Monday, August 04, 2008

Brazilian Muslim beheads teenage girl




Apropos of this past weeks atrocity in Canada, about which I posted two prior posts, there is today this story out of Brazil.

The Brazilian’s name is Mohamed D’Ali Carvalho Santos, and he brutally dismembered and beheaded a teenage girl, then wickedly exulted in it. Sounds like a Muslim to me.

This does not seem to be a case either of S.J.S. (Sudden Jihad Syndrome) nor of my coinage, V.J.S. (Voluntary Jihad Syndrome)—but rather of what we could call T.I.S.:
Traditional Islam Syndrome.

Naturally, the mainstream news in this report avoids the M word and the I word:

GOIANIA, Brazil (AP) - A Brazilian man accused of killing and dismembering a British teenager and stuffing her torso in a suitcase bragged to his brother in a text message that she was “in the bag,” state police said Saturday.

Mohamed D’Ali Carvalho Santos, whom police and his lawyer said has confessed to killing 17-year-old Cara Marie Burke, sent the message to his brother Bruce Lee, who lives with their mother in London, said a police investigator who declined to be identified in line with departmental rules.


The message, written in English and accompanied by a smiling face symbol, read: “the bitch is in the bag,” the investigator said. It was found in Santos' cell phone, which he used to photograph Burke's severed head after he allegedly placed it on top of her torso along with a bloody butcher knife, the investigator added.

3 comments:

Nobody said...

SJS, VJS, TIS,... enough already - I'm getting a headache ;-]

awake said...

Multiple motives, same result.

Hesperado said...

nobody, as you probably surmise, my development of analytical acronyms is not meant as a proposal for actual use, but as a rhetorical device.

awake,

"Multiple motives, same result."

And same source:

One source -->

Multiple motives/multiple expressions -->

Same result.