Religious Differences Lead to Honor Killing

The BBC reports that this honour killing was the result of a religious disagreement, but fails to mention which religion or religions. I guess it must be a revival of the old Catholics versus Protestants thing that raged through England in centuries past.

The court previously heard Mehmet Goren disapproved of Tulay's relationship with factory worker Halil Unal because of religious differences and the fact Mr Unal was 15 years older than Tulay.

Tulay Goren was a 15 year old girl, and yeah I might have a little problem if I had a 15 year old daughter having a relationship with a 30 year old guy, but I think I would pursue child molestation charges, and I might be tempted to visit some real harm on the guy, but this father's solution is to kill his daughter.

It has taken 10 years to see justice done because no body was ever found.

I sure wish they would have said what those religious differences might have been.

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.

Say What???

Put this one in the "no shi*?!?" file.

'Honour' killings linked to terror groups
"Honour" killings in Britain have been linked with extremist groups abroad by a the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

The CPS told a BBC investigation that Islamist terror groups were behind the murder five years ago of Heshu Yones, 16, who was stabbed to death by her father, Abdalla Yones.

It discovered that Mr Yones had associations with a Kurdish nationalist organisation which tried to secure his release on bail while he was on remand.

Religion of Peace™

There's more.

Police and Prosecutors Target 'Hotspots'

Special units to crack down on honour killing

Dedicated teams of senior prosecutors are to be deployed in the UK's honour killing hotspots in the wake of the failings exposed this week by the case of a young Kurdish woman murdered by her family.

The prosecutors, who have all had experience of complex organised crime cases, will start work this month as part of an overhaul of how cases are handled. The move is designed to boost conviction rates and improve protection for victims.

The Crown Prosecution Service has revealed the changes after the justice system was criticised for doing too little to protect vulnerable women. Senior police officers told the Guardian that there are systemic failures in how cases are handled - measures proposed years ago have been shelved, delayed or ignored, they warn.

Chief constables and the Home Office are also working together with other agencies to ensure that women in danger are identified early and dealt with properly to improve protection for victims. Plans to be published soon by the Association of Chief Police Officers will tell forces to follow new risk assessment models to ensure women are taken seriously if they complain of family violence.

The changes come after Banaz Mahmod, a 20-year-old Kurd, was murdered by her father and uncle because they disapproved of her boyfriend who was not a strict Muslim and was not of their tribe.

Don't tell the Progressives but it's merely traditional family values of the Religion of Peace.

The Kiss Of Death

The Koslings and others of the Progressive stripe ignore the fact of honor killings. Therefore, as any good apparatchik knows, they don't exist. Then, lo and behold, this eeevil little thing called reality rears its ugly head (again): Victim Reported Fears To Police.

It began with a kiss on a south London street. For Banaz Mahmod, 20, and the secret lover she called "my prince, my shining one", it was a symbol of their love and the freedom they longed for.

Police are failing to protect young women at risk of being murdered by their families in so-called "honour" killings, despite a high-profile prevention scheme set up four years ago, senior officers have told the Guardian. They say a raft of measures aimed at saving lives have been shelved, delayed or ignored by Scotland Yard. Among them were plans to train frontline staff in how to spot vulnerable women and a system to ensure potential victims of "honour"-based violence were risk-assessed and properly dealt with.

The admissions came as the Metropolitan police were criticised for their handling of the case of Banaz Mahmod, a young Kurdish woman whose father and uncle were yesterday convicted of her murder. One detective, who asked not to be named, said that if the Met prevention scheme had been in place Ms Mahmod might be alive today.

He said: "We started to learn lessons and then stopped learning them as a result of political correctness.

Instead of being considerate and understanding of other cultures, the coppers were profiling, you see.

And then Banaz died and that should never have happened."

A lack of formal training for officers had also resulted in a "police station lottery", where women like Ms Mahmod were in danger of being ignored or not given adequate protection.

Another officer said: "If it were young white girls complaining that their lives were at risk, there would be an outcry."

In the Mahmod case, the Old Bailey heard that she had repeatedly told police her family was trying to kill her.

Banaz Mahmod, 20, told officers on at least four occasions between December 4 2005 and January 23 2006, about threats made. She wrote a letter, naming those she thought were plotting against her.

On New Year's Eve that year, she told them her father had tried to kill her but the officer did not take her claims seriously.

Her body was found months later on April 28 2006, crammed into a suitcase and buried in a pit, the bootlace used to strangle her still around her neck.

Although her father, uncle and two others have been convicted of her murder, it's a safe bet that the reality-based community will blame exclusively . . . .

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ROPer Guilty in Honor Killing

Absolute savagery.

LONDON -- A father who ordered his daughter brutally slain for falling in love with the wrong man in a so-called "honor killing" was found guilty of murder on Monday.

Banaz Mahmod, 20, was strangled with a boot lace, stuffed into a suitcase and buried in a back garden.

Her death is the latest in an increasing trend of such killings in Britain, home to some 1.8 million Muslims. More than 100 homicides are under investigation as potential "honor killings."

Mahmod Mahmod, 52, and his brother Ari Mahmod, 51, planned the killing during a family meeting, prosecutors told the court. Two others have pleaded guilty in the case. Two more suspects have fled the country. Sentencing is expected later this month.

The men accused the young woman of shaming her family by ending an abusive arranged marriage, becoming too Westernized and falling in love with a man who didn't come from their Iraqi village. The Kurdish family came to Britain in 1998 when Banaz Mahmod was 11.

Background here.