Hossam Armanious
Hossam Armanious (b. 1958 d. January 2005) was a Coptic Christian immigrant from Egypt who lived in Jersey City. On January 14, he, his wife Amal Garas, and two daughters, Sylvia and Monica were found stabbed to death in their home.
It was believed that they were the victims of religious retaliation for anti-Muslim arguments that Armanious had made in a Middle Eastern chat room on the web site http://www.paltalk.com/ . Armanious had been threatened by Muslim members of the Web site, but he had refused to back down. barsomyat.com was a web site that appeared to be tracking and displaying both public and private information AbOUT other vocal anti-Muslim paltalk.com users, although Armanious was not listed on it.
Anti Jihad author Robert Spencer stated that according to his sources :
- The Armanious family had inspired several Muslims to convert to Christianity â or thought they had. These converts were actually practicing taqiyya, or religious deception, pretending to be friends of these Christians in order to strengthen themselves against them, as in Qur'an 3:28: "Let believers not make friends with infidels in preference to the faithful -- he that does this has nothing to hope for from Allah -- except in self-defense."
- Of course, the family, not suspecting the deception, was happy to see the "converted" men and willingly let them in to their home. That's why there was no sign of forced entry. Then the "converted" Muslims did their grisly work.
To their disapointment, the Islamophobes were proven wrong in March 2005 when the Hudson County prosecutors- See nydailynews link below - announced that the family were slaughtered inside their home for money - not their religious beliefs. An upstairs neighbor and his alleged accomplice were charged with the brutal murders of Hossam Armanious and his family. The two paroled [...] dealers bound, gagged and stabbed Armanious and his family because Armanious's daughter recognized one of the neighbors during the robbery.