These are some sick bastards who would rather kill their own flesh and blood because they don't agree with how they act or dress. I myself had a girlfriend, Turkish sunni, who was very beautiful. Her father after finding out we were dating for over a year, threatened her life and her sister's life if she didn't break it off with me. The guy was a raving lunatic. This happens more than is let on - and we only hear about those that actually get killed. The one's that are mentally or physically abused or threatened we don't hear about.
Unfortunately there's no way to weed these idiots out of the country. It's a shame. If this dope wanted his family to live like Iraqi's he should have mustered up some courage and gone to another Muslim country or stayed in Iraq. But the coward didn't have courage and could only kill his daughter. Hope he stays in jail a long long time and is tormented every hour of every day.
You know, the irony here is we forget that bigotry and racism isn't limited to just black and white, or Mexican versus American. Such nonsense happens all the time no matter what the racial/religious divide. Many Middle-Easterners (primarily males) still believe that mixing races (nevermind religious believes) is a disgrace! Take, for example, if I, as an African-American male, were a member of the Nation of Islam in America and I were dating this man's daughter. Do you think her father would allow the relationship to continue just because we practised the same religion - Islam? No! He'd likely be against the relationship first and foremost because I am black and would likely find every excuse in the book to tear the relationship apart on racial lines instead of acknowledging we share the same faith which would certainly be a feather in my cap...if that were the case.
But alas, I am a Christain, so...
This poor woman didn't die because she loved the wrong guy or because she became too Americanized. She died because her father was stupid and couldn't see past his one racial and cultural hatred. Get a clue all ye foreigners who wish to relocated their family to America: If you have young children, expect that eventually they will become Americanized. If you come to America, expect to be obsorbed into American culture. If you are concerned that somewhere along the way your family values will be lost, you've got two choices:
1) Find a way to blend both cultures without losing all traces of your own, or;
2) Move back to where you came from.
Because no matter how hard you try to shelter your younglings, eventually they will begin to embrace some aspects of American culture. And if you really didn't want your children to be a part of this country's culture, you shouldn't have come here in the first place. It's just that simple.
I want to make one thing perfectly clear: The same would apply in the reverse. If I decided to move to Japan, for example, I'd better expect that in order to live there I'd have to embrace Japanesse culture. So, if I'm not prepared for that or I find I can't handle it, it's in my best interest to go back to where I came from.
