The Arizona Republic misleadingly headlines the story Woman in Peoria hit-and-run incident dies from injuries. Ann has been following this story here and here. The current Arizona Republic article begins:
A 20-year-old Valley woman has died of injuries sustained in what prosecutors are calling an “honor killing.”
Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, of Glendale, is accused of running over his daughter, Noor Almaleki, and another woman in his Jeep Cherokee because he was infuriated with his daughter for becoming “too Westernized.”
Noor Almaleki died Monday of injuries she received during the Oct. 20 attack.
The charges against the father will be upgraded. I wonder if they have the death penalty in Arizona. But maybe he wouldn’t get the maximum penalty. The article explains:
Social experts say honor killings are an accepted practice in Iraqi tribal society, where family members feel they must kill a woman who shames them by not adhering to traditional Muslim or Iraqi values.
Oh well, then, it’s just their culture. And we are multi-cultural. We wouldn’t want to offend Muslims by putting “honor killing” in the headline, would we? Or punishing the perpetrator too harshly just for following his cultural rules.
Mark Steyn has a biting commentary at the Corner, including this:
If there were a Matthew Shepard murder every few months, Frank Rich et al would be going bananas about the “climate of hate” in our society, but you can run over your daughter, decapitate your wife, drown three teenage girls and a polygamous spouse, and progressive opinion and the press couldn’t give a hoot. Indeed, as The Atlantic notes, it’s merely an obsession of us right-wing kooks.