Well, it's lunch time, and here I was sitting nicely in front of my loyal and trusted computer in my office - eating my yogurt - when I read this disgusting display of male chauvinism with a dash of self-righteousness and a sprinkle of ignorance infused with blind faith, stupidity and evil.
I immediately choked on my yogurt and spilled some on to my shirt, so again, I have yogurt stains on the boob area of my shirt. Damn it, I look like a lactating woman.
But 1000 trillions of damn its was my reaction after reading the news article. Here are excerpts:
She died a virgin, killed only because she talked to a guy and harbored some secret crush.For Abdel-Qader Ali there is only one regret: that he did not kill his daughter at birth. 'If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed her the instant her mother delivered her,' he said with no trace of remorse.
Two weeks after The Observer revealed the shocking story of Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, murdered because of her infatuation with a British soldier in Basra, southern Iraq, her father is defiant. Sitting in the front garden of his well-kept home in the city's Al-Fursi district, he remains a free man, despite having stamped on, suffocated and then stabbed his student daughter to death.
Abdel-Qader, 46, a government employee, was initially arrested but released after two hours. Astonishingly, he said, police congratulated him on what he had done. 'They are men and know what honour is,' he said.She died a virgin, according to her closest friend Zeinab. Indeed, her 'relationship' with Paul, which began when she worked as a volunteer helping displaced families and he was distributing water, appears to have consisted of snatched conversations over less than four months. But the young, impressionable Rand fell in love with him, confiding her feelings and daydreams to Zeinab, 19.
It was her first youthful infatuation and it would be her last. She died on 16 March after her father discovered she had been seen in public talking to Paul, considered to be the enemy, the invader and a Christian. Though her horrified mother, Leila Hussein, called Rand's two brothers, Hassan, 23, and Haydar, 21, to restrain Abdel-Qader as he choked her with his foot on her throat, they joined in. Her shrouded corpse was then tossed into a makeshift grave without ceremony as her uncles spat on it in disgust.
'Death was the least she deserved,' said Abdel-Qader. 'I don't regret it. I had the support of all my friends who are fathers, like me, and know what she did was unacceptable to any Muslim that honours his religion,' he said.
I know I'm supposed to love all creations of God, restrain from hating another and not take revenge on people who hath done me wrong, but at this moment, I really want to choke this guy, the poor girl's brothers, her uncles and the entire Iraqi police, stamp on them and stab them to death.
Just to let them know what it feels like to die of an honour killing.
6 pralines for rima:
I can't imagine which one is worse: Adbel-Qader Ali who murdered his virgin daughter for falling in love with a Brit, or that Austrian guy who kept his daughter and children (as a result of him fathering his own daughter) in his cellar for 24 years.
But I heard such case of father murdering daughter because she falls in love with someone who is not of the same religion / become pregnant is quite common in middle-eastern countries.
Wasn't there a book about an Afghan (not sure, could be another mid-eastern country) who got burned alive by her family and as a result she had to cover her entire skin? I think she wrote a book about it too.
If I were Rand I'd have at least fuck the Brit though. Can you imagine dying without knowing what sex feels like? LOL
I dunno how may times I have to die for having pre-maritial sex and talking to men in public..
@therry: I know rite? dying a virgin? using 'it' for peeing purposes only? damn shame.. lol
@hornybitch: I'd be dead hundreds of time. Every day! (i dont have premarital sex anymore, i just talk to a lot of guys everyday lol)
agree with therry about the fcked up austrian sicko...
and i know for a fact that with the american n british invasions, iraqi men were enjoying free sex with the female soldiers and volunteers and comparing their "conquests" with their mates, things like... "oh i just shagged an american at saddam's palace". what a bunch of pigs.
These attitudes MUST change! And fast!
When I came to Canada as a teenager, I befriended an Iranian girl who arrived at about the same time. They were devout Muslims, but, please, consider the difference in attitudes between her father and this horrible excuse for a human being...
My friend showed me the charcoal-gray hijab she was forced to wear in Iran - the very first one I ever saw - and I tried it on. Her father was angry at the sight of the hijab. What he said has made a deep impression on me, and is with me still.
He told me that the hijab was not part of Islam. Not even a little bit. He explained that when the Koran was written, the rights it granted women were much more than women had in that society before, and that it meant that the Prophet wanted to eventually bring full equality between men and women. It just had to happen one step at a time.
The hijab, he went on, was a symbol of opression: not just of women, but of all true Muslims by those who wish to have power over them. He was very angry that they would do this, when the religion itself teaches the equality of all humans. He was also angry that many young Mulsimas were brainwashed to think the hijab was a symbol of a proudly pious Muslima - he said teaching young women that was a crime against Islam, because it was a part of a doctorine that reduced them from humans to possessions.
He explained that in Iran, he had done well, a professional with his own business...but he left because he would not allow his daughter to be brought up in a society which would only treat her as cattle, or a piece of meat! He wanted her to grow up a good Muslima who has confidence in herself as a person, and who is not a slave to anyone...in other words, as a real human being!
Now THERE is a FATHER WITH HONOUR!!!
If only more men - Muslim or otherwise - would have enough honour to value their daughters as much as my friend's father valued her!
@LavanyaLea: things like that happen in Iraq? who wouldve known.
that just a sick double standard. but then again, what else is new?
@xanthippaschamberpot: thanks for the mention of my blog in yours. You friend is lucky to have such a loving and sane father. unfortunately there aren't many that way in other middle eastern countries. but the story of her and her father is a very good one, and i hope more middle easter muslim men will think that way too.
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