Sunday, July 06, 2008

Honor Killing in Atlanta?


That is a picture of the "loving" father who appears to have killed his 25 year old daughter over a dispute they had with her arranged marriage. They are from Pakistan.
A 25-year-old Jonesboro woman is dead after police said she told her father she wanted out of an arranged marriage.

Police said they found Sandela Kanwal’s body inside a home in the 9600 block of Utah Drive in Jonesboro. They said Kanwal had been strangled to death by her father, Chaudhry Rashid, 56.
You have to pay attention to the story to find the information about the country of origin.
Police said the family is from Pakistan.

The story is in it's beginning stages so we will have to see how it unfolds, but it contains all the elements of a good old fashioned honor killing. Of course who are we to pass judgment on the customs of another culture and I am sure as soon as Obama is president all of this sort of stuff will stop because the world will love us. Beside law enforcement seems to have a handle on it. Sorry if you happen to be the female member of a Muslim family who loses your life at the hands of a relative to protect the honor of the family, but you can rest in comfort knowing the full weight of the American judicial system will swing into action. Unless of course a liberal judge throws it out and sets your killer free. As they say in the Muslim world, inshallah.

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