July 7th 2008
Honor Killing? Domestic Dispute?
H
ere’s the story of another Muslim honor killing here on our shores … but dressed up with enough crime lingo to make it appear to be just another case of an enraged father killing his daughter just because she’s disgraced the family. (I hope you see the sardonic humor in that!)
A Georgia man appeared in court Monday on charges he killed his own daughter for disgracing his family. …
Chaudhry Rashid, wearing a red jumpsuit and shackles around his ankles, went before Chief Judge Daphne Walker at the Clayton County Magistrate Court where he was arraigned on a murder charge. …
The 25-year-old victim, Sandeela Kanwal, was wed in Pakistan in an arranged marriage. Police said Kanwal hadn’t seen her husband, who lives in Chicago, for months.
According to police, there was “friction between father and victim” in the weeks leading up to the killing. Rashid had not spoken to his daughter in more than two months.
Police said Rashid was so angered that his daughter planned to divorce her husband that he killed her after a heated argument at the family’s home, FOX News affiliate MyFoxAtlanta reported. …
“The family is very upset and stressed,” said Shahid Malik of the Pakistani American Community of Atlanta. Malik told MyFoxAtlanta that he met with the family Sunday and said they were all traumatized. (Fox News)
Not quite as traumatized as the daughter, though.
In his native Pakistan, it’s likely Rashid would walk with little or no penalty. In America, it’s likely that many Muslims feel he did the honorable thing and should walk – one reason why we should scoff at any efforts to allow Sharia law for Muslims here.
In fact, if we allow greater punishments for so-called “hate crimes,” then it follows that we should do the same for “honor” killings, since Sandeela Kanwal would very likely be alive today were it not for her religion.
hat-tip: Jim
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