Muslim machine guns 16-year-old niece in honor killing - because she was raped

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A Jordanian man confessed to killing his 16-year-old niece to save his family's "honour" after she was sexually assaulted, a judicial official said today.
The 43-year-old fired 30 machine-gun rounds in the direction of the girl yesterday, killing her instantly, at Deir Alla, west of the capital Amman, said the official who requested anonymity.

The man confessed to the murder, saying he did it to "cleanse the family honour" over suspicions of "bad behaviour" after the girl "lost her virginity a month ago in a sexual assault by a young man aged 17," said the same source.

The girl's family later married her off to a cousin "to conceal the facts," the official added, stressing that the suspect in the sexual assault was being tried.

Prosecutors have charged the uncle with "premeditated murder." Murder is punishable by death in Jordan but in so-called "honour killings" courts can commute or reduce sentences, particularly if the victim's family asks for leniency.

Between 15 and 20 women are murdered in honour killings each year in the kingdom, despite government efforts to curb such crimes.

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=115812

I'm sure this is just another "moderate" misunderstander of the Religion of Peace. Goodbye Turkey's secularism. Hello Islamic supremacism. 

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Bump for a KCballer excuse!

[Agnostic007]

then you have the Christian families in the U.S. who watch their child die from a treatable desease because they are praying for God to heal them.... Nuts in every religion I guess

[Skeletor]

You'd expect he would try to avenge the "dishonor" by attacking the rapist but instead muslims tend to go for the women..
Sometimes they issue an ultimatum to the women, telling them to commit suicide, or else..
Many times the women are just unlucky to be raped by someone or they might deny marrying an older cousin in a pre-arranged marriage, thus "dishonoring the family"  ..

Honor killings appear to be a cultural thing but they also seem to be disproportionately frequent in muslims.
In Europe there have been many similar cases, especially Germany which has a large muslim population, predominantly turkish. (45 cases from 1996-2004 in Germany alone)

Look at this 2 year old BBC article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7268701.stm