So it’s the 21st century… and you find out that your wife was having an affair with your nephew and she murdered him in “self-defense” what do you do? 

Tonight’s hot topic is Andira Abdelaziz, a Pakistani-American woman. Abdelaziz got married to her husband at the tender age of 14. (Yes it was arranged by their parents, we’re not here to judge… okay maybe a little.)

Anyway, she married Karim Abdelaziz (whom she only got to SIT with a few times before tying the knot) thanks to her Palestinian parents. 

As a faithful and “traditional” Muslim woman she obeyed his orders and was a stay at home wife. She popped out four kids and raised straight A students. (Pretty good for an adulterous murderer) 

Okay so let’s get to the tea, hope you like lemon and honey in yours? (If you’re vegan I brought agave don’t worry 😂)

On August 9 2016, Mohammed Abdelaziz had been sending his lover / aunt (by marriage) a string of threatening text messages,

“Death is more honorable than life with a fucking whore like you. … You don’t dare decide to sleep with him … go to sleep on the couch before I put you in a fucking coma,” he wrote.

Now I know what you’re thinking! What is going on here? Okay let me give you the back story. 

In 2010, Mohammed started complimenting his “aunt.” It began with him flirting and making comments about how good she looked in her outfits. Then he started buying her chocolate… he knew EXACTLY what he was doing. That’s your uncles wife… it wasn’t Mother’s Day and even if it was, she wasn’t YOUR mother. Why are you buying a married woman chocolate? 

I’m sure the attention she was getting made her feel like a woman. She hadn’t been with anyone besides her husband (who she didn’t really know 🤷🏽‍♀️) so I assume this was different being that she actually felt something. She made the decision to have an affair with her “nephew,” it was HER choice. Not an arranged marriage. 

It was like a teenage love affair minus the teenagers. They exchanged love notes, one of which from Mohammed read,

“There aren’t enough words for me to describe my love for you,” Mohammed Abdelaziz wrote. “Nothing will stop me from having you until the last day….Babe, I never want to be away from you. I love you to death.” (I can see how she fell for him.) 

Her lover/ nephew went to school in Kansas to study law and it put their relationship on hold. He even had a new girlfriend turned wife but she had the marriage annulled. (Which makes me wonder what was wrong with him 🤔)

He returned to San Antonio in 2015 and he and Andira picked up where they left off. According to her, that year was when Mohammed started abusing drugs such as oxycodone or prescribed amphetamines. (They always claim someone was uNdEr tHe InFluEnce. Sounds like she was trying to excuse his horrible behavior.)

Anyways, because of the dRuGs he demanded his lover obey his every command. He allegedly started beating her so badly that she couldn’t dress herself. (But my thing is HOW DID HER HUSBAND NOT NOTICE???? Was he just not touching her?) 

She told the jury,

“he would always apologize and say he’d never do it again.” (We all know that when they say that they’ll never do it again it’s a lie.) 

Andira also claimed to have been beaten so badly outside of a Dunkin Donuts by her nephew/ lover but there was no surveillance footage to support her claims. 

It’s alleged that in April 2016 the bearings got worse and when he came to her (marital) home he would punch holes in the wall and she’d convince relatives to say they’d been fighting to cover her tracks. (WTF? So did they know? Did they not inquire about how the holes really got there? This is too much for me.) 

Fast forward to the day of the murder. Mohammed sent Andira a bunch of messages ordering her to sleep on the sofa and not next to his uncle. (I’m sorry but this sentence is so twisted 😂)

So he sent her a message saying he was going to drive by her home and peep through the living room window and if she wasn’t laying there then, 

“[Your] life is over. [Your] kids are over. [You’re] dead,” he wrote. (Okay I feel bad for appreciating his proper usage of “you’re”) 

So as you probably know already, he did come over and he rang the doorbell and pounded on the windows. The children were home and were so confused. He came in and started hitting Andira but she didn’t call the cops right away because “It would have brought shame and disgrace to the children.” 

She didn’t want the affair exposed because she feared she’d be the target for an “honor killing.” (So you know the next best thing is to kill your lover yourself and have the world find out you were screwing your husbands blood.) 

Anyway, the police were eventually called and handcuffed Mohammed (who was a 6-foot-5, 213-pound man by the way.) Police let him go when Andira claimed she mistakenly thought he was an intruder, minutes later, she stabbed him once with a kitchen knife. 

She said as soon as the police left she was chased by an angry Mohammed,

“I ran into the kitchen and grabbed a knife from the counter,” Andira Abdelaziz said. “And when my son came out from his room he came up to Mohammed and that made him turn around, and that’s when I stabbed him.”

The prosecution wasn’t buying her story though, they argued that she didn’t take any pictures of her bruises, she never called the police anytime before the killing and she had no documentation of any abuse. They believed it was shame that led her to stab him to death. 

Andira was facing a life sentence, but the jury said she killed in a “sudden passion” (whatever that’s supposed to mean) and reduced the sentencing range to 2-20 years. On Thursday June 7, 2018 she was found guilty of murder but the kicker is she was only sentenced to two years in prison. 

Her sons and husband were crying to the point where they were escorted out of the courtroom. (Now I know Islam asks to forgive but why was the husband crying? I would’ve been pissed she was sleeping with my nephew, like throw her in prison and keep her there, thank you very much.) 

The father of the deceased, Aziz Abdelaziz had this to say after the Verdict,

“I have lost my son. Nothing will bring him back. I cannot say what should be done with Andira. Andira is a human being and me and my family don’t wish harm on anyone. We leave it with God.”

He also said that he and his family members will never be able to reconcile because they have not apologized.

“I gave Karim and his family three chances to apologize and they never did. Islam asks us to forgive but also says if a life is taken, then you take a life, but I am not going there.”

What a slap in the face!!! Your wife kills his son and you can’t apologize? Though I get it… the nephew shouldn’t have been creeping with his wife. 🤷🏽‍♀️ 

What do you think? The jury let her off pretty easy… I’m not surprised though… Casey Anthony is still walking around a FREE woman. Smh Murica! 

Thanks for reading this week’s edition of #MurderMysteryMonday! Who was wrong in this situation? Do you believe it was self defense? Shoud Karim apologize to his family for his wife’s role in the affair/ murder? Should she have gotten more time? (YES)

Think about this until I catch ya next week! xx