Posted on 01/08/2008 9:43:04 PM PST by camerakid400
he parents of a 17-year-old girl whose badly decomposed body was found in a river may have been trying to force her into marriage against her will, an inquest heard yesterday.
Shafilea Ahmed disappeared from her home in Warrington, Cheshire, four months after a family trip to Pakistan, on which she was introduced to a potential suitor. During the holiday she drank bleach and self-harmed in an apparent cry for help. The inquest was also told of reports that she had been subjected to domestic abuse at home. Police launched a murder inquiry after her body was found concealed in undergrowth in February 2004, after the river Kent in Sedgwick, Cumbria, was swollen by floods.
Shafilea's father, Iftikhar Ahmed, 48, and his wife Farzana, 45, vehemently deny any involvement in their daughter's disappearance or death and claim they were victims of racial stereotyping. Detective Superintendent Geraint Jones, who led the murder inquiry, told the inquest in Kendal that her parents had been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping in December 2003, but were released without charge. Suspicions had been aroused by statements from people who knew Shafilea claiming that she was "subject to domestic abuse and potential for forced marriage". He said there was reason to "suspect her family of involvement in her disappearance".
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Fatwa worthy?
LOL!
Yes, you’re right, as usual.
Maybe I should start by trying to smile at them.
I find it challenging to do that, as it is.
:-)
smile at them:
where them = women/girls wearing hijabs.
I never make eye contact unless one comes up to me and/or speaks to me directly. Then, I am courteous as I am with everyone. Nothing more; nothing less.
No smiles, no frowns, no eye contact — no chance of misinterpretation.
Ah yes, the wonderful ROP.
Good advice. Thanks.
So you're telling me I should probably stop glaring at some of them?
Smiling at you...
No glares, no nothing.
OK.
If you see a girl in a hijab she most likely has a male relative with her who would be very unhappy if you tried to talk to her.
Maybe I should first ask her if her dad is a cab driver. All 3 of these (so called) dad’s were.
Kind of proves the stereotype.
Maybe we change that “Going Postal” slang saying to “Going Muslim Cabby”.
Stories like this are why I’m glad to believe in a loving God who will send people who treat their kids like this into the eternal fires of hell.
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