Family Values
Posted on January 29, 2008
Filed Under Islam, Middle East, News, Religion, Stupidity, Terrorism
Being a Muslim female in the Middle East - as awkward as it might sound - this alone can get your life in danger. Being Jewish or Christian woman is generally safer.
Teenage girl strangled in ‘honour killing’
Jordan: A 17-year-old girl died after being strangled to death by her brother in a Palestinian refugee camp near the Jordanian town of Jerash .
He was apparently angered by her absence from home.
The woman, who had been married for eight months, was accused of shaming her family and killed in a so-called “honour” crime.
And this is a reported case - one among so many that are left unreported when teenage girls as well as grown women are being murdered by their family members all over the Middle East.
This is the second murder of its kind in a month.
A Jordanian prosecutor has charged the victim’s brother, a 20-year-old man, with premeditated murder.
Local newspapers reported that he had stuffed a scarf in his sister’s mouth, choked her with an electric cable and smoked a pack of cigarettes before turning himself in.
At least this one gets prosecuted…
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