JONESBORO, Ga., July 8, 2008
Cops: Dad Strangled Daughter Over Divorce
Daughter Wanted Out Of An Arranged Marriage; Father, Whose First Language Is Urdu, Faces Murder Charges
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Chaudhry Rashid waits to make his first appearance at the Clayton County Courthouse on July 7, 2008, in Jonesboro, Ga. Authorities allege that 54-year-old Rashid argued with his daughter, then strangled her. (AP PHOTO)
Authorities allege that 54-year-old Chaudhry Rashid argued with his daughter, then choked her to death. The homicide occurred just after 3 a.m. at the family house in Jonesboro.
Rashid was placed in the Clayton County Jail. His first court appearance had been scheduled for Monday but was postponed until Tuesday.
At that proceeding, Chief Magistrate Daphne Walker learned Rashid's primary language is Urdu, according to The Atlanta Journal Constitution. Walker said an interpreter will be brought in to help with the judicial proceedings.
According to a police report, Kanwal was forced into an arranged marriage in Pakistan a few years ago. Police say Kanwal wanted to leave her husband, which angered her father.
Police say Kanwal's husband now lives in Chicago.
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See all 202 CommentsAcceptance and tolerance is universal -try it sometime, you might find that you are a much more pleasant person.
Posted by leedomd at 03:36 PM : Jul 08, 2008
A father chokes his daughter to death and this is acceptable to you??? One sick puppy!
I simply meant tolerance for other cultures not murder!! - give me a break - the father deserves to hang no matter where he is from.
Are you saying that davicar2''s initial post was anti-immigrant? Or, gasp, racist? I''m not sure I get your point.
The fact is - he killed her because she did not tow the line. Murder is NOT part of the practice of arranged marriages - EVER!! For him to tie it to "practice their colorful, rich traditions and customs?" was bogus and ignorant.
Be angry over the murder and the fact that morals are going down the drain in this country and it has nothing to do with immigration!
I simply meant tolerance for other cultures not murder!! - give me a break - the father deserves to hang no matter where he is from.
Posted by leedomd at 03:51 PM : Jul 08, 2008
In Mexico, 45 year old men marry 13 year old girls.
So we should just accept that?
In many cultures around the world, men have multiple wives. Should we accept that here?
In Pakistan, if a business deal goes bad for one group, a person from that group can ask the tribal elder for permission to rape & beat a female member of the other group. If granted, the women gets raped & since he had permission, there is no crime. Should we accept that here in the US??
I dont think he knew it was against the law to kill another person in the USA. Look at a picture of this guy it looks like he has some SERIOUS ANGER MANAGEMENT ISSUES.
All I wanted was to focus on the crime. Fry him and send his ashes back to Pakistan!
Does that make everyone happy? I am so sick of hatred and people being so judgemental.
Just for the record, Christianity does not teach violence. It teaches forgiveness and acceptance, and you really don''t understand it that much if you say otherwise. Unfortunately, there are always extremists in EVERY culture and religion who really just don''t get the point. And by the way, you can take any quote out of the Old Testament, and it will work one way or another in your favor. The book is to be read as a whole. Just wanted to correct your knowledge.
Another sad part of this will be his prosecution. It will likely cost a couple of million dollars by the time all the appeals run their course, for the next several years.
If it was up to me I would have him kicked to death and deported to his home town.
Add to that the incarceration cost of about $100 per day, plus medical, dental and vision incidentals, and you can see how this piece of manure Rashid will become a BIG burden to the taxpayers - in our very civilized, non-Sharia society.
It would be better if he would concentrate on willing himself to die. Unfortunately, any man that would strangle his own daughter, does not have the b@lls to end his own life.
All too common in the Islamic world.
