German Honor Killing: Brother Stabs 16 Year-Old Sister 20 Times....
It's a "cultural" thing.......
German police are seeking the brother of a 16-year-old Hamburg girl of Afghan descent who died early on Friday morning of multiple stab wounds.
The girl died about an hour later despite the efforts of emergency medical personnel to revive her, Hamburg police spokesman Andreas Schöpflin told The Local. Witnesses did not see anyone running away, he said.
Police have not ruled out the possibility that the stabbing could have been an honour killing, Schöpflin said. Homicide investigators and the district attorney's office in Hamburg are seeking the girl's 23-year-old brother.
"I cannot exclude the possibility of an honour killing, but I cannot confirm it either," Schöpflin said.
Both siblings are German citizens who immigrated from Afghanistan. Schöpflin could not say how long they had been in the country.
Schöpflin also declined to confirm a report from German newspaper Bild on Friday that the girl had been stabbed 20 times.
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The STOP HONORCIDE! campaign was launched on Mother's Day 2008. The goal of the campaign is to prosecute honorcides to the fullest extent of the law. We want honorcide to be classified as a hate crime and we advocate for every existing hate crime legislation to be amended to include honorcide.
http://www.reformislam.org/honorcide/
Posted by: Muslims Against Sharia | May 18, 2008 at 01:38 PM
Does it include the Qur'an?
Posted by: Elric66 | May 18, 2008 at 01:45 PM
Actually, it is a "culture" thing. Dishonor killings pre-date Islam by centuries. In fact, they are un-Islamic.
Ellen R. Sheeley, Author
"Reclaiming Honor in Jordan"
Posted by: ERS | May 18, 2008 at 03:23 PM
Really? So why such light sentences under Islamic law for the murderers if they even get time?
Posted by: Elric66 | May 18, 2008 at 03:35 PM
ERS:
So? Does that make it acceptable? Does that somehow mitigate the atrocity of this crime? How is it that no other "cultures" seem to commit this crime with the regularity of Muslims?
Your comment only proves that Islam is a barbaric, vicious "religion", which has not evolved one iota since its unfortunate inception.
Posted by: atheling | May 18, 2008 at 03:40 PM
Steal some bread........get your hand cut off
Convert to another religion......get executed
Brutally kill your sister because you suspect she is pregnant....ahhhh we will give you 6 months in prison
Posted by: Elric66 | May 18, 2008 at 03:44 PM