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pictures of family gunned down Christmas day by estranged husband and father dressed in Santa suit
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 27 Dec 2011 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 12/27/2011 7:40:43 AM PST by smokingfrog

The crazed gunman dressed in a Santa suit who gunned down two families while they were opening their presents on Christmas morning was the father and estranged husband of three of his victims.

Aziz Yazdanpanah, who had separated from his wife in March, is believed to have opened fire at an apartment in Grapevine, Dallas - just after the family opened their gifts - before turning the gun on himself.

Just hours before the families were killed, the group had thrown a large Christmas Eve party at their ranch. Dozens of friends and relatives celebrated late into the night, according to WFAA8.com.

Friends say Yazdanpanah, 56, likely showed up unexpectedly the next morning as he had not been invited to the party.

The victims have been identified as Nasrin Rahmaty, 55, the wife of the gunman, who worked at a nearby salon.

The couple's two children were also killed. Friends say Nona Yazdanpanah, 19, was a student at Tarrant County Community College and her brother, Ali, 15, was a student at Colleyville Heritage High School.

Yazdanpanah also killed his sister-in-law's family. Zohreh Rahmaty, 58, who was Nasrin's sister, and her husband, Hossein Zarei, 59. Their daughter Sahra Zarei, 22, was also shot.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: grapevine; muslims; santamurder; yazdanpanah
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To: Round 9
White Christians do these sorts of things several times a year,

Ah yes. the ever present Freeper multiculturalist.

White Christians do indeed do these sorts of things several times a year.

Muslims, on the other hand, do these things several times a day.

That is exactly the same and it would be terribly bigoted of anyone to remark on that fact. All cultures must be equal, otherwise it does matter what you believe.

Doubtless the best way to make all cultures and religions the same would be to accuse anyone who points out any differences of what? UnChristianity? Bigotry? Literacy? Being a doo doo head? Listening to Justin Beiber?

How enlightened of you.

61 posted on 12/27/2011 9:49:53 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: smokingfrog

Now why didn’t the names of the family, pictures or any other details show up in any American media?


62 posted on 12/27/2011 9:57:37 AM PST by mdmathis6 (Christ came not to make mankind into God but to put God into men!)
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To: LuvFreeRepublic; SoftwareEngineer

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/12/26/3619170/2-of-7-dead-in-grapevine-had-recently.html

I guess you two will have to dismount those high horses you ride on PC mountain.

This was a Muslim (dis)honor slaying.


63 posted on 12/27/2011 10:10:43 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: mdmathis6

An hour ago on cable news it was stated “names not known.”


64 posted on 12/27/2011 10:19:46 AM PST by Dante3
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To: Dante3

An hour ago on cable news it was stated “names not known.”


What has been known, can be unknown?


65 posted on 12/27/2011 10:24:49 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Round 9
White Christians do these sorts of things several times a year,
yet you’re focused on their being muslim?

Yes. Because they were MUSLIM, Strict Muslim.
People are also killed every day for NOT being Muslim.


You use the same logic as leftists when they get into trouble by
saying the other side does it too. Fact is, this wasn't the other side
so knock off the apologist rhetoric.

66 posted on 12/27/2011 10:27:40 AM PST by MaxMax
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To: NormsRevenge

It was a Muslim (dis)honor killing (see other sources within the thread). Daughter was dating boy dad did not approve of and he was losing control over his family. :(


67 posted on 12/27/2011 10:28:01 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Gene Eric

>>No truth has emerged through the criticism of your fellow FReepers.<<

They are making light of, laughing about, and assigning motivations based on nothing but racial stereotyping. This is a terrible event with clearly innocent victims.

>>This is just one of many reports concerning Christmas related attacks:
Being Christian is a death sentence<<

If the reports are correct, the dead mom and children are Muslim (at most — it appears they are not orthodox). And this happened in Grapevine, TX. Reading is Fundamental.

>>While this could be an isolated crime of passion, the justification for such acts is not uncommon among haters of Christianity. The ROP assumption might be wrong, but not farfetched.<<

Where have we heard “fake but accurate” before? You can choose your arguments but not your facts. And, I point you out to the fact the victims were NOT Christians.

Your attempt at a defense is as embarrassing as the posts themselves.


68 posted on 12/27/2011 10:42:46 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Spoiler Alert! The secret to Terra Nova: THEY ARE ALL DEAD!!!)
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To: freedumb2003

Islam is a race?

You have a fantastically accurate screen name...


