FNC is doing a special on honor killings in America, and will spend quite some time focusing on the Said girls, who were allegedly murdered by their Muslim father for daring to smile at, talk with, and date non-Muslim boys...he left them to die in his taxi as he fled the country to escape justice.
Here's a brief blurb on the special tonight and this weekend from FNC:
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Fox News Reporting: Honor Killing in America
Amina (left) and Sarah Said, allegedly killed by their father for dating non-Muslim boys and left to die in his taxi...
The special will be aired tonight at 10PM Eastern (8pm Mountain, 7pm Pacific), and again on Saturday, August 7 at 9 p.m. ET, then again on Sunday, August 8 at 2 a.m. ET. It will be Hosted by Bill Hemmer
For two years, Fox News has been investigating the short lives and violent deaths of Texas teenagers Amina and Sarah Said.
The sisters were riddled with bullets in their dad's borrowed taxi cab on New Year's Day 2008. As 911 operators listened in, Sarah appeared to name her father as the killer — her dying words: "Help! Help! My dad shot me... and now I'm dying!"
This kind of crime isn't supposed to happen in America's heartland — an honor killing.
Honor killings are when a father, husband or brother kills a wife, daughter or sister because he thinks she has "shamed" the family. The United Nations has found such murders are all too common in Muslim lands. Now they are happening here.
How and why?
Through exclusive interviews and never-before-seen footage, Fox News exposes the implications of this shocking case.
Here's a bit more from FNC:
“Honor Killing” Dad Secretly Taped Girls August 6, 2010 - 12:30 PM | by: Danielle Cangelosi
On New Year’s Day 2008, two Texas teenagers Amina and Sarah Said were shot dead, their bloodied bodies left in a taxi cab. The alleged shooter: their father Yaser Said.
In fact, Sarah appears to identify her Dad as the murderer in a 9-11 call – her dying words.
For more than two years the Fox News Reporting team has been following this story and the search for Yaser Said, who vanished the night of the murders.
We learned this dark tale began long before the girls were born. Their mother Patricia married the Egyptian-born Said when she was only 15 years old. She says her husband violently abused her during their 20-year marriage.
Over the course of our investigation, Fox News’ Gregg Jarrett and I made multiple trips to Texas, taping hours of interviews with investigators, relatives and family friends.
We also obtained never-before-broadcast video of the girls that was secretly shot by their father. In light of what happened to Amina and Sarah, it’s extremely disturbing footage.
If Yaser Said killed his daughters, what was his motive? His American wife Tissy claims he did so because their girls were dating boys that weren’t Muslim.
While friends and family call the murders honor killings, it’s a label the FBI and local police have been hesitant to use.
In fact, 8 months after the deaths of Amina and Sarah the FBI added the words “honor killing” to their wanted poster but days later, removed them.
In the hour, we also speak with former FBI counter-terrorism chief Steve Pomeranz and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Both provided a broader perspective to this story.
Hirsi Ali – born a Muslim in Somalia, she was subjected to female circumcision as a child and fled to Europe in 1992 after refusing an arranged marriage. In 2003 she won a seat in the Dutch Parliament. The following year she wrote and co-produced a film about Islam's subjugation of women with director Theo van Gogh. Van Gogh was murdered by a radical Muslim, who pinned a note to Van Gogh's chest vowing that Hirsi Ali was next. Hirsi Ali fled again this time to the United States, where she lives under round-the-clock security but continues to be a forceful critic of Islam. She’s been following the Said case from the beginning.
...and here's the story from when the FBI bowed to pressure from CAIR and other Islamist groups and removed the term "Honor Killing" from the wanted poster:
FBI Removes 'Honor Killing' From Murder Suspect's 'Wanted' Poster
Friday, October 24, 2008
By Maxim Lott
AP/Irving Police Department
The FBI removed all mention of the controversial term “honor killing” from the wanted poster of a double-murder suspect after FOXNews.com ran a story announcing the use of the term.
Yasser Abdel Said, wanted for the murder of his two daughters, has eluded authorities for almost a year. The bodies of the young women — Sarah Said, 17, and Amina Said, 18 — were discovered in the back of a taxicab in Irving, Texas, on New Year's Day. 
According to family members, Said felt he was compelled to kill his daughters because they had disgraced the family by dating non-Muslims and acting too "Western."
The girls’ great aunt, Gail Gartrell, has always called the case an “honor killing.” And for a few days — until last Friday — the FBI publicly agreed.
“The 17- and 18-year-old girls were dating American boys, which was contrary to their father's rules of not dating non-Muslim boys,” The FBI "wanted" poster read early last week. “Reportedly, the girls were murdered due to an 'Honor Killing.'” 
Some Muslims have objected to the term "honor killing" because they say it attaches a religious motive to a crime, which could lead to discrimination against Muslims.
The FBI said Tuesday that it had deleted the term because the FBI never meant to attach a label to the case. Special agent Mark White, media coordinator in the bureau's Dallas office, told FOXNews.com that the FBI changed the wording “because the statement was not meant to indicate that the FBI was ‘labeling’ anything.
"The person who wrote it up did not see the misunderstanding that [the original wording] would create,” White said.
White added that the FBI should not be in the business of calling cases anything that is not described in law.
“It’s our job to find the fugitive. It’s not our job to label this case anything other than what it is, what it is from a criminal perspective,” he said, noting that there was no legal definition of an “honor killing” and that such a motive had not yet been proven in court.
“That will come out in the trial, and the jury can decide that,” White said.
White also addressed criticism that the FBI was willing to label “hate crimes,” where a racial motive is suspected, but not culturally motivated incidents such as "honor killings." He said the difference is that “hate crimes” are defined by law, whereas “honor killings” are not.
“It is inappropriate for us to create [a term] like that by labeling a case,” he said.
But Gartrell was outraged by the change and called White’s explanation semantics.
“It’s wrong," she said. "Everybody knows this is an honor killing, but even our own law enforcement and the FBI succumb to the pressure?
“In the end, it may be our own justice system that prevents these girls from getting justice,” she said, pointing out that there have still been no leads after almost a year.
Mustafaa Carroll, the executive director of the Council of American-Islamic Relations in Dallas, said he agrees with the FBI’s decision.
“I’m glad they took it out until they find the guy, find the motive, and prove it in court,” Carroll said. “I’m happy in that this works against some of the stereotypes out there. … I appreciate [the FBI] reconsidering.” 
He said that CAIR often shared concerns with the FBI, but that he had not talked with them about this particular case. White confirmed that, saying that he had received no complaints about the poster and that they made the change on their own initiative after seeing media reports about their poster.
Gartrell said she thought the FBI’s move was based on a desire to be politically correct. Dr. Phyllis Chesler, author of several books including "The Death of Feminism: What's Next in the Struggle for Women's Freedom," agreed that this was a plausible motive. And if cases like this continue to happen, she said, policy will have to change.
“They’re lucky they haven’t had to deal with many honor killings compared to places like the United Kingdom,” she said. “But if and when America begins to see more honor killings, maybe then the FBI will realize the importance of treating these cases differently.”
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Here's the video clip discussing the special
Video: Honor Killing in America
Jared Law - August 6, 2010 at 4:52pm – 9/12 Project
If you think that we need to allow everyone into the United States that wants to come, even if they hate us or hate our customs, traditions, laws and religions, or that as Christians and Jews that we must not stand up to hate or for ourselves and God… you have been co-opted by the Progressive brainwashing system… you have been fed the Kool Aid, just in a different form!!
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