Aziz Yazdanpanah, a Muslim, didn't like his daughter's non-Muslim boyfriend and was exhibiting stalker behavior. “She couldn’t date at all until she was a certain age, but when he was going to let her date she couldn’t date anyone outside of their race or religion.”

Again and again we have seen honor killings in which fathers kill daughters who are dating non-Muslims or have supposedly besmirched the family honor by some intimate indiscretion. Lt. Todd Dearing says that motive isn't important -- which is generally only the case when Islam is involved.

"Neighbors horrified at news of family’s slayings in Grapevine," by Gloria Salinas and Scott Goldstein for the Dallas Morning News, December 26 (thanks to Steve):

GRAPEVINE — Aziz Yazdanpanah seemed to be losing control of his life in recent months — his wife left him, his house was in foreclosure, and his 19-year-old daughter was dating a young man he didn’t like.
Even so, the 58-year-old former real estate agent from Colleyville seemed to be holding it together. Neighbors say he would smile and wave as he drove through his middle-class neighborhood. Recently, he was seen raking leaves in his yard.

“He was very friendly, a very good neighbor,” said Carrie Stewart, who lives across the street. “He was out here often doing yard work and he even watched our house for us when we went to Colorado.”

A decent fellow indeed.

Yazdanpanah, a volunteer high school debate coach described as a doting father, is the focus of suspicion a day after a Christmas morning massacre in which a man dressed as Santa Claus killed six relatives and then committed suicide.

Grapevine police arrived at the Lincoln Vineyard Apartment Homes a few minutes before noon and discovered bodies sprawled among opened presents and wrapping paper. The victims were ages 15 to 58,

Citing public records and interviews with friends and neighbors, media reports Monday identified Yazdanpanah and others who had died: his estranged 55-year-old wife, Fatemeh Rahmati, their 19-year-old daughter, Nona Narges Yazdanpanah, and 15-year-old son, Ali Yazdanpanah.

Friends of the family said Fatemeh Rahmati’s 58-year-old sister, Zohreh Rahmaty, and her husband, Hossein Zarei, 59, and daughter Sahra Zarei, a 22-year-old pre-med student at the University of Texas at Arlington, also were killed.

Grapevine police Lt. Todd Dearing said investigators were working to piece together a timeline of the murders, but they may never know exactly what set off the gunman.

“Motive is not really the primary point right now,” Dearing said. “It’s more along the lines of what happened, how it transpired and making sure that who we believe to be the shooter is the shooter. Motive is what comes afterward for us if we can get it.”

He said a neighbor at the apartment complex saw the suspected shooter get out of his white sport utility vehicle dressed in a Santa outfit, including a full coat, pants, boots and belt. Based in part on that witness account, police believe the shootings occurred about the time a 911 call rang into the station at 11:34 a.m. Sunday.

The line was silent,

Grapevine police also searched the Colleyville home where Aziz Yazdanpanah had been living since he separated from his wife last spring. Public records show that the couple had filed for bankruptcy in 2010 and that the property was in foreclosure,

Yazdanpanah said he bought a gun after expressing concern that his daughter’s boyfriend was stalking him. He also insisted on picking up his daughter from her job at a phone kiosk inside Sam’s Club in Grapevine because of concerns about the alleged stalker.

The boyfriend has not been publicly identified.

Neighbors said the family was Muslim but had always hung Christmas lights on their home — except this year.

Terri Baum, who lives three homes down from Yazdanpanah, said she had seen him around the neighborhood in the last couple of weeks.

“They were pretty quiet, but kind, very kind,” Baum said. “They were sweet, good parents, and they loved their kids very much.”

Baum’s daughter, Allison, attended Colleyville Heritage High School with Nona, where the girls were part of an academic team focused on developing business leaders. They graduated together in May.

“Allison would take her to school from here, and then when they moved out she would pick her up from the apartments,” Baum said. “It’s unbelievable because of the people we knew them to be, and their children were good kids, very focused.”

Baum said she was horrified at the possibility the killings had been a murder-suicide.

“All I want to say is, it is so unbelievably shocking because they loved their kids,” Baum said.

Yes, loved them to death.

But a more ominous portrait emerged of Yazdanpanah in interviews with some of his daughter’s other classmates.
“She would come to school crying and telling us her dad was crazy,” said Lacie Reed, 18. “He wouldn’t let her wear certain things. He was always taking her phone away, checking her call history and checking her text messages.”

Friends said Nona’s father had installed cameras all around the home so he could watch the family’s comings and goings. Others said he nailed her bedroom window shut so she could not sneak out at night and see her boyfriend.

“She couldn’t date at all until she was a certain age, but when he was going to let her date she couldn’t date anyone outside of their race or religion,” Reed said.

Yiselle Alvarenga, 18, said Nona’s mother and brother seemed to come to her aid when her father punished her.

