Posted on 11/28/2001 11:59:05 AM PST by knighthawk
THE HAGUE - The local court in The Hague has sentenced a 40 year old woman from Dordrecht (initials F.H.) to a 7 year imprisonment for her involvement in the killing of her own daugther, Sudobee (16). The daugther was killed for having ruined the "Afghan family honor" because she lost her virginty.
The body of the girl was found, wrapped in blankets, on februari 16th besides a countryroad near Ouderkerk aan de IJssel, a town in South-Holland. She was strangled to death with a shawl. Police soon found out that were tensions in her family because the daugther, still living at home, had lost her virginity at young age. She wanted to leave her parents soon to move in with her (Moroccan) boyfriend.
The 41 year old father of the girl (initials A.H.) was convicted earlier to a ten years imprisonment, in accordance with the demands from the DA, for his share in the killing. THe court assumed that the mother did not participate with the strangling of her daugther. The court does hold her accountable that she did not invervene to prevent the death of Sudobe. Against the mother, the DA demanded 8 years in prison.
You could any other country on the list. The message seems to be that if you are a *certain* type of imigrant holding these beliefs, don't let your daughter out of your sight until the wedding day....
Perhaps the Hollanders were just following our US model of the Prom "queen" who got off in 3 years for the death of her baby...."Prom mom to be released from prison November 24, 2001 "
Maybe reporting like this is required by Dutch law, or something.
OK, you've got a point...but correct me if I am wrong -- don't the Dutch have sexual mores that are loose even for Europe? I mean, isn't it a cultural norm that barely-in-their-teen kids have sleepovers with their boy/girlfriends without a raised brow?
I could be clever and say that the Dutch have more sex, not sex mores.....
Seriously, from what I understand, couples who move to the States end up getting married here, whereas in Holland they are just live-ins.... So they must feel at least a little shame here....
I imagine the Dutch are setting *lofty* standards even for other Euros....
Sounds like a Dutch problem to me.
It is interesting that this was not addressed in the article, but how the Dutch attack the problem and whether they can solve the problem may be useful to us.
Also, in a true Dutch fashion, the number of weddings dropped when living-in and wedding were given the same tax benefits. Yes, now you people know why the word Dutch is used!
Her sin? Working at a place like Mc Donalds and having a boyfriend there, and desiring a more American, freer way of life. They played her screams over the media, it was horrible to listen to her die. We need more unity of the diverse, not this kind of aloof rejection of all other cultures on the part of those from the Mid East.
There's also a book about it:
Guarding the Secrets: Palestinian Terrorism and a Father's Murder of His Too-American Daughter. By Ellen Harris. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995. 352 pp. $23.In November 1989 in St. Louis, the FBI inadvertently tape recorded the entire episode of a teenage girl's being killed by her Palestinian father and Brazilian mother (the Feds were looking for evidence of terrorism, which they also found). In a ghastly eight-minute sequence, Zein Isa stabbed his daughter Palestina thirteen times with a butcher's knife as his wife held the girl down and responded to Palestina's pleas for help with a brutal "Shut up!" The killing ends with Zein screaming "Die! Die quickly! Die quickly! . . . Quiet, little one! Die, my daughter, die!" By this time, she is dead.
Harris, a St. Louis television reporter, has done admirable spade work going through the court transcripts and interviewing everyone connected to the case in an attempt to piece together the interlocking stories of family murder and active support of Abu Nidal's terrorist organization. In addition, she successfully conjures up the small and exceedingly unpleasant world of Zein Isa and his family of rabid anti-Americans living right in the American heartland. The murder culminates their lives of frustration, greed, and vulgarity. Unfortunately, Harris spent more effort digging up information than she did writing the book; so the more-than-casual reader must read and reread its pages to piece together the sequence of events and the scope of the Isa family's involvement with Abu Nidal. Doing so repays the effort, however, for Harris has compiled a treasure trove of materials on two usually elusive subjects.
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