Posted on 05/10/2008 7:11:23 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Two weeks ago, The Observer revealed how 17-year-old student Rand Abdel-Qader was beaten to death by her father after becoming infatuated with a British soldier in Basra. In this remarkable interview, Abdel-Qader Ali explains why he is unrepentant - and how police backed his actions. Afif Sarhan in Basra and Caroline Davies report
* Afif Sarhan in Basra and Caroline Davies * The Observer, * Sunday May 11 2008
For Abdel-Qader Ali there is only one regret: that he did not kill his daughter at birth. 'If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed her the instant her mother delivered her,' he said with no trace of remorse.
Two weeks after The Observer revealed the shocking story of Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, murdered because of her infatuation with a British solider in Basra, southern Iraq, her father is defiant. Sitting in the front garden of his well-kept home in the city's Al-Fursi district, he remains a free man, despite having stamped on, suffocated and then stabbed his student daughter to death.
Abdel-Qader, 46, a government employee, was initially arrested but released after two hours. Astonishingly, he said, police congratulated him on what he had done. 'They are men and know what honour is,' he said.
Rand, who was studying English at Basra University, was deemed to have brought shame on her family after becoming infatuated with a British soldier, 22, known only as Paul.
She died a virgin, according to her closest friend Zeinab. Indeed, her 'relationship' with Paul, which began when she worked as a volunteer helping displaced families and he was distributing water, appears to have consisted of snatched conversations over less than four months. But the young, impressionable Rand fell in love with him, confiding her feelings and daydreams to Zeinab, 19.
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These people are ANIMALS!
They are barbaric.
excerpt:
“Two weeks after The Observer revealed the shocking story of Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, murdered because of her infatuation with a British solider in Basra, southern Iraq, her father is defiant. Sitting in the front garden of his well-kept home in the city’s Al-Fursi district, he remains a free man, despite having stamped on, suffocated and then stabbed his student daughter to death.”
A FREE man?
A FREE ANIMAL!
another excerpt:
It was her first youthful infatuation and it would be her last. She died on 16 March after her father discovered she had been seen in public talking to Paul, considered to be the enemy, the invader and a Christian. Though her horrified mother, Leila Hussein, called Rand’s two brothers, Hassan, 23, and Haydar, 21, to restrain Abdel-Qader as he choked her with his foot on her throat, they joined in. Her shrouded corpse was then tossed into a makeshift grave without ceremony as her uncles spat on it in disgust.
‘Death was the least she deserved,’ said Abdel-Qader. ‘I don’t regret it. I had the support of all my friends who are fathers, like me, and know what she did was unacceptable to any Muslim that honours his religion,’ he said.
Hmmmmm..........
Their religion..... their ‘god’,their ‘bible’ gives 100’s of reasons it’s OK to KILL.
Christianity has only one rule. Thou shalt not Kill(murder).
Any Iraqi man with a true understanding of honor would take care of this problem immediately.
Alas, Iraq is a nation without honor.
Islam, the Cult of Death
But.. but but but, they are the religion of peace!!!!
/sarcasm
Psychopaths.
Abdel-Qader finds pleasure in other men.
Hey Barack! Maybe we can have talks with these people. They seem so.... reasonable.
ARTICLE SNIPPET:
"It was her first youthful infatuation and it would be her last. She died on 16 March after her father discovered she had been seen in public talking to Paul, considered to be the enemy, the invader and a Christian. Though her horrified mother, Leila Hussein, called Rand's two brothers, Hassan, 23, and Haydar, 21, to restrain Abdel-Qader as he choked her with his foot on her throat, they joined in. Her shrouded corpse was then tossed into a makeshift grave without ceremony as her uncles spat on it in disgust. 'Death was the least she deserved,' said Abdel-Qader. 'I don't regret it. I had the support of all my friends who are fathers, like me, and know what she did was unacceptable to any Muslim that honours his religion,' he said."
(with apologies to our four legged friends)
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the infence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).
Liberal women take note, here’s a REAL reason to hate your daddy!!
Aw shucks, why disturb their rebellion?
So... can anyone tell me why our brave soldiers are still dying in this land of barbarians?
This story made me cry. But her mother's words won't go unheard. God has a special place for men like him.
Religion of Peace alert!
Anyone who has read the Koran knows that there is no sanction for “honor” killings. But those people so enjoy bloodshed and destruction, they don’t care.
Bump for later reading.
'If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed her the instant her mother delivered her,'
Sitting in the front garden of his well-kept home in the city's Al-Fursi district, he remains a free man, despite having stamped on, suffocated and then stabbed his student daughter to death
LIKE HER MOTHER SAID: HE'S AN ANIMAL!!!!!!
Don’t insult my animal.
See how far they will go, these people who value free health care (UK Socialized Medicine) and all the other leftist gimme crap over freedom and the values of a civilized world? The Brits “on the street” just want what the UK nanny state can put in their outstretched hands. The people we so admired during the Great Wars for fighting back have become gubmint teat suckers.
And hence, tolerate the murder of a throw-away Moose Limb girl so their leftist benefactors remain in power and they can continue to suck at said teat.
These creeps, who call themselves human are just sickening
I don’t know if he is one of them or not. But he certainly is not an American. And I am not being sardonic here.
I agree. The only way a Western military can improve a Muslim country is by removing all the amenities of modern life from 36,000 feet. They want society to return to the seventh century, and we should give it to them good and hard. No electricity, no vehicles, no medicine, no modern agriculture. Medieval squalor for all.
I’m guessing the British soldier heard about this by now and is stunned.
Too bad some soldiers can’t trace Abdel-Qader to his hideout in Jordan and honor kill HIM.
What would they do to a non family member?
Muslims cannot ever have Nukes.
If it means millions or even tens of millions dead in Iran, then so be it.
All those years ago and Winnie sure had them nailed, didn’t he?
Your father sounds as though he was ahead of his time in his ability to sense an approaching evil which, in the period that he spoke of it, had not yet made it's way into the public consciousness at large. I think that I began thinking about the Islamic threat around the time of the Iranian takeover of the American embassy in Tehran.
It is time for someone to explain why we are there. What happened to this young woman is a crime, but closer examination of the reason(s) given demonstrate this father is a terrorist and an enemy to the free state of Iraq. He considers those who are there dying for his freedom, the enemy. I consider him worthy of the honor of a few rounds from an AK-47 with no questions asked.
I was thinking the same thing. If they can easily kill one of their own children, think how easy it would be for them to kill one of us.
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