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Almaleki is accused of killing his daughter because she had become too "Westernized"
Noor Faleh Almaleki died in a horrifying and bizarre tragedy. Her father hit her with his car on October 20 in a parking lot in Peoria, Arizona. Noor died Monday November 2, of the injuries she sustained. Noor was with her boyfriend's mother, who also suffered serious injuries in the attack.
Peoria Police had initially charged her father, Hassan Almaleki with aggravated assault; now that Noor is dead, the charges will be more severe (see full story here).
Hassan Almaleki attempted to flee the country immediately after the attack. He drove to Mexico, abandoned his car, and tried to fly to Britain. Authorities in Britain forced him to return to the United States. At a court hearing over the weekend, prosecutor Stephanie Low alleged that Hassan Almaleki had admitted to committing the crime.
Family members told police that Hassan killed his daughter because she was too westernized and refused to conform to traditional Iraqi values. In particular, he felt her actions defied Muslim traditions. Low alleged that "this was an attempt at an honor killing."
Recent updates indicate that Noor had been fighting with Hassan for years, and had planned to move in with her boyfriend and his mother; this made Hassan furious (see more here). Her brother Peter stated that "the past two years she's been going out of her way being disrespectful," but added that seeing her in the hospital broke his heart.
Peter added that there are "different cultures, different values. One culture does not make sense to another culture." Hopefully he was not referring to murder. There are only a few moral absolutes for humanity, but murder is probably one of them.
Sometimes certain ideas don't make sense to others because they are illogical and inherently incorrect, not because others are intolerant. The idea that you should be killed just because you have a vagina and disrespected your father is one such example. Most of the world does not subscribe to such nonsense.
At any rate, the culture argument fails here. Justifying oppression, subjugation and violence on the premise of "culture" is just a laughable proposition. Anyone who thinks that "disrespect" should be met with violent death should get their head checked, regardless of what culture they subscribe to.
That women are still viewed and treated by some as disposable pieces of property is abhorrent and vile in this day and age. Indeed, Noor's case is an apt example of this. She was treated essentially as subhuman. When she refused to submit, she was put down like an animal.
To make a disturbing point, many people in this country probably treat their animals better than Noor was treated by her father.
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