The hubris of the idea that we can reform a muslim country.
To call these people animals is an insult to all of God’s creatures.
It was her first youthful infatuation and it would be her last. She died on 16 March after her father discovered she had been seen in public talking to Paul, considered to be the enemy, the invader and a Christian. Though her horrified mother, Leila Hussein, called Rand’s two brothers, Hassan, 23, and Haydar, 21, to restrain Abdel-Qader as he choked her with his foot on her throat, they joined in. Her shrouded corpse was then tossed into a makeshift grave without ceremony as her uncles spat on it in disgust.
‘Death was the least she deserved,’ said Abdel-Qader. ‘I don’t regret it. I had the support of all my friends who are fathers, like me, and know what she did was unacceptable to any Muslim that honours his religion,’ he said.
Sitting on a chair by his front door and surrounded by the gerberas and white daisies he had planted in the family garden, Abel-Qader attempted to justify his actions.
‘I don’t have a daughter now, and I prefer to say that I never had one. That girl humiliated me in front of my family and friends. Speaking with a foreign solider, she lost what is the most precious thing for any woman. ‘People from western countries might be shocked, but our girls are not like their daughters that can sleep with any man they want and sometimes even get pregnant without marrying. Our girls should respect their religion, their family and their bodies.
‘I have only two boys from now on. That girl was a mistake in my life. I know God is blessing me for what I did,’ he said, his voice swelling with pride. ‘My sons are by my side, and they were men enough to help me finish the life of someone who just brought shame to ours.’
Abdel-Qader, a Shia, says he was released from the police station ‘because everyone knows that honour killings sometimes are impossible not to commit’. Chillingly, he said: ‘The officers were by my side during all the time I was there, congratulating me on what I had done.’ It’s a statement that, if true, provides an insight into how vast the gulf remains between cultures in Iraq and between the Basra police the British army that trains them.
Both the religion and the culture must be eradicated. If that means burning all the korans and raising and educating all the children ourselves in Western style schools and orphanages, so be it. Something quite similar was done in Japan at the end of WWII to break the traditional militaristic mindset of the country and it seems to have worked really well.
This is disgusting and heartbreaking. I am glad her mother has the courage to leave that demon who did this to her.
EVIL death-cult, EVIL people.
One can no more be infected with Islam and considered ‘good’, than a person can be riddled with cancer and considered ‘healthy’.
If only they would ALL kill each other-one big, death orgy.
The world would be 100% better without a single Muslim alive and I will never change my mind about that.
You know, falling for a British soldier and a Christian man at that was not a bad thing if her father thought about it. Her life would have been much better with a Western man than what she will find in Iraq.
He doesn’t deserve the term “Father”, he doesn’t even deserve to be called human. A Father who could kill his daughter is a monster.
The end of the article indicates the British soldier wasn’t interested in her. I hope the soldiers in Iraq understand the danger they place these women in when they interact with them.
Makes one long for the days of British colonialism, when they’d do a bit of “honor killing” themselves.
The only solution to “honor killings” is to make the punishment so “dishonorable” that it deters the crime.
The entire family should be held up for public scorn as being dishonorable and unclean. Public rituals like dipping each of their right hands in a pot full of pig fat will also help. Even the family name could be given a prefix or suffix to show that they are in shame, and all their official papers changed in that way as well.
Mosques should be encouraged to turn them away, and they might even be forced into moving to an undesirable part of town or living among non-Muslims.
losers... these men have sooooooo little to offer women that they create huge chips for their lame shoulders. Men this pathetic are funny - well, not in this case - because an innocent died - but usually funny.
Animals
Primitive savages.
I’ve heard it said that honor killing aren’t practiced much among Iranians, who supposedly look down on it as tribal barbarism, though it’s present in the Kurdish community. The Iranians hang people who commit honor killings. Never thought I’d agree with them about something. I think that the father and the brothers should have pork fat poured down their throats, before being slowly hung.
Hopefully the British soldiers have some little black ops planned to deal with these wonderful Muslim make role models.
Now I get why we could not risk allowing such animals to get WMDs.
No Muslim Nation can ever be allowed to get hold of WMDs.