Category Archives: Honour Killings

My mother wants me dead: Catholic convert speaks out after fleeing her Muslim family folllowing ‘honour killing’ threat

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Daily Mail:

 

By Rob King
UPDATED: 18:26 GMT, 8 March 2012

Fear: Sabatina James says she ran away from home after strict Muslim parents threatened to kill her

A women’s rights campaigner has revealed how she fears for her life after her strict Muslim parents threatened to kill her when she dared to refuse an arranged marriage.

Sabatina James said the threat made her flee the family home at 18, change her name, convert to Catholicism and move abroad to set up a foundation for women in similar danger.

Her parents took her to court after she wrote a book about her experiences, in which she claimed to have been beaten as her teenager for kissing a boy and wearing clothes they thought were too revealing.

They sued her for defamation – and lost.

Miss James said she believed she would probably be dead now, if her parents had their way.

She told the Daily Beast: ‘I rarely go out alone.

‘I often wonder if someone is lurking around the corner.

‘I have always loved my freedom – but I have paid a high price.’

Miss James claimed that, after she refused to marry the man her parents had chosen, her father told her: ‘The honour of this family is more important than my life or your life.’

But she added that her mother was even stricter, beating her and watching her every move to the point where she had ‘no anchor’.

Miss James, who grew up in a rural village near the Kashmir mountains, said her problems began when she was 15 and the family lived in the Austrian city of Linz.

While she enjoyed the freedoms of Western culture, such as wearing lipstick and eyeliner, her conservative parents, who were brought together in an arranged marriage, disapproved.

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Arizona mom accused of burning teen’s face for refusing arranged marriage to older man

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FOX News:

March 5 2012

  • Arizona Arranged Marriage Assault

    Yusra Farhan, left, is charged with beating her daughter. Mohammed Altameemi, top right, and Tabarak Altameemi also are charged with assault.

PHOENIX –  An Iraqi mother accused of beating her teenage daughter for not going along with an arranged marriage pleaded not guilty Monday in a case police said involved burning the teen on her face and chest with a hot spoon.

Yusra Farhan, 50, entered the plea to charges of aggravated assault, unlawful imprisonment and resisting arrest.

The daughter, 19, refused to participate in an arranged marriage with a 38-year-old man, authorities said.

Two other defendants, the victim’s sister, 18-year-old Tabarak Altameemi, and father, 45-year-old Mohammed Altameemi, also pleaded not guilty to assault and unlawful imprisonment.

MyFoxPhoenix.com cited court records showing that on Feb. 7 Mohammed Altameemi got mad at his daughter because she left night class with a boy. The father picked her up at school and took her home.

He is accused of cutting his daughter’s neck with a knife. Police say he admitted he was trying to kill her, but Tabarak Altameemi intervened.

They, other siblings and Farhan then allegedly taped the 19-year-old’s mouth, bound her hands and body with rope and beat her.

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Father tries to set 23-year-old daughter alight

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Photo credit: Rog01

The Local France

A man was being held by police on Monday after allegedly trying to set fire to his grown-up daughter in central Paris.

 

Le Parisien newspaper reported that the man sprayed teargas in the young woman’s face and then covered her in petrol on Saturday evening.

The father was apparently annoyed that the woman planned to go out with a group of friends that evening and considered her “too emancipated”.

The newspaper quoted a source describing him as a “Muslim fundamentalist.”

The 23-year-old daughter has a room in a building in the city’s 11th arrondissement, close to the Place de la Bastille.

The 49-year-old man went there at around 11.30pm on Saturday evening and started arguing with her in the hall of the building.

He then attacked her with the teargas and poured petrol over her head and face, after which he pulled out a lighter, causing her to scream.

“She managed to grab the lighter from his hands while passers-by heard her screams,” said a source close to the inquiry. “The man quickly made a run for it.”

The woman told police her father had been harassing her for several weeks. “She explained he was unhappy that she had a Jewish boyfriend,” said the source.

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Father whipped family, daughter tells murder trial

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But I bet these guys owned the best restaurant in all of Australia!

ABC Australia:

Updated February 22, 2012 15:02:14

A daughter of a man who is on trial for murdering his wife at the Adelaide Convention Centre has told the Supreme Court she saw her father being pulled off her mother with a knife in his hand.

Zialloh Abrahimzadeh allegedly murdered his wife in front of 300 people at a Persian community celebration at the Convention Centre in March 2010 by repeatedly stabbing her in the back.

The couple’s eldest daughter, 25-year-old Atena, has testified against her father.

She told the court he was an abusive and aggressive man.

Ms Abrahimzadeh said her father regularly punished his wife and children by slapping and whipping them.

She said he once beat her for an hour after catching her talking to a boy on the phone and tried to suffocate her with a pillow.

The woman told the court her father said he was not a man if he did not teach his family a lesson and he swore on the Koran that he would kill them.

She said her mother was scared when she saw him arrive at the function and security staff had been asked to move him.

Ms Abrahimzadeh told the court she turned and saw her mother on the floor and her father was being restrained by up to 10 people, with a knife in his hand.

The trial continues.

Cook jailed 10 years for strangling wife

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Yet another one. Let’s hope one of them owned a really terrific restaurant.

From The Toronto Star:

Published On Thu Feb 09 2012

Tahmina Yeasmin, 23, was strangled by her husband Mizan Ahmed on Aug. 28, 2008. Ahmed was sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter on Wednesday.Tahmina Yeasmin, 23, was strangled by her husband Mizan Ahmed on Aug. 28, 2008. Ahmed was sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter on Wednesday.

