight
If their female and brown.....let them drown.
Know Islam - NO peace
NO islam - KNOW peace
Posted by: ala sux | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 08:25 PM
alaweed bin talal.........
'ZACTLY
rupie's partner in grime
Posted by: jus agreein | Wednesday, February 01, 2012 at 12:40 AM
i'm sorry for you and all others planing to be at the segment. must be the infulence of CAIR.
Posted by: KKKK | Wednesday, February 01, 2012 at 05:28 AM
Well stated Ala Sux. We're all in this together.
You know what's sick too? As I was looking through Cassandra's pictures, there is an album of just Jessica and while many commented how they missed her and she was so beautiful, not one person condemned or even commented on her manner of death. Murder! Honor! They are SICK people!
Posted by: Brandy | Wednesday, February 01, 2012 at 08:06 AM
Just checked Cassandra's Facebook page and to my astonishment, (not really), she's changed her page to "private". Makes me laugh. She's reading alright. And she has the nerve to mock Catholics. Look in the mirror!
Posted by: Brandy | Thursday, February 02, 2012 at 12:54 PM