Houston, We Have a Problem...[Saudi killer of Jew Hijacks his Plea]

The Islam Commentaries ^ | April 12, 2004 | William Welty

[happygrl]

This is a followup to this story previously reported on FR.

[bearkat]

I live here in Houston and I would NEVER subscribe to the Houston Chronicle. These people will find no help there... it is a liberal, communist newspaper.

This is a horrible story. I feel terrible for Ariel's family and friends.

[TrueBeliever9]

PING

If it were a white male killer against any ethnic group it would be in all the media as a sensational "hate crime!"

[M1Tanker]

Bump for reference

[dennisw]

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[dennisw]

Saudi pleads guilty to killing Jewish friend
No motive established but Houston student went to mosque afterwards

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Posted: January 13, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern



© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

After apparently undergoing a religious awakening, a Saudi Arabian student in Houston killed his Jewish friend by slashing his throat.

Mohammed Ali Alayed, 23, pleaded guilty to the Aug. 6 attack on Ariel Sellouk, also 23, who almost was decapitated with a knife, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Houston police said they could not find evidence the slaying was tied to race or religion.

However, they said no clear motive has been established, and Alayed went to a local mosque after the slaying.

Alayed, who faces up to 60 years in prison, befriended Sellouk a few years ago, according to Sellouk's father.

Michel Sellouk is a Moroccan Jew who came to Houston in 1982.

He said his son had been attending Houston Community College but was working in his father's business when he was killed, the Chronicle reported.

Alayed broke off contact with Ariel about two years ago after undergoing a "religious experience" and became a devout Muslim, Sellouk told the Houston paper.

Sellouk said Alayed called his son the day of the slaying and suggested they get together. They went to Alayed's apartment about midnight after going to a bar for drinks.

Alayed's roommate told police the two were not arguing before Sellouk was killed, according to the Houston daily.

The Saudi student was receiving about $60,000 a year from his family for studies, but prosecutors believe he had dropped out of school.

Alayed initially was held without bail after allegedly telling his roommate he would flee to Saudi Arabia. A judge in October set bail at $5 million, however.

[SJackson]

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Jihad in Houston

by William P. Welty
Jan 18, '04 / 24 Tevet 5764

[How is it that only the Israelis know that World War III started on September 11, 2001?]

Sooner or later it was bound to happen — Jihad would come to the United States. (Not that it hasn't been here since the Oklahoma City bombing, mind you.) And by this statement, I don't mean attacks on America's infrastructure, such as the assault on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the apparent attempted assault on the White House that occurred on 11 September 2001. No. I'm thinking of something much more simple than elaborate plans to fly commercial aircraft into buildings. I'm thinking of something as simple as the murder of a Jew by a Muslim. In Houston, Texas, no less.

The Muslim man has confessed to the crime, which his own roommate witnessed as a near decapitation of the Jewish victim.

Amazingly, the press is reporting that Houston police say they don't have a clue as to why he did it.

Honest, I'm not making this up....

The story made the January 12 edition of the Houston Chronicle and WorldNetDaily.com on January 13. According to the details of the reports, killer Mohammed Ali Alayed, a Saudi Arabian national, was in the US on a student visa when he slashed the throat of Ariel Sellouk, the son of Moroccan Jewish immigrants to the United States and a personal friend. Alayed "went to a local mosque after the killing."

I called the Houston Chronicle's Andrew Tilghman, who is assigned to the paper's Court House Bureau, to discuss the matter. Mr. Tilghman wrote the Chronicle story on the slaying. We discussed the puzzling statement that appears in paragraph three of the WorldNetDaily story, concerning the Houston Police Department's alleged inability to attribute religious motives to the slaying, despite the "religious reawakening" of Alayed to a "conservative, Islamic lifestyle".

Does one light a candle to see the sun?

It turns out, according to my interview with Tilghman, that the prosecutors chose not to pursue hate crime indictments because by doing so, the prosecutors risked complicating the case.

"Does it really matter why Alayed murdered Mr. Sellouk?" mused Mr. Tilghman during our conversation.

Good point, Andrew.

I concluded my conversation with Mr. Tilghman by suggesting to him that I'd attempt to send him a list of other Islam-motivated murders that have taken place within the borders of the United States of America since the Oklahoma City bombing. I didn't bother to mention that I won't count the 2,800 Islam-motivated murders that took place in the United States on 11 September 2001.

After all, as President Dubya points out, Islam is a religion of peace.

[dufekin]

Sixty years? That's not nearly enough. He'll be released. He needs the DEATH penalty--and quick!

[SJackson]

If you're going to have a death penalty, and Texas uses theirs, this seems like a no brainer. I suspect the prosecutor just didn't want the publicity.

[SJackson]

Sixty years? That's not nearly enough. He'll be released. He needs the DEATH penalty--and quick!

And if he's released, he's a danger to do it again.

[Blood of Tyrants]

This has every indication of what the liberals would call a "hate crime" yet their antisemitism and love for anyone who hates America far outweighs any cry for justice on their part.

[fightu4it]

"they would then flee the country with this terrorist."

What does one do with a terrorist? It does present a problem, doesn't it?

[Mears]

You've got that right,it's only a hate crime if it's white heterosexual against anyone else.

I live in Massachusetts and this is the first I heard of this case,but the dragging to death of the black man by whites and the Matthew Sheperd case were front page news here.

[Peelod]

Let him make bail. Just keep his putz here as a security deposit.

[absalom01]

Heh.

I'm almost certain that granting bail in this case would violate rule .308 of the Texas rules of criminal procedure, though.

[elcid1970]

Saudis. Muslims. Arabs. Bloody savages!!

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[jokar]

BUMP!

[mrustow]

I called the Houston Chronicle's Andrew Tilghman, who is assigned to the paper's Court House Bureau, to discuss the matter. Mr. Tilghman wrote the Chronicle story on the slaying. We discussed the puzzling statement that appears in paragraph three of the WorldNetDaily story, concerning the Houston Police Department's alleged inability to attribute religious motives to the slaying, despite the "religious reawakening" of Alayed to a "conservative, Islamic lifestyle"....

It turns out, according to my interview with Tilghman, that the prosecutors chose not to pursue hate crime indictments because by doing so, the prosecutors risked complicating the case.

"Does it really matter why Alayed murdered Mr. Sellouk?" mused Mr. Tilghman during our conversation.

Guys like Tilghman and the prosecutor make me sick. If white supremacists had killed a black man, I bet Tilghman wouldn't doubt that the motive mattered, and the prosecutor wouldn't find the matter at all "complicated" (which, btw, was the cover story Tilghman offered, free-of-charge, on the prosecutor's behalf. With friends like Tilghman and the prosecutor, who needs terrorists?