Honor thy father and faith…
By flutter1. Filed in murder, sexual assault |Tags: Amina Said, Sarah Said
On Saturday, sister Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, were laid to rest following Christian and Muslim funeral services. Their father, Yaser Abdel Said, is being sought for the murders of the two Lewisville High School students whose bodies were found in his cab on Tuesday night.
Despite denials from Said’s relatives, the girls’ murder has all of hallmarks of an “honor killing.” The girls and their mother(shown in the photo at her daughters’ graveside) had recently and abruptly quit their jobs and left the family residence. Reports from friends of Sarah and Amina and maternal relatives report that Said had physically abused his daughters and threatened to kill them when he became aware that they were dating outside of the Muslim religion.
As tragic as the death of these girls, an enlightening insight can be found in the words offered by the religious officiants at each funeral. According The Dallas Morning News report, Father Robert Crisp, a Roman Catholic priest led a Baptist funeral for the sisters and implored mourners to “use the girls’ lives as an example ‘to teach us love, hope and looking to the future’.”
At the Muslim service which followed in a Richardson mosque, the grief-stricken friends and family listened as the to imam spoke “about families being the most important thing in Islam and the need for parents to work to keep their families strong.”
How empty those words must have sounded to those who loved Sarah and Amina. How sad that their father had not lived by those words of his own faith.