Posted on 04/14/2006 4:47:05 PM PDT by wagglebee
AYHAN SURUCU was so angry when his sister started to wear make-up and date German men that he put a gun to her head at a bus stop and killed her.
The 18-year-old Turk fired three bullets into her brain and calmly walked away.
Boys at a nearby school, attended mainly by the children of immigrant Muslim families, cheered and applauded when news of the murder reached them.
The so-called “honour killing” of Hatun Surucu, 23, last year shocked Germany and sparked intense debate about a conservative Muslim immigrant community at odds with a secular society.
That anger was rekindled yesterday when Surucu, a minor when the murder took place, was sentenced to nine years and three months by a Berlin court, considered lenient by many Germans.
His brothers, Alpaslan, 25, and Mutlu, 26, were acquitted because of lack of evidence, at which friends and family in the courtroom cheered. The prosecution had sought life sentences for their part in the murder of their sister.
Passing judgment, Michael Degrif said: “It is inconceivable that someone can be killed for living a Western lifestyle.”
Although she was brought up in Germany, Hatun was forced into a marriage with her Turkish cousin in east Anatolia. The marriage broke up and she returned to Berlin with her five-year-old child to live the life of a young German woman: going to discos, renting a small apartment, taking lovers and starting an apprenticeship as an electrician. She abandoned the traditional headscarf and wore fashionable jeans. Her three brothers were upset, as was her father.
The state prosecutor had demanded that all three brothers be convicted. Ayhan, the youngest, had confessed to pulling the trigger but according to the prosecutor the two others had stood guard and obtained the murder weapon. They denied any involvement.
The evidence of a crown witness, a Turkish girl who wore a bullet-proof vest when she stood in the witness stand, was deemed yesterday to be too flimsy for a conviction. Only Ayhan, 19, was jailed after admitting that he wanted to “wipe the stain from our family”.
There are 40 “honour killings” a year in Germany and most of them result from the failure of an arranged marriage, which are illegal in the country.
Commiting the crimes Germans won't commit.
And in American brothers would take a bullet to defend their sisters.
"And in American brothers would take a bullet to defend their sisters."
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Yup, even if they became Muslims.
"Boys at a nearby school, attended mainly by the children of immigrant Muslim families, cheered and applauded when news of the murder reached them."
As I understand it these are Turkish "guest workers" who have never assimilated. Legal immigration with a path to citizenship as the people adopt local values is the better alternative, IMO. Guesst works and illegals dont have the same reasons to fit in.
If anyone can make the Nazis look moderate, its the Islamists.
Cheered at their own sister's murder trial. Religion of piece.
More "peace" from the Religion of Peace.
Oh, wait. I forgot. That's religion of PIECEs.
...the Religion of Peace
What the heck is to debate? Makes me wonder just who is culpable in this young womans death. It seems to me light sentences and appeasment are equal in guilt.
Wake up Michael! They arent there to live a western lifestyle. They are there to take over
They were doing these honor killings thousands of years ago.
The Germans should adjust their laws so that all the family members of any family involved in an honor killing are sent back to Turkey. They should also adjust their laws on capital punishment to provide that the perpetrator is to be drawn, quartered and executed (in that order).
Spain, Germany and other European countries seem to be following that path?
Not that I favor illegal immigration - I don't. But, I would rather have 12 million Mexican immigrants than 1 million Muslim immigrants.
I am continually amazed at how the liberals and MSM supports this barbaric "religion."
Radical Islamic culture is toxic. Calling it Islamic Fascism is an act of charity. It is nihihlism.
Incidentally, the Koran does not sanction Honor Killings. But Muslims don't care because they love death and killing so much.
Of course, in those days, Sicilian honor killings were usually more newsworthy.
This is little to do with religion.
However, I did notice that the German court granted little weight to the testimony of a woman ~ and that's what's frightening ~ Sharia Law does that.
The Germans are getting off the dime too slow this time.
Actually, I'd much rather have 12 million Seveners than even 50 Mexicans.
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