The Murder of Shaima Alawadi

[Ryan Elliott]

You are? I just hope you're not super disappointed when they arrest the husband for it.

I doubt I'll even remember this thread by then.

[kodave]

So this will first be spun by the leftist media as "RACIST MURDERER ON THE LOOSE! Why must America be so RACIST?"

Then when the husband is arrested, the far right loons will turn it into "How can we trust THOSE PEOPLE in our country with their HONOR KILLINGS and SHARIA LAW??!?!"

And then the discussion will be about anything other than the fact that Shaima Alawadi is dead.

Do I have that right? Just trying to save myself some time in the future of wading through the various biases.

[Slewo.O]

1) My history with security and law enforcement.
2) A lifetime of watching cop and legal TV shows. This has a law and order feel to it right away.
3) 99% of the time the husband did it.

Now, I feel terrible for this poor woman and her family and regardless of what happened it will not bring her back, but it all just seems to me to be a crime of passion and the note was left in order to throw the police off the trail and possibly gain sympathy for the real killer. Like how after Susan Smith drowned her two little boys in her car in a lake she claimed it was car jacked by a random black guy.

Ah, fair enough.

[MIKE D]

I'd lay money on Brad's scenario here.

[Foolish Mortal]

She was killed at home, both notes were found in the home, the first a week ago. My first inclination after reading this, was where was she killed, and if it was in an alley or a parking lot, then maybe it's a hate crime, but if' it's in the home or another secure place it's just more evidence it was someone she knew. The notes being found in the home is just more of the same.

Agreed. I also agree with Brad that this is going to wind up being her husband or someone else she knew.

[Matt Jay]

So this will first be spun by the leftist media as "RACIST MURDERER ON THE LOOSE! Why must America be so RACIST?"

Then when the husband is arrested, the far right loons will turn it into "How can we trust THOSE PEOPLE in our country with their HONOR KILLINGS and SHARIA LAW??!?!"

And then the discussion will be about anything other than the fact that Shaima Alawadi is dead.

Do I have that right? Just trying to save myself some time in the future of wading through the various biases.

"Biases"? The fucking note on its face says this is a racist crime.

[Matt Jay]

Agreed. I also agree with Brad that this is going to wind up being her husband or someone else she knew.

Yeah, the whole thing makes no sense.

[Ray G.]

Horrible crime and if it was a hate crime I hope the fry the person who did it. Though my gut tells me her husband did it.

It's a possibility. I've heard of cover-ups like this before.

I just really hope they solve this soon. Poor woman.

[Urgur the Gurgur]

Whoever it was, I hope they get the help they need.

[Benel Germosen]

Whoever it was, I hope they get the help they need.

Actually, I don't hope they get help. I hope they suffer, for a long time, in pure Malabogic agony.