Please go read some good sites and educated yourselves on the horrors.
www.jihadwatch.org
OK if you doubt the truth of god''s word in the old testament, how about some new testament horror stories:
Jesus criticizes the Jews for not killing their disobedient children as required by Old Testament law. (See Ex.21:15, Lev.20:9, Dt.21:18-21) 7:9-10
Jesus says that he has come to destroy families by making family members hate each other. He has "come not to send peace, but a sword." Matthew 10:34-36
Brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. Matthew 10:21
Sounds just like the preachings of Islam and Judaism to me.
Now if you want to pick and choose which ridiculous fairy story you want to believe, that''s your ignorance, not mine.
I stand by my opinion that ALL desert religions are incompatible with modern thought and morals.
Ok, dacmqc-dinijahd , what are you smoking? Uh, let''s see: Inquisition , crusades, Rev. wright, Holocaust (Nazis were catholics- I think ). Read the bible. Jesus is coming with a SWORD. A terrible swift sword my dear Christian soldier. One reason Christians, along with all the rest, are violent is because they are people and people are violent. Can''t escape it.
WTH??
Christian Identity has been associated with founders of the Aryan Republican Army (ARA), a paramilitary gang which has been connected to hate fueled terrorist attacks involving train derailments, assassinations, bombings and a string of professionally executed armed bank robberies planned to finance an overthrow of the US Federal government.
Identity Christianity asserts that disease, addiction, cancer, and sexual venereal disease (herpes and AIDS) are spread by human rodents via contact with unclean persons, such as through "race-mixing".
In 2001, at the height of the United States anthrax scare, more than 170 abortion clinics and doctors offices in 14 states received letters containing white powder and the message "You have been exposed to anthrax. We are going to kill all of you. Army of God, Virginia DARE Chapter.
Aryan Nations followers admire Adolf Hitler and claim that minority group members are "mud people" and spawns of Satan. Aryan Nations doctrine follows that of Christian Identity which claims that Jews are satanic, blacks are subhuman.
The Ku Klux Klan - Christian theology; They have often used terrorism, violence, and acts of intimidation and murder, such as cross burning and lynching, to oppress African Americans and other social or ethnic groups.
Posted by attalus
Was your "christian" pal Jesse all lined up with modern thought and morals?? Christianity is as obsolete and barbaric as beheadings.
However, those who do not assimilate become a burden on our society.
Who let this guy in......?
This is America, you should never have to be polite ro someone who is rude to you.If i were to see someone treating you like that i would straighten them out very quickly. I was brought up to show respect for a lady. I consider them equal, you can do some things beter than men and men can do some things better than women. It is a difference to be respected.
Fry ''im - or better yet, arrange for a cop to slice his head off ala the American victims in Iraq.
Sure seems to have been a lot of killings in teaching forgiveness.
Touche, very good comment, factual and compelling.
So now this piece of Islamodreck murders his daughter because she wouldn''t do the Sharia Sh*t. This Urduvoodoosh*t needs to be made to eat his own feces, then be set on fire. Or have his throat removed from his head. No difference - get rid of them all.
No we should no accept or change our standards, however if a culture is different from ours should we tell hem they should change ? I think not. We are trying to force democracy on Iraq. I don'' think that is right.
I have met many sincere Muslims that believe in the Koran and are very peace loving people. To categorize Muslims as being any more hateful than christainity i think is wrong. I have met many christains that are also devout to their religion and are peace loving. The bad do not help but they do not represent all.
If i remember corrctly you advocate the acceptance of ***, if so why not acceptance of other religions. I respect all religins tho i do not follow their beliefs. I am also for acceptance of *** in society.
We should always seek justice not revenge.
Posted by patriot12436 at 08:13 PM : Jul 08, 2008
Right. The Muslims are just a bunch of happy-go-lucky, wild and crazy guys. Party animals is what they are, always joking around, clowning, laughing at life and themselves. They laugh the hardest when they behead someone or beat a woman to death, in the name of Allah. They''re just fun-lovin, good-timin'' folks. Why can''t the world see that?
