A Family's Honor
April 7, 2012 7:45 PM
Why would a father want to kill his own daughter? Investigators believe the motive behind the murder is almost as shocking as the crime. Troy Roberts reports.
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See all 174 CommentsI do not understand how the jury could have determined that this was not premeditated murder. Noor's father sat in the parking lot for 15 minutes, waiting for her daughter to come out of the building. He obviously waited for the right opportunity. The judgment sends the wrong message to the Iraqi community - or any community who would do such a thing to defend their family's honor.
Lastly, I think that detective Chris Boughey is a good guy. He and the prosecuter should not feel responsible for the jury's decision. They did everything they could for Noor.
What do they expect is going to happen? You cant have both - because America is fiercely for freedom and the others are fiercely against it.
Besides...Im sure some of the men from the other countries are disgustingly dishonorable-but I guess its ok for them.
What happened to Noor is what happens in any culture that looks upon their children(especially girls) as property,barter,and to abuse and are disposable.
I say all of that to say the following. the one thing that upsets me more than anything is being accused of being narrow minded and uncaring, having those who identify themselves as moderate or liberal say that we don't care. This entire situation, the question of honor killing being alright, is no different than some of the damaging things that are said and believed about all religions. That makes those people believe that they must cleve even harder and ultimately end up straying from the real meaning of their beliefs. When nowhere in their "Bibles" does it say that killing is not acceptable, the thought must then be supported by man himself. There is too much judgement these days, and unlike the above writer, I see more from the liberal world. An everything that feels good is okay mindset that seems to have no thought for humanity unless it helps their agenda somehow. If what I said was not true, those who judge religion would be amongst the first to make a stand for these victims. There would be more awareness, as there needs to be with human trafficking. The fact is that they are too afraid of being labeled as someone who is intolerant of Muslims in general. You can't speak out against certain things in this country unless you are racist, or say they want you to believe. Meanwhile no body is there for the thousands of young women not just being abused, but being killed.
In the report tonight, they spoke with the family and the son stated that "he was part of it", it is said that it is indeed a family decision i n most cases. WHY are we not doing more, and why are we not charging the family as well, at least the males, since the females have no say.We would not sit back and allow our neighbors to run their children down. If abuse of any kind is suspected, there are numerous means of getting help. Unfortunately, the system still fails some women, and then of course, there are the women who cause shame upon themselves by using lies about abuse as a means of getting back at someone, not caring that it only sets us as women back to the time when we were not believed,(I personally think when women are caught doing this, as many women that die because of abuse, they should be charged with whatever the sentence would have been for the accused!)
We must stop worrying about what the perception is of us if we speak out against these atrocities and do so! We must stop wasting time trying to demonize religion of any kind, we must stop trying to demonize and judge Christians, who do have something in common with these women. They do not speak out more because they are not only afraid of what their families and even communities will do, but because they do see us as Godless. If they felt they had at least a certain community that wasn't "so bad" they may reach out more.
One way or the other, this has to be stopped. It is just like sexual abuse...there are many cases that we don't hear about, for every one that we do. We need a Government that stands up and says 'yes, we accept you into this country, but you MAY NOT break our laws! You may worship as you wish, but killing your child is not part of that, and yes before anyone brings it up, that goes for areas that have their own laws.We must stand together and if we are accused of interfering with their beliefs or not being accepting of them, we need to say YES, YES INDEED, we ARE NOT accepting of this behavior and refuse to be labeled as something any different.
Either help or get out of the way and allow others to do so. These women are dying simply because they want to be more like us and have freedom to do simple things such as speak, or get and education or marry who they wish without losing their families or lives. we must not only stop it, but become their families, their salvation. You never know where that will lead.
This is murder, period. He got his jail sentence and more victims need to speak out. More awareness within these societies is the key to change. When one after the other get these stiff sentences, either in America or their home countries, THEN societies will seriously reconsider.
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