Don’t worry, you’ll never hear the NYPD or media refer to it as an ‘honor killing.’ Wouldn’t want Americans to learn about this very common Muslim practice where a family member (usually a female) who has done something to dishonor the family will be murdered (‘honor killed’) by her father, brother, husband, or other relative, which usually is not considered a crime in most Muslim countries.
SI Live (h/t Thereza B) Ola Salem, the 25-year-old woman who was found dead and covered in leaves in a Staten Island park last week, was an advocate for Muslim women embroiled in domestic violence as a volunteer at the Asiyah Women’s Center. Salem herself was a victim of domestic violence herself and had a restraining order against her ex-husband.
During Salem’s time at the Asiyah Women’s Center, she often assisted with the intake process of admitting vulnerable women into the temporary home. While New York City has a population of almost 800,000 Muslims, Asiyah is the only safe house dedicated specifically to Muslim women fleeing domestic violence.
Dania Darwish, the co-founder and executive director of the Muslim women and family’s shelter — the location of which is confidential for security reasons — said Salem was the first volunteer at the center when its doors opened in August 2018.
Salem lived within the center “for months,” a Facebook post by the Asiyah Center said on Oct. 24 — about 14 hours after police were alerted that a body was found at Bloomingdale Park. Police later identified the body to be Salem.
In addition to her dedication to the women’s center, Darwish said Salem commonly engaged in the community — taking part in events for the Muslim American Society.
A family member of Salem declined to comment at the Rosebank home police listed as her residence Monday night.
Multiple residents of Deal Court, who wished to remain anonymous, said they have previously seen police respond to the aforementioned home — noting that there were “some problems” at the location, including at least one incident in which they believed Salem was taken away by an ambulance.
Police confirmed that officers have been called to the home five times within the past year, for reasons including a violation of an order of protection and criminal contempt.
While the circumstances surrounding Salem’s death remain unclear after an inconclusive autopsy by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, a source with knowledge of the investigation said detectives believe the woman’s body was placed in the park after she died at a different location.
As a result, detectives are treating the case as a possible homicide.
If these women really want to be safe, they need to take off the headwrap, ditch Islam & move far away. The End.
I agree
Several years ago a Christian family from Egypt who lived in New Jersey were clearly murdered by Muslims. As I recall, the father and one of the daughters in particular spoke out on the internet for Jesus Christ and were intensely hated by the Muslims in the area.
It was another case were the authorities and police covered for Islam. The implications of the threats and hate the Christian family received from Muslims were ignored by the police. They didn’t want Islam and Muslims to look bad. As far as I know the Muslim murderers were never brought to justice.
The killers of the coptic family were caught, tried and convicted. They were their neighbors and they were whites “non-muslim”. However, I think this girl’s death does sound like an honor killing.
Muslimes would squirm their way through matter as dense as a neutron star to exact their revenge and display their savagery.
The video talked about “a happier space”. There is no happy space for muzzie women. Ever.
There is no honor in islum..
am sick of the secrecy and cover up of any thing muslim related if a possible motive is fratricide say so and investigate the obvious first NYPD Homicide cover up Specialist
I bet the husband is involved. It reminds me of another case, a few years back.A couple from Pakistan in NY. I think they owned a radio station..The man was abusive, as a devout muslim husband is supposed to be. She asked for a divorce, he decapitated her.
As the politicians and the apologist say, “It’s their culture. Diversity is our strength”.
In the meantime, STAY AWAY FROM ISLAM!!. Women, STAY AWAY from muslim men.It’s a case of life or death.
The bastard should have been in jail or deported..
These women are lucky to be in the “racist”US and have a shelter. In their country the mula would tell them to submit and obey the husband . It’s their fault , they upset the husband and cause him to strike them. Go back and get some more blows and hope they stay alive. That’s Islam…religion of peace…
Poor woman. RIP
MTM, yes, I remember that couple. It was a definite honor killing but rarely reported as such.
Beautiful eyes.
I doubt she wanted her skull and neck wrapped up for her entire life. So sad for this girl.
There are so many of these girls that want to be free but governments and MSM keep them imprisoned for fear of Islam.
That is where we are at.
Often Muslim women are happy to wear the veils as they are told these make them feel closer to god. But this does not stop men abusing women(their wives in particular). Father prefers his daughter to drown rather then be ‘touched’ by male lifeguards. This was at a beach in Dubai.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/dubai/11795573/Woman-drowns-in-Dubai-after-father-blocks-rescue-to-save-honour.html
All together now, “This has nothing to do with islam”… one more time… “This has nothing to do with islam”… now keep that chant going and you may be fooled into believing its true.
Savages, they really are barbaric savages…
Such a beautiful young lady and also the ones at this Shelter and so it amazes me why they wish to continue wearing this rag on their heads when they can clearly see the results of this fascist religious cult in their daily life.
The thing is….this woman might have gotten some support from her family ( mom, etc) in her domestic violence problems…..if she leaves Islam, she is cut off, like she died, from her family ..and even her brothers , father and mother would then want to kill her…. not to mention any moslem that knew her or heard she left Islam would feel they had the “right” to kill her…..at the very least she would be shunned by the entire fabric of the Moslem community….
And while it’s one thing to say “ ok I don’t believe in Islam any more, I’m an apostate” it’s another thing to walk away from everything you’ve know. All family relationships, and friendships….no more gatherings, or holidays with people you’ve known etc…..
The Moslem world is insular looking toward fellow moslems …first family, then friends, then acquaintances in the Moslem community. . We see how moslems all live near each other in ever expanding Moslem only areas…that are in reality a small version of a Moslem country in our cities and countries.
Moslems also generally have close knit family relationships…..( we know about the Paki cousin marriages… it’s very common in Paki but it happens in other moslem countries that moslems marry within their extended families and their friends, within what was the people of the original villiage back in their home country )
Basically moslems are tribes, family based, with large extended families…..and if you leave the religion of Islam , also means you leave the Moslem family community and world…which then instead of warm, accepting and welcoming, becomes angry and actively hostile, threatning and possibly murderous.
The moslems identity is all wrapped up and the same as their religion….
We don’t have anything like this now, the closest similarity is the Middle Ages in Europe , where everyone was a Catholic, and being a Christian Catholic was mandatory. There wasn’t a choice, non Catholics were persecuted…they were Outsiders. Outside the tribe
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Most ex moslems talk about this isolation, which in most cases of apostates from Islam, results in depression at least for a while ….some even suicide ..
So on the surface it’s easy for us to say “ leave Islam, take off the hijab” . But in the current climate when all,things Islam are protected, reversed, and there is NO protection FROM Islam of any kind for those who do leave Islam , It’s very difficult. Not everyone is brave as Apostate Prophet, or the other moslems who have left Islam. I believe for women it’s especially difficult to,leave Islam and they are especially vulnerable because of the “honor” system and resulting honor killings. Even Moslem women who have become “too westernized” according to their male family members have been honor killed. Leaving or denying the validity Of islam is MUCH worse in the eyes of moslems!
It’s easier to be what I call a Silent Apostate, ro go though the motions of being Moslem , going to prayers, eating halal food, showing reverance For Mohammed and the Koran, wearing the hijab, etc, but not believing in Islamic doctrine in your heart or mind….
And who knows? Maybe these Silent Apostates are waiting for an opportunity to break free from Islam altogether…..
And if we can change things so that Islam is banned, or denigrated, exposed for the violent threat to civilization that it is, then maybe those Silent Apostates will come out of the closet because they know they will be free and they will be protected ,and cherished.
Honour killing by her own brother.