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Saturday, May 03, 2008

Muslim Honor Killings a Problem in Germany

 

Correction: This article is from 2005.
It’s still awful- But it is from 2005.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/05/germany-sees-surge-in-muslim-honor.html
Hatin Surucu was one of six Muslim women murdered in a spree of honor killings by their husbands, family members or partners for besmirching the family’s Muslim honor.
Bullets, knives, axes and gasoline are the weapons of choice.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_L6pDyjqqsvY/SByQ6IWcJgI/AAAAAAAANV8/yaddzHX7Wxw/s1600-h/hatin+surucu.jpg
14 year-old students at a local school mocked Hatin Surucu after her murder. They said,
“The whore lived like a German.”
Religion of Peace and Spiegel Online reported:

The shots came from nowhere and within minutes the young Turkish mother standing at the Berlin bus stop was dead. A telephone call from a relative had brought her to this cold, unforgiving place. She thought she would only be gone for a few minutes and wore a light jacket in the freezing February wind. She had left her five-year-old son asleep in his bed. He awoke looking for his mother, who, like many Turkish women in Germany, harbored a secret life of fear, courage and, ultimately, grief. Now her little boy has his own tragedy to bear: His mother, Hatin Surucu, was not the victim of random violence, but likely died at the hands of her own family in what is known as an “honor killing.”

Hatin’s crime, it appears, was the desire to lead a normal life in her family’s adopted land. The vivacious 23-year-old beauty, who was raised in Berlin, divorced the Turkish cousin she was forced to marry at age 16. She also discarded her Islamic head scarf, enrolled in a technical school where she was training to become an electrician and began dating German men. For her family, such behavior represented the ultimate shame — the embrace of “corrupt” Western ways. Days after the crime, police arrested her three brothers, ages 25, 24 and 18. The youngest of the three allegedly bragged to his girlfriend about the Feb. 7 killing. At her funeral, Hakin’s Turkish-Kurdish parents draped their only daughter’s casket in verses from the Koran and buried her according to Muslim tradition. Absent of course, were the brothers, who were in jail…

Currently, six boys are serving time in Berlin’s juvenile prison for honor killings.

When the murder first happened, it sent no shock waves through the mainstream German press. It only became big news when a group of 14-year-old Turkish boys mocked Hatin during a class discussion at a school near the crime scene. One boy said, “She only had herself to blame,” while another insisted, “She deserved what she got. The whore lived like a German.

 

 

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