Fatima Abdallah Honor Killing Cover-up: Complaint Filed with Medical Examiners Commission
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Medical Examiner insider information may provide catalyst for Florida Medical Examiners Commission to properly investigate the Tampa death case that looks like an honor killing.
At the direction of Bruce A. Hyma, M.D., Chairman of the Florida Medical Examiners Commission, Florida Family Association filed the below complaint with the Florida Medical Examiners Commission regarding the suspicious death of Fatima Abdallah.
The Hillsborough County Medical Examiners ruled that a Palestinian woman killed herself by repeatedly beating her face against a coffee table.
An insider’s observations may prove to be very important to reopening this mishandled case. A member of the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner’s staff has informed several people that the medical examiner’s finding of this death as an accident caused great controversy and distress among many staff members because they could not believe that this case was ruled an accident.
It is Florida Family Association’s opinion that given the circumstances of Fatima Abdallah’s personal life and the facts surrounding her death that there is a need to reopen this case to fully investigate Fatima Abdullah’s death to determine if her demise was truly an accident or honor killing. Click here to read the full report on this private investigation of the death of Fatima Abdallah.
Over 4,000 concerned citizens sent emails urging the Tampa Police Department and State Attorney Mark Ober to reopen this case. However, it appears that these officials have ignored the public outcry because it is politically expedient to coverup the potential Islamic cultural involvement.
The Florida Family Association filed the following complaint with the Florida Medical Examiners Commission.
COMPLAINT FILED WITH MEDICAL EXAMINERS COMMISSION
Glenn Hopkins, Bureau Chief
Medical Examiners Commission
Re: Hillsborough County Medical Examiners Case No. 09-05161
Dear Mr. Hopkins, June 23,2011
Florida Family Association hired a private investigator to look into the suspicious death of Fatima Abdallah because it was difficult to comprehend how she could have killed herself by repeatedly beating her nose onto a coffee table. It is also difficult to comprehend how the injuries reported in her autopsy (back of the head, broken ribs, hemorrhage around ribs, etc.) could have occurred during such “self infliction” or alleged posthumous CPR.
The family knowingly left Fatima dead for 2 ½ hours before they called 911, gave two different stories of how she died, ushered the alleged only witness to her death out of the country just days after her death and treated her horribly before she died are just a few of the facts that make it highly unlikely that her death was an accident as the Hillsborough County Medical Examiners’ office has determined.
The Tampa Police Department has declined to reopen the investigation based upon the Hillsborough County Medical Examiners finding of cause of death.
Our private investigator and research team found numerous inconsistencies, errors and omissions with the Medical Examiner Report, Tampa Police General Offense Report, and 911 Dispatch Call Hardcopy Report. These inconsistencies are itemized in the INVESTIGATION FINDINGS section below. The Tampa Police General Offense Report, Medical Examiner Report, 911 Dispatch Call Hardcopy report, Prestige Investigations, Inc. reports and Crime scene photos are all found online at the links referenced at the bottom of http://floridafamily.org/full_article.php?article_no=49
A member of the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner’s staff has informed us that the medical examiner’s finding of this death as an accident caused great controversy and distress among many staff members because they could not believe that this case was ruled an accident.
It is Florida Family Association’s opinion that given the circumstances of Fatima Abdallah’s personal life and the facts surrounding her death that there is a need to reopen this case to fully investigate Fatima Abdullah’s death to determine if her demise was truly an accident or honor killing.
Thousands upon thousands of concerned citizens have already sent emails urging the Tampa Police Department and State Attorney Mark Ober to reopen this case. These officials have ignored the public outcry.
We hope that your office will not ignor this case as Tampa officials have because of the ramifications of dealing with an alleged violent crime that appears to be motivated by cultural codes of conduct.
Therefore, we respectfully request that the Medical Examiners Commission review this case.
I look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
David Caton
David Caton
Executive Director
Florida Family Association
INVESTIGATION FINDINGS
Our investigation revealed the following about Fatima Abdallah’s personal life. Fatima:
- Lived in the same household as did three related Arab named families.
- Was allegedly divorced by her cousin husband because she could not have children and he married another cousin.
- Allegedly brought shame to her Muslim family because of her divorce according to neighbors.
- Was allegedly not permitted to return to her homeland in the Middle East by the family.
- Was allegedly not permitted to drive on her own even though she was licensed.
- Was allegedly the subject of many arguments with other family members.
- Was allegedly treated badly and had unthinkable things done to her by her older brother.
Our investigation revealed the following about Fatima Abdallah’s death:
- Family members claimed that she killed herself by repeatedly slamming her head onto a coffee table and the floor. The Tampa Police Department accepted this claim as the cause of death. Tampa Rescue said she looked like someone beat her up and disputed the probability that she could have killed herself in that manner. In addition to head, face and lip injuries she had several lower fractured ribs with hemorrhage in the area which is normal in cases of blunt trauma to the rib cage
- Five family members waited nearly 2 ½ hours before calling 911.
- The call to 911 dispatch gave a completely different version of what happened to Fatima and her state of mind than was reported by detectives on the scene. The same family member gave two different accounts.
- The Tampa Police Department:
1. Did not catch the fact that Muhammad called 911 dispatch and not his brother Ali as the TPD report states.
2. Did not catch the fact that Muhammad told 911 dispatch a different version of what happened to Fatima than he told detectives on the scene.
3. Relied upon a family member instead of an independent translator to translate the account of the only alleged witness to Fatima’s death. That witness left the country just days after Fatima died.
4. Did not verify the travel of one of Fatima’s brothers from Ft. Myers to Tampa which was the assumed reason for the 2 ½ hour delay before anyone in the family called 911.
5. Did not properly account or resolve how Fatima’s lower right ribs 4 thru 9 were broken and other injuries were sustained to her face and mouth.
6. Did not fully investigate or identify blood evidence on a large shirt, floor and stairs.
7. Did not interview neighbors.
8. General Offense report completed by various police personnel qualified the Cause of Death as “Homicide” and “Undetermined” and “Unexplained” but was reclassified to “Accident” by Medical Examiner.
- The Medical Examiner:
1. Final determination of Cause of Death that the “Decedent fell and struck her head” is inconsistent with the Tampa Police Department General Offense Report and 911 dispatch detail descriptions of the death.
2. Determined the fracture of right ribs 4 thru 9 was due to CPR even though these ribs do not come into play during CPR and even though Tampa Rescue states that they did not perform CPR.
DETAILED FINDINGS
- The “accidental cause of death” that Fatima Abdallah allegedly “slammed her head into a wood coffee table (and carpeted floor), multiple times” until she died is difficult to comprehend. GO15. Lt. Scott Ashley with Tampa Rescue #21, Cross Creek Blvd-New Tampa who was interviewed by Prestige Investigations, Inc. said “He did remember the call and stated that when he got to the scene he observed the decedent and thought that ‘someone had beat the crap out of her.” Lt. Ashley also said that “it would be very difficult for someone to hit their heads hard enough to cause loss of consciousness. It would be similar to someone stopping their breathing and causing their death.” PI04063.
- It is difficult to accept that the damage done to the coffee table shown in crime scene photographs DSC_508, DSC_509 and DSC_510 was self inflicted or accidental.
- Five family members waited 2 ½ hours before calling 911. The mother, three brothers and sister-in-law allegedly knew of Fatima’s injuries but waited 2 ½ hours until Ali A. Alkahla allegedly arrived from Ft. Myers to call 911. However, the 911 Dispatch (DIS1) report states that Muhammad called 911 not Ali as pointed out below.
- The TPD GO report states that Nafish A. Kahla, Fatima’s mother, did not call 911 because she allegedly did not know how to use the phone yet was reported to have allegedly had numerous conversations with her sons. Muhammad Hmeid “stated that she (Nafish) did not call 911 because she doesn’t know how to use the phone very well.” GO19. However, the decedent’s mother called her sons, some several times. Ali Alkahla “He advised he was in Ft. Myers Fl.. visiting relatives when he received a phone call from his mother on his cell phone.” GO20. Muhammad Hmeid “continued to receive phone calls but that he still was not sure what was going on.”
- TPD did not verify Ali A. Alkahla’s travel from Ft. Myers which was crucial to the time line credibility of the family waiting 2 ½ half hours to call 911. The TPD GO report states that the family did not call 911 until Ali A. Alkahla allegedly arrived 2 ½ hours after the deceased lay lifeless on the carpet. “No one challenged the statement as to who the son was visiting in Ft. Myers, FL. Who did they visit and what is their name, address and phone number?” PI05053. TPD did not verify Ali’s statements.
- TPD did not verify that phone calls were made from the home to Ali A. Alkahla or from brothers to brothers during that critical 2 ½ hour period. The TPD GO mentions no confirmation or attempt to confirm this activity.
- The 911 dispatch (GO16) (DIS1) was given an entirely different account of the (1) deceased’s frame of mind, (2) how the deceased was discovered and (3) the circumstances that lead to her death compared to the accounts given by Muhammad Hmeid and Nafish A. Kahla (GO20). GO16 reports “Per the dispatch details, the decedent was discovered unconscious and unresponsive within the family shared residence. The call details also noted that the decedent had been cleaning, and may have passed out due to cleaning product fumes.” (1) The dispatch call states the deceased had the responsible presence of mind to be cleaning the house which is significantly different from Muhammad’s account of her acting mentally unstable. (2) The dispatch call states she was discovered unconscious while Muhammad states his mother witnessed her self inflict injury. (3) The dispatch account alleges the deceased passed out from cleaning product fumes while Muhammad’s version alleges that she repeatedly beat herself to death on the coffee table and the floor. There appears to be no attempt by TPD in the GO to reconcile these conflicting accounts. This gross disparity in accounts also went unnoted in the TPD GO report.
- The TPD GO20 report states that Ali A. Alkahla called 911 but the 911 Dispatch (DIS1) states that it was Muhammad Hmeid who called. According to TPD GO20 “He (Ali Alkahla) did not know when his sister stopped breathing but when he got home and went inside he could see his sister was not breathing and called 911.” However, the first entry on the CAD Call Hardcopy (DIS1) states “Aug-16-2009 21:05:07 – HMEID, MUHAMMAD COMPL’S SISTER DOWN NOT CONCS UNK IF BREATHING HE JUST FOUND HER.” Tampa Police detectives overlooked this discrepancy.
- The account of Fatima’s death attributed to Muhammad Hmeid in TPD 911 Dispatch Report (DIS1) is entirely different than the account reported by TPD in GO18-20. The above referenced account given to dispatch of Fatima passing out due to fumes from cleaning products was reported as given by Muhammad yet his account and the account he gave for his mother in GO18-20 Muhammad is reported to have said that Fatima repeatedly beat her head against the coffee table and floor until she died. Tampa Police missed the two different accounts that Muhammad gave of how Fatima died.
- TPD did not rely upon an independent translator to interview the only alleged witness to Fatima’s death. Nafish A. Kahla, the decedents’ mother allegedly spoke no English. TPD relied entirely upon her son, Muhammad, to translate Nafish’s alleged account of her daughter’s death GO19. TPD made no attempt to have an independent translator interview Nafish A. Kahla. Nafish’s alleged account was basically a repeat of Muhammad’s account GO18 and GO19.
- The mother left the country just days after Fatima’s death. “Immediately after the funeral, the mother was sent out of the country. It was believed that she was possibly sent back to Palestine or Israel.” PI05053. Reporting this fact does not mean to imply that the mother hurt Fatima. However, it would appear that she may have a different story to tell if an independent translator questioned her.
- Muhammad’s account of Fatima’s death is much more detailed than one would expect from someone who only knew what happened as described by someone else i.e. his mother. In fact, Muhammad gives far more details of Fatima’s death than his mother gave. GO18-20.
- The TPD GO report contains varying and inconsistent “Causes of Death.”
1. GO15 states “Caused by Undetermined." Detective Durkin.
2. GO24 states “OFFENSE: Homicide.” CST Matthew Evans.
3. GO25 states “OFFENSE: Unexplained Death.” CST Shelby Garman.
- The deceased suffered broken ribs which were not properly explained or accounted for in the TPD GO report. Fatima’s lower right ribs were broken. The medical examiner attributes broken ribs to CPR but Tampa Rescue says that no CPR was performed. The Medical Examiner report states “There are rib fractures from cardiopulmonary resuscitation. ON the right side, ribs 4 and 5 are fractured and … ribs 5 – 9 are fractured.” ME3. However, Lt. Scott Ashley stated “No CPR was performed by Tampa Rescue as the decedent was already dead and had been for some time.” Lt. Ashley was asked to comment on the broken ribs after reviewing the Autopsy Report. Lt. Ashley advised “CPR injuries usually occur around the sternum (breast bone) and in the anterior aspect. The fractures of ribs 5-9 in the posterior aspect would not be common of injury from CPR.” PI04063. “The intercostal muscles showed signs of hemorrhage in the area of these broken ribs. The intercostal muscles are located in between each rib. Hemorrhage would be normal in cases of blunt trauma to the rib cage.” PI04063.
- Medical Examiner’s determination of “Manner of Death” is inconsistent with the TPD GO report accounts from witnesses. The Medical Examiner’s determination that the “Manner of Death” was “Accident (Decedent Fell and struck her head on table)” (GO11 and ME) is inconsistent with the TPD GO report accounts from Muhammad (GO18-19) and Nafish (GO19-20) which state that the deceased deliberately and repeatedly slammed her head onto a coffee table and the carpet floor.
