Leila Hussein lived her last few weeks in terror. Moving constantly from safe house to safe house, she dared to stay no longer than four days at each. It was the price she was forced to pay after denouncing and divorcing her husband - the man she witnessed suffocate, stamp on, then stab their young daughter Rand in a brutal 'honour' killing for which he has shown no remorse.
Though she feared reprisals for speaking out, she really believed that she would soon be safe. Arrangements were well under way to smuggle her to the Jordanian capital, Amman. In fact, she was on her way to meet the person who would help her escape when a car drew up alongside her and two other women who were walking her to a taxi. Five bullets were fired: three of them hit Leila, 41. She died in hospital after futile attempts to save her.
Her death, on 17 May, is the shocking denouement to a tragedy which had its origins in an innocent friendship between her student daughter, Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, and a blond, 22-year-old British soldier known only as Paul.
She died, still a virgin, four months after she had last seen him when her father, Abdel-Qader Ali, 46, discovered that she had been seen talking 'to the enemy' in public. She had brought shame on his honour, was his defence, and he had to cleanse his family name. Despite openly admitting the murder, he has received no punishment.
It was two weeks after Rand's death on 16 March that a grief-stricken Leila, unable to bear living under the same roof as her husband, found the strength to leave him. She had been beaten and had had her arm broken. It was a courageous move. Few women in Iraq would contemplate such a step. Leila told The Observer in April: 'No man can accept being left by a woman in Iraq. But I would prefer to be killed than sleep in the same bed as a man who was able to do what he did to his own daughter.'
Her words were to prove prescient...
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Another Atrocity Committed By The Religion Of Peace
From this June 1, 2008 article in the Guardian:
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Islam is a "Religion of Peace". Now that's an oxymoron if ever I heard one.
This story you have posted is a sad one indeed. But it shouldn't surprise us. It's par for the course.
It is no less enraging for being 'par for the course'. That it is par for the Muslim course and that you can't point that out to a lot of assholes in this country without getting a shrug of the shoulders and a string of vitriol aimed at 'Bushitler' in return is even more enraging.
Throw this in the face of every non-apostate Muslim you encounter. Throw it in the face of every Obama supporter and demand to know why he does not denounce these "customs" of Islam, why he is so willing to meet with "world leaders" who enable the viciousness of Sharia and "honor killing". Hell, he can't even bring himself to denounce his racist communist "church", he just backs off so they can play the martyrs to that faction of his constituency and Hussein can get on with reassuring the white folks that he ain't gonna take their 401Ks.
FUCK. ISLAM. Nothing at bottom but a bunch of dirty little desert rodents obsessed with enshrining their alleged manhood atop the bodies of beaten, raped, enslaved, and murdered women. The assholes in this country who are working to put one of their enablers in the White House are traitors. That may seem too strong a word now, but it won't once Barack HUSSEIN Obama and his minions are through with us.
DAMN.
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