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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
And there are cases of Middle Eastern Christians doing it as well.

Please cite your sources of Christian men murdering their sisters for 'honor'. I'm sure I'm not the only one on this thread who wants to know.

Nam Vet

73 posted on 02/08/2007 8:49:35 AM PST by Nam Vet ( The original point and click interface was a Smith & Wesson.)
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To: Nam Vet
Please cite your sources of Christian men murdering their sisters for 'honor'. I'm sure I'm not the only one on this thread who wants to know.

Sure.

Murdered in name of family honour

Faten Habash's father wept as he assured his daughter there would be no more beatings, no more threats to her life and that she was free to marry the man she loved, even if he was a Muslim. All he asked was that Faten return home.

Hassan Habash even gave his word to an emissary from a Bedouin tribe traditionally brought in to mediate in matters of family honour, a commitment regarded as sacrosanct in Palestinian society. But the next weekend, as Faten watched a Boy Scouts parade from the balcony of her Ramallah home, the 22-year-old Christian Palestinian was dragged into the living room and bludgeoned to death with an iron bar. Her father was arrested for the murder....

Faten Habash's murder was unusual because she came from the Christian minority in the Palestinian territories. Her desire to marry a young Muslim, Samer Hamis, so infuriated her family that the couple decided to elope to Jordan.


74 posted on 02/12/2007 9:34:06 AM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep
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