Sunday, July 22, 2012
AFGHAN FATHER SHOOTS HIS TWO TEENAGE
DAUGHTERS IN ISLAMIC ‘HONOR’ KILLINGS
Obama say, "respect it!"
"Afghan father shoots daughters in ‘honor’
killing" Arab News, July 22, 2012 (thanks to David)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: An Afghan man killed his two teenage
daughters when they returned home four days after running away with a
man in a southern village, police said Sunday.
The father, who shot the girls, has been detained on murder charges in Nad Ali district in the southern province of Helmand, a hotbed of the Taleban insurgency, provincial police spokesman Farid Ahmad Farhang told AFP.
The father, who shot the girls, has been detained on murder charges in Nad Ali district in the southern province of Helmand, a hotbed of the Taleban insurgency, provincial police spokesman Farid Ahmad Farhang told AFP.
“He killed two of his daughters. His daughters had run away with a
young man four days ago. When they returned home their father killed
them,” Farhang said.
Police have issued an arrest warrant for the young man, who is
said to be working as an interpreter with NATO forces in the southern province,
Farhang said.
Relations between men and women outside marriage are
strictly controlled under Islam and infringements are harshly punished by most families in
the troubled Central Asian nation.
So-called “honor killing” is a common practice in Afghanistan, an ultra-conservative Islamic nation which has been at war for most of the past three decades.
So-called “honor killing” is a common practice in Afghanistan, an ultra-conservative Islamic nation which has been at war for most of the past three decades.
It's not "conservative." It's anti-human.
The Taleban, an Islamic insurgent group waging
war against the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai,recently
publicly executed a young woman in a village near Kabul after she was accused
of adultery.
The execution was widely condemned internationally after a
shocking video of the killing surfaced in Afghan media. It showed a crowd
cheering as a man shot the woman with a rifle.
Posted by Pamela Geller on
Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 09:05 AM in Honor Killings:
Islam Misogyny
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