HONOR KILLINGS IN AMERICA
DAUGHTER RUN OVER BY FATHER
Noor Faleh Almaleki, 20 died yesterday in the hospital, after being run over by her run father two weeks ago. Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48 said that his daughter had become "too Westernized" and had abandoned “traditional Iraqi” value. He was unhappy with the way she dressed and how she resisted his rules, and he considered it an honor killing, authorities stated.
After the hit and run, Almaleki drove to Mexico and left his vehicle, then made his way to Mexico City to fly to Britain. He was denied entry into Britain and they put him back on a plane to the US.
Amal Edan Khalaf, 43 a friend of Noor Faleh’s was also injured in the hit and run and suffered serious injuries and is still in the hospital recovering. Peoria, Arizona police expect to change the aggravated assault charge to more severe charge now that Almaleki has died, and he will also be charged with aggravated assault charges for Khalaf’s injuries.
Khalaf admitted to running over his daughter over the weekend, according to Salt Lake’s Fox 13 Now. By his own admission, this was an intentional act and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family," Stephanie Low a county prosecutor said. "This was an attempt at an honor killing," Fox 13 Now reported.
TWO DAUGHTERS MURDERED IN ALLEGED HONOR KILLING
Almost a year after two teenage girls were found dead — allegedly executed by their father — in the back seat of a taxicab in Texas, the FBI is saying for the first time that the case may have been an "honor killing."
Sarah Said, 17, and her sister Amina, 18, were killed on New Year's Day, but for nine months authorities deflected questions about whether their father — the prime suspect and the subject of a nationwide manhunt — may have targeted them because of a perceived slight upon his honor.
The girls' great-aunt, Gail Gartrell, says the girls' Egyptian-born father killed them both because he felt they disgraced the family by dating non-Muslims and acting too Western, and she called the girls' murders an honor killing from the start.
But the FBI held off on calling it an honor killing until just recently, when it made Yaser Abdel Said the "featured fugitive" on its Web site.
AN AMERICAN 'HONOR KILLING'
ON July 6, police say, a Pakistani named Chaudhry Rashid strangled his 25-year-old daughter San- deela Kanwal with a Bungee cord in her bedroom because she wanted to end her arranged marriage. This "honor killing" came not in Pakistan, but in Jonesboro, Ga. - a suburb 16 miles outside Atlanta.
At his arraignment, Rashid said through an Urdu interpreter that he was "not in the state of mind to talk because of the death of his daughter," but stated "I have done nothing wrong."
This is not the same as declaring innocence. His attorney, Tammy Long, explained, "My client is going through a difficult time. As you can imagine, he is distraught." Apparently, it takes a stronger man to murder his daughter without sentiment.
The national media has paid little attention to the story of Kanwal's murder, though most outlets found plenty of time to debate the cover of The New Yorker.
When a blonde girl goes missing, cable networks stop in their tracks - but when a Muslim woman is murdered by her father, there's not a ripple of sustained interest. Where's the outrage?
Maybe it's muted because we've grown reluctant to pass judgment on other culture's customs - but multiculturalism hits a crossroads when honor killings come to America.
The United Nations estimates that the world sees 5,000 honor killings a year - overwhelmingly in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa, but increasingly among Muslim immigrant communities in Europe.
WOMEN KILL THEIR HUSBANDS IN "HONOR KILLINGS" TOO!
A soft-spoken Muslim woman tried to slit her Staten Island husband's throat as he slept - enraged that he made her eat pork and wear sexy skirts, officials said.
"It's time for you to die!" screamed Rabia Sarwar as she pounced on hubby Sheikh Naseem, sources said.
He woke early Wednesday to find her straddling his chest and hacking at his neck with a knife.
The burly 41-year-old, a teacher at Susan Wagner High School, overpowered the pretty petite Sarwar, 37, and grabbed the weapon.
The two have only been together for five months. For Nasseem, it was his third try after his first two marriages failed. The Pakistani-born Naseem was not a practicing Muslim but sought a traditional wife; their pairing was arranged through family friends.
"Being that he didn't do very well the first two times, he thought he would try a woman of his own culture," one of Naseem's ex-wives told the Daily News on condition that she not be identified.
"She is very soft-spoken, very low-key," the woman said. "I would not have dreamed anything like this would happen."
But authorities said she was furious that Naseem stayed so Western: "She's a very devout Muslim and she felt that he got her to marry him under false pretenses," a source said. "He doesn't really observe any of the traditions of Islam. She says he forced her to eat pork and wear short skirts."
She also claimed that his favorite author is Salman Rushdie, reviled by devout Muslims after writing the prophet-bashing "The Satanic Verses."
Sarwar was released on $25,000 bail after being arraigned yesterday on attempted murder rap charges. She claimed "months of emotional abuse and duress," sources said. Cops had no record of domestic abuse complaints against Naseem.