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A Toronto cook who strangled his wife while their newborn son lay in a nearby bedroom has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Mizan Ahmed was under a court order not to communicate with his wife, Tahmina Yeasmin, 23, after he was charged with domestic assault.

But he persisted in contacting her, and visited her at the Vanauley Walk apartment — in the Spadina Ave.-Dundas St. W. area — where she and their 10-day-old son still lived with his parents.

Yeasmin was found dead in the apartment bathtub with a scarf, knotted in the middle, around her neck on Aug. 28, 2008. The scarf was left to make it look like she had committed suicide, court heard.

Ahmed’s family reported she had tried to take her own life in the past — by hanging herself in the bathroom — and police at first believed her death was self-inflicted.

But after a pathologist determined her cause of death — ligature neck compression — could have been administered by another person, the homicide squad investigated.

Ahmed, 26, was charged with second-degree murder. In January, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

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FINLAND: SOMALI LEAPS FROM 6TH STORY APT. WINDOW TO HIS DEATH IN ESCAPE FROM INTRUDER

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Honor murder in Finland?

Has the look and feel of one. The police are treating this as a case of something that could happen to anyone, regardless of nationality or religion. That tells me that it was another Somali or someone from a Muslim immigrant background. If it was an ethnic Finn involved, it would be blasted from every paper around Finland. Both the media and the police are at fault for not giving the full picture of the story, solely because of the ethnicity of the perp.

H/T: Kumitonttu Via: Mediaseuranta

 

The police reassured distressed Somalis

Discussion conference, the police was represented by Ilkka Pernu Security Police (right), a senior criminal police officer What Kynkäänniemi and break the lap constable Jouko desert. On the left, an interpreter Jamal Awad.

DISCUSSION CONFERENCE, THE POLICE WAS REPRESENTED BY ILKKA PERNU SECURITY POLICE (RIGHT), A SENIOR CRIMINAL POLICE OFFICER MILLA KYNKÄÄNNIEMI AND SENIOR CRIMINAL CONSTABLE JOUKO AUTIO. ON THE LEFT, IS AN INTERPRETER JAMAL AWAD.
Kaleva.fi: Northern Finland-Somalia Association organized on Monday evening a discussion meeting, due to the case of a dead Somali at the end of January. The man (born in 1993) died after falling from the sixth floor to the ground when he tried to escape from a neighbor who penetrated his home. The man tried to jump from his apartment window onto a nearby  balcony.

The case has aroused some fear among Somalis living in Oulu, fear, as the perpetrator is still on the loose.

The police have investigated the background of the case, and the man who broke into the Somali’s home is suspected of a felony of home invasion and unlawful threatening.

The nature of the crime doesn’t fulfill the requirements for the ”maximum penalty”, so that we couldn’t detain the perp,” said senior criminal constable Milla Kynkäänniemi of the case.

She stated that the case is proceeding on time to the prosecutor, and ultimately to justice.

Along with Kynkäänniemen was the additional presence of Oulu Police Department had violated laptop constable Jouko Ilkka Autio and Pernu police protection.

During the conference, the police denied that the case showed any evidence of a racist crime, but this is an isolated incident that could happen to anyone, regardless of nationality or religion.

To be summed up in Thursday’s Kaleva paper.

Lowell Green show, Jan 30 2012

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This was not a fire and brimstone show. No Muslims calling and accusing Lowell or Canada of crimes or the various usual telephone-tree Muslim apologists trying to anesthetize us all about Islam and Islamic immigration.

I post it as a kind of barometer. The callers are stunningly more educated about the facts of Islam than a couple of short years ago. It makes good background listening in that context. It was not that long ago that if the issue of Islam, burkas or honour killings were raised, nearly every caller was furious with any position other than total embrace of Islam.

Will guilty verdict in Canadian ‘honor killing’ trial be a turning point for justice?

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This article by Phyllis Chesler on yesterdays Shafia murder trial verdict I believe deserves more weight than most opinion on the matter as Ms. Chesler has very rare experience in terms of Afghan Islamic culture as evidenced by this 2006 and excellent article of hers which I pimp on this blog often, ‘How Afghanistan Shaped my Feminism‘. Please take the time and read this as well.

FOX NEWS:

On January 29, after a ten-week trial and fifteen hours of deliberations, a seven woman, five man jury returned with a verdict of guilty to first degree murder for all three Afghan-Canadians who were charged in the pre-meditated murder of four female members of the polygamous Shafia family.

The convicted are each facing 25 years without parole.

Mohammed Shafia, 58, Tooba Yahya, 42 (his second wife), and Hamed, 21, their son, were found guilty of conspiring to and of having murdered Mohammed’s first wife, Rona Mohammed Amir, 50, and Tooba Yahya’s three daughters, Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, because they refused to wear hijab, wore Western, sometimes “sexy” clothing, dared to have boyfriends, and, in their father’s words, “dishonored” and “betrayed” both “their family and Islam.”

On June 30, 2009, when the bodies of the dead girls and woman were discovered in the family’s Nissan in the Rideau Canal, the accused wept uncontrollably and went through an exaggerated public display of mourning.

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John Robson reacts to the Shafia murder trial guilty verdict.

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I hope all who are able in Canada are having a few drinks tonight to celebrate the fact that Islam was not a mitigating factor, and in fact, was not a factor at all in the Shafia murder trial. Canada is probably the best country in the world to live right now because of this.

Here is to you all. Cheers. And profound sympathies to the daughters, all of whom clearly were on the path to being excellent Canadians. They shall be remembered.