Dad of Muslim 'Honour Killing' Gets Sentenced

[1feral1]

Shared IAW blah, bla, bla....

Another day in the life of that 'peacful' religion in the west....

Read on....

Dad of 'honour killing' victim gets life
Saturday Jul 21 09:15 AEST
AP - The father and uncle of a woman who was brutally murdered for falling in love with the wrong man were sentenced to life in prison in London.

The 2006 murder of 20-year-old Banaz Mahmod, who was strangled after two hours of torture and sexual abuse, was the latest in an increasing trend of so-called "honour killings" in Britain, home to about 1.8 million Muslims.

Mahmod was a member of an Iraqi Kurd family which had emigrated to Britain in 1998.

Her father, Mahmod Mahmod, and uncle Ari Mahmod, were sentenced after being found guilty of ordering the killing.




A third man, Mohamad Hama, who had pleaded guilty to taking part in the killing, was sentenced to at least 17 years in prison.

Mahmod's family accused her of shaming them by ending an abusive arranged marriage, becoming too Westernised and falling in love with a man who did not come from their village.

The elder Mahmods ordered the killing after discovering she was having a relationship with an Iranian Kurd.

"This was a barbaric and callous crime," said Judge Brian Barker. "You are hard and unswerving men to whom apparently the respect from the community is more important that your own flesh and blood."

The court had heard evidence from her boyfriend, Rahmat Sulemani, and her sister, Bekhal, who fled the family in fear of her own life.

During the trial, the jury was told how the victim's attempts to get help were dismissed by police.

She first went to police in December 2005, when she suspected her uncle was trying to kill her and her boyfriend.

She sent the police a letter naming the men she thought would later kill her.

On New Year's Eve 2005, she was lured by her father to her grandmother's home, where her father forced her to gulp down brandy and approached her in a menacing manner.

She escaped by breaking a window, and was treated at a hospital.

One police officer, who now faces investigation, considered arresting Banaz Mahmod for damaging her grandmother's window.

Sulemani recorded video testimony at the hospital in which Banaz Mahmod said she was "really scared". This was later played in court.

After leaving the hospital, she tried to convince her family the relationship was over, but the couple were spotted together.

The killing occurred several days later, and her body was disposed of in a suitcase

 

[Edward Campbell]

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During the trial, the jury was told how the victim's attempts to get help were dismissed by police.

She first went to police in December 2005, when she suspected her uncle was trying to kill her and her boyfriend.

She sent the police a letter naming the men she thought would later kill her.
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This is just one of the things that has to change.

Police and social services agencies must start to realize that the threat to increasingly Westernized/secularized young women is very real.  Too many public officials are afraid to do their (sometimes sworn) duty because they might be labelled as racists, anti-Muslim and so on and sued or hauled in front of some quasi-judicial anti-discrimination agency.

 

[observor 69]

This article by Haroon Siddiqui of the Toronto Star has some good points on the topic.
http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/233301

In Canada, the strong shall not dictate to the weak

July 08, 2007

Haroon Siddiqui

Canada Day brought with it the usual hand-wringing about Canada.

Are we too multicultural? Do we have enough common values? Are too many immigrants importing alien values and contaminating ours? Are too many of them clustering in "ethnic ghettoes" and not learning enough about Canada and other Canadians?

Such discussions tend to be ahistorical and, therefore, uninformed and unhelpful. Those fretting should read some history themselves.

Canada has always had ethnic enclaves, still does. Is the Lawrence and Bathurst neighbourhood too Jewish? Woodbridge too Italian? Rosedale too WASP? Yes. So what?

People live where they want to, with their own kind, if you will. The rich "self-segregate" in Forest Hill. Why are pundits mum on that bit of isolationism but pontificate against "ethnic segregation?"

Immigrants have always brought their beliefs, languages and cultures with them. They don't develop amnesia the moment they land in Canada. There was a time when they were expected to, and many pretended to. Multiculturalism has done away with that bit of posturing.

What we can, and do, demand of immigrants – something they accede to, anyway – is that they obey the law of their adopted land. They cannot import any cultural or religious practice that might run afoul of our law. Where there is ambiguity between the law and some egregious imported practice, the government outlaws it, as Ottawa did with female genital mutilation, by amending the Criminal Code to remove any doubt about its illegality here.

Prejudice against the religious practices of immigrants is also as old as Canada. Just ask the Catholics – French, Irish, Italians, etc. – and the Jews, who faced the most scorn.

