Saturday, May 03, 2008

"Honor" Murder in Basra

President Bush sincerely believes that this savage culture can be turned into a civilized, peaceful, free nation. It is difficult to judge who is the bigger fool: Bush or the "liberal" multicultists who believe cultural values and ideas, or lack thereof, don't matter:

Teenage Iraqi girl who fell in love with BRITISH soldier in Basra is murdered by her own father in honour killing

"An Iraqi teenage girl was brutally murdered by her father in an "honour killing" after she fell in love with a British soldier in Basra.

When her father learned she had been seen speaking to a foreigner he rushed home and butchered her, strangling and stabbing her while screaming that he was "cleansing his honour".

He was arrested, but Iraqi police took no action. His wife has since left him and is in hiding.

While there is no suggestion the two had any physical relationship, the case raises questions about the training given to British forces in understanding cultural values in a city where 47 women died in "honour killings" last year.

Recalling Rand's murder, her weeping mother Leila Hussein said: "I screamed and called out for her two brothers so they could get their father away. But when he told them the reason, instead of saving her they helped him end her life."

Abdel-Qader Ali stood on the girl's throat until she suffocated and then stabbed her, all the time shouting that his honour was being cleansed.

e was arrested and released within two hours. Sergeant Ali Jabbar of Basra police said: "The father has very good contacts in the Basra government."

Because her family considered her impure, Rand was given only a simple burial. Her uncles spat in her grave to show their disgust."

Oh sure, these loathsome barbarians are our civilized equals. Afterall, Edward Said told us so.

Hat tip: Moonbattery

Crossposted at The Dougout

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