Death of a Princess

Submitted by Fay Voshell (United States), Feb 21, 2009 at 10:59

I don't know how many people on this blog recall the 1980 television docu-dram entitled Death of a Princess. The TV special created a diplomatic ruckus because the Saudi government protested the piece being shown, as it depicted the honor Killing of a young Saudi princess whose crime had been adultery. There was no disputing the fact she'd been executed, but the Saudi govermnment did not want the embarrassment of its medieval ways revealed to the West. The BBC refused to capitulate, and showed the film anyway.

That was then and this is now. As Mark Steyn points out in a National Review online essay, not only would the present day top brass of the BBC capitulate, but they would probably issue a statement against the producers of such a film.

And, as a matter of fact, just try to find a copy of the film. I just spent a considerable amount of time trying to find a copy...and nada. Netflix has 50,000 films and doesn't carry it. Amazon.com sells everything, but also doesn't sell copies. And so it goes. Wikipedia has a blurb discribing the piece as a "fictionalized account." The film obviously has been supressed.

But that's not all that's creepy. I noticed that when "America's Most Wanted" did a story on Sarah and Amaina Said's deaths at the hands of their Muslim father, John Walsh had the producers do a scene in which one of the daughter's male friends carefully explained to her that her father's treatment of young women had "nothing to do with Islam." The term 'honor killing" was not used ONCE to describe the father's murders of his own daughters; nor was the fact their brother lured the girls back to the house for their execution mentioned.

Very troubling, mainly because abuse, sometimes fatal abuse, of Muslim women is being covered up because of political correctness--even here in our own country.

And to Muslims, I would say, "If this sort of thing is not part of your Muslim heritage, why don't you vigorously expose, condemn and prosecute each and every incident rather than just proclaim this is alien to the true Muslim faith?

Fay Voshell

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