Topic: Jury Convicts Iraqi Immigrant in 'Honor Killing'
willing2's photo
Wed 02/23/11 07:05 PM
Hopefully, this kind of trash will get deported when his sentence is up.

Jury Convicts Iraqi Immigrant in 'Honor Killing' of Daughter
Feb 22, 2011
Terry Tang
AP
PHOENIX -- A Phoenix jury convicted an Iraqi immigrant of second-degree murder Tuesday for running over and killing his daughter in a case termed an "honor killing" by prosecutors who said the father carried out the attack because he believed his daughter had become too Westernized.

Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 50, also was convicted of aggravated assault for injuries suffered by the mother of his daughter's boyfriend during the October 2009 incident in a suburban Phoenix parking lot, as well as two counts of leaving the scene of an accident.

Maricopa County prosecutors told jurors during the trial that he mowed down Noor Almaleki, 20, with his Jeep Cherokee because he believed she brought dishonor to the family. He had wanted her to be a traditional Iraq woman, while she refused an arranged marriage, went to college and had a boyfriend.

The case brought nationwide outrage after prosecutors deemed it an "honor killing."

Defense lawyers called Noor's death and the severe injuries to Amal Khalaf an accident. They said he only wanted to spit on the older woman

msharmony's photo
Wed 02/23/11 07:06 PM
important to know the laws of the land in which you reside and follow them, or accept the consequences

no photo
Wed 02/23/11 07:10 PM
Are we liberals supposed to feel wounded by this news? I can celebrate it.

willing2's photo
Wed 02/23/11 07:10 PM
Cave dwellers don't listen or consider our laws relevant.

msharmony's photo
Wed 02/23/11 07:14 PM

Cave dwellers don't listen or consider our laws relevant.



we dont always consider their laws relevant either

but it only matters if we live there or they live here,,

AdventureBegins's photo
Wed 02/23/11 07:25 PM

Cave dwellers don't listen or consider our laws relevant.

Actually he did not consider his own laws relevant.

One is exorted to follow the law of the country in which one resides... Or at least so I read.

I am not sure which paragraph and chapter.

willing2's photo
Wed 02/23/11 07:30 PM

Are we liberals supposed to feel wounded by this news? I can celebrate it.

God.
It's a really bad day when we agree twice in a 24 hour period.slaphead
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Lpdon's photo
Wed 02/23/11 08:07 PM
To bad he wont face execution.