- The fine mist of blood splatter shown in crime scene photographs appears to be inconsistent with the TPD GO report witness accounts that all traumas were self inflicted over the coffee table. Crime scene photographs DSC_531, DSC_536 and DSC_537 show a distinctive “mist” or very light blood covering a fairly large area of carpet. This blood mist over a large area would more likely result from trauma to the head forcing the head to rapidly rotate than it would be the result of self slamming of head on and over the coffee table.
- Blood spots on a large (L) brown sweatshirt are unexplained. (PI05053) TPD collected Item 15 (GO25) depicted in crime scene photographs DSC_620 thru DSC_635 which contained spots of blood. All photos are llinked at bottom of this letter. The spots which are diminished in appearance look like they have been wiped in attempts to clean. TPD did not identify the owner of the shirt, determine if this was blood spatter versus blood transfer, determine whose blood it was or investigate how the blood got on the shirt. This shirt must have caught a crime scene technician’s interest since sixteen photos were taken. It is unlikely that the deceased wore a large shirt of this kind given her petite size and the matching tight clothes that she is shown wearing in crime scene photograph DSC_554.
- Blood spots on one stair step were not explained. How did blood spots land on the fifth step down from the top of the stairs as shown in crime scene photographs DSC_492 thru DSC_497? All photos are linked at the bottom of this letter. The spots which are diminished in appearance look like they have been wiped and smeared in attempts to clean. Could the drops in that location have occurred from an attempt to move the deceased’s body? If the blood was transferred by foot shouldn’t more blood be found somewhere on the first four steps from the top? Whose blood is it and why is it only in this one spot?
- Fatima’s family would not let her return to Brazil or the Middle East (GO19) or leave the house on her own (PI04162). Fatima was primarily confined to the home where she was the subject of constant arguments with several members of the family (PI0421).
- There is no mention if TPD interviewed neighbors in an attempt to see if anyone heard, saw or knew something related to Fatima’s death. (PI05053). Prestige Investigations, Inc. interviewed neighbors as reported in PI0416 and PI0421.
- Prestige Investigations, Inc. interviewed the neighbors and learned:
1. A neighbor expressed concern about discussing this matter because the people next door are Muslims and she doesn’t want any trouble. PI 04212.
2. A neighbor stated that the deceased married her cousin but he divorced her because she could not have children. PI04212.
3. At some point in time, (1) Sarah (deceased’s American name) had told her (a neighbor) that her (the deceased’s) older brother, (name not mentioned), treated her badly and had done unthinkable things to her. The deceased asked the neighbor not to speak about it. PI04211.
4. Tahane, the deceased’s sister-in-law, argued a lot with the deceased. PI04161. This was also the case with the mother.
5. A neighbor said that deceased was divorced and that was shameful in the Muslim family, that her father did not live in the house and that the son Ali was the eldest son and he was the one who protected the honor of the family in his fathers stead. PI04161.
6. A neighbor said that the family did not allow the deceased to drive even though she had a valid drivers license. PI04162.
7. Immediately after the funeral the mother was sent out of the country possibly to Palestine or Israel. PI05053.
- Muhammad Abdallah Hmeid was arrested on February 6, 2010 for “aggravated assault – using a deadly weapon” according to Temple Terrace Police Report number 2010-00530. This document is labeled Arrest. Muhammad allegedly struck a man in the head with the butt of his 9mm hand gun during an altercation causing the man’s head to bleed extensively. The man allegedly struck in the head sued Muhammad Hmeid on June 10, 2010 in Hillsborough County Circuit Court Case 10-CA-011943. The civil suit is open and copies of the online Clerk of the Circuit Court report are included with the Arrest report.
- Prestige Investigations, Inc. summarized “ …there is a glaring absence of any suspicion, from either report (TPD and ME reports), that the decedent could have possibly been a victim of an assault that eventually caused her death. The absence of any suspicion that the decedent had been assaulted is difficult to understand. Many questions remain that should be resolved. A medical review of the autopsy report with the photos of the decedent may give a professional medical view as to what may have happened to her.” PI05054.
Posted by Pamela Geller on Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 11:46 AM in Honor Killings: Islam Misogyny | Permalink | Comments (5) ShareThis
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
June 24th "Rally for Fatima" at NOW Conference: Protest Feminist Silence on Honor Killings and Fatima Abdallah's Cover-Up
Does being a Muslim mean you can get away with murder?
RALLY FOR JUSTICE FOR FATIMA at the NOW Conference
Friday, June 24th, 1:00 - 2:00
Embassy Suites Tampa - USF/Near Busch Gardens
3705 Spectrum Blvd.
Tampa, Florida 33612 2011
Stand against Islamic supremacism, gender apartheid, and Islamic law in American law enforcement and courts. Call out the feminists and the Tampa Chief of Police, Jane Castor.
National NOW Conference June 24-26 in Tampa, Florida, at the Embassy Suites Tampa - USF/Near Busch Gardens. Jane Castor, Tampa Chief of Police, is scheduled to deliver the Welcome Speech from 1:45 - 2:00 pm
The irony is thicker than blood. Jane Castor, Tampa Chief of Police -- scene of the misogynistic Abdallah cover-up in submission to Islam -- is speaking to a feminist crowd on what? The upside of the dehumanizaton of women? The hypocrisy is crushing. NOW, instead of fighting for women, has taken up genocidal jihad flotillas.
Let's call out the feminist claptrap about women's rights when they stand silent as Muslim girls are murdered here in America, and stand silent in the face of gender apartheid, clitorectomies, forced marriage, child marriage under the sharia in Muslim countries.
What has the hypocrite group NOW done to alleviate the suffering of women living under the boot of Islam? Nothing. Their silence is sanction. What have they done to help Muslim girls here in the US living in terror in devout households?
This Friday we are going to protest the NOW conference taking place in Tampa, scene of the Fatima Abdallah cover-up. The honor killing was classified as an accidental suicide. Medical examiner Laura Harris ruled Fatima's honor killing an accidental suicide by banging her head on the coffee table (there was no blood on the coffee table). The Tampa police department went along with this horrible crime.
Fatima Abdallah's "mouth was bloodied by a blow, and at the left corner of her mouth is an angular cut/incision/indentation, which only could have been made by a blow." Also, "her left eye orbit was broken, and her left eye socket was blackened, suffering a blow causing hemorrhaging of blood about the eye." And "her right arm had contusions at the front inside of the elbow, and at the shoulder near the front armpit, consistent with being grasped forcibly by human hands."
Where are the feminist liars and imposters? Is a Muslim woman's life worthless? Is it politically expedient to allow enforcement of the sharia, so as not to offend Muslims?
Jane Castor, Tampa Police Dept. Chief, will be speaking. PLEASE PROTEST WITH SIOA.
The 2011 National NOW Conference is being held June 24-26 in Tampa, Florida, at the Embassy Suites Tampa - USF/Near Busch Gardens.
Jane Castor, Tampa Chief of Police, is scheduled to deliver the Welcome Speech from 1:45 - 2:00 pm, so let's RALLY FOR JUSTICE FOR FATIMA from 1:00 - 2:00, in front of the hotel. Look for the signs!
You can register ($35) on site that weekend at 3701 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL, if you would also like to attend:
Breakout Session IV: Saturday, 10:45am - 12:15pm
Behind the Veil: Islam and Women's Rights
Salon B
With the recent burqa ban in France, there has been much talk about the role of women in Islam. Is Islam inherently sexist? Can a woman actually choose to cover herself? As feminists, should we have a goal of helping to liberate Muslim women? What is the role of women in the recent Arab Spring? Workshop panelists include a human rights activist who has traveled extensively in conflict regions; an American of Palestinian and Egyptian descent outspoken on feminism and the Middle East and North African uprisings; and a civil rights legal fellow at the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Tampa. Come to an honest and eye-opening dialogue about the role of women in Islam, and learn how both Muslim and non-Muslim feminists can work together to further feminism.
N. Jerin Arifa (Moderator), Amala M. Abdur-Rahman, Neveen Nawawy, Laila M. Abdelaziz
http://www.now.org/organization/conference/2011/workshops.html#4
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Hundreds of Atlas readers have written to Dr. Vernard Adams of the Hillsborough County Medical Examiners. Keep writing. And call, too: his phone number is 813 914 4500. Each of us should call to notify him of our next email campaign to the medical examiner's commission.
Please write to Governor Scott as well. Email Brian.Hughes@eog.myflorida.com, doug.darling@eog.myflorida.com, RScott@RickScottForFlorida.com, Rick.Scott@eog.myflorida.com
Cc: Adamsv@hillsboroughcounty.org, Lhairme@AOL.com, GlenHopkins@fdle.state.fl.us, GeraldBailey@fdle.state.fl.us
We must rally again. Please come if you can.
Posted by Pamela Geller on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 11:20 PM in Honor Killings: Islam Misogyny | Permalink | Comments (6) ShareThis
Pamela Geller, WND: Honor killing cover-up in Florida, Take Action
UPDATE: Please write to Governor Scott as well. Email Brian.Hughes@eog.myflorida.com, doug.darling@eog.myflorida.com, RScott@RickScottForFlorida.com, Rick.Scott@eog.myflorida.com
Cc: Adamsv@hillsboroughcounty.org, Lhairme@AOL.com, GlenHopkins@fdle.state.fl.us, GeraldBailey@fdle.state.fl.us
Florida Governor Rick Scott
Dear Governor Scott,
The reason this complaint is being filed with your office is because as governor you appoint and approve who serves the public as Medical Examiners.
It is alleged in this complaint that the Hillsborough County Medical Examiners office is covering up an alleged violent crime because it is politically expedient to ignore the cultural basis involved.
Florida Family Association hired a private investigator to look into the suspicious death of Fatima Abdallah because it was difficult to comprehend how she could have killed herself by repeatedly beating her nose onto a coffee table. It is also difficult to comprehend how the injuries reported in her autopsy (back of the head, broken ribs, hemorrhage around ribs, etc.) could have occurred during such “self infliction” or alleged posthumous CPR.
The family knowingly left Fatima dead for 2 ½ hours before they called 911, gave two different stories of how she died, ushered the alleged only witness to her death out of the country just days after her death and treated her horribly before she died are just a few of the facts that make it highly unlikely that her death was an accident as the Hillsborough County Medical Examiners’ office has determined in Case No. 09-05161.
The Tampa Police Department has declined to reopen the investigation based upon the Hillsborough County Medical Examiners finding of cause of death.
Our private investigator and research team found numerous inconsistencies, errors and omissions with the Medical Examiner Report, Tampa Police General Offense Report, and 911 Dispatch Call Hardcopy Report. These inconsistencies are itemized in the INVESTIGATION FINDINGS section below. The Tampa Police General Offense Report, Medical Examiner Report, 911 Dispatch Call Hardcopy report, Prestige Investigations, Inc. reports and Crime scene photos are all found online at the links referenced at the bottom of http://floridafamily.org/full_article.php?article_no=49
A member of the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner’s staff has informed us that the medical examiner’s finding of this death as an accident caused great controversy and distress among many staff members because they could not believe that this case was ruled an accident.
It is Florida Family Association’s opinion that given the circumstances of Fatima Abdallah’s personal life and the facts surrounding her death that there is a need to reopen this case to fully investigate Fatima Abdullah’s death to determine if her demise was truly an accident or honor killing.
Thousands upon thousands of concerned citizens have already sent emails urging the Tampa Police Department and State Attorney Mark Ober to reopen this case. These officials have ignored the public outcry.
We hope that your office will not ignore this case as Tampa officials have because of the ramifications of dealing with an alleged violent crime that appears to be motivated by cultural codes of conduct.
Therefore, we respectfully request that your office ask the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate this death.
I look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
David Caton
Executive Director
Florida Family Association
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Hundreds of Atlas readers have written to Dr. Vernard Adams of the Hillsborough County Medical Examiners. Keep writing. And call too, his phone number is 813 914 4500. Each of us should call to notify him of our next email campaign to the medical examiner's commission.
Does being a Muslim mean you can get away with murder? Today we take the next step:
Dr. Vernard Adams
Hillsborough County Medical Examiners
Dear Dr. Adams, Re: Fatima Abdallah, File No. 09-05161
Florida Family Association plans to file a formal complaint regarding the mishandling by your office of the Fatima Abdallah case with the Medical Examiners Commission at the close of this business day. The filing will be followed up with an email campaign to the Medical Examiners Commission and MEC staff.
Sincerely,
David Caton
Executive Director
Florida Family Association
Read my latest column for WND Commentary:
Honor killing cover-up in Florida?
A Muslim woman shunned by her devout Muslim family for her "shameful" divorce dies a sudden death after "throwing herself on the floor" in front of her family, and it's classified an accident. That's what Florida law enforcement determined. No one was charged in the death of 48-year-old Fatima Abdallah in Florida. But there is evidence that she may have been a victim of Islamic honor killing, and that Tampa authorities are complicit in a cover-up.
Honor killing is the all too common Islamic practice in which a woman who has brought "shame" to the family is murdered to preserve family "purity." It should be exposed, investigated and stopped in the U.S. – not covered up. This is Shariah in America. The idea that a woman would die after she "threw herself to the floor" is institutionalized devaluation of women and tacit sanctioning of honor killing – in accord with Islamic law.
