Police: Man ran down 'too Westernized' daughter * Story Highlights
* Police: Man struck daughter, her friend with vehicle on Tuesday in Arizona
* Man thought daughter, 20, wasn't living according to family's Iraqi values, police say
* Woman has life-threatening injuries, police say
* Police seek Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48
(CNN) -- Arizona police are looking for a man who they allege ran down his daughter and her friend because he believed his daughter had become "too Westernized."
Peoria, Arizona, police said Wednesday that Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, struck his 20-year-old daughter, Noor Faleh Almaleki, and her friend Amal Edan Khalaf with a vehicle he was driving in a parking lot Tuesday afternoon.
Faleh Hassan Almaleki was angry with his daughter "as she had become too 'Westernized' and was not living according to [the family's] traditional Iraqi values," Peoria police said in a statement released Wednesday.
Noor Faleh Almaleki is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, according to the statement. Khalaf, 43, received injuries that are not life-threatening but is still in the hospital, police said.
Noor Faleh Almaleki lives with Khalaf, police said.
Faleh Hassan Almaleki was last seen in a gray or silver Jeep Grand Cherokee, police said.
No further details were immediately available.
Peoria is about 13 miles northwest of Phoenix.
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