Posted on 02/20/2007 7:55:53 PM PST by blam
Father killed family for being too western
By Nigel Bunyan
Last Updated: 2:16am GMT 21/02/2007
Mohammed Riaz
A father killed his wife and four daughters in their sleep because he could not bear them adopting a more westernised lifestyle, an inquest heard yesterday.
Mohammed Riaz, 49, found it abhorrent that his eldest daughter wanted to be a fashion designer, and that she and her sisters were likely to reject the Muslim tradition of arranged marriages.
On Hallowe'en last year he sprayed petrol throughout their terraced home in Accrington, Lancs, and set it alight.
Caneze Riaz, 39, woke and tried to protect her three-year-old child, Hannah, who was sleeping with her, but was overcome by fumes. Her other daughters, Sayrah, 16, Sophia, 13, and Alisha, 10, died elsewhere in the house.
Riaz, who had spent the evening drinking, set himself on fire and died two days later.
Clockwise from top left: Caneze Riaz with daughters Sayrah, Alisha and Sophia
Relatives broke the news to the couple's son, Adam, 17, as he lay terminally ill with cancer at the Christie Hospital, Manchester. He died six weeks later.
Michael Singleton, the coroner, recorded verdicts that Riaz killed himself and that his victims were unlawfully killed.
Riaz, who had spent all but the last 17 years of his life in the North West Frontier region of Pakistan, met his Anglo-Pakistani wife when her father sent her to the sub-continent to find a husband.
After an arranged marriage, she developed a career as a community leader in Accrington while he, handicapped by a lack of English, took on a series of low-paid jobs.
After Mrs Riaz's father died she "suddenly felt less beholden to Mohammed", a friend said. "She started to develop her own circle of friends and allowed the girls to express themselves in a more western way."
She began to work with women who felt suppressed by Asian culture and many saw her as a role model for young Asian women.
This what Islam does to family
Islam kills
Nice call, Pops...
Thanks! It's great to learn about other cultures, so we can all learn to be more tolerant!
TROP ALERT!
Ain't islam grand.
What is it with these people lately? He's protecting them from something? I don't think so.
Sounds to me like he lost control of his family and could not live with the shame.
So he had to kill them and then could not himself live with the guilt.
Muslims are not supposed to drink. Maybe he was having a once in a life time binge to get up the nerve to execute himself.
"Religion of Peace" ping.
Didn't the 9/11 gang drink and carouse also? I think maybe the rules are relaxed for people about to go on jihad.
Totally sick! God, this is horrible.
Riaz, who had spent all but the last 17 years of his life in the North West Frontier region of Pakistan, met his Anglo-Pakistani wife when her father sent her to the sub-continent to find a husband.
Any Westerner who marries someone from some "frontier region" of an Islamic country like this is really asking for trouble, in my opinon.
Radical Islam strikes again. I've often tried to figure out how their religion could turn so many of them "loony tunes".
I try to put myself in his shoes...come home from work, find out the daughter wants to be a fashion designer and this news requires him to blow the family away.
I have been really pi$$ed at various family members from time to time and always expressed my feelings vocally and then felt better afterward for leveling with them and clearing up a misunderstanding. Usually end up actually closer to that person after our rant/argument and a hug or a handshake always followed.
I can't even imagine the mind-set it would take to do what this guy did. I keep thinking that there has to be something that has these Islamo-terrorist really screaming angry about but they're too embarrassed to admit it (my rude son says it's because they have "teenie-weenie peenies") so they blame the Jews, western society, etc. for all kinds of trivia to hide their real problem.
It's like the main liberal theory:
If you can blame somebody and become a victim then you're good and they're bad...let's all sing Kumba Ya.
I have always thought that the title "father" is something that should be earned and not awarded to those who amount to very little more than sperm donors.
Anyway, gotta go. Nighty night.
What I dont get is how Islamist feel they "speak" for God.
All other religions seem to understand that God is bigger than us.
How do they reconcile making these horriffic decisions on Gods behalf?
I gotta go too . . . I'll see you around tomorrow or Thursday.
Sleep tight!
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