Medical examiner Laura Hair ruled Fatima Abdallah's death accidental. Deputy Police Chief Marc Hamlin said, "The bottom line is, no matter how long you investigate and no matter how much you investigate, it's not going to overrule the competent medical evidence that it was an accident." How do they know that? How is it more likely that she threw herself to the floor than she was fatally thrown to the floor?
Even worse, the Tampa Police report claims that Abdallah committed suicide by repeatedly striking her head against a coffee table. The idea defies logic, belies reality. There is a great deal of evidence that the Tampa Police investigation was drastically flawed and that the Police Department and medical examiner ignored numerous indications that Fatima Abdallah did not commit suicide or die in an accident, but was brutally assaulted.
I asked John Jay, a former prosecutor in Washington state, to examine the substantial evidence presented in the initial investigation of the death of Fatima Abdallah. In 25 years of law practice, the majority involved in prosecuting and defending major felonies, Jay said that he never heard or read of a person killing herself by flinging herself upon the floor or a table. "Quite frankly," he said, "I seriously doubt it can be done."
Jay found that Fatima Abdallah's "mouth was bloodied by a blow, and at the left corner of her mouth is an angular cut/incision/indentation, which only could have been made by a blow." Also, "her left eye orbit was broken, and her left eye socket was blackened, suffering a blow causing hemorrhaging of blood about the eye." And "her right arm had contusions at the front inside of the elbow, and at the shoulder near the front armpit, consistent with being grasped forcibly by human hands."
Posted by Pamela Geller on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 03:00 PM in Atlas Articles, Honor Killings: Islam Misogyny, WND Geller Columns | Permalink | Comments (4) ShareThis
Brutal "Honor" in Islam: Fulbright Scholar Savagely Beaten, Eyes Gouged Out, Nose Chewed Off by Husband
The failure to arrest Mr Sumon for so long has been criticised by the country's High Court, which has ordered police to appear before them on Thursday morning and explain why. (BBC)
Syeed Hasan gouged his devout wife's eyes out with his fingers and chewed part of her nose off in front of their young daughter. "There is a possibility that her husband will get away with it."
UBC scholar blinded by husband Vancouver Sun
Rumana Manzur as beaten, maimed and blinded last month in front of her daughter by her jealous husband in Bangladesh. Now UBC's president and others are rallying to support her and all women who are victims of domestic violence
Family and friends of a celebrated University of B.C. scholar who was savagely beaten and blinded in Bangladesh by her husband are calling for justice.
Rumana Manzur, 33, a Fulbright scholar from Bangladesh, has been completing a master's degree at UBC.
In May, she returned to Bangladesh to visit her five-yearold daughter and husband.
Shortly after her return, Manzur's husband brutally attacked her.
Syeed Hasan allegedly gouged her eyes out with his fingers and chewed part of her nose off in front of their young daughter during a bitter argument over her education.
Manzur was slated to return to UBC in August to complete a thesis on climate change.
Marleen deRuiter, a St. John's College residence roommate of Manzur's, described her as very devout, cheerful, caring and a doting mother who called her daughter every day in Bangladesh.
"She is very, very upset that she will never see her daughter again and there is a possibility that her husband will get away with it," said deRuiter.
Saif Islam, a UBC student who works on behalf of Bangladeshi students at the university, has been in contact with Manzur's family.
Islam said Manzur's husband attempted to evade the police and defended his actions by accusing Manzur of having an affair.
Manzur appeared on Bangladeshi television from her hospital bed to defend herself against her husband's accusations and plead for justice.
The accusations of an affair have outraged her family and friends, and Islam published an open letter from Bangladeshi families in Vancouver condemning the "baseless" assault on her character.
Islam said her husband, who is unemployed, attacked her and blinded her to prevent her from continuing her education.
Manzur's plight has drawn public protests in Bangladesh, where she was also a professor at the University of Dhaka.
"After protests in Bangladesh, and from St. John's College, [her husband] admitted he made up [the accusations of infidelity]," said Islam. "After assaulting her physically, he assaulted her character."
Islam, a PhD student studying domestic violence and women's networks in Bangladesh, said that country only recently passed a law protecting women from domestic violence.
"I have not seen any good enforcement of the law," he said. "I just saw her on TV. Her eyes were covered, part of her nose was taken off by her husband and there are bandages and bruises all over her face and hands."
Manzur's parents had her moved briefly to a hospital in India to see if her vision could be saved, but doctors said the damage was too severe, said Islam.
Posted by Pamela Geller on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 12:28 PM in Honor Killings: Islam Misogyny | Permalink | Comments (27) ShareThis
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
ATLAS ACTION ALERT: Write to Chief Medical Examiner, Reopen Honor Killing Case of Fatima Abdallah
Atlas readers, I need your help. We are having little success getting Tampa law enforcement and the medical examiner's office to reopen or even review the case of the murder of Fatima Abdallah. This cannot stand. Before we start going legal like Muslim Brotherhood-tied CAIR, I ask that you write Dr. Vernard Adams, Chief Medical Examiner in the Hillsborough County Medical Examiners office (the office that called Fatima's death an accidental suicide). We rallied, and now we must write. His email is Adamsv@hillsboroughcounty.org (and please cc me at PamelaGeller@gmail.com).
Where are the Muslim Brotherhood groups like CAIR and ISNA demanding justice for a murdered Muslima? No, instead they attack me and my colleagues. You need no more proof than that. Their agenda is Islamic domination and imposition of Islamic law.
Honor Killing: Initial Investigation of Death of Fatima Abdallah ...
Is there no one with conviction, integrity and honor in law enforcement who stands for anything? Is there no one man (or woman) of valor? Has America become so weak that human life is worthless? This was murder.
Here is what I wrote to Dr. Vernard Adams:
Dr. Vernard Adams, Chief Medical Examiner
Hillsborough County Medical Examiners
Dear Dr. Adams, Re: Fatima Abdallah, File No. 09-05161
American Freedom Defense Initiative respectfully requests that you personally review the death of Fatima Abdallah as reported in the Tampa Police General Offense Report, Medical Examiner Report, 911 Dispatch Call Hardcopy report, Prestige Investigations, Inc. reports and Crime scene photos. All of these reports are found online at the links referenced at the bottom of the web page http://floridafamily.org/full_article.php?article_no=49
It is difficult to comprehend how Fatima could have killed herself by repeatedly beating her nose onto a coffee table. It is also difficult to comprehend how the injuries reported in her autopsy (back of the head, broken ribs, hemorrhage around ribs, etc.) could have occurred during such “self infliction” or alleged posthumous CPR.
A private investigator and research team found numerous inconsistencies, errors and omissions with the Tampa Police General Offense Report, Medical Examiner Report and 911 Dispatch Call Hardcopy Report. These inconsistencies are itemized in the INVESTIGATION FINDINGS section below.
A member of the Medical Examiner’s staff has informed us that the medical examiner’s finding of this death as an accident caused great controversy and distress among many staff members because they could not believe that this case was ruled an accident. Information regarding this insider in your office has been posted on various sites. Here is one example: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/freedom-lovers-take-to-tampa-to-give-voice-to-voiceless-justice-for-fatima-rally.html
It is our opinion that given the circumstances of Fatima Abdallah’s personal life and the facts surrounding her death that there is a need to reopen this case to fully investigate Fatima Abdullah’s death to determine if her demise was truly an accident or honor killing. I look forward to your response.
Yours in liberty,
Pamela Geller
Executive Director, AFDI/SIOA
Editor, Publisher, AtlasShrugs.com
INVESTIGATION FINDINGS
Our investigation revealed the following about Fatima Abdallah’s personal life. Fatima:
- Lived in the same household as did three related Arab named families.
- Was allegedly divorced by her cousin husband because she could not have children and he married another cousin.
- Allegedly brought shame to her Muslim family because of her divorce according to neighbors.
- Was allegedly not permitted to return to her homeland in the Middle East by the family.
- Was allegedly not permitted to drive on her own even though she was licensed.
- Was allegedly the subject of many arguments with other family members.
- Was allegedly treated badly and had unthinkable things done to her by her older brother.
Our investigation revealed the following about Fatima Abdallah’s death:
- Family members claimed that she killed herself by repeatedly slamming her head onto a coffee table and the floor. The Tampa Police Department accepted this claim as the cause of death. Tampa Rescue said she looked like someone beat her up and disputed the probability that she could have killed herself in that manner. In addition to head, face and lip injuries she had several lower fractured ribs with hemorrhage in the area which is normal in cases of blunt trauma to the rib cage
- Five family members waited nearly 2 ½ hours before calling 911.
- The call to 911 dispatch gave a completely different version of what happened to Fatima and her state of mind than was reported by detectives on the scene. The same family member gave two different accounts.
- The Tampa Police Department:
1. Did not catch the fact that Muhammad called 911 dispatch and not his brother Ali as the TPD report states.
2. Did not catch the fact that Muhammad told 911 dispatch a different version of what happened to Fatima than he told detectives on the scene.
3. Relied upon a family member instead of an independent translator to translate the account of the only alleged witness to Fatima’s death. That witness left the country just days after Fatima died.
4. Did not verify the travel of one of Fatima’s brothers from Ft. Myers to Tampa which was the assumed reason for the 2 ½ hour delay before anyone in the family called 911.
5. Did not properly account or resolve how Fatima’s lower right ribs 4 thru 9 were broken and other injuries were sustained to her face and mouth.
6. Did not fully investigate or identify blood evidence on a large shirt, floor and stairs.
7. Did not interview neighbors.
8. General Offense report completed by various police personnel qualified the Cause of Death as “Homicide” and “Undetermined” and “Unexplained” but was reclassified to “Accident” by Medical Examiner.
- The Medical Examiner:
1. Final determination of Cause of Death that the “Decedent fell and struck her head” is inconsistent with the Tampa Police Department General Offense Report and 911 dispatch detail descriptions of the death.
2. Determined the fracture of right ribs 4 thru 9 was due to CPR even though these ribs do not come into play during CPR and even though Tampa Rescue states that they did not perform CPR.
DETAILED FINDINGS
- The “accidental cause of death” that Fatima Abdallah allegedly “slammed her head into a wood coffee table (and carpeted floor), multiple times” until she died is difficult to comprehend. GO15. Lt. Scott Ashley with Tampa Rescue #21, Cross Creek Blvd-New Tampa who was interviewed by Prestige Investigations, Inc. said “He did remember the call and stated that when he got to the scene he observed the decedent and thought that ‘someone had beat the crap out of her.” Lt. Ashley also said that “it would be very difficult for someone to hit their heads hard enough to cause loss of consciousness. It would be similar to someone stopping their breathing and causing their death.” PI04063.
- It is difficult to accept that the damage done to the coffee table shown in crime scene photographs DSC_508, DSC_509 and DSC_510 was self inflicted or accidental.
- Five family members waited 2 ½ hours before calling 911. The mother, three brothers and sister-in-law allegedly knew of Fatima’s injuries but waited 2 ½ hours until Ali A. Alkahla allegedly arrived from Ft. Myers to call 911. However, the 911 Dispatch (DIS1) report states that Muhammad called 911 not Ali as pointed out below.
- The TPD GO report states that Nafish A. Kahla, Fatima’s mother, did not call 911 because she allegedly did not know how to use the phone yet was reported to have allegedly had numerous conversations with her sons. Muhammad Hmeid “stated that she (Nafish) did not call 911 because she doesn’t know how to use the phone very well.” GO19. However, the decedent’s mother called her sons, some several times. Ali Alkahla “He advised he was in Ft. Myers Fl.. visiting relatives when he received a phone call from his mother on his cell phone.” GO20. Muhammad Hmeid “continued to receive phone calls but that he still was not sure what was going on.”
- TPD did not verify Ali A. Alkahla’s travel from Ft. Myers which was crucial to the time line credibility of the family waiting 2 ½ half hours to call 911. The TPD GO report states that the family did not call 911 until Ali A. Alkahla allegedly arrived 2 ½ hours after the deceased lay lifeless on the carpet. “No one challenged the statement as to who the son was visiting in Ft. Myers, FL. Who did they visit and what is their name, address and phone number?” PI05053. TPD did not verify Ali’s statements.
- TPD did not verify that phone calls were made from the home to Ali A. Alkahla or from brothers to brothers during that critical 2 ½ hour period. The TPD GO mentions no confirmation or attempt to confirm this activity.
- The 911 dispatch (GO16) (DIS1) was given an entirely different account of the (1) deceased’s frame of mind, (2) how the deceased was discovered and (3) the circumstances that lead to her death compared to the accounts given by Muhammad Hmeid and Nafish A. Kahla (GO20). GO16 reports “Per the dispatch details, the decedent was discovered unconscious and unresponsive within the family shared residence. The call details also noted that the decedent had been cleaning, and may have passed out due to cleaning product fumes.” (1) The dispatch call states the deceased had the responsible presence of mind to be cleaning the house which is significantly different from Muhammad’s account of her acting mentally unstable. (2) The dispatch call states she was discovered unconscious while Muhammad states his mother witnessed her self inflict injury. (3) The dispatch account alleges the deceased passed out from cleaning product fumes while Muhammad’s version alleges that she repeatedly beat herself to death on the coffee table and the floor. There appears to be no attempt by TPD in the GO to reconcile these conflicting accounts. This gross disparity in accounts also went unnoted in the TPD GO report.