“He would take her phone away and her mother would give it back to her and her brother would let her use his phone,” Alvarenga said. “She was doing good. She was just excited that her life was going to start and she was going to have control of it.”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/12/islamic-honor-killing-in-texas-man-who-murdered-family-on-christmas-morning-was-muslim-who-disliked.html

ah islam, such a refreshing cult of death.

another nonsense from "jihad watch".

is there any credible news source?

everytime a muslim commits a crime,islam goes to trial.but with all the evils committed by christians,no one talks of christianity.perverted evangelists and their tricks to "save" others through lies!

LagosShia:

another nonsense from "jihad watch".

is there any credible news source?

everytime a muslim commits a crime,islam goes to trial.but with all the evils committed by christians,no one talks of christianity.perverted evangelists and their tricks to "save" others through lies!

Its been all over US TV for the last 2 days dummy.

^^^^^^^^^

genius! present the story if real from a non-bias anti islamic source.not from anti-islamic hate-mongering sites.that will do you and your hate propaganda no good.

^^
Islam breeds hate and consequentially hate mongering.

Hate attracts hate.

Love attracts Love.

Islam is totally void of Love.

But some Muslims are embodiments of Love, you for one, are not of that league. Your league belongs to Boko Haram 

Reads 2 line from the article
googles
conclude : another thread by Boko Haram sympathizers trying to start up inter religious war in Nigeria

GRAPEVINE — Aziz Yazdanpanah seemed to be losing control of his life in recent months — his wife left him, his house was in foreclosure, and his 19-year-old daughter was dating a young man he didn’t like.
http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2011/12/muslim-father-aziz-yazdanpanah-honor.htm

it seems life had "turned" against the man!

LagosShia:

^^^^^^^^^

genius! present the story if real from a non-bias anti islamic source.not from anti-islamic hate-mongering sites.that will do you and your hate propaganda no good.

Does the Iranian.com website count then? http://www.iranian.com/main/2011/dec/aziz-yazdanpanah-murder-suicide

Empty, hateful vessels like you seriously disgust me.

frosbel:

^^
Islam breeds hate and consequentially hate mongering.

Hate attracts hate.

Love attracts Love.

Islam is totally void of Love.

But some Muslims are embodiments of Love, you for one, are not of that league. Your league belongs to Boko Haram 

Mostly because they live in liberal environments like the west. Lets not constantly give these folks a cloak under which to hide. These are the same people who jubilate and distribute sweets when an israeli child or 3000 US citizens are killed in one day.

vedaxcool:

Reads 2 line from the article
googles
conclude : another thread by Boko Haram sympathizers trying to start up inter religious war in Nigeria

GRAPEVINE — Aziz Yazdanpanah seemed to be losing control of his life in recent months — his wife left him, his house was in foreclosure, and his 19-year-old daughter was dating a young man he didn’t like.
http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2011/12/muslim-father-aziz-yazdanpanah-honor.htm

it seems life had "turned" against the man!

Nah, it seems islam's hate and quest for death eventually overwhelmed this man.

^^^^^^^^^^Right. Just like christian soldier crusader bush and his cabal couldn't have enough of muslim blood in the holy land; Ur where Abraham the father of lonely son with boss woman sarah as wife came from.

This people!

Ur of the Chaldeans (majority Christians) is now Muslim holy land? The same chaldea iraqi muslims are now purging with suicide belts. These revisionists and despicable liars make me sick.

Muz males believe that they will get their 72 virgins and 28 boys "as smooth as cultured pearls" if they die with "honor." To die that way, they have to Murder kafirs. The feast of "eid" is largely a celebration of the genocide of non-muz at the Badr-Genocide. Prior to the gangster attack, bandit one - muhammad manaf - ordered his duped followers to show no remorse when, for the first time, they were killing their own families. Sons hacked their fathers to pieces and then raped their 'kafir" mothers and sisters, in the "way of allah." Typically a muz male will have an erection when he kills a non-muz, in anticipation of his expected eternity of fornication and anal sex with smooth boys. Every year President Hussein Obama fills his belly with co-religists of his spouse abandoning parasite father, while they cherish 1400 years of Murdering "infidels." Obama loves to hear how they slit the throats of goats, in "sunna" (emulation) of the throat hacking of his daddy's murderous clan. Wherever there are slaves-of-allah, there is portable shariah, the worst perversion ever concocted by mankind. I claim offense, should anyone attack this post. May the next US President be the meanest and nastiest man alive.

these guys(frosbel, davidylan) av lost it totally. Some christian monks had a good time fighting each other on christmas day. that wasnt an aggression Jesus taught them. I ddnt even take it against christianity But your bigoted minds cant differentiate individual behavior and a religious one.

keep wallowing in self deceit.