Family Love – Islam Style

Garroted to Death

garrote, -rot·ed, -rot·ing.

1. a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.

2. the collarlike instrument used for this method of execution.

3. strangulation or throttling, esp. in the course of a robbery.

4. an instrument, usually a cord or wire with handles attached at the ends, used for strangling a victim.

–v.t.

5. to execute by the garrote.

6. to strangle or throttle, esp. in the course of a robbery.

A beautiful life snuffed out because of religion. Honor killings are becoming common place in Muslim ghettos in France, Indonesia and the like. They are starting to pick up as well in Britain as the Muslim population increases. This is just one example of how the Muslim family deals with weighty issues such as dating the wrong man… horrible!

LONDON (Reuters) - A Kurdish woman was brutally raped, stamped on and strangled by members of her family and their friends in an "honor killing" carried out at her London home because she had fallen in love with the wrong man.

Banaz Mahmod, 20, was subjected to the 2-1/2 hour ordeal before she was garroted with a bootlace. Her body was stuffed into a suitcase and taken about 100 miles to Birmingham where it was buried in the back garden of a house.

Her badly decomposed body was found in April 2006, three months after the killing.

Last month a jury found her father Mahmod Mahmod, 52, and his brother Ari Mahmod, 51, guilty of murder after a three-month trial. Their associate Mohamad Hama, 30, had earlier admitted killing her.

On Thursday at a pre-sentence hearing for Hama, the Old Bailey heard details about Banaz's last moments.

Prosecutors said the three convicted men, along with two other suspects who are still at large, had carried out the killing fearing that the authorities were closing in on them.

They believed Banaz had brought shame on the family by leaving her husband, an Iraqi Kurd she had been forced to marry at 17, and falling in love with Rahmat Suleimani, an Iranian Kurd.

Her former unnamed partner had raped her as well as repeatedly beating her, the court heard.

Hama, who prosecutors said had been a ringleader in the murder, was caught by listening devices talking to a friend in prison about the murder.

In the recordings, transcripts of which were relayed to the court, Hama and his friend are hearing laughing as he described how she was killed with Banaz's uncle "supervising".

"I was kicking and stamping on her neck to get the soul out. I saw her stark naked, only wearing pants or underwear," Hama is recorded as saying.

Little Green Footballs – sad props

I just wanted to show what happens behind closed doors to make sure the woman of this religion are compliant to the “laws.” This woman was probably trying to make a statement about her not being subject to these laws, but got the raw end of the stick for trying to stand up for her rights. Keep in mind it isn’t two civilizations clashing. It is barbarians at the gate of civilization.