- The TPD GO20 report states that Ali A. Alkahla called 911 but the 911 Dispatch (DIS1) states that it was Muhammad Hmeid who called. According to TPD GO20 “He (Ali Alkahla) did not know when his sister stopped breathing but when he got home and went inside he could see his sister was not breathing and called 911.” However, the first entry on the CAD Call Hardcopy (DIS1) states “Aug-16-2009 21:05:07 – HMEID, MUHAMMAD COMPL’S SISTER DOWN NOT CONCS UNK IF BREATHING HE JUST FOUND HER.” Tampa Police detectives overlooked this discrepancy.
- The account of Fatima’s death attributed to Muhammad Hmeid in TPD 911 Dispatch Report (DIS1) is entirely different than the account reported by TPD in GO18-20. The above referenced account given to dispatch of Fatima passing out due to fumes from cleaning products was reported as given by Muhammad yet his account and the account he gave for his mother in GO18-20 Muhammad is reported to have said that Fatima repeatedly beat her head against the coffee table and floor until she died. Tampa Police missed the two different accounts that Muhammad gave of how Fatima died.
- TPD did not rely upon an independent translator to interview the only alleged witness to Fatima’s death. Nafish A. Kahla, the decedents’ mother allegedly spoke no English. TPD relied entirely upon her son, Muhammad, to translate Nafish’s alleged account of her daughter’s death GO19. TPD made no attempt to have an independent translator interview Nafish A. Kahla. Nafish’s alleged account was basically a repeat of Muhammad’s account GO18 and GO19.
- The mother left the country just days after Fatima’s death. “Immediately after the funeral, the mother was sent out of the country. It was believed that she was possibly sent back to Palestine or Israel.” PI05053. Reporting this fact does not mean to imply that the mother hurt Fatima. However, it would appear that she may have a different story to tell if an independent translator questioned her.
- Muhammad’s account of Fatima’s death is much more detailed than one would expect from someone who only knew what happened as described by someone else i.e. his mother. In fact, Muhammad gives far more details of Fatima’s death than his mother gave. GO18-20.
- The TPD GO report contains varying and inconsistent “Causes of Death.”
1. GO15 states “Caused by Undetermined." Detective Durkin.
2. GO24 states “OFFENSE: Homicide.” CST Matthew Evans.
3. GO25 states “OFFENSE: Unexplained Death.” CST Shelby Garman.
- The deceased suffered broken ribs which were not properly explained or accounted for in the TPD GO report. Fatima’s lower right ribs were broken. The medical examiner attributes broken ribs to CPR but Tampa Rescue says that no CPR was performed. The Medical Examiner report states “There are rib fractures from cardiopulmonary resuscitation. ON the right side, ribs 4 and 5 are fractured and … ribs 5 – 9 are fractured.” ME3. However, Lt. Scott Ashley stated “No CPR was performed by Tampa Rescue as the decedent was already dead and had been for some time.” Lt. Ashley was asked to comment on the broken ribs after reviewing the Autopsy Report. Lt. Ashley advised “CPR injuries usually occur around the sternum (breast bone) and in the anterior aspect. The fractures of ribs 5-9 in the posterior aspect would not be common of injury from CPR.” PI04063. “The intercostal muscles showed signs of hemorrhage in the area of these broken ribs. The intercostal muscles are located in between each rib. Hemorrhage would be normal in cases of blunt trauma to the rib cage.” PI04063.
- Medical Examiner’s determination of “Manner of Death” is inconsistent with the TPD GO report accounts from witnesses. The Medical Examiner’s determination that the “Manner of Death” was “Accident (Decedent Fell and struck her head on table)” (GO11 and ME) is inconsistent with the TPD GO report accounts from Muhammad (GO18-19) and Nafish (GO19-20) which state that the deceased deliberately and repeatedly slammed her head onto a coffee table and the carpet floor.
- The fine mist of blood splatter shown in crime scene photographs appears to be inconsistent with the TPD GO report witness accounts that all traumas were self inflicted over the coffee table. Crime scene photographs DSC_531, DSC_536 and DSC_537 show a distinctive “mist” or very light blood covering a fairly large area of carpet. This blood mist over a large area would more likely result from trauma to the head forcing the head to rapidly rotate than it would be the result of self slamming of head on and over the coffee table.
- Blood spots on a large (L) brown sweatshirt are unexplained. (PI05053) TPD collected Item 15 (GO25) depicted in crime scene photographs DSC_620 thru DSC_635 which contained spots of blood. All photos are llinked at bottom of this letter. The spots which are diminished in appearance look like they have been wiped in attempts to clean. TPD did not identify the owner of the shirt, determine if this was blood spatter versus blood transfer, determine whose blood it was or investigate how the blood got on the shirt. This shirt must have caught a crime scene technician’s interest since sixteen photos were taken. It is unlikely that the deceased wore a large shirt of this kind given her petite size and the matching tight clothes that she is shown wearing in crime scene photograph DSC_554.
- Blood spots on one stair step were not explained. How did blood spots land on the fifth step down from the top of the stairs as shown in crime scene photographs DSC_492 thru DSC_497? All photos are linked at the bottom of this letter. The spots which are diminished in appearance look like they have been wiped and smeared in attempts to clean. Could the drops in that location have occurred from an attempt to move the deceased’s body? If the blood was transferred by foot shouldn’t more blood be found somewhere on the first four steps from the top? Whose blood is it and why is it only in this one spot?
- Fatima’s family would not let her return to Brazil or the Middle East (GO19) or leave the house on her own (PI04162). Fatima was primarily confined to the home where she was the subject of constant arguments with several members of the family (PI0421).
- There is no mention if TPD interviewed neighbors in an attempt to see if anyone heard, saw or knew something related to Fatima’s death. (PI05053). Prestige Investigations, Inc. interviewed neighbors as reported in PI0416 and PI0421.
- Prestige Investigations, Inc. interviewed the neighbors and learned:
1. A neighbor expressed concern about discussing this matter because the people next door are Muslims and she doesn’t want any trouble. PI 04212.
2. A neighbor stated that the deceased married her cousin but he divorced her because she could not have children. PI04212.
3. At some point in time, (1) Sarah (deceased’s American name) had told her (a neighbor) that her (the deceased’s) older brother, (name not mentioned), treated her badly and had done unthinkable things to her. The deceased asked the neighbor not to speak about it. PI04211.
4. Tahane, the deceased’s sister-in-law, argued a lot with the deceased. PI04161. This was also the case with the mother.
5. A neighbor said that deceased was divorced and that was shameful in the Muslim family, that her father did not live in the house and that the son Ali was the eldest son and he was the one who protected the honor of the family in his fathers stead. PI04161.
6. A neighbor said that the family did not allow the deceased to drive even though she had a valid drivers license. PI04162.
7. Immediately after the funeral the mother was sent out of the country possibly to Palestine or Israel. PI05053.
- Muhammad Abdallah Hmeid was arrested on February 6, 2010 for “aggravated assault – using a deadly weapon” according to Temple Terrace Police Report number 2010-00530. This document is labeled Arrest. Muhammad allegedly struck a man in the head with the butt of his 9mm hand gun during an altercation causing the man’s head to bleed extensively. The man allegedly struck in the head sued Muhammad Hmeid on June 10, 2010 in Hillsborough County Circuit Court Case 10-CA-011943. The civil suit is open and copies of the online Clerk of the Circuit Court report are included with the Arrest report.
- Prestige Investigations, Inc. summarized “ …there is a glaring absence of any suspicion, from either report (TPD and ME reports), that the decedent could have possibly been a victim of an assault that eventually caused her death. The absence of any suspicion that the decedent had been assaulted is difficult to understand. Many questions remain that should be resolved. A medical review of the autopsy report with the photos of the decedent may give a professional medical view as to what may have happened to her.” PI05054.
Posted by Pamela Geller on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 05:40 PM in Honor Killings: Islam Misogyny | Permalink | Comments (14) ShareThis
Friday, June 17, 2011
Plea To Reopen The Case Of The Death Of Fatima Abdallah
Laura Rambeau Lee has a great piece on our Fatima Abdallah protest last week. Laura was at the rally, and it was lovely to meet such a dedicated and committed patriot. Read all of her account, which is precise, impassioned, and thorough:
Plea To Reopen The Case Of The Death Of Fatima Abdallah BP
A rally for Fatima Abdallah was held in Tampa on Friday, June 10, 2011 at Lykes Gaslight Park in front of Tampa Police Department headquarters. The purpose of the rally was to shed light and bring national attention to the suspicious circumstances surrounding her death.
Pamela Geller, Executive Director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative/Stop the Islamization of America AFDI/SIOA and Robert Spencer, Director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, came to Tampa to focus attention on this brutal crime and are appealing to concerned citizens to demand that the Tampa Police Department reopen this investigation. As Americans we cannot allow the basic human rights and freedoms for all we so proudly proclaim become overshadowed by deference to the creeping Shari’ah that has become evident in many areas of the country.
As stated in an earlier article, Fatima Abdallah lived in Tampa with several family members, and died on August 16, 2009. Three police personnel at the scene reported three different conclusions; that the cause of death appeared to be a “homicide”, “unexplained” and “undetermined.” The coroner’s report states on the Final Determination of Cause of Death that the “Decedent fell and struck her head”.
Earlier this year, David Caton of the Florida Family Association hired a private investigator to review all of the information surrounding this case, and his conclusion, amid all of the conflicting stories provided by her family, is that the injuries that resulted in Fatima’s death were not self-inflicted.
This case must be reopened. The truth must be told. If Fatima’s death was the result of an “honor” killing, an investigation must be ordered to bring those responsible to justice.
Posted by Pamela Geller on Friday, June 17, 2011 at 12:32 AM in Honor Killings: Islam Misogyny | Permalink | Comments (7) ShareThis
Saturday, June 11, 2011
VIDEOS: "Justice for Fatima" Rally
Here are videos from yesterday's AFDI/SIOA Justice for Fatima Abdallah rally in Tampa. Full coverage here: "Justice For Fatima Rally"
Thanks to Alan Kornman for the videos.
Posted by Pamela Geller on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 10:22 AM in Honor Killings: Islam Misogyny, Live Coverage | Permalink | Comments (4) ShareThis
Freedom Lovers Take to Tampa to Give Voice to Voiceless
"Justice For Fatima Rally"
100 freedom lovers, patriots, and opponents of Islamic law converged in Lykes Gaslight Park today on a hot afternoon in Tampa, Florida, to denounce Hillsborough County law enforcement for its sanction of honor killings in the criminal cover-up of the honor killing of Fatima Abdallah.
Robert Spencer, Nonie Darwish, David Caton and Larissa Scott all spoke -- all gave voice to the voiceless, the voiceless Muslim woman who lived in abject terror. She was betrayed not once by the West, but twice: in life, but also in death. It is clear even to Helen Keller that Fatima Abdallah was murdered. It is beyond any shadow of a doubt. And that means that Hillsborough police and medical examiner Laura Hair are complicit in a cover-up of this murder. Why? Who is paying them? Who is threatening them into silence?
A well-placed source in the medical examiner's department said that a number of people had expressed grave concern at Hair's decision to classify the death of Fatima Abdallah as a suicide, and thanked us profusely for holding this rally and for demanding answers. They pointed out to me that officials from the medical examiner's office were strangely silent. Why weren't they out here at the rally? Why didn't they come and explain their determination and their findings? Their silence speaks volumes.
So people inside know. Rest assured, we are going to be their worst nightmare.
Photo right: At the end of the rally, about 50 of the protesters approached a Fox News van that was parked 100 feet from the event but was not covering it. I asked the puffed-up Fox News reporter Peter Linton-Smith, who was channeling Peter Jennings, how the media could not be interested in a story that dehumanizes women, devalues Muslim girls, and gives state sanction to honor killings. And while I didn't hold him responsible, I explained to him that this silence is terrifying to any Muslim who is living in a devout Muslim household with aspirations of being free. When I spoke to him cajolingly, as if he were a mental patient, he defiantly insisted that no one tells him what stories he should or shouldn't cover. I said, "But you're a newsman." *Crickets chirping*
The Hillsborough County police and the medical examiner are aiding and abetting the importation into the United States of Islam's positive stance toward honor killings. In Jordan, Syria, and elsewhere, penalties are less for honor murders than for other murders. This whitewash and cover-up of what was almost certainly the honor murder of Fatima Abdallah is a significant step toward bringing that injustice and inequality here. We will not stand for it. We demand equality of rights for all people.
Nonie Darwish, former Muslim from Gaza, explains to the crowd what's happening in America
Robert Spencer speaketh
Suzanne Moore, Campaign Director, Tampa Bay -- Herman Cain Presidential campaign.
UPDATE: Thanks to HP for sending below:
UPDATE: And join me tomorrow in Fort Lauderdale. Here's the invite from Fort Lauderdale Tea Party patriot, Johana Von Hohenzollern
SATURDAY, JUNE 11th, she will be the guest of Fort Lauderdale Tea Party. Special event is being held from 3:00PM - 5:30PM, at Nick's Italian Restaurant, located at 3496 North Ocean Blvd, Fort Lauderdale 33308 ( click HERE for directions). Space is limited so please RSVP via eamil to TeaPartyFTL@Gmail.com . Sign-in & pay downstairs 2:30-3:15 - Buffet served between 3:00-4:00, cost: $10.00 plus tax includes buffet style meal - Drinks additional at the bar. Ms. Geller will be addressing the Islamization of America and other national security issues.
