Murderous Mothers
The Hidden Female Face of Honor Killing

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
March 16, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/284/murderous-mothers-female-face-of-honor-killing

Excerpt:

Texas-born Patricia ("Tissie) Said, formerly of the Owens family, is the mother who lured her two teenage daughters, Sarah and Amina, to their deaths at the hands of their own father this past New Years Day in Dallas. How can a mother do such a thing? Even if her own life was threatened, even if her husband Yasser had literally held a gun to her head and told her to trick her daughters into returning, isn't a mother supposed to sacrifice herself for her children? Or at least to protect them? What can explain such a perversion of maternal instinct and of the life force itself?

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