By John Chapman
A MUSLIM father was found guilty yesterday of murdering his 20-year-old daughter after she fell in love with the wrong man.
Banaz Mahmod was strangled with a bootlace and her body stuffed into a suitcase and buried in a back garden after the ‘honour killing’.
She had helped convict them from beyond the grave with a video message played to jurors in which she told how she feared she was going to die. It later emerged that Banaz had repeatedly told police she was in fear for her life.
Her father Mahmod Mahmod, 52, showed no emotion at the Old Bailey as he was convicted of murder.
Her uncle Ari Mahmod, 50, was also found guilty of murder and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. They were remanded in custody to be await sentencing.A third defendant, Darbad Mares-Rasull, was cleared of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Mohamad Hama, 30, of West Norwood, south London, an associate of Ari, has already pleaded guilty to the murder. Mahmod and his brother, from Mitcham, south London, ordered the so-called honour killing as they believed Banaz had shamed the family.
Her crime was to have fallen in love with another man after her arranged marriage fell apart when she fled her violent husband.
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What is the moslem reaction?!? Rename the crime so it will prevent future 'honor killings'...
'Call it a crime of dishonour' say Muslim leaders
by Joanna Sugden
Muslim community leaders today called for "honour" killings to be renamed "crimes of dishonour" or "family murders", in the wake of the conviction of Mahmod Mahmod for the murder of his own daughter.
Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra and Dr Reefat Draba both from the Muslim Council of Britain said the crime of “honour” killing should be renamed in an effort to put a stop to the death of thousands of women each year at the hands of their relatives. “When you say ‘honour’ killing it’s like saying 'What you’ve done you did to save the honour of your family'. We should be saying, ‘Any honour you once had, you’ve now lost’,” he told Times Online, “We should call it a crime of dishonour”. Mr Mogra argued that a change of name for the crime may go a small way to help change attitudes towards it and stamp it out once and for all.
Dr Drabu, a GP who chairs the Social and Family Affairs Committee of the Muslim Council of Britain, (MCB) said the current name was "a misnomer". "It's horrendous that a girl is killed by her own relations, it's beyond belief," she said "We must call it family murder".
When Mr Mogra and Dr Drabu met with the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith and Baroness Scotland in November last year, as well as members of the Crown Prosecution Service and the Home Office, to discuss forced marriages and “honour” killings they asked them to consider renaming the crime.
The lack of funding for groups working to support vulnerable women in the Muslim community led to “misconceptions” about the role of men and women, leaving “would-be victims” unprotected, Dr Drabu said. [See it's really the dhimmi governments fault because there is just not enough dhimmif funding...It has nothing to do with 1400 yrs of islamic history...ed. A.I.]
The closure of a Muslim women’s helpline earlier this year because of lack of funding is symptomatic of what Dr Drabu sees as a refusal by the Government to accept responsibility for providing culturally-sensitive and faith-sensitive services to the community. “I’m sure that if there was appropriate funding these crimes would not be allowed to happen,” she said “This girl was seeking help, she was ignored because the police were not culturally sensitive.” Dr Drabu said the need to understand the culture that generates these acts was vital in preventing similar crimes.
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Melanie Phillips makes some observations concerning 'honor killings' in the U.K., the reaction of the authorities and the ummah:The lethal reality of Londonistan
Not for the first time, a Guardian news story blurts out an inconvenient truth that other media avoid. The horrific case of the ‘honour killing’ of Banaz Mahmod, whose father and uncle were convicted of her murder after she was strangled with a bootlace and her body stuffed into a suitcase, has been reported almost universally as if such a monstrous practice is an ‘Asian’ phenomenon. The BBC Radio Four Today programme (0820) said the reason for the murder was that Ms Mahmod wanted to marry someone from another Kurdish clan, giving the misleading impression that it was a specifically Kurdish problem. Meanwhile the Metropolitan Police have launched an inquiry into why they failed to follow up Ms Mahmod’s repeated and desperate pleas for help. Yet no-one spells out why the police might have failed in this way. Only the Guardian gets near it by reporting:
Police are failing to protect young women at risk of being murdered by their families in so-called ‘honour’ killings, despite a high-profile prevention scheme set up four years ago, senior officers have told the Guardian. They say a raft of measures aimed at saving lives have been shelved, delayed or ignored by Scotland Yard…. One detective, who asked not to be named, said that if the Met prevention scheme had been in place Ms Mahmod might be alive today. He said: ‘We started to learn lessons and then stopped learning them as a result of political correctness. And then Banaz died and that should never have happened.’… Jasvinder Sanghera, director of Karma Nirvana, a group that supports victims of ‘honour’-based violence, accused police of ‘fumbling in the dark’. ‘There is a lack of confidence among women that police will protect them,’ she said. ‘There is a misconception that forced marriage and “honour” killing is part of our culture - but these are criminal activities and they need to be treated as such.’
The elephant in the room here — as so often — is that ‘honour killings’ are largely a Muslim phenomenon. The reason the police failed to follow this up is because they are paralysed on two fronts. First, the doctrine of victim culture they now so lethally espouse ordains that minorities are always victims of the majority; so when the police are faced with evidence that a minority might be victimising one of its own (or anyone else, for that matter) they simply cannot deal with it and so look the other way.
Second, they are utterly terrified of doing anything that the Muslim community will take to be an assault on their way of life. And honour killings, the need to avenge the shame caused by a loss of honour, are rooted in values intrinsic to the way of life of many Muslims. There are the usual claims that they are in fact ‘un-Islamic’, but whatever the theology may say the brutal fact remains that honour killings — which do occur in other cultures —are most prevalent within the Muslim world, particularly in certain societies.
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Much hot air is expended on how to integrate British Muslims into British society. But look what happens when the women try to do just that. Some of them end up murdered. The Times reports that the Home Office and senior police officers are promising fresh action to ensure that the police recognise
the complex issues facing women who are accused of dishonouring their families, often by adopting Western values by rejecting arranged marriages and traditional
– often religious – dress from their home countries.
Complex? It’s quite simple. Integration can lead to murder because of the concepts of honour and shame embedded in Muslim culture. The only civilised response is to demonstrate in every way that this will not be tolerated and to come down on the subjugation of Muslim women like a ton of bricks. But our pc police are paralysed by a doctrine which makes minorities untouchable. Thus their preposterous ‘diversity’ and ‘hate crime’ units are shown to be so much politically correct humbug — and worse. Britain’s multicultural orthodoxy does not protect women like Banaz Mahmod. It signs their death warrant.
Pertinent Links:
1) GUILTY: THE MUSLIM FATHER WHO ORDERED 'HONOUR KILLING'
2) 'Call it a crime of dishonour' say Muslim leaders
3) The lethal reality of Londonistan
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