SUNDAY, JUNE 12th, Pamela Geller will be doing a private viewing of her new documentary “THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE: SECOND WAVE OF THE 911 ATTACKS”, ALL proceeds going to the troops - CRCC. This event is being held at 3:00PM at Worldwide Christian Center Church, located at 450 North Powerline Road, Pompano Beach, FL 33069-2262 ( click HERE for directions). Tickets are available at the door or you can purchase them via PayPal by visiting us at http://www.Florida4Troops.org. Speakers, other than Ms. Geller, are Beverly Perlson of Band of Mothers, Pastor Dozier, Colonel Mike McCalister, Joe Kaufman of Americans Against Hate and LIVE music with JD Denner and Treebo.
Please join us for this wonderful benefit. You can get more info athttp://www.florida4troops.org/ as well as information on items they need most.
Tickets prices are as follow: $25 regular admission, $50 special pricing (admission + autographed DVD), $100 donation (admission + autographed DVD + picture with Pamela Geller).
Posted by Pamela Geller on Friday, June 10, 2011 at 04:34 PM in Honor Killings: Islam Misogyny, Live Coverage | Permalink | Comments (27) ShareThis
Come to Our Rally "Justice for Fatima" Tampa, Today 2pm, Fight Islamic Law in America
Join me today to fight the imposition of Islamic law (sharia). AFDI/SIOA is calling upon Tampa city and Florida state officials to conduct an honest and thorough investigation into the suspicious death of Fatima Abdallah.
Rally for Justice for Fatima Abdallah at 2 p.m. on June 10 at Lykes Gaslight Park in front of Tampa Police Headquarters. The Rally will include a news conference.
We are calling upon State Attorney Mark Ober, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and Tampa City Council Members to recognize the numerous anomalies in the Tampa Police Department report that ruled Fatima Abdallah's death a suicide, and to open a genuine investigation into the possibility that she was murdered in an Islamic honor killing.
It appears that medical examiner Laura Hairs cared more about offending Muslims than American jurisprudence, human rights, gender apartheid and common decency. At the time of Fatima's death, Rifqa Bary, the Christian covert out of Islam, was making headline news in Florida. Bary's father had threatened to kill her under the sharia for leaving Islam and Rifqa had escaped to Florida. The battle to return Rifqa to her devout Muslim household raged in the Florida media (who vilified the young teen.) Clearly medical examiner Laura Hair thought an honor killing of a Muslim woman not 80 miles away from the Rifqa Bary apostasy trial would influence (and educate) non-Muslims to the danger of misogyny and subjugation of Muslim girls in pious Muslim homes.
Rifqa Bary made this stunning admission on August 10, 2009 when discovered in Florida after running away for fear of death (under the sharia.) Fatima Abdallah was brutally honor killed on August 17, 2009. The public battle on Rifqa Bary waged for months. Tampa Police Homicide Detective Sonja Wise reclassified this case from “Unexplained Death” to “Accidental Death” on October 13, 2009, based upon Dr. Harris’ autopsy report the very same day that a Florida court ruled that Rifqa Bary would be sent back to Ohio (albeit foster care, not to her devout Musim family home).
Does being a Muslim mean you can get away with murder?
Laura Hair should be brought up on charges.
A HUGE thank you to the Big Fur Hat and all of the freedom lovers over at IOTW for their brilliant sign ideas for our rally.
Here is what we know -- thanks to former prosecutor John Jay for help in analyzing crime scene photos and evidence:
- Fatima Abdallah was 5’ 5” inches tall, and weighed 105 lbs
- According to the literature, traumatic tears to occipital lobe of the brain (at the back of the brain) are not common
- Her hemorrhage consisted of 100 cc’s (a little less than 1/10th of a quart) of fluid and coagulated blood, which is a large bleed
- Her entire jaw line, and the tissue under her chin, was very swollen and distended, all the way to her ear canals, which is near the insertion of the end of the jaw into the skull
- Her mouth was bloodied by a blow, and at the left corner of her mouth is an angular cut/incision/indentation, which only could have been made by a blow
- Her left eye orbit was broken, and her left eye socket was blackened, suffering a blow causing hemorrhaging of blood about the eye
- Her right arm had contusions at the front inside of the elbow, and at the shoulder near the front armpit, consistent with being grasped forcibly by human hands
- Her nose was broken, the nose cartilage detached from the nasal bone of the skull
- All the blows to her face appear concentrated upon the left side of the face, entirely consistent with having been struck very forcibly by a right handed person striking her, and wielding a closed fist, from her front
- All of the above is consistent with a very small person being struck repeated blows from the front by a right handed person, hitting her on the left side of the face, with enough force to break her nose, break her eye orbit, and to have dealt severe damage to her jaw.
- The pathologist should have suspected, and should have investigated this more thoroughly, that the trauma to Fatima abdallah was intentionally inflicted to her by another human being, or human beings working in concert to restrain and beat her.
There is one other factor involved, which is quite important.
- The pathologist noted multiple rib fractures on her left side, with hemorrhaging in the intercostal spaces between ribs 5-9. the literature establishes that such fractures usually occur at the posterior. these injuries are not consistent with a person flinging themselves to the ground, especially with all the facial and skull injuries were to the front.
- There were no subdural or subcutaneous injuries or bruises to fatima abdallah’s scalp, entirely inconsistent with death caused by flinging her head against hard surfaces, a finding which tends to be accepted by the pathologist based on witness reporting.
Contact Information:
Mark Ober, State Attorney
Office of the State Attorney 13th Judicial Circuit
419 N. Pierce Street
Tampa, Florida 33602
Mark Ober, State Attorney
ober_m@sao13th.com
Karen Stanley, Chief Assistant State Attorney
stanley_k@sao13th.com
Home Page Email
!homepage@sao13th.com
Bob Buckhorn
Mayor of Tampa
306 Jackson Street
Tampa, FL 33602
Bob Buckhorn, Mayor
Bob.Buckhorn@ci.tampa.fl.us
bob.buckhorn@tampagov.net
Santiago.Corrada@ci.tampa.fl.us
Santiago Corrada
Tampa Mayor Chief of Staff
Previously at Atlas: Rifqa Bary Link to Fatima Abdallah Honor Killing Former Prosecutor: "She was Beaten With A Vengeance"
Honor Killing? Initial Investigation of Death of Fatima Abdallah
Honor Killing Cover-Up in Tampa? Muslim Woman's Death Ruled "Accident"
Posted by Pamela Geller on Friday, June 10, 2011 at 08:26 AM in Honor Killings: Islam Misogyny | Permalink | Comments (2) ShareThis
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
"Justice for Fatima" Protest June 10th, Tampa, Florida Stand Against Honor Killing Cover-Up
Join me on Friday in Tampa at 2pm
TAMPA, Fla., May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A prominent national human rights and advocacy organization is calling upon Tampa city and Florida state officials to conduct an honest and thorough investigation into the suspicious death of Fatima Abdallah.The Florida chapter of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI)/Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) is holding a Rally for Justice for Fatima Abdallah at 2 p.m. on June 10 at Lykes Gaslight Park in front of Tampa Police Headquarters. The Rally will include a news conference.
Speakers will call upon State Attorney Mark Ober, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and Tampa City Council Members to recognize the numerous anomalies in the Tampa Police Department report that ruled Fatima Abdallah's death a suicide, and to open a genuine investigation into the possibility that she was murdered in an Islamic honor killing.
The Tampa Police report claims that Abdallah committed suicide by repeatedly striking her head against a coffee table. AFDI/SIOA Executive Director Pamela Geller said in a statement: "The idea defies logic, belies reality." She announced that the Rally for Justice for Fatima Abdallah would feature a great deal of evidence that the Tampa Police investigation was drastically flawed, and that the Police Department and Medical Examiner ignored numerous indications that Fatima Abdallah did not commit suicide, but was brutally assaulted. Then when challenged, their explanation only exposed more inconsistencies and raised more questions.
Geller also pointed out that Fatima Abdallah was "a Muslim woman shunned by her devout Muslim family for her 'shameful' divorce" – and hence a possible victim of Islamic honor killing, in which a woman who has brought "shame" to the family is murdered in order to preserve family "purity." Neighbors reported that Fatima Abdallah was abused by her family, but that they had been too frightened themselves of the abusers to report it.
"We cannot and will not tolerate the covering up of honor killings in the U.S.," Geller said. "Our law enforcement authorities should be standing up against this practice. The cover-up is criminal, and we must protest the silence and complicity of Florida law enforcement. This looking the other way on honor killing is Sharia law -- if this family weren't Muslim, law enforcement would have handled this completely differently."
Geller also noted that "at the exact same time of Fatima Abdallah's alleged honor killing, Rifqa Bary was not 85 miles away, fighting for her very life under the same deathly system of misogyny and Islamic domination that Fatima had lived under. Rifqa Bary had escaped to Florida after her father had threatened to kill her when he found out that she had left Islam and converted to Christianity. Ohio and Florida law enforcement refused to address the religious motivation behind the death threat made to Rifqa's life. A brutal honor killing of a Muslim woman not 85 miles away would certainly have swayed the court of public opinion. This is the continuation of self-enforcing Sharia law in America."
The confirmed list of speakers at the Rally for Justice for Fatima Abdallah includes Geller, the popular blogger and columnist who publishes the acclaimed AtlasShrugs.com blog and is the author of The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America (Simon & Schuster); AFDI/SIOA's Associate Director, the bestselling author and internationally renowned Islamic expert Robert Spencer; Nonie Darwish, the ex-Muslim human rights activist and author; David Caton of the Florida Family Association, who conducted a thorough independent investigation exposing the numerous errors and falsehoods in the Tampa Police Department report, James Lafferty of the Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force; and Larissa Scott, leader of SIOA's Florida chapter.
AFDI/SIOA is one of America's foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.
Join SIOA's Facebook page here.
Previously at Atlas:
Honor Killing? Initial Investigation of Death of Fatima Abdallah
Honor Killing Cover-Up in Tampa? Muslim Woman's Death Ruled "Accident"
Posted by Pamela Geller on Tuesday, June 07, 2011 at 01:54 PM in Honor Killings: Islam Misogyny | Permalink | Comments (3) ShareThis
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
"Justice for Fatima" Protest June 10th, Tampa, Florida
Stand Against Honor Killing Cover-Up
TAMPA, Fla., May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A prominent national human rights and advocacy organization is calling upon Tampa city and Florida state officials to conduct an honest and thorough investigation into the suspicious death of Fatima Abdallah.The Florida chapter of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI)/Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) is holding a Rally for Justice for Fatima Abdallah at 2 p.m. on June 10 at Lykes Gaslight Park in front of Tampa Police Headquarters. The Rally will include a news conference.
Speakers will call upon State Attorney Mark Ober, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and Tampa City Council Members to recognize the numerous anomalies in the Tampa Police Department report that ruled Fatima Abdallah's death a suicide, and to open a genuine investigation into the possibility that she was murdered in an Islamic honor killing.
The Tampa Police report claims that Abdallah committed suicide by repeatedly striking her head against a coffee table. AFDI/SIOA Executive Director Pamela Geller said in a statement: "The idea defies logic, belies reality." She announced that the Rally for Justice for Fatima Abdallah would feature a great deal of evidence that the Tampa Police investigation was drastically flawed, and that the Police Department and Medical Examiner ignored numerous indications that Fatima Abdallah did not commit suicide, but was brutally assaulted. Then when challenged, their explanation only exposed more inconsistencies and raised more questions.
Geller also pointed out that Fatima Abdallah was "a Muslim woman shunned by her devout Muslim family for her 'shameful' divorce" – and hence a possible victim of Islamic honor killing, in which a woman who has brought "shame" to the family is murdered in order to preserve family "purity." Neighbors reported that Fatima Abdallah was abused by her family, but that they had been too frightened themselves of the abusers to report it.
"We cannot and will not tolerate the covering up of honor killings in the U.S.," Geller said. "Our law enforcement authorities should be standing up against this practice. The cover-up is criminal, and we must protest the silence and complicity of Florida law enforcement. This looking the other way on honor killing is Sharia law -- if this family weren't Muslim, law enforcement would have handled this completely differently."
Geller also noted that "at the exact same time of Fatima Abdallah's alleged honor killing, Rifqa Bary was not 85 miles away, fighting for her very life under the same deathly system of misogyny and Islamic domination that Fatima had lived under. Rifqa Bary had escaped to Florida after her father had threatened to kill her when he found out that she had left Islam and converted to Christianity. Ohio and Florida law enforcement refused to address the religious motivation behind the death threat made to Rifqa's life. A brutal honor killing of a Muslim woman not 85 miles away would certainly have swayed the court of public opinion. This is the continuation of self-enforcing Sharia law in America."
The confirmed list of speakers at the Rally for Justice for Fatima Abdallah includes Geller, the popular blogger and columnist who publishes the acclaimed AtlasShrugs.com blog and is the author of The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America (Simon & Schuster); AFDI/SIOA's Associate Director, the bestselling author and internationally renowned Islamic expert Robert Spencer; Nonie Darwish, the ex-Muslim human rights activist and author; David Caton of the Florida Family Association, who conducted a thorough independent investigation exposing the numerous errors and falsehoods in the Tampa Police Department report, James Lafferty of the Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force; and Larissa Scott, leader of SIOA's Florida chapter.
AFDI/SIOA is one of America's foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.
Join SIOA's Facebook page here.
