It’s getting hard to keep track of all the newsworthy contributions from the Religion of Honor Killings. They seem to be pouring in at a rate of 2-3 a week. Pretty soon they’ll run out of women altogether, and then no ones goats will be safe.
A Muslim teenager made a dramatic plea to be saved from her abusive parents a few months before she died in what police believe was an “honour killing“.
Shafilea Ahmed was seen with injuries on her neck, an inquest heard yesterday.
The westernised 17-year-old, who wanted to become a solicitor, was frightened her parents would send her to Pakistan and force her into an arranged marriage.
After running away from home, she told a local council housing officer: “There were regular incidents since I was 15 – one parent would hold me while the other would hit me.”
She said her parents, taxi-driver Iftikhar Ahmed, 48, and his wife Farzana, had prevented her going to school or her part-time call centre job.
Sigh. Maybe it’s not Islam after all: maybe it’s taxi drivers.
In September she enrolled to continue her A-levels at Priestley College, Warrington, and made contact with Miss Powner. But before they could meet, Shafilea disappeared.
Her family did not raise the alarm, but police were called by a teacher after the teenager missed classes.
Her parents put their home on the market the same day, telling a potential buyer they were moving because their daughter had brought ‘shame’ on the family.
Why haven’t we nuked Pakistan yet?
