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Jordan police question family for ‘honour killing’
Khaleej Times ^ | 9 May 2008 | Staff

Posted on 05/11/2008 1:18:51 PM PDT by forkinsocket

AMMAN - The Jordanian authorities are questioning a 22-year- old man, who allegedly killed his pregnant married sister for reasons related to family honour, the Jordan Times reported Friday, quoting official sources.

The 20-year-old victim, who was not identified by officials, received three fatal bullets to the side of her head, reportedly by her brother, at her in-law's house in western Amman Wednesday night.

The suspect immediately headed to the nearest police station and turned himself in, handing over the gun he used to shoot his sibling to officers on duty.

"The suspect told police he had just killed his sister to cleanse his family's honour," the sources said.

The victim became the fifth person reportedly murdered in a so- called honour crime since the beginning of the year, the paper said.

Last year, a total of 18 people were killed for reasons of "honour" in Jordan, according to official sources.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: honorkilling; jordan
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1 posted on 05/11/2008 1:18:51 PM PDT by forkinsocket
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To: forkinsocket

I would call them filthy animals... but why insult animals?


2 posted on 05/11/2008 1:22:39 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman
If we could only get the terrorist to execute each other because of this honor crap.
3 posted on 05/11/2008 1:25:01 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
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To: forkinsocket

The Religion of Peace at work again.


4 posted on 05/11/2008 1:25:46 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Karl Marx supported free trade. Does that make him a free market conservative?)
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To: Clintonfatigued; All

Oh Yea, this is the place that Queen Noor told us that was so modern and misunderstood by the evil old United States.Yeaa right......


5 posted on 05/11/2008 1:27:27 PM PDT by redstateconfidential (If you are the smartest person in the room,you are hanging out with the wrong people.)
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To: forkinsocket

How sick is a culture where you save your family’s honor by killing a defenseless, pregnant, woman by placing three shots in her temple.


6 posted on 05/11/2008 1:27:48 PM PDT by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: samtheman
I dunno. Jordan has a pretty decent brand of Islam, if there is such a thing. They keep the animals on a short leash. It's where decent people go to feel safe in that part of the world.

I'll wait to hear the prosecutorial response.

7 posted on 05/11/2008 1:28:48 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: OKIEDOC

No, they only use “honor” killings to wipe out the lowly female, never the exhalted muzzie male.

I guess the harpies and spinsters of NOW are ok with all this. You never hear a peep out of them regarding stories of muzzie women getting murdered, executed, beaten or enslaved.

I guess multi-culturalism trumps feminism.

I wonder how our feminists will enjoy life behind a burqha.


8 posted on 05/11/2008 1:32:17 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: blackdog

Well, so far they’re only questioning him.


9 posted on 05/11/2008 1:33:35 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman

That could mean anything.


10 posted on 05/11/2008 1:44:38 PM PDT by blackdog
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