Previously at Atlas:
Honor Killing? Initial Investigation of Death of Fatima Abdallah
Honor Killing Cover-Up in Tampa? Muslim Woman's Death Ruled "Accident"
Posted by Pamela Geller on Wednesday, June 01, 2011 at 02:52 PM in Honor Killings: Islam Misogyny, SIOA: Stop the Islamization of America | Permalink | Comments (19) ShareThis
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Rifqa Bary Link to Fatima Abdallah Honor Killing
Former Prosecutor: "She was Beaten With A Vengeance"
The more we know about the death of Fatima Abdallah, the more the fact that she was murdered is irrefutable and her inclusion in this gruesome group is absolute. I have made some important discoveries in the continuing search for the truth.
I have asked John Jay, former prosecutor in Washington State and Atlas's resident expert in such matters, to examine the substantial evidence presented in the initial investigation of death of Fatima Abdallah. In 25 years of law practice, the majority involved in prosecuting and defending major felonies, John Jay has never ever heard or read of a person killing herself by flinging herself upon the floor or a table. "Quite frankly, I seriously doubt it can be done."
I think it is important to note that at the exact same time of Fatima Abdallah's alleged honor killing, Rifqa Bary was not 85 miles away, fighting for her very life under the same deathly system of misogyny and Islamic domination that Fatima had lived under. Rifqa Bary had escaped to Florida after her father had threatened to kill her when he found out that she had left Islam and converted to Christianity. Rifqa Bary's battle was being waged in the media and on this blog (211 posts). Ohio and Florida law enforcement refused to address the religious motivation (fatwa) behind the death threat made to Rifqa's life. A brutal honor killing of a Muslim woman not 85 miles away would certainly have swayed the court of public opinion.
Rifqa Bary made this stunning admission of a threat to her life living in a devout Muslim household on August 10, 2009. Fatima Abdallah was brutally honor killed on August 17, 2009.
The public battle on Rifqa Bary waged for months. Tampa Police Homicide Detective Sonja Wise reclassified this case from “Unexplained Death” to “Accidental Death” on October 13, 2009, based upon Dr. Harris’ autopsy report the very same day that a Florida court ruled that Rifqa Bary would be sent back to Ohio (albeit foster care, not to her devout Musim family home).
I believe that the authorities were well aware of the Rifqa Bary controversy (and who wasn't?) and deliberately covered up Fatima's honor killing for fear of igniting more dialogue and exposure of gender apartheid in Islam. This is murder -- of a woman and a civilization. Dr. Harris [Laura S Hair MD] and any other pathologist(s) who performed (and or signed off) on the autopsy report should go to prison.
This is the continuation of self enforcing sharia law in America.
Atlas readers, you must demand the case be re-opened. Are we to sanction honor killing in this country on our watch? This is sharia -- fight it. Click here to send your email urging State Attorney Mark Ober and Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn to conduct a thorough and proper investigation. This cannot, must not stand.
Here are some of John Jay's observations after studying the autopsy report and crime scene.
The autopsy is an exceedingly flawed document. Perhaps criminally so. The autopsy is very flawed, and if it weren't for you insisting that I be thorough and look at all the pictures, I would not have discovered that I was taken in by it. It is not obvious that it is a falsehood in its conclusions on the surface, because it is not readily obvious that it has omitted very salient facts. When I looked at the picture of the deceased in the main post at the blog, I noted the swelling to her chin and especially in the area of her ears, and commented on this at the "comments" section at Atlas Shrugs.
Photo: This photo shows the blow to the mouth, and the split to the cheek. But it is obvious that she has suffered a severely dislocated jaw, with swelling all the way to the ears. And it is obvious that she did not hit the point of her chin on a hard edged table to do this ... if she had, she would have split her chin, or caused some serious contusion on the end of it.
In short, she took a blow to the eye socket, and she took one to the mouth that dislocated her jaw.
Knock out punches, both.
The autopsy does not mention this at all. How could the pathologist not have noticed this?
The pathologist deliberately did not treat of this incredibly obvious trauma to the woman, in order to be able to arrive at the rather dubious assertion that no deliberate beating was involved. What the pathologist deliberately focused on were sort of innocuous injuries, comparable to the traumas we see people suffer and survive almost every day, those being the "broken nose," e.g., the dislocation of the nose cartilage from the nasal bone of the skull, and a very small fracture of the eye orbit. And then the pathologist noted the brain bleed, and that was it.
It rather gave the impression that the death was a fluke, and lent credence to the family's assertion that the deceased's injuries were self inflicted. Those assertions by the family are patent falsehoods, given the reasons discussed below, and the pathologist's autopsy report and "analysis" amount to a cover up of an honor killing.
The proof of these assertions lie eloquently in the graphic depictions of the injuries suffered by the deceased to her mouth, lips and cheek, and the horrendous swelling the trauma inflicted on that area had on the structure of her jaw, and the likely dislocation and fracture of her jawbone. She was, at the time of her death, 5'5" tall, and weight 105 pounds. Yet her jaw, all the way to her ear canals and down below the bottom of the jaw, was horribly swollen and distended.
Yet the pathologist did not examine this area of her face, though she excised and opened the cheek to examine the fractured orbit.
Photo: She has a split to the skin, left cheek, just to the left of the left corner of her mouth.
It is a straight line. The human body does not do things on a straight line. She was struck by something hard edged, straight, and then it went straight up at right angles to the split. It was sharp. It was not rounded. It was not a tear, it was a cut. Like the edge of a ring.
Photo: She was struck very forcibly on her mouth, as well. Try to hit yourself on the mouth with a flat surface, a desk top. It is hard to do. Try to hit yourself on the mouth with an edged surface. You can do it, though I cannot imagine forcing one's self to do it, but it would be hard to do it without really lacerating the lips, breaking teeth, that sort of thing. Didn't happen, at least as recorded by the autopsy. I think that explains the swelling to the jaw line, up to the ears. I think she got punched in the eye & nose, and took another very hard shot to the mouth, causing:
1.) the brain hemorrhage, and
2.) the swollen jaw line, up to and including the ears.
I am at a positive loss as to why the pathologist didn't examine these areas, especially given the swelling in her lower face, neck, chin and up to the ears.
She also got a severe blow to the mouth. She was tiny. 5'5", 105 lbs. It didn't take much of a beating to kill her.
This woman died as the result of a homicide, died from injuries that were caused by deliberate blows to her face, in the area of the nose, and to the mouth. Being struck by either or both of these types of blows was the cause of her brain bleed.
The family's contention that she died as a result of self inflicted injuries caused by striking her head on the table is pure absolute bunkum.
I have looked at the photos of what I will now unreservedly call the crime scene.Yet, under the deceased's fingernails there is blood. On a brown shirt, there is blood. On a blue towel there is copious blood, and on the carpet on the floor and the stair well there is blood. On the left cup of her bra, over her left breast, there is a blood stain. A fairly copious amount, only revealed when the crime lab tech wearing blue gloves lifted a sweater covering her torso.
Photo: Coffee table where the official report alleges Fatima killed herself by hitting her head repeatedly on the coffee table. Note, no blood.
I have made an attempt to look at each and every photo, and most particularly at the photos of the table she purportedly "used" to injure herself. On not one single photograph of that table available at Atlas is there a speckle, fleck, spot, drop, pool, puddle or smear of blood from the deceased, or anybody else for that matter.
Photo: this photo has blood under her nails. she did not scratch herself, not mentioned anywhere in the autopsy, no photos of scratches.
Photo: she has blood on the left cup of her bra, after her sweater has been lifted up to expose her bra. Why does she have blood on her left breast?
The blood in these locations is copious. Profuse. It soaks the carpet, and covers her bra cup to the size of a hand.
There is not a spot or drop to be found on the table where she supposedly beat herself to death.
On her left cheek, by the left corner of her mouth, is a cut. It is a straight cut, and it is an impression, so strongly impressed upon her skin that it is left indented in death. That cut is straight. There is nothing straight about nature, and nothing straight about the way the body reacts to trauma. A physical object made that cut, and she bled from it.
If you examine all the pictures from that room, the scene of her death, you will find no object that could either have inflicted that injury, nor any object that could have inflicted that injury with her blood on it. Not on the table, which is littered with round objects, t.v. remotes in the main, nor anywhere else.
It looks to me like the edge of a ring made that impression.
I will tell you why I hold to that view.
Photo: Contusion to left shoulder
In the photos, at this poor woman's right shoulder and just across from her armpit, you will see a contusion, entirely consistent with that caused by being very forcibly held in the grip of a hand, thumb shoved into the arm pit, her rather thin arms held and pressed strongly at the palm.
Photo: contusion to elbow ... with blood, grasped with left hand, on her right elbow, free to strike with right arm/fist/hand
In the photos is a picture of her right elbow, contused by a very similar grip.
All of this is entirely consistent with a larger and stronger person holding her by the shoulder and elbow, and striking her viciously in the face with the right arm, fist clenched, over the left eye socket, and to the left jaw. My guess is the left insertion of the jaw bone just before the ear canal is dislocated, and the right jaw broken from being so struck. I would bet dollars to donuts that were her body exhumed, assuming it is available to be so, that this would be borne out.
And, finally, there is the matter of the ribs. If you will read the autopsy reports, you will find that her ribs 5-9 were broken posteriorly, and that the intercostal spaces experienced hemorrhaging. Dead people don't bruise, and dead people don't hemorrhage.
The autopsy report puts this off to efforts to revive her.
According to information from investigators, the medical personnel involved deny any efforts at resuscitation. They did not break her ribs, and they did not inflict that hemorrhaging.
I do not know the time intervals involved in between the arrival on scene of the medical personnel and the crime scene photographer. All I can say is that certain of the crime scene photos memorialize the fact that lividity to the body, that being the settling of blood and red corpuscles to the lowest points in the body, was well advanced by the time the death scene photos were taken. In my view, this tends to support the assertion of the medics that they made no efforts to resuscitate her, she apparently being very thoroughly dead upon their arrival.
Photo: Lividity of body, establishing length of death by time investigators on the scene
I do not swallow the assertion of the autopsy that these injuries were not the result of a purposeful beating.
This woman was beaten with a vengeance, and was hit brutally, more than once, and perhaps more than several times.
She weight 105 pounds, at 5'5" in height. Look at her face. Look at the swelling of her jaw, and look at the photos of the injury to her mouth and lips, and the blood that flowed from them.
Figure it out.
And, marvel that the pathologist who performed the autopsy could not, or that even more marvelously, she deliberately ignored what is before your eyes, and would not delve into it, because the truth frightened her.
In short, she lied to you on August 17, 2009.
Posted by Pamela Geller on Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 01:39 PM in Honor Killings: Islam Misogyny, Islamic law in America | Permalink | Comments (39) ShareThis
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Honor Killing? Initial Investigation of Death of Fatima Abdallah
AFDI/SIOA is working with an extraordinary patriot, David Caton, who has exposed the possible honor killing covered up by law enforcement in Florida. I reported on it here. The cover-up is criminal, and we must protest the silence and complicity of Florida law enforcement. Atlas readers, start contacting the emails listed below. Now.
A Muslim woman shunned by her devout Muslim family for her "shameful" divorce dies a sudden death after "throwing herself on the floor" in front of her family. Florida Law enforcement classified it an accidental suicide. No one was charged in the death of 48-year-old Fatima Abdallah in Florida.
This is the sharia in America. The idea that a woman would die after she "threw herself to the floor" or hit her head repeatedly on the coffee table is institutionalised gender apartheid, the sharia. The idea defies logic, belies reality.
Deputy Police Chief Marc Hamlin said, "the bottom line is, no matter how long you investigate and no matter how much you investigate, it's not going to overrule the competent medical evidence that it was an accident." How do they know that? How is it more likely that she threw herself to the floor than she was fatally thrown to the floor? A Tampa Police report states that Fatima Abdallah repeatedly beat her head against a coffee table until she died. Tampa Rescue calls the TPD explanation illogical, says she looked like someone beat her up.
My hat's off to conservative activist David Caton, who pursued the truth, the evidence, and assembled it in an extraordinary file here. Fatima's death cannot be swept under the rug. This reminds me of the lawsuit that was filed in Dearborn charging that the city was covering up "honor killings." He has put together an extraordinary file, a criminal file on the case.
I urge all Atlas readers with experience in forensics to review the photos and the evidence. Click here to send your email urging State Attorney Mark Ober and Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn to conduct a thorough and proper investigation.
Did Fatima Abdallah really cause her own death by repeatedly striking her face against a coffee table as reported by Tampa Police or was her demise an honor killing?
If Florida law enforcement agencies decline to properly investigate and file appropriate charges in violent crimes where cultural laws may have dictated illegal behavior then Islamic rule of law will effectively reign in our state. Law enforcements’ unwillingness to properly investigate and bring charges in violent crimes that may have been perpetuated by religious or cultural creeds will undermine our public safety and severely change our value system.
A Tampa Police report states that Fatima Abdallah repeatedly beat her head against a coffee table until she died. Tampa Rescue calls the TPD explanation illogical, says she looked like someone beat her up.
Prestige Investigations, Inc. states “…there is a glaring absence of any suspicion, from either report (TPD and ME reports), that the decedent could have possibly been a victim of an assault that eventually caused her death.”
Click here to send your email urging State Attorney Mark Ober and Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn to conduct a thorough and proper investigation.
It is Florida Family Association’s opinion that given the circumstances of Fatima Abdallah’s personal life and the facts surrounding her death that there is a need for the Tampa Police Department to reopen this case or for the State Attorney to open a new inquiry to fully investigate Fatima Abdullah’s death to determine if her demise was truly and accident or an honor killing.
