Monday, December 12, 2005

Justice in at least one "honor killing"

About a month ago, the Chicago Tribune had a long article about European Muslim immigrants bringing the odious custom of "honor killings" to the West.

Many times these crimes go unsolved.

Well, justice was served in England yesterday in this case.

From Britain's Times:

A Father who ordered his two teenage sons to carry out the so-called honour killing of an Oxford student who made his daughter pregnant was told yesterday that he must serve a minimum of 20 years in jail.

A High Court judge told Chomir Ali, 44, that there was “no honour in murder”.

The body of Arash Ghorbani-Zarin, a 19-year-old electrical engineering student, was found with 46 stab wounds after he was ambushed in his car in November last year.

Mr Justice Goss described it as a cold-blooded killing, adding that “the sooner the term honour killings are seen for the grotesque misnomer they are, the better”. He told Ali, a Bangladeshi-born waiter: “Far from vindicating your family’s honour you have permanently dishonoured your family with the stain of murder.”


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