The idea of "honor killings" of Muslim girls by their fathers for dressing like Westerners or dating boys would strike most Americans as too horrific to contemplate. Certainly not the kind of thing that would happen here, right?

Think again. Not only is it happening, but it's barely being reported.

If you're as horrified as I am that even a hint of this sort of thing would happen here, don't miss Phyllis Chesler's "Dead in Dallas: Honor Killings Land on our Shores -- a story about Amina and Sarah Said, who were shot to death, and whose father is being sought by police:

The blogs and the local Texas media (the Dallas Morning News) were all over this. Hot Air, Atlas Shrugs, Jihad Watch, were too. The only national coverage of this story was contained in the Washington Times. SEE HERE Why did the national and international media so far shy clear of this story? Perhaps they chose to dig deeper first or maybe they were waiting for an arrest to be made. But one also wonders: Were they afraid of being accused of "Islamophobia" if they reported the truth? Did they not want to use the word "Arab" or "Muslim" lest they be attacked as "racists"?

But these beautiful and now murdered sisters feared for their lives. They told people that their father was threatening them. Their own mother has now led police to the father as the probable murderer.

They could have been saved if a school or police official had been trained to pre-emptively recognize and rescue all such girls and women in danger of being killed by their families in honor killings.

And what's up with the National Organization of Women? I wondered. Surely, they'd be expressing outrage over this and urging schools to watch for signs of abuse, and identify girls at risk, right?

Well, not exactly.....

I couldn't find a thing about the Said girls at NOW's website.

As of right now, their lead story involves "Stereotyping Toys":

"Through the world of toys, girls and boys are given separate dreams to follow. Girls are prepared for a future of looking pretty, keeping house and taking care of babies. Boys are pointed toward the outside world of challenge, physical development and achievement...."

Wanting to be thorough, I entered the girls' names in their search engine, and came up dry.

What's next? I wonder.

Yesterday, Glenn Reynolds linked a NY Times story about gay Muslims in Berlin:

Kader Balcik, a 22-year-old Turk from Hamburg, said: "For us, for Muslims, it's extremely difficult. When you're gay, you're immediately cut off from the family."

He had recently moved to Berlin not long after being cut off from his mother because he is bisexual. "A mother who wishes death for her son, what kind of mother is that?" he asked, his eyes momentarily filling with tears.

Hasan, a 21-year-old Arab man, sitting at a table in the club's quieter adjoining cafe, declined to give his last name, saying: "They would kill me. My brothers would kill me." Asked if he meant this figuratively, he responded, "No, I mean they would kill me."

Here, everyone lives in freedom.

I mean, just because Sharia libel law can now be applied in the United States, there's no reason to worry.

Besides, only an Islamophobe would fear living under sharia.

UPDATE: Gateway Pundit has more on this, plus a report on another honor killing. (HT M. Simon.)