Florida Family Association sent out an email alert and posted an online article on May 19, 2011 to encourage concerned citizens to send emails to Mayor Bob Buckhorn and State Attorney Mark Ober regarding numerous inconsistencies in the death investigation of Fatima Abdallah. FOR MORE DETAIL please see the bold blue heading below titled “INITIAL REPORT REGARDING THE DEATH OF FATIMA ABDALLAH.”
Florida Family Association also submitted a letter which provided substantial detail regarding this case to State Attorney Mark Ober, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and Tampa City Council Members. FOR MORE DETAIL please see the bold blue heading below titled “FLORIDA FAMILY ASSOCIATION LETTER TO TAMPA MAYOR, STATE ATTORNEY AND TAMPA CITY COUNCIL.”
The Tampa Police Department and Medical Examiner responded through the media with statements that actually create more inconsistencies and questionable findings in the case. Assistant Police Chief Marc Hamlin’s explanation that Fatima beat her head to the point of death because she was having “convulsions” is contradicted by witness accounts in the TPD General Offense report and absent from any mention in the final Autopsy. Medical Examiner Laura Hair’s statement that Fatima had a seizure is absent from any mention, observation or finding in her final Autopsy. FOR MORE DETAIL please see the bold blue heading “The Tampa Police Department and Medical Examiner responded to Florida Family Association’s concerns regarding Fatima Abdallah’s death through articles in The Tampa Tribune and St. Petersburg Times.”
If Florida law enforcement agencies decline to properly investigate and file appropriate charges in violent crimes where cultural laws may have dictated illegal behavior then Islamic rule of law will effectively reign in our state. Law enforcements’ unwillingness to properly investigate and bring charges in violent crimes that may have been perpetuated by religious or cultural creeds will undermine our public safety and severely change our value system.This case is explained in great detail below.
The Tampa Police Department and Medical Examiner responded to Florida Family Association’s concerns regarding Fatima Abdallah’s death through articles in The Tampa Tribune and St. Petersburg Times.
These officials’ responses have created even more inconsistencies in their findings regarding the death of Fatima Abdallah.
The Tampa Tribune reported on May 20, 2011 that Laura Hair, of the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Department said, "To me the evidence goes into it being an accident where she fell and possibly had a seizure," Hair said. "I'm not seeing evidence of a beating."
- Dr. Hair’s finding that Fatima “fell” is inconsistent with the conflicting accounts given by the family that “she repeatedly struck her head on table until she became unconscious” (TPD GO page 11) and that “the decedent had been cleaning, and may have passed out due to cleaning fumes” (TPD GO page 16.)
- Dr. Hair’s press statement that the deceased possibly had a seizure is new information in this case. Her autopsy reports no observations or findings that the deceased possibly had a seizure. The Tampa Police General Offense Hardcopy reports no findings of a seizure.
The St. Petersburg Times quotes Assistant Police Chief Marc Hamlin on May 20, 2011 as saying “’So it could be that the convulsing of the body is what the family could have thought was her maybe trying to hurt herself,’ he said.”
- Again officials appear to be giving the public information that is not found in their own reports. Mr. Hamlin’s statement is contradicted by testimony in the Tampa Police Department General Offense Hardcopy report (GO18-19): “Fatima then threw herself down, attempting to pull away from her mother. When she went down to the ground, she struck her face on the coffee table. She began to get up and she grabbed onto her face, noticing that her face was all bloody. She then took her head and smashed it into the coffee table repeatedly several times, on her own accord. Her mother attempted to move her away from the table, tell her to calm down and begging her to stop. She got her away from the table a bit and then Fatima began smashing her face into the ground, banged her head striking the carpet. She did this several times before she stood up, she was on her feet for a second or so when she fell directly back.”
The St. Petersburg Times also reported in the May 20th article: “Hamlin said the initial investigation was thorough, but once the medical examiner determined that the death was an accident, ‘there's no criminal investigation to be done afterward.’”
- Except for information gathered at the scene Tampa Police conducted NO criminal investigation for 57 days until Tampa Police Homicide Detective Sonja Wise reclassified this case from “Unexplained Death” to “Accidental Death” on October 13, 2009 based upon Dr. Harris’ autopsy report. (TPD GO report page 21)
Both the Medical Examiner and Tampa Police Department now try to explain Fatima Abdallah’s death with the new “convulsions” theory which is not found in the TPD General Offense report or autopsy and which is contradicted by witness statements in the General Offense report.
The Tampa Police Department did nothing to investigate this case for 57 days after they left the scene and now conveniently claim they won’t because the medical examiner report is final. The Tampa Police Department ignored for 57 days and now continues to ignore many inconsistencies in their own report and failed to investigate the evidence they had as listed in the eight points outlined below.INITIAL REPORT REGARDING THE DEATH OF FATIMA ABDALLAH
Florida Family Association learned about the death of a 48 year old Arab woman named Fatima Abdallah whose demise did not appear to be caused by an accident as the Tampa Police Department officially determined.
Florida Family Association hired an experienced private investigator who was a former police detective to research and explore Fatima’s death.
Our investigation revealed the following about Fatima Abdallah’s personal life. Fatima:
- Lived in the same household as did three related Arab named families.
- Was allegedly divorced by her cousin husband because she could not have children and he married another cousin.
- Allegedly brought shame to her Muslim family because of her divorce according to neighbors.
- Was allegedly not permitted to return to her homeland in the Middle East by the family.
- Was allegedly not permitted to drive on her own even though she was licensed.
- Was allegedly the subject of many arguments with other family members.
- Was allegedly treated badly and had unthinkable things done to her by her older brother.
Our investigation revealed the following about Fatima Abdallah’s death:
- Family members claimed that she killed herself by repeatedly slamming her head onto a coffee table and the floor. The Tampa Police Department accepted this claim as the cause of death. Tampa Rescue said she looked like someone beat her up and disputed the probability that she could have killed herself in that manner. In addition to head, face and lip injuries she had several lower fractured ribs with hemorrhage in the area which is normal in cases of blunt trauma to the rib cage
- Five family members waited nearly 2 ½ hours before calling 911.
- The call to 911 dispatch gave a completely different version of what happened to Fatima and her state of mind than was reported by detectives on the scene. The same family member gave two different accounts.
- The Tampa Police Department:
- Did not catch the fact that Muhammad called 911 dispatch and not his brother Ali as the TPD report states.
- Did not catch the fact that Muhammad told 911 dispatch a different version of what happened to Fatima than he told detectives on the scene.
- Relied upon a family member instead of an independent translator to translate the account of the only alleged witness to Fatima’s death. That witness left the country just days after Fatima died.
- Did not verify the travel of one of Fatima’s brothers from Ft. Myers to Tampa which was the assumed reason for the 2 ½ hour delay before anyone in the family called 911.
- Did not properly account or resolve how Fatima’s lower right ribs 4 thru 9 were broken and other injuries were sustained to her face and mouth.
- Did not fully investigate or identify blood evidence on a large shirt, floor and stairs.
- Did not interview neighbors.
- General Offense report completed by various police personnel qualified the Cause of Death as “Homicide” and “Undetermined” and “Unexplained” but was reclassified to “Accident” by Medical Examiner.
- The Medical Examiner:
- Final determination of Cause of Death that the “Decedent fell and struck her head” is inconsistent with the Tampa Police Department General Offense Report and 911 dispatch detail descriptions of the death.
- Determined the fracture of right ribs 4 thru 9 was due to CPR even though these ribs do not come into play during CPR and even though Tampa Rescue states that they did not perform CPR.
There is much more information regarding our investigation findings listed the in the letter below to the State Attorney, Tampa Mayor and Tampa City Council.
It is Florida Family Association’s opinion that given the circumstances of Fatima Abdallah’s personal life and the facts surrounding her death that there is a need for the Tampa Police Department to reopen this case or for the State Attorney to open a new inquiry to fully investigate Fatima Abdullah’s death.
Was Fatima Abdallah’s death really an accident or honor killing?
If Florida law enforcement agencies decline to properly investigate and file appropriate charges in violent crimes where cultural laws may have dictated illegal behavior then Islamic rule of law will effectively reign in our state. Law enforcements’ unwillingness to properly investigate and bring charges in violent crimes that may have been perpetuated by religious or cultural creeds will undermine our public safety and severely change our value system.
Florida Family Association has prepared an email for you to send to Tampa City Mayor Bob Buckhorn and State Attorney Mark Ober calling for a full investigation into the death of Fatima Abdallah.
To send your email, please click the following link, enter your name and email address then click the "Send Your Message" button. You may change the wording in the message.
Contact Information:
Mark Ober, State Attorney
Office of the State Attorney 13th Judicial Circuit
419 N. Pierce Street
Tampa, Florida 33602
Mark Ober, State Attorney
ober_m@sao13th.com
Karen Stanley, Chief Assistant State Attorney
stanley_k@sao13th.com
Home Page Email
!homepage@sao13th.comBob Buckhorn
Mayor of Tampa
306 Jackson Street
Tampa, FL 33602
Bob Buckhorn, Mayor
Bob.Buckhorn@ci.tampa.fl.us
bob.buckhorn@tampagov.netSantiago.Corrada@ci.tampa.fl.us
Santiago Corrada
Tampa Mayor Chief of StaffFLORIDA FAMILY ASSOCIATION LETTER TO TAMPA MAYOR, STATE ATTORNEY AND TAMPA CITY COUNCIL
Dear Mayor, State Attorney, Tampa City Councilmembers Buckhorn, May 19, 2011
Florida Family Association respectfully requests that Tampa Police Department General Offense case number GO 2009-483498 involving the death of Fatima Abdallah be reopened and thoroughly investigated because of the extraordinary circumstances surrounding her death and subsequent information reported by an independent investigation.
The Tampa Police Department investigated the death of Fatima Abdallah on August 17, 2009 at 8358 Old Town Drive, Tampa, FL which is the residence of Muhammad Abdallah Hmeid. Fatima, born October 1, 1961, lived at this residence with:
- Nafish A. Kahla, decedents’ mother.
- Muhammad Abdallah Hmeid, decedents’ brother.
- Hamdi Ali Kahla, decedents’ brother.
- Alia Ali Alkahla, decedents’ brother.
- Tahane Abed Awwad, decedents’ sister-in-law and wife of Alia Ali Kahla.
- Alia Alkahla, child not identified by parent.
- Tahane Awwaad, child not identified by parent.
The Tampa Police Department and Medical Examiner determined that Fatima Abdallah’s cause of death resulted from the decedent allegedly beating her own head against a coffee table and on the floor until she died. Her death was ruled accidental and the case was promptly closed. The entire Tampa Police Department “General Offense” report, “Medical Examiner” report and 911 Dispatch Cad Call Hardcopy report are enclosed. The “General Offense” report will be referred to in this letter as GO with suffix numbers for the appropriate page number. The “Medical Examiner” report will be referred to in this letter as ME with suffix numbers for the appropriate page number. The Tampa 911 Dispatch Call Hardcopy report will be referred to in this letter as DIS with suffix numbers for the appropriate page number. Crime scene photographs are also referenced in this letter by their exact file name.
Florida Family Association hired Prestige Investigations, Inc. to investigate the death of Fatima Abdallah. Prestige Investigations, Inc. provided four reports dated April 6, 2011, April 16, 2011, April 21, 2011 and May 5, 2011. These Prestige Investigations, Inc. reports will be referred to in this letter as PI0406, PI0416, PI0421 and PI0505 with suffix numbers for the appropriate page number.
INVESTIGATION FINDINGS
- The “accidental cause of death” that Fatima Abdallah allegedly “slammed her head into a wood coffee table (and carpeted floor), multiple times” until she died is difficult to comprehend. GO15. Lt. Scott Ashley with Tampa Rescue #21, Cross Creek Blvd-New Tampa who was interviewed by Prestige Investigations, Inc. said “He did remember the call and stated that when he got to the scene he observed the decedent and thought that ‘someone had beat the crap out of her.” Lt. Ashley also said that “it would be very difficult for someone to hit their heads hard enough to cause loss of consciousness. It would be similar to someone stopping their breathing and causing their death.” PI04063.
- It is difficult to accept that the damage done to the coffee table shown in crime scene photographs DSC_508, DSC_509 and DSC_510 was self inflicted or accidental.
- Five family members waited 2 ½ hours before calling 911. The mother, three brothers and sister-in-law allegedly knew of Fatima’s injuries but waited 2 ½ hours until Ali A. Alkahla allegedly arrived from Ft. Myers to call 911. However, the 911 Dispatch (DIS1) report states that Muhammad called 911 not Ali as pointed out below.
- The TPD GO report states that Nafish A. Kahla, Fatima’s mother, did not call 911 because she allegedly did not know how to use the phone yet was reported to have allegedly had numerous conversations with her sons. Muhammad Hmeid “stated that she (Nafish) did not call 911 because she doesn’t know how to use the phone very well.” GO19. However, the decedent’s mother called her sons, some several times. Ali Alkahla “He advised he was in Ft. Myers Fl.. visiting relatives when he received a phone call from his mother on his cell phone.” GO20. Muhammad Hmeid “continued to receive phone calls but that he still was not sure what was going on.”
- TPD did not verify Ali A. Alkahla’s travel from Ft. Myers which was crucial to the time line credibility of the family waiting 2 ½ half hours to call 911. The TPD GO report states that the family did not call 911 until Ali A. Alkahla allegedly arrived 2 ½ hours after the deceased lay lifeless on the carpet. “No one challenged the statement as to who the son was visiting in Ft. Myers, FL. Who did they visit and what is their name, address and phone number?” PI05053. TPD did not verify Ali’s statements.