69 posted on 12/27/2011 10:59:46 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Thommas

Thommas,

AS I mentioned in another post, I live in the city right next to Grapevine and I have a few friends that frequent the spa the mom used to work in. They used to chat to her while waiting and they thought she was “Iranian Catholic”

Odd as it sounds, there is actually a small Iranian Catholic population


70 posted on 12/27/2011 11:02:41 AM PST by SoftwareEngineer
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To: SaraJohnson

There is nothing about my comment that is “high horse or PC mountain”. Over and over again you can read on these tragedy threads very distasteful comments.

Please feel free to stay on YOUR high horse.


71 posted on 12/27/2011 11:25:10 AM PST by LuvFreeRepublic
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To: autumnraine
Here is the original link to the story where the neighbor said she personally knew
one of the kids and the family was strict Muslim. CBS 11 edited their TV news
story by taking out any reference by the girl about Iran or Muslim. Now they have
edited her interview in the online version. I knew this would happen
so I saved a copy and placed it here on youtube. I edited it somewhat
to keep it short.

Here is a link to the originial story that is now edited..
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/12/25/7-found-dead-inside-grapevine-apartment/


Here is the originial interview "Allison Baum" edited out by CBS.
The MSM will cover for any Muslim, and I have no problem pointing this out
reguardless of what anybody here thinks.
http://youtu.be/azZ6eEijlDQ

72 posted on 12/27/2011 11:26:46 AM PST by MaxMax
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To: MaxMax
Oops, here is the interview link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnjebzEygos

73 posted on 12/27/2011 11:30:25 AM PST by MaxMax
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To: freedumb2003

Yes. I think this was just your standard domestic.


74 posted on 12/27/2011 11:34:19 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: Thommas

I am not a muslim apologist. Quite a leap there, buddy. If it was a terrorist attack, then, yes, consider the religion. But this was a domestic murder-suicide that had nothing to do with religion. If you think it does then you, by your same logic, better examine what it is about christianity that prompts so many similar crimes amongst them. Christians are murdering others constantly in this country. What is it about Christianity that causes that?

The answer is, nothing. Nothing about Christianity prompts this just like nothing about islam promted what happened in this case.

It’s embarrassing for our side to immediately jump on the Muslim angle when the behavior is far more typical of a U.S. citizen who happens to be Christian.

Save your fire for times when Islam really does play a role and your opinion will be taken more seriously.


75 posted on 12/27/2011 2:49:59 PM PST by Round 9
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To: Thommas

I am not a muslim apologist. Quite a leap there, buddy. If it was a terrorist attack, then, yes, consider the religion. But this was a domestic murder-suicide that had nothing to do with religion. If you think it does then you, by your same logic, better examine what it is about christianity that prompts so many similar crimes amongst them. Christians are murdering others constantly in this country. What is it about Christianity that causes that?

The answer is, nothing. Nothing about Christianity prompts this just like nothing about islam promted what happened in this case.

It’s embarrassing for our side to immediately jump on the Muslim angle when the behavior is far more typical of a U.S. citizen who happens to be Christian.

Save your fire for times when Islam really does play a role and your opinion will be taken more seriously.


76 posted on 12/27/2011 2:50:14 PM PST by Round 9
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To: MrEdd

>>Islam is a race?<<

Look at the number of comments about their names and totally ignoring the facts. Stereotyping based on just the name (and being dead wrong) is racism.

>>You have a fantastically accurate screen name...<<

Like most idiots with no argument, you go straight to ad hominem. And your comment bears out my identification of you as an “idiot” so that is a conclusion based on facts in evidence. not ad hominem.


77 posted on 12/27/2011 3:28:06 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Spoiler Alert! The secret to Terra Nova: THEY ARE ALL DEAD!!!)
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To: mdmathis6
...because the names and national origin scream Muslim and because the American media are determined that the truth about the extent of Muslim violence be covered up, at home and abroad. Muslims killed 39 Christians at a church in Nigeria on Christmas. It was reported in only a few MSM outlets. A one day story. Thank God for the internet.
78 posted on 12/27/2011 3:46:47 PM PST by Godwin1
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To: freedumb2003

Which of the two of us is ignoring both the empirical evidence of their per capita violence, and the view that comes from the study of their scripture?

That would be you.

I began studying what the Qu’oran and Hadith actually teach in 1979.


79 posted on 12/27/2011 6:01:53 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Round 9
Dad was upset about the daughter's boyfriend.

This was a standard, run of the mill honor killing, and no, the Amish and the Methodists don't react that way.

Contrary to your personal Muslim apologetics campaign, honor killings are a Muslim problem and Islam is indeed a religion.

80 posted on 12/27/2011 6:05:45 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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