FAMILY JIHAD
Daughter raped by brothers, murdered by mother
'Thousands of women have been killed in the name of honor'
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Posted: November 18, 2003
1:00 am Eastern
? 2009 WorldNetDaily.com
A Palestinian girl who was raped and impregnated by her two brothers was later murdered by her own mother ? even though her daughter was the crime's innocent victim ? in another of the disturbingly common, if vastly underreported, instances of "honor killings."
The mother will be sentenced in two weeks, but a harsh penalty is not expected.
According to a Knight Ridder report, court records show that Rofayda Qaoud was raped by her brothers, Fahdi, 22, and Ali, 20, in a bedroom they shared in the family's three-room house in the town of Abu Qash in the West Bank. When her mother found she had become pregnant, she insisted her daughter commit suicide, and even bought the unwed teen a razor so she could slash her own wrists. When the daughter refused, Amira Abu Hanhan Qaoud took matters into her own hands and murdered Rofayda to restore her family's "honor."
Entering her sleeping daughter's bedroom last Jan. 27 with a plastic bag, razor and wooden stick, reports Knight Ridder, the mother told her daughter: "Tonight you die, Rofayda." Wrapping the bag around the teen's head, Qaoud cut her daughter's wrists, while ignoring her cries of "No, mother, no!" Qaoud then struck her daughter in the head with the stick to finish off the job, said the report.
Every year, dozens and probably hundreds of brutal "honor killings" of Palestinian women and girls ? most of whom are virtually blameless ? go unreported, according to an anthropologist's recent study.
In a story for World and I magazine, James Emery says women in the communities of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Israel and Jordan are killed by male kinsmen in an attempt to protect the reputations of their families.
Emery says the women "are murdered in their homes, in open fields and occasionally in public, sometimes before crowds of cheering onlookers."
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Topic: Honour Killing