Posted on 08/26/2006 3:48:32 AM PDT by aculeus
BRESCIA, Italy, Aug. 23 — A series of unrelated killings here this month has pushed this elegant city to the center of a national debate on the challenges of immigration and cultural integration.
The trigger was the gruesome killing on Aug. 11 of Hina Saleem, a 20-year-old woman whose family moved here from Pakistan and who was found buried, with her throat slit, in the garden of her family home in a small town about 12 miles north of Brescia.
The tragedy ballooned into a cause célèbre after media reports alleged that Ms. Saleem had been killed because her traditionalist Muslim father objected to her Western lifestyle. She smoked and wore revealing, low-slung jeans like many young women. News reports said she had been living with an Italian man. Her body was found after her boyfriend reported her missing.
Her father and uncle have been arrested in the case. [A brother-in-law turned himself in on Thursday, and an unidentified fourth man, also of Pakistani descent, was arrested Friday and accused in the case, the ANSA news agency reported.]
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Muslim leaders, who have condemned the killing, say they resent accusations that Ms. Saleem was murdered as a result of her family’s religious beliefs.
“For us, murder is a sin, not only a crime,” said Mahmood Tariq, the director of the Muhammadiah Islamic Cultural Association in Brescia. “This is an exceptional case,” he added, describing the murder as a question of tension between members of the Saleem family. “Cases like this happen in all societies.”
On Thursday, Ms. Saleem’s mother, Bushra Bakum, dismissed notions that religion had played a role in the killing. She told reporters that Ms. Saleem had been a constant worry to her parents.
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I love these local muslim leaders throughout the world, who insist on insisting that the fact that muslims kill because of the Koranic (i.e. Satanic) verses tells them to is somehow not to be blamed on muslims. This line is wearing rather thin.
I'm with ya'
But that being said, Why are the most violent ones from Pakistan lately? What is up with that sh*thole in particular? Is the gateway to hell there or something?
"Muslim leaders, who have condemned the killing, say they resent accusations that Ms. Saleem was murdered as a result of her family’s religious beliefs."
I wonder if this same social sewage 'condemns' suicide bombings in mosques, mass beheadings, gang rapes of muslim women by muslim men and the blatant mass murder by Saddam of other muslims?
Why... I'm sure they have. Because ya know, Islam is the Religion of Peace.
In a show of respect for Islam we should pass a law that requires that men who commit honor killings will be executed in the traditional Islamic manner: SLOW BEHEADING.
"Honor" killing is a satanic ritual performed by demons out of the mouth of hell.
Have to agree with you there.
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