Man Murders Daughter In Honor Killing

November 3. 2009

For the past few years, I’ve read of many troubling honor killings in Britain that have placed an undue burden on the legal system, as such conduct is not lawful in the United Kingdom and appropriately so. However, I’m not used to reading about them in America.

To kill one’s own, or anyone for that matter, over perceived offenses, should be heartbreaking and sad. How does one arrive at such a place that this becomes an option.

Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, deliberately ran over his daughter, Noora Almaleki, 20 and the mother of her boyfriend, in an honor killing, as he did not approve of her lifestyle in living with a boyfriend in America. His daughter died and the mother of her boyfriend is in serious condition at the hospital.

Almaleki, whose family has resided in America since 1994, stated his daughter is married to a man in Iraq and is living in sin with another man in the United States.

He blamed his daughter for “bringing shame” on his family by becoming Westernized, as she wore make-up, trendy clothes and no head covering.

Why live in a Western nation if you do not wish to become Westernized. I don’t get it. These cultural cases that turn criminal are becoming increasingly difficult for Westernized judicial systems to prosecute. The jury selection becomes complicated and cultural differences come into play.

Noora Almaleki

However, as a general international rule, the law of the land where you lay is what applies. One cannot go into foreign territories and violate the law, then hope to apply the laws and legislative charters of one’s homeland. Ratified international treaties are the only exception, none of which grant allowances for murder.

I do not agree with adultery, but you don’t kill people for that. You talk to them in the hope they will change their ways, be reconciled with their spouse and gain God’s forgiveness. But then again, I’m a Christian. We see things differently from the Muslim religion.

'Girl Run Over For Being Too Westernised'

11:51am UK, Saturday October 31, 2009 - Police in the US have arrested an Iraqi man who allegedly ran over his 20-year-old daughter for being too 'westernised'. The alleged attack took place in a car park in Phoenix (pic from CBS)

Faleh Almaleki, 48, is accused of driving a jeep at his 20-year-old daughter and a family friend while they were in a car park.

Peoria police spokesman Mike Tellef said family and friends of the victim told detectives that Almaleki had threatened his daughter because she was not living according to traditional Iraqi values...

A second woman - Amal Edan Khalaf, 43, who is the mother of Noor's boyfriend - was also struck...

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