Post by djfearross on Feb 23, 2011 16:51:36 GMT
US Man??! However, once you clicked through it all became clear..ish!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12548366
The BBC has since updated this link found on the 'US & Canada' page to read "Iraqi guilty of Arizona 'honour killing'"
Of course as per usual the BBC has missed out the keywords as once again they to brush over this story quickly so they don't offend their Muslim audience. The BBC is a firm believer that Honour killings are nothing to with Religion (i.e Islam), they even have their own honour killings section to explain this, unfortunately all the examples they gave were of Muslim honour killings...
ABC puts this story as it should be been put, just the facts....
abcnews.go.com/US/muslim-man-guilty-honor-killing-daughters-death/story?id=12975396&page=1
So much for BBC's effort to educate us that Islam Rocks!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12548366
Iraqi immigrant convicted of Arizona 'honour killing'
An Iraqi immigrant to the US has been convicted in Arizona of the second degree murder of his daughter, in what prosecutors said was an honour killing.
Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 50, ran over 20-year-old Noor and Amal Khalaf, the mother of her boyfriend, in a car park in a suburb of Phoenix in October 2009.
He was also found guilty of the aggravated assault of Mrs Khalaf and leaving the scene of a crime.
Prosecutors said Almaleki had claimed his daughter had shamed his family.
Relatives said Noor had married a man in Iraq but had returned to Arizona to live with Mrs Khalaf's son.
Mrs Khalaf testified that Almaleki made no effort to stop before running over her and Noor.
His defence lawyers told the court that he had never intended to kill Noor, and that her death was an accident. He had been trying to spit on Mrs Khalaf but swerved and ending up hitting both women, they said.
Almaleki fled the US after the attack, driving to Mexico before flying to the UK. But he was detained there and later extradited to stand trial.
He faces between 17 and 44 years in prison.
An Iraqi immigrant to the US has been convicted in Arizona of the second degree murder of his daughter, in what prosecutors said was an honour killing.
Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 50, ran over 20-year-old Noor and Amal Khalaf, the mother of her boyfriend, in a car park in a suburb of Phoenix in October 2009.
He was also found guilty of the aggravated assault of Mrs Khalaf and leaving the scene of a crime.
Prosecutors said Almaleki had claimed his daughter had shamed his family.
Relatives said Noor had married a man in Iraq but had returned to Arizona to live with Mrs Khalaf's son.
Mrs Khalaf testified that Almaleki made no effort to stop before running over her and Noor.
His defence lawyers told the court that he had never intended to kill Noor, and that her death was an accident. He had been trying to spit on Mrs Khalaf but swerved and ending up hitting both women, they said.
Almaleki fled the US after the attack, driving to Mexico before flying to the UK. But he was detained there and later extradited to stand trial.
He faces between 17 and 44 years in prison.
The BBC has since updated this link found on the 'US & Canada' page to read "Iraqi guilty of Arizona 'honour killing'"
Of course as per usual the BBC has missed out the keywords as once again they to brush over this story quickly so they don't offend their Muslim audience. The BBC is a firm believer that Honour killings are nothing to with Religion (i.e Islam), they even have their own honour killings section to explain this, unfortunately all the examples they gave were of Muslim honour killings...
ABC puts this story as it should be been put, just the facts....
abcnews.go.com/US/muslim-man-guilty-honor-killing-daughters-death/story?id=12975396&page=1
Muslim Man Guilty of 'Honor Killing' in Daughter's Death
Iraqi Immigrant Convicted of Murder for Running Down His Daughter in an Arizona Garage
Feb. 22, 2011
Iraqi immigrant was found guilty of second degree murder today for running over his daughter, a crime motivated, prosecutors said, by the Arizona Muslim man's belief that the 20-year-old woman had become "too Westernized."
Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, was also convicted of aggravated assault, because the mother of his daughter's boyfriend was also injured when he ran down the two women with his Jeep Cherokee in a suburban Phoenix parking lot in the October 2009 incident.
Almaleki, who fled immediately after the incident, driving to Nogales, Mexico, was also convicted of two counts of leaving the scene of an accident.
The Iraqi man's lawyer had argued that he never intended to hit his daughter, Noor Almaleki, or 43-year-old Amal Khalef, with whose family the young woman was living at the time because of her disagreements with her father.
"I'm not trying to kill my daughter," Faleh Hassan Almaleki told investigators, according to tapes that were played during the trial. "If anything happened, accident."
Almaleki insisted to police that he loved his daughter, but he lost control of the vehicle and it was an accident.
"I run away because I've been waiting for my daughter, because if something happen to her, I kill myself," Almaleki said in the tape played at the trial.
"My daughter, she passed away, I kill myself," the man said. "That's what I've been waiting for."
But while he maintained that he didn't mean to kill her, he did tell the officers questioning him that he wanted to scare his daughter and maybe even hurt her when he drove the Cherokee at her.
According to prosecutors, Almaleki and his daughter fought over her adoption of Western ways, including her decision to attend college, her rejection of an arranged marriage and her chosing a boyfriend her parents did not approve of.
Iraqi Immigrant Convicted of Murder for Running Down His Daughter in an Arizona Garage
Feb. 22, 2011
Iraqi immigrant was found guilty of second degree murder today for running over his daughter, a crime motivated, prosecutors said, by the Arizona Muslim man's belief that the 20-year-old woman had become "too Westernized."
Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, was also convicted of aggravated assault, because the mother of his daughter's boyfriend was also injured when he ran down the two women with his Jeep Cherokee in a suburban Phoenix parking lot in the October 2009 incident.
Almaleki, who fled immediately after the incident, driving to Nogales, Mexico, was also convicted of two counts of leaving the scene of an accident.
The Iraqi man's lawyer had argued that he never intended to hit his daughter, Noor Almaleki, or 43-year-old Amal Khalef, with whose family the young woman was living at the time because of her disagreements with her father.
"I'm not trying to kill my daughter," Faleh Hassan Almaleki told investigators, according to tapes that were played during the trial. "If anything happened, accident."
Almaleki insisted to police that he loved his daughter, but he lost control of the vehicle and it was an accident.
"I run away because I've been waiting for my daughter, because if something happen to her, I kill myself," Almaleki said in the tape played at the trial.
"My daughter, she passed away, I kill myself," the man said. "That's what I've been waiting for."
But while he maintained that he didn't mean to kill her, he did tell the officers questioning him that he wanted to scare his daughter and maybe even hurt her when he drove the Cherokee at her.
According to prosecutors, Almaleki and his daughter fought over her adoption of Western ways, including her decision to attend college, her rejection of an arranged marriage and her chosing a boyfriend her parents did not approve of.
So much for BBC's effort to educate us that Islam Rocks!
. Not a natural location one would think for the BBC to search world news about Arizona from. 