- TPD did not verify that phone calls were made from the home to Ali A. Alkahla or from brothers to brothers during that critical 2 ½ hour period. The TPD GO mentions no confirmation or attempt to confirm this activity.
- The 911 dispatch (GO16) (DIS1) was given an entirely different account of the (1) deceased’s frame of mind, (2) how the deceased was discovered and (3) the circumstances that lead to her death compared to the accounts given by Muhammad Hmeid and Nafish A. Kahla (GO20). GO16 reports “Per the dispatch details, the decedent was discovered unconscious and unresponsive within the family shared residence. The call details also noted that the decedent had been cleaning, and may have passed out due to cleaning product fumes.” (1) The dispatch call states the deceased had the responsible presence of mind to be cleaning the house which is significantly different from Muhammad’s account of her acting mentally unstable. (2) The dispatch call states she was discovered unconscious while Muhammad states his mother witnessed her self inflict injury. (3) The dispatch account alleges the deceased passed out from cleaning product fumes while Muhammad’s version alleges that she repeatedly beat herself to death on the coffee table and the floor. There appears to be no attempt by TPD in the GO to reconcile these conflicting accounts. This gross disparity in accounts also went unnoted in the TPD GO report.
- The TPD GO20 report states that Ali A. Alkahla called 911 but the 911 Dispatch (DIS1) states that it was Muhammad Hmeid who called. According to TPD GO20 “He (Ali Alkahla) did not know when his sister stopped breathing but when he got home and went inside he could see his sister was not breathing and called 911.” However, the first entry on the CAD Call Hardcopy (DIS1) states “Aug-16-2009 21:05:07 – HMEID, MUHAMMAD COMPL’S SISTER DOWN NOT CONCS UNK IF BREATHING HE JUST FOUND HER.” Tampa Police detectives overlooked this discrepancy.
- The account of Fatima’s death attributed to Muhammad Hmeid in TPD 911 Dispatch Report (DIS1) is entirely different than the account reported by TPD in GO18-20. The above referenced account given to dispatch of Fatima passing out due to fumes from cleaning products was reported as given by Muhammad yet his account and the account he gave for his mother in GO18-20 Muhammad is reported to have said that Fatima repeatedly beat her head against the coffee table and floor until she died. Tampa Police missed the two different accounts that Muhammad gave of how Fatima died.
- TPD did not rely upon an independent translator to interview the only alleged witness to Fatima’s death. Nafish A. Kahla, the decedents’ mother allegedly spoke no English. TPD relied entirely upon her son, Muhammad, to translate Nafish’s alleged account of her daughter’s death GO19. TPD made no attempt to have an independent translator interview Nafish A. Kahla. Nafish’s alleged account was basically a repeat of Muhammad’s account GO18 and GO19.
- The mother left the country just days after Fatima’s death. “Immediately after the funeral, the mother was sent out of the country. It was believed that she was possibly sent back to Palestine or Israel.” PI05053. Reporting this fact does not mean to imply that the mother hurt Fatima. However, it would appear that she may have a different story to tell if an independent translator questioned her.
- Muhammad’s account of Fatima’s death is much more detailed than one would expect from someone who only knew what happened as described by someone else i.e. his mother. In fact, Muhammad gives far more details of Fatima’s death than his mother gave. GO18-20.
- The TPD GO report contains varying and inconsistent “Causes of Death.”
- GO15 states “Caused by Undetermined." Detective Durkin.
- GO24 states “OFFENSE: Homicide.” CST Matthew Evans.
- GO25 states “OFFENSE: Unexplained Death.” CST Shelby Garman.
- The deceased suffered broken ribs which were not properly explained or accounted for in the TPD GO report. Fatima’s lower right ribs were broken. The medical examiner attributes broken ribs to CPR but Tampa Rescue says that no CPR was performed. The Medical Examiner report states “There are rib fractures from cardiopulmonary resuscitation. ON the right side, ribs 4 and 5 are fractured and … ribs 5 – 9 are fractured.” ME3. However, Lt. Scott Ashley stated “No CPR was performed by Tampa Rescue as the decedent was already dead and had been for some time.” Lt. Ashley was asked to comment on the broken ribs after reviewing the Autopsy Report. Lt. Ashley advised “CPR injuries usually occur around the sternum (breast bone) and in the anterior aspect. The fractures of ribs 5-9 in the posterior aspect would not be common of injury from CPR.” PI04063. “The intercostal muscles showed signs of hemorrhage in the area of these broken ribs. The intercostal muscles are located in between each rib. Hemorrhage would be normal in cases of blunt trauma to the rib cage.” PI04063.
- Medical Examiner’s determination of “Manner of Death” is inconsistent with the TPD GO report accounts from witnesses. The Medical Examiner’s determination that the “Manner of Death” was “Accident (Decedent Fell and struck her head on table)” (GO11 and ME) is inconsistent with the TPD GO report accounts from Muhammad (GO18-19) and Nafish (GO19-20) which state that the deceased deliberately and repeatedly slammed her head onto a coffee table and the carpet floor.
- The fine mist of blood splatter shown in crime scene photographs appears to be inconsistent with the TPD GO report witness accounts that all traumas were self inflicted over the coffee table. Crime scene photographs DSC_531, DSC_536 and DSC_537 show a distinctive “mist” or very light blood covering a fairly large area of carpet. This blood mist over a large area would more likely result from trauma to the head forcing the head to rapidly rotate than it would be the result of self slamming of head on and over the coffee table.
- Blood spots on a large (L) brown sweatshirt are unexplained. (PI05053) TPD collected Item 15 (GO25) depicted in crime scene photographs DSC_620 thru DSC_635 which contained spots of blood. All photos are llinked at bottom of this letter. The spots which are diminished in appearance look like they have been wiped in attempts to clean. TPD did not identify the owner of the shirt, determine if this was blood spatter versus blood transfer, determine whose blood it was or investigate how the blood got on the shirt. This shirt must have caught a crime scene technician’s interest since sixteen photos were taken. It is unlikely that the deceased wore a large shirt of this kind given her petite size and the matching tight clothes that she is shown wearing in crime scene photograph DSC_554.
- Blood spots on one stair step were not explained. How did blood spots land on the fifth step down from the top of the stairs as shown in crime scene photographs DSC_492 thru DSC_497? All photos are linked at the bottom of this letter. The spots which are diminished in appearance look like they have been wiped and smeared in attempts to clean. Could the drops in that location have occurred from an attempt to move the deceased’s body? If the blood was transferred by foot shouldn’t more blood be found somewhere on the first four steps from the top? Whose blood is it and why is it only in this one spot?
- Fatima’s family would not let her return to Brazil or the Middle East (GO19) or leave the house on her own (PI04162). Fatima was primarily confined to the home where she was the subject of constant arguments with several members of the family (PI0421).
- There is no mention if TPD interviewed neighbors in an attempt to see if anyone heard, saw or knew something related to Fatima’s death. (PI05053). Prestige Investigations, Inc. interviewed neighbors as reported in PI0416 and PI0421.
- Prestige Investigations, Inc. interviewed the neighbors and learned:
- A neighbor expressed concern about discussing this matter because the people next door are Muslims and she doesn’t want any trouble. PI 04212.
- A neighbor stated that the deceased married her cousin but he divorced her because she could not have children. PI04212.
- At some point in time, (1) Sarah (deceased’s American name) had told her (a neighbor) that her (the deceased’s) older brother, (name not mentioned), treated her badly and had done unthinkable things to her. The deceased asked the neighbor not to speak about it. PI04211.
- Tahane, the deceased’s sister-in-law, argued a lot with the deceased. PI04161. This was also the case with the mother.
- A neighbor said that deceased was divorced and that was shameful in the Muslim family, that her father did not live in the house and that the son Ali was the eldest son and he was the one who protected the honor of the family in his fathers stead. PI04161.
- A neighbor said that the family did not allow the deceased to drive even though she had a valid drivers license. PI04162.
- Immediately after the funeral the mother was sent out of the country possibly to Palestine or Israel. PI05053.
- Muhammad Abdallah Hmeid was arrested on February 6, 2010 for “aggravated assault – using a deadly weapon” according to Temple Terrace Police Report number 2010-00530. This document is labeled Arrest. Muhammad allegedly struck a man in the head with the butt of his 9mm hand gun during an altercation causing the man’s head to bleed extensively. The man allegedly struck in the head sued Muhammad Hmeid on June 10, 2010 in Hillsborough County Circuit Court Case 10-CA-011943. The civil suit is open and copies of the online Clerk of the Circuit Court report are included with the Arrest report.
- Prestige Investigations, Inc. summarized “ …there is a glaring absence of any suspicion, from either report (TPD and ME reports), that the decedent could have possibly been a victim of an assault that eventually caused her death. The absence of any suspicion that the decedent had been assaulted is difficult to understand. Many questions remain that should be resolved. A medical review of the autopsy report with the photos of the decedent may give a professional medical view as to what may have happened to her.” PI05054.
All documents referenced in this letter are posted online as outlined below under Online Documents.
Therefore, given the above information we respectfully request that the Tampa Police Department reopen this case and the State Attorney open an independent investigation to conduct a much more thorough investigation regarding the death of Fatima Abdallah.
Sincerely,
David Caton
David Caton
Executive Director
Online DocumentsTampa Police General Offense report
View GO at http://floridafamily.org/images/TampaDeathReportGO.pdf
Last number after above file name referenced above is the page number of that document.
Medical Examiner report
View ME at http://floridafamily.org/images/TampaDeathReportAutopsy.pdf
Last number after above file name referenced above is the page number of that document.
911 Dispatch Call Hardcopy report
View DIS at http://floridafamily.org/images/TampaDispatch.pdf
Last number after above file name referenced above is the page number of that document.
Prestige Investigations, Inc. reports
View PI0406 at http://floridafamily.org/images/TampaDeathPrestige04062011.pdf
View PI0416 at http://floridafamily.org/images/TampaDeathPrestige04162011.pdf
View PI0421 at http://floridafamily.org/images/TampaDeathPrestige04212011.pdf
View PI0505 at http://floridafamily.org/images/PI0505.pdf
Last number after above file name referenced above is the page number of that document.
Crime Scene Photos
Deceased’s body DSC_558 DSC_554 as referenced abovehttp://floridafamily.org/images/DSC_0554.JPG http://floridafamily.org/images/DSC_0558.JPG
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Saturday, May 21, 2011
Honor Killing Cover-Up in Tampa? Muslim Woman's Death Ruled "Accident"
A Muslim woman shunned by her devout Muslim family for her "shameful" divorce dies a sudden death after "throwing herself on the floor" in front of her family, and it's classified an accident? That's what Florida law enforcement determined. No one was charged in the death of 48-year-old Fatima Abdallah in Florida.
This is the sharia in America. The idea that a woman would die after she "threw herself to the floor" is institutionalised gender apartheid, the sharia. The idea defies logic, belies reality.
Deputy Police Chief Marc Hamlin said, "the bottom line is, no matter how long you investigate and no matter how much you investigate, it's not going to overrule the competent medical evidence that it was an accident." How do they know that? How is it more likely that she threw herself to the floor than she was fatally thrown to the floor?
My hat's off to conservative activist David Caton, who pursued the truth, the evidence. Fatima's death cannot be swept under the rug. This reminds me of the lawsuit that was filed in Dearborn charging that the city was covering up "honor killings."
Muslim woman's death questioned by conservative activist FOX, Tampa Bay
TAMPA - The police evidence photo shows Fatima Abdallah's lifeless body on her brother's new Tampa living room floor. She lived there in a gated subdivision, a private investigator says, with three other Muslim families, shunned and divorced because she could not produce children.
Conservative activist David Caton says he knows what it was.
"This was what you would call an honor killing," he said.
Acting on neighbor tips and the private eye's work, Caton, of the Florida Families Association is pushing police to reopen the case, insisting Abdallah died because her family believed she had dishonored them under Islamic law.
"She was divorced," Caton says, "because she could not have children and was shunned and kept private into the family was not allowed to leave or go places."
Yet the Hillsborough Medical Examiner ruled the 48-year-old Abdallah's death was an accident, that during an argument with her mother, she threw herself to the floor, smashing her face into a coffee table, and dying of a brain hemorrhage.
Deputy Police Chief Marc Hamlin telling FOX13, "the bottom line is, no matter how long you investigate and no matter how much you investigate, its not going to overrule the competent medical evidence that it was an accident."
Police across the country have been investigating so-called honor killings, where women and girls die at their own family's hands for dishonoring them under Islamic law.
In Clayton County, outside Atlanta, police say Sandella Rashid was choked to death because she'd divorced the Pakistani man he'd arranged for her to marry. Said Detective Mike Christian, "he told us that he had killed his daughter that he didn't not want the family dishonored by divorce".
Closer to home, Caton says the closing of Abdallah's death case is proof to him that Islamic law is affecting how Florida's laws are enforced.
"Islamization of this country is the greatest threat to our way of life, our American way of life as we know it today," he says.
Islamic activists insist religion is not to blame, says Maliq Saheed of the Pakistan American Society.
"This is personal, it's sickness, it's depression, or it's family problems. His aggressiveness or anything he did he did to her personally, this is not related with the Muslims or not related to the Islam," Saheed said.
Yeah, right, Saheed, and Islam is a religion of peace.
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