Social exclusion, too, predates multiculturalism. In fact, it is universal and timeless. Most people marry their own kind. Why is intermarriage between whites the accepted norm but not among others?

There's always tension between the young and the old, especially in immigrant families. That's the push-pull of old values and new – and of "old country" attitudes and newer, evolving ones. That's the alchemy of a living, breathing – as opposed to an ossified, dead – culture.

Cultural and social effervescence is what makes Canada a nation of possibilities. Each generation feels free to redefine the country and does, for the better. That's something to celebrate, not condemn.

Immigrants are not the only ones blissfully ignorant of our history. In fact, a poll for the history-conscious Dominion Institute shows that immigrants may know more about Canada than the native-born. In a 21-question test, more immigrants answered more questions correctly than those born in Canada. While only 7 per cent of the foreign-born did not know the name of our prime minister, nearly thrice that many of the Canadian-born, 18 per cent, had no clue.

Canadian history should be compulsory in school. That would, to start with, make the debate on immigration/multiculturalism less banal, more logical. It would also help explain some Canadian quirks: why pipsqueak P. E.I. has four guaranteed seats in the House of Commons while Toronto is denied its due demographic representation; and why Catholic schools get government funding but not Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and other separate schools.

Often the debate on Canadian identity/values is a smokescreen for old-fashioned immigrant bashing. Or it is designed to denigrate multiculturalism, whose bedrock principle of the equality of all cultures and the dignity of all groups is hard for some people to stomach. So such people suggest setting some undefined "limits" on this or that immigrant religious/cultural behaviour.

But there can be no limits other than those drawn by the rule of law. People need not sacrifice their culture, religion and ethnicity, let alone their sense of self-worth, to suit majoritarian mores.

How far can respect for difference go? As far as the law allows, and no further.

This is not a negative assertion. Rather, it is a stirring affirmation of one of the core constitutional values of modern Canada: The strong shall not dictate to the weak on what is, or is not, acceptable. That power rests only with the people's parliaments.



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Haroon Siddiqui appears Thursday and Sunday. hsiddiq@thestar.ca

 

[mudrecceman]

events like this leave me speechless and angry.  VERY angry.

I hope these animals are put into the general population and the guards look the other way during "recreational time".

 

[1feral1]

Here is another one, this time in Sydney.

Shared yet again IAW blaw, blaw, blaw......



Posted by Joanne Payton / Friday, June 15, 2007 (18:18:22) / (933 reads)

A MAN who raped a Muslim woman because she showed an interest in Christianity has been jailed for at least five years by a Sydney court.

As Abdul Reda Al-Shawany was sentenced today, the Downing Centre District Court heard a harrowing statement from the victim, revealing that her shame and fear had been compounded by her cultural background.

The woman, who cannot be named, arrived in Australia as a refugee from Iraq.

 

[Oaken]

How can you move to a western country and not expect your children to become westernised?

My Iranian-Canadian friends drink, sleep around, wear revealing garments and date non-Muslims. Their parents probably disapprove, but geeze they decided to move to a western country. They could have stayed in Iran, or moved to a neighboring Islamic country, but they decided to emigrate to Canada. Immigrant children will become Canadian no matter how much Islamic doctrine you try to impose on them. The same goes for Britain, or any other western nation.

How much time before we have these honour killings in Canada, I wonder?

 

[armyvern]

How much time before we have these honour killings in Canada, I wonder?

Oaken,

We've got them here already.

One's even tried to appeal his conviction to the Supreme Court due to his Religion.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=04fd4e84-3d48-48b3-9340-adfdb4769096&k=33017

 

[Oaken]

An American scholar, Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub, testified at Humaid's trial that many Islamic societies permit men to punish wives suspected of adultery and sometimes even kill them. Under Islamic law, punishment for adultery is usually flogging or stoning, Ayoub said. In some Muslim cultures and rural areas, unfaithful women can be killed.

This sort of thing should bear absolutely no relevance to a Canadian court. Canada is not a Muslim majority nation, nor do we follow Sharia law.

I don't care if you're allowed to kill your wife in rural Arabia. Here in Canada you're not allowed to do that. Whether it was premeditated murder or not, this guy should hang for what he did.

Oaken,

We've got them here already.

One's even tried to appeal his conviction to the Supreme Court due to his Religion.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=04fd4e84-3d48-48b3-9340-adfdb4769096&k=33017