Father Kills Daughter Who Marries For Love

[Regnad Kcin]

...[T]urns knife on three sisters [aged 4 to 12] he feared would follow in her footsteps... (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10596704/)

...[Nazir] Ahmad contacted his daughter this week, saying he was ready to forgive her......and thus lured her to her death.

Astounding.

[Melendwyr]

Ah, the power of culture over both genetic self-preservation and love.

[Beerina]

So is the daughter now in Heaven, or Hell, or what? And what about the 3 other sisters pre-emptively executed lest they dishonor this lovely man? They haven't even committed the horrific, dishonorable sin of marrying outside an arranged marriage. Think of the children! Heaven or Hell?

[Mojo]

We've had a similar case in the news over here recently: Father and sons get life for murder (http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1665970,00.html)

In this case, that father and his two sons killed the daughter's boyfriend.

[zenith-nadir]

Happens in my neck of the woods too often. Allthough once is too often for me.


Arab women's groups: Men must speak out against honor killings - 11:56 23/12/2005 (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/661730.html)

Last week's "family honor" killing of Abir Salameh has sparked demands from Arab women's organizations that Arab men finally start taking a stand against the phenomenon. Salameh, 23, a resident of Maghar, was strangled to death by her brothers, Hassan and Anwar, on account of her romance with a man from another village.

This outrages attorney Sonia Boulous, who is on the executive board of the feminist organization Kayan and also works with the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. "Why have only women's organizations spoken out on this issue?" she demanded. "Where are the men? Where is the rest of the leadership?" Boulous's outcry is not born only of moral indignation: Women's groups fear that if only women protest such killings, the issue will gain no traction in the rest of Arab society.

Abed Anabtawi, spokesman for the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, insisted men have not abandoned the arena: In 1997, for example, the committee issued a denunciation of family honor killings, and it plans to discuss the issue again soon, at the request of the women's organizations.

There have been three reported cases in the last two months, bringing the total since the start of the year to nine, not including another three that occurred in East Jerusalem...I love that part..."Abed Anabtawi, spokesman for the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, insisted men have not abandoned the arena"...we just haven't discussed the issue since 1997...