Celebrate diversity.
Posted on 07/21/2007 1:44:54 AM PDT by Lorianne
The father and uncle of honour killing victim Banaz Mahmod were jailed for life today for her murder.
Mahmod Mahmod, 54, was told he will have to serve a minimumn of 20 years while his brother Ari, 51, will have to serve at least 23 years.
Horrific details were revealed yesterday of the last hours of the young Kurdish woman murdered by her family for falling in love with the wrong man.
Banaz Mahmod, 20, was brutally raped and stamped on during a two-hour ordeal before being garotted.
One of her killers, the Old Bailey was told, was 30-year-old Mohamad Hama, who had been recruited by Banaz's father Mahmod Mahmod, 52, and his brother Ari, 51.
Both were found guilty of murder last month.
The shocking details of the killing came to light when Hama was secretly recorded talking to a friend in prison.
He admitted "slapping" and "f***ing" Banaz, who was subjected to degrading sex acts.
Hama and his friend were heard laughing as he described how she was killed in her family home in Mitcham, South London, with Ari Mahmod "supervising".
The murderers - two other suspects have fled to Iraq - had been told Banaz would be on her own.
Hama is recorded as saying: "Ari (the uncle) said there is no one there. There was someone there, Biza (her sister). The bastard lied to us."
He said of the murder: "I swear to God it took him more than two hours. Her soul and her life would not leave."
Banaz was garotted for five minutes, said Hama, but it took another half an hour for her to die.
Hama said: "The wire was thick and the soul would not just leave like that.
"We could not remove it. All in all it took five minutes (to strangle) her.
"I was kicking and stamping on her neck to get the soul out. I saw her stark naked, without wearing pants or underwear."
Banaz's body was packed into a suitcase and buried in a garden in Birmingham, where it was found three months later.
The trial of the two brothers heard that Banaz was killed because she had walked out of an unhappy arranged marriage - which she was forced into at just 17 - and fallen in love with Iranian Kurd Rahmat Suleimani, 28.
The pair had been secretly seeing each other, but her family were furious when they found out because Mr Suleimani was not "immediate family" or a strict Muslim.
Terrified, Banaz wrote to police naming people she said were planning to kill her.
Hama was on the list, the court heard. Two other men named by Banaz have fled the country.
Transcripts of the prison recording were read out at a pre- sentence hearing for Hama, of South Norwood, South London, who pleaded guilty to murdering Banaz at an earlier hearing.
Judge Brian Barker, the Common Serjeant of London, sat to assess the extent of Hama's involvement.
Victor Temple QC, prosecuting, told the court that Hama, who sat impassively in the dock, took a "leading part" in raping and killing Banaz in January last year then dumping her body.
He was said to have been recorded expressing concern because his fingerprints and DNA were on her body.
He was also concerned that a leaking pipe at the house where she was buried was sending water through the suitcase, possibly uncovering it.
During another taped conversation, Hama joked about Banaz's hair and elbow sticking out of the suitcase and how a police patrol drove past while he was helping to drag it to a car.
He said: "The road was crowded. The police came past. People were passing by - and we were dragging the bag.
"I almost ran away. Mr Ari (was dragging it) and we were around by each side of him.
"You know what it was, sticking out, her elbow, her hair was falling out so much. That was a stupid thing, a silly thing."
Defence barrister Malcolm Swift QC claimed Hama became involved only after Banaz's body had been put in the suitcase.
He told the court there was no direct evidence that Hama was present at the time of the murder - he took part in the planning but "had realised the error of becoming directly involved in the killing".
Hama's car was outside his home throughout the morning of the killing and his mobile phone could not be linked to the murder scene.
Mr Swift said Hama got his information on the killing from others, including Ari Mahmod.
Reading about men stomping on the neck and garroting a young woman, "trying to get the soul out", with one of them her own father...
I don't think these men will have the same problem when it is time for their souls to leave...because they have none.
Islam cannot be abrogated and adapted to western society. It is western society that has to adapt to Islam and all of it's tenets, Sharia laws.
Man made laws do not apply to the Muslim , only Allah/Mohammad's laws matter. This is why Islam will never be compatible or assimilated into western culture.
When Islam takes root in another cultures territory, they will remain silent until they reach sufficient numbers. then the crying and moaning begins to entrench Islamic culture and laws into that societies laws, and eventually complete take over of that countries government, by force if necessary.
"Good Muslims" follow the Koran and ways of Mohammad to the letter. "Bad" Muslims are those who don't, at least for a while when keeping a low profile in the infidels land. We call them "moderates". But they can turn "good Muslim" at any time, or when called to Jihad duty by the Imam.
wow! how did you find that? I’ve been so ticked watching the price of milk go up. In 1999, it was $1.99/gal. Yesterday, it was $4.36/gal!! NOW I know WHY!!!
Doesn’t the Koran say that when the population is 20%, they must enforce Sharia law??
We have these kinds of murders almost daily here in America for different reasons, but the person is still subjected to brutal torture and murder. It’s just that you don’t get the detail from our media because they don’t think we can handle the graphic details. In other instances details of these kinds of horrific crimes are withheld from the American public for political correctness considerations. But it goes on daily.
This is an excellent reason why all the members of the death cult have to be expelled.
Now.
Exactly so. And to think some areas of the US are seriously considering working under sharia law...what ARE people thinking, to align themselves with these barbarians?
These men were acting under the traditions they grew up in....................Yeh... We just gotta accept their DIVERSITY...equal beliefs and culture etc etc etc ...../sarc
Actually, I think these barbarians are just using any convenient excuse to do what comes most naturally to them.
I don’t think this is about assimilation, culture or honor - this is about the dog fighting wing of the religion of pieces.
These people exist to torture, degrade, humiliate etc. I was shocked to read about the way the Vick family disposed of dogs who “lost” but then I realized that, that’s just a natural extension of what they are.
They organize their ‘sport’ in order to witness as much blood and pain as possible, so of course humane putting down would never enter their ‘minds’.
And so afraid were these ‘relatives’ of this young woman that, in their fifties they might not be ‘up’ to it, that they recruited a younger man to make sure the maximum levels of pain and degradation was achieved for their viewing pleasure.
Anyone that can do that to his own daughter or niece is not human let alone a man. Scumbags like this deserve to die and any politician that tries to say they should be allowed to follow sharia law in the US should be tarred and feathered and ran out of washington on a rail.
Hmmm. Looks to me like they will be retaining their regressive cultural and religious beliefs while they assimilate and integrate in prison for the rest of their lives.
Celebrate diversity.
Only if they are superstitious and not familiar with the Koran.
I hope you will find it in your heart to forgive me.
What gets me is that the Kurds are the “good Muslims”.
I don't understand your question.
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