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by c/o nonanarchist1739
Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2003 at 10:47 PM
ABU QASH, West Bank - Rofayda Qaoud - raped by her brothers and impregnated - refused to commit suicide, her mother recalls, even after she bought the unwed teenager a razor with which to slit her wrists. So Amira Abu Hanhan Qaoud says she did what she believes any good Palestinian parent would: restored her family's "honor" through murder.
ABU QASH, West Bank - Rofayda Qaoud - raped by her brothers and impregnated - refused to commit suicide, her mother recalls, even after she bought the unwed teenager a razor with which to slit her wrists. So Amira Abu Hanhan Qaoud says she did what she believes any good Palestinian parent would: restored her family's "honor" through murder.
Armed with a plastic bag, razor and wooden stick, Qaoud entered her sleeping daughter's room last Jan. 27. "Tonight you die, Rofayda," she told the girl, before wrapping the bag tightly around her head. Next, Qaoud sliced Rofayda's wrists, ignoring her muffled pleas of "No, mother, no!" After her daughter went limp, Qaoud struck her in the head with the stick.
Killing her sixth-born child took 20 minutes, Qaoud tells a visitor through a stream of tears and cigarettes that she smokes in rapid succession. "She killed me before I killed her," says the 43-year-old mother of nine. "I had to protect my children. This is the only way I could protect my family's honor."
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Police in Israel investigated at least 18 honor killings in the past three years.
Palestinian police reported 31 cases in 2002 - up from five during the first half of 1999 - the last time such incidents were counted before the current Palestinian uprising began, according to the center's study.
But the number of killings is likely higher, given that Palestinian police investigate only crimes that have been reported, said Yousef Tarifi, the Ramallah prosecutor assigned to Qaoud's case. Shalhoub-Kevorkian says her past research showed the likely number to be 15 times higher than the number of reported cases.
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Gee...why is it you never hear of similar atrocities committed by members of other religions?
Just asking.
www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1114HonorKilling14-ON.html
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Hey, watch it! |
Parry |
Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2003 at 11:15 PM |
Parry |
nonanarchist2117 |
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003 at 2:25 AM |
yup |
evil, rich jew |
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003 at 3:03 AM |
Yup... |
Mangoe |
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003 at 3:39 AM |
why you don't hear of other atrocities |
more rational |
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003 at 8:32 PM |
not as rational as he'd like to think: |
nonanarchist1946 |
Thursday, Nov. 20, 2003 at 1:00 AM |
After the break, |
nonanarchist's supervisor |
Thursday, Nov. 20, 2003 at 7:06 AM |
^^ |
nonanarchist0633 |
Thursday, Nov. 20, 2003 at 11:39 AM |
Monkey on your back |
nonanarchist's Supervisor |
Friday, Nov. 21, 2003 at 4:18 AM |
faker |
thanx |
Friday, Nov. 21, 2003 at 2:51 PM |
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