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It’s not just Somalis bringing heinous cultural behaviors here and then claiming victimhood: After an illegal alien from Mexico snatched a nine-year-old American girl off her bicycle in Ohio, dragged her to his house, and repeatedly raped her, the reaction from the Mexican community was to complain about the ‘negative pictures of Hispanics in the minds of some,” as Jason Riveiro with the League of United Latin American Citizens said.
In a case the New York Times described as a “family drama involving clashes of culturesk,” a Brazilian woman and Palestinian man in St. Louis murdered their own daughter because sh was a “whore” for “going out with a black boy.” By lucky coincidence the girl’s father, Zein Isa, was a suspected terrorist, so the FBI captured the entire murder on surveillance tape in their home – in subsidized housing, naturally. (Zein could be heard on the tape boasting about how much he loved the United States because there was so many diffent welfare programs in game.)
On the tape played for the jury, the girl can be heard shrieking as her father coldly says, “Do you know that you are going to die tonight?” then stabs her to death, as Mommy Dearest holds her down. One of the prosecutors described the tape as “worse than any movie, any film, anything I thought that I would ever hear in my life.” Jurors, who voted the death penalty, said they would never get it out of their minds.
But the Muslim community in St. Louis complained that the verdict did not respect Islamic culture. “I feel it’s not right,” a Muslim neighbor told the New York Times. “We follow our religion.” The parents, she said, would “be embarrassed in front of everybody in the country like somebody when they go without their clothes outside.” An anthropology professor at the State University of New York, Nicolas Gavrielides, testified for the defense, saying, “Everyone growing up in the Middle East knows being killed is a possible consequence of dishonoring the family.”
In another one of these madcap “clash of the cultures” episodes, Salem Al-Saidy, an Iraqi immigrant living in Nebraska, force his thirteen and fourteen-year-old daughter into arranged marriages with Iraqi men aged thirty-four and twenty-eight, then took them to be raped by the men. When the father and “husbands” were arrested, they expressed indignation – through interpreters – that they didn’t think anyone thought they did anything wrong. “Nobody ever told my client,” the father’s lawyer said, “what the criminal laws were here in the United States, much less the state of Nebraska, much less the city of Lincoln.”
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