A father has been found guilty in the UK of ordering the so-called honour killing of his 20 year old daughter. Banaz Mahmod was strangled with a bootlace in London last year, after leaving her husband, and starting a new relationship with a boyfriend. 52 year old Mahmod Mahmod planned the killing with his brother, Ari Mahmod during a family meeting.
The young woman's sister, Bekhal Mahmod said: "She just wanted to get out of it, be a free person. Be allowed to get out of the house when she wanted to. You know, not be locked up and be told what to do."
After being killed in London, her body was stuffed into a suitcase and driven 190 km to Birmingham in Central England, where she was buried in a garden. The court heard that her father - an Iraqi Kurd - decided to have her killed because her boyfriend was an Iranian Kurd and not a strict muslim - and so he felt the relationship brought dishonour on the family.
Police estimate there are about 12 so-called honour killing every year in the UK.
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Journalist Rana Husseini once did a story on an honour killing; a girl was raped by her brother, and was then killed. It was her fault for seducing her brother. It was never answered why she wanted to seduce her own brother when there are millions of men outside her immediate family. What an awful idea for a religion.
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