AN Iraqi father, who was “congratulated by police” in Basra after he beat his 17-year-old daughter to death because she had become infatuated with a British soldier, said in an interview in today’s Observer that:
Death was the least she deserved. 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.
Abdel-Qader Ali, who along with his two sons killed student Rand, said he was unrepentant about her death. His only regret is 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.
Abdel-Qader Ali was arrested after the killing, but released after just two hours in detention because this was an honour killing. Sgt Ali Jabbar of Basra police said:
Not much can be done when we have an ‘honour killing’. You are in a Muslim society and women should live under religious laws.
Abdel-Qader, 46, a government employee, astonishingly said that the police actually congratulated him on what he had done.
They are men and know what honour is.
Rand, who was studying English at Basra University, was deemed to have brought shame on her family after becoming infatuated with a British soldier, 22, known only as Paul.
According to the Observer:
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.
Said Abdel-Qader Ali:
I don’t have a daughter now, and I prefer to say that I never had one. That girl humiliated me in front of my family and friends. Speaking with a foreign soldier, she lost what is the most precious thing for any woman. People from western countries might be shocked, but our girls are not like their daughters that can sleep with any man they want and sometimes even get pregnant without marrying. Our girls should respect their religion, their family and their bodies.
I have only two boys from now on. That girl was a mistake in my life. I know God is blessing me for what I did. My sons are by my side, and they were men enough to help me finish the life of someone who just brought shame to ours.
This sort of murder is not a rare phenomenon in Iraq. Forty seven women in Basra fell victim to “honour killings” in Basra last year. This is proof – if proof were needed – that Islam is a vile, primitive religion that makes monsters of its adherents, and idiots of its apologists.
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Yeah there’s a lot of honour to be had in beating innocent young girls to death *rolls eyes*
Honour killing?? Abdel-Qader should more closely read the passage from the book his beliefs were stolen from which states that thou shalt not kill. Apparently a commandment which wasn’t suited for such a peaceful religion.
Actually, these crimes pre-date Islam. They are believed to have their origins in misinterpretations of pre-Islamic Arab tribal codes.
And, no, I’m not apologizing for them. I think they are heinous, truly heinous.
Ellen R. Sheeley, Author
“Reclaiming Honor in Jordan”
I feel sorry for her. She didnt even sleep with the guy… just talked. Thats it??? so lame. Whats wrong with the muslims.. even uncivilised people will know that it is wrong. there is no honour in this. only shame and enbarressment to the muslim society and mankind
@Abdel-Qader Ali,
You r nothing but a lunatic. What religion and religious laws is being talked about by You. Killing that innocent beauty, you haven’t done heroic work, but you have again proved that Islam is unscientific and baseless religion that was regarded one of the finiest and scientific religion as told by one of My Muslim friend.
Abdel-Qader Ali, I’m going to fly to iraq and cut your head off with piano wire and keep it as a fucking trophy!
Maybe that was a bit extreme. I hope they prosecute this vile monster!
Its terrible, truly terrible that people use religion as an excuse or justification to do some thing so unthinkably wrong.
The problem is, religion makes death seem less serious then it is. It is (more than likly) the end…nothing. But a religious farther believes he is punishing his child, but she will wake up after death in some new world, if she shouldn’t have been killed and he was wrong, and she was good. Then she would wake up in hevan. If she was bad, he was right to kill her and she will forever suffer in hell. And when he dies, if he was right to kill her he will be rewarded in the after life. If he was wrong, surly he can’t be punished as he fort he was acting out gods will.
Religion gives ppl to much comfert from the the things they do, people should not be able to hide behind there religion.
“This is proof – if proof were needed – that Islam is a vile, primitive religion that makes monsters of its adherents, and idiots of its apologists.”
Anyone who writes that has no right to criticize anything. Get off your high horse and lose the racism before you judge anyone.
Alex, if you are going to accuse someone of racism, you had better provide evidence for it.
So, where is your evidence?
What I quoted is my evidence. The author of the article judges and defames every follower of Islam based on the actions of a single person.
Calling a religion ‘vile’ and ‘primitive’ is racism. Calling everyone who follows Islam a ‘monster’ is blatantly not true.
(For the record, I’m an athiest.)
As the author of the paragraph that so offended you, Alex, I would point to you that the definition of a racist is “somebody who hates others who are not of his or her own race” (Encarta World Dictionary).
Ergo, having a profound dislike for a religion can in no way be described as “racist”, although Islamists have speciously succeeded in convincing dupes like you that it is, in fact, “racist”.
Now, had you accused me of Islamophobia I would gladly plead guilty to the charge. It is perfectly reasonable to fear a religion which perpetuates fear, and would have the likes of me stoned to death or beheaded.
Islam’s intolerance of feminism, homosexuality, democracy, universal human rights, dogs, music, art, infidels and bacon-flavoured crisps – to name but a few – needs to be condemned without reservation, or recourse to cultural relativism.
I therefore make no apology whatsoever for describing it as “vile”.
I apologise; my mistake. Racist was the wrong term to use. You are, however, still wrong.
There are thousands of followers of Islam who do not beat their children to death, declare holy wars and only eat salt and vinegar. What the man in the article did was despicable, but it does not mean that every follower is like him.
What you really dislike, and so do I, are the extremists and the fundamentalists. But the family living next door shouldn’t be called monsters because of some crazy governments thousands of miles away.
Islam is not vile. The many governments who use misinterpretations of it as the basis for the dreadful things you mentioned above, are. It is perfectly reasonable to fear terrorist-based governments. It is not reasonable to call the family next door ‘monsters’ just because they believe in a god (illogical as that may be)in whose name terrible things have been done. If I killed 20 children in the name of atheism it would not make you a ‘monster’. If a country full of atheists killed a country full of children, that would not make athiesm ‘vile’.
Also; please do not attempt to discredit my argument by putting it down to brainwashing by Islamists.
However; most of the rest of your newspaper I agree wholeheartedly with.
I live in Iran, a muslim country. I have seen-for many years- what a barbaric and inhumane religion Islam is. Though I have many muslim friends I still believe Islam is a disgrace to humanity.
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