I find them to be an honorable people. They do not condone terrorism, many are afraid to speak out , from fear of reributiion. The terrorist here are killing mostly Muslims, blowing up banks, schools,Mosques, shooting Muslims who do not support them which is a majority.
"If he can''''t speak our language, he should have went home."
Hey, obamaisaho, I think that people who cannot use proper grammar in the language they speak should be made to do the same things that you suggested regarding people who do not speak "our" language. You should have GONE to class before you started posting your hate-mongering garbage for all the world to see.
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The only difference between the two is emotional motivation. The outcome is the same.
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The only difference between the two is emotional motivation. The outcome is the same.
Posted by barbaraf4 at 10:29 PM : Jul 08, 2008
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My response: Interesting point! :)
It is little fascists and creepy do-gooders like you who are the real haters. Too bad you didn''t try to offer your miserable Hitlerian life in exchange for that of Nick Berg''s - or the British woman who had given her life to the Iraqui people, only to have some roach pissant murder her.
Too bad too, you weren''t the daughter in this Muslim fleabag''s family.
Police say Kanwal''s husband now lives in Chicago.
Well, thanks to Kanwal''s stupid, crazy father--she has indeed left her husband--FOREVER and now her crazy father will be leaving his wife...bet they never taught the ramifications of applying old country rules to living in America. Why was he so angry? Too much money involved with the families to allow her to go? If Urdu was the language and not Hindi--odds are very high we just witnessed a Pakistani enraged dad who thought his word and the old country rules was law.
Now you go to Prison Rashid. Welcome to our version of "the law"
This is NOT the norm of our relationships, but it is the reality for some.
This murder is another culture%u2019s version of domestic violence -- a horrible consequence for this young woman that was woven out of her father%u2019s warped sense of male honor and female servitude.
Posted by attalus at 03:48 PM : Jul 08, 2008
Nope--Lot tried to give his girls to the mob to prevent them from raping the 2 angels that God sent. But the crowd was so corrupted and deviant, that only raping the men was an option, so they turned Lot down--ironic isn''t it, that right after that little episode, Lot''s girls got their dad drunk and fvcked him eh? Maybe giving them to the crowd would have been the less of 2 evils since they seemed to be hornnny as hell and turned to incest by trickery instead.
I find them to be an honorable people. They do not condone terrorism, many are afraid to speak out , from fear of reributiion. The terrorist here are killing mostly Muslims, blowing up banks, schools,Mosques, shooting Muslims who do not support them which is a majority.
Posted by patriot12436 at 09:52 PM : Jul 08, 2008
I know a lot of Muslims and have Pakistanis in my family. They do not condone the terrorism per se, but they also are not on the side of the US when it comes to how we deal with terrorists. When we have get togethers, the most reviled comments are reserved for the US and what we are doing in the ME--esp. Iraq. If you think Pakistanis are sympathetic to Americans in the how we are prosecuting this war--then you don''t personally and intimately know anything about them. Their hatred of Israel is as rabid as is many others in the Arabic speaking world.
Be angry over the murder and the fact that morals are going down the drain in this country and it has nothing to do with immigration!
Posted by leedomd at 04:04 PM : Jul 08, 2008
In Pakistan, Fathers or other males have the right to kill female relatives with no repercussions if they do not obey, if they dishonor the family, if they are defiled (even through rape). All over India and to a lesser extent in Pakistan, females are SOLD into sexual slavery and in poor families, young males are also sold for sexxxx, becoming houris that live in certain groups and cater to the homosexual needs of the married men. It is not uncommon for Pakistani men to use boys under 12 for sexxxx in lieu of obtaining another wife. This is known. It is also known that girls are considered a burden and yes, Pakistanis also practice dowry and bride price--and they do still believe in the right of families to "cleanse" their own clan through murder if the father thinks it is right. I am good friends to a girl who was to be killed at the age of 5 because her grandfather molested her--she was spared when another relative offered to adopt her and took her to the US.
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