A woman (and likely her husband and son) brutally beat and hanged her 21-year-old mentally-disabled daughter after finding out she was pregnant. It’s the 20th honor killing in the ‘West Bank’ this year. But what’s just as disturbing is some of the reaction:
“Where is the honor in this crime? The victim was completely insane and could not be held responsible for her body and mind.”
So if a woman wasn’t insane, the honor killing might have been justifiable? Ugh.
This is Islam:
ARUTZ SHEVA – A woman turned herself in to Palestinian Authority police on Sunday and confessed to brutally murdering her mentally-challenged daughter in an apparent “honor killing.”
Gulf News reported that the woman admitted to beating her unmarried daughter, and then hanging her, after finding out that she was pregnant.
The shocking crime occurred in the Arab town of Yata, near Hevron.
Residents of Yata claimed that the 21 year-old victims father and brother had disappeared since her murder, and that PA police have already launched a manhunt to find them.
Amal Al Juabah, the general coordinator of the Women’s Centre for the Legal and Social Guidance in Hebron and member of the Palestinian Women’s General Union, condemned the murder, saying that the targeting of a disabled woman made it all the more abhorrent.
“Where is the honor in this crime? The victim was completely insane and could not be held responsible for her body and mind.”
This is the twentieth such “honor killing” so far this year in PA-controlled territory.