Posted on 06/01/2008 10:44:33 AM PDT by faq
Five weeks ago Leila Hussein told The Observer the chilling story of how her husband had killed their 17-year-old daughter over her friendship with a British soldier in Basra. Now Leila, who had been in hiding, has been murdered - gunned down in cold blood.
Leila Hussein lived her last few weeks in terror. Moving constantly from safe house to safe house, she dared to stay no longer than four days at each. It was the price she was forced to pay after denouncing and divorcing her husband - the man she witnessed suffocate, stamp on, then stab their young daughter Rand in a brutal 'honour' killing for which he has shown no remorse.
Though she feared reprisals for speaking out, she really believed that she would soon be safe. Arrangements were well under way to smuggle her to the Jordanian capital, Amman. In fact, she was on her way to meet the person who would help her escape when a car drew up alongside her and two other women who were walking her to a taxi. Five bullets were fired: three of them hit Leila, 41. She died in hospital after futile attempts to save her.
Her death, on 17 May, is the shocking denouement to a tragedy which had its origins in an innocent friendship between her student daughter, Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, and a blond, 22-year-old British soldier known only as Paul.
The two had met while Rand, an English student at Basra University, was working as a volunteer helping displaced families and he was distributing water. Although their friendship appears to have involved just brief, snatched conversations over four months, Rand had confided her romantic feelings for Paul to her best friend, Zeinab, 19.
She died, still a virgin, four months after she had last seen him...
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Hat tip to Ace of Spades.
Ahhhh....the “religion” of peace. Same O Same O.
Religion of Peace alert
Frickin’ savages!
That reaction would make sense if the father views his daughter as his daughter. But what if the father views his daughter as something more -- then all of the sudden these honor killings start to make sense in terms of human nature.
The primary emotion no longer is shame, but jealousy. I wonder how often in these situations something much more perverse is going on under the cover of the father upholding 'family honor'.
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I guess the cradle of civilization remains in the cradle and has not advanced socially beyond where it started, unless it has retrogressed.
Actually they're viewed as something less, namely personal property.
These savages aren't worth another single drop of American blood nor another dime of our treasure.
Screw this 'nation building' crap. Kill the bad guys and anyone who gets in our way while we do it.
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Seems that we are all of a single mind in these matters.
If he loved her, he would not have killed her, but the supposed offending male.
But Muslim men seem incapable of loving women, only using and abusing. Thus he was disposing of an offending object.
Think Othello and Desdemona not Romeo and Juliet.
It’s absolutely criminal that neither politicians nor media types have the guts to expose this pseudo-religion for what it really is...a 1400 year old license to kill, steal and intimidate. The same reasons Mohammed invented it in the first place are behind everything done by these barbaric cowards today.
No, I don’t believe that these extremist Muslims “love” their daughters. They are, as another poster stated, personal property. Nothing more.
How does that make you any better than the “father” in this story? Read my tagline.
I wonder how the one who squealed about the daughter feels today?
Well, when a girl is still unmarried she belongs to her family. Any dishonor on her is a dishonor on the whole family. The only way to cure the dishonor is to kill the source of it - her. Once she’s married, she belongs to another family. Then it’s her husband’s problem. When wives are raped, you are more likely to see the perpetrator killed instead of her because the perpetrator has violated the husband’s property.
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