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August 14, 2006

Italy: Woman Dies In Muslim Honor Killing

News from AKI reports that a Pakistani man is being sought by the Carabineri after his 20-year old daughter was found buried in the garden at the family home in Sarezzo, near Brescia in the north of Italy. Hina Saleem's throat had been slit.

Her boyfriend was a 33-year old Italian carpenter called Guiseppe. He had reported Hina missing. The pair had been a couple for a year, and Hina's 56-year old father Muhammad had objected strongly. He had apparently decided that she was going to marry a cousin in Pakistan.

In the past Hina had registered charges of violent abuse against her father, but these had been withdrawn. In March, Hina moved in with Guiseppe and started work at a local pizzeria.

Hina was trapped between two cultures. She would wear western clothes, including jeans, but on visits to her relatives, she would wear the hijab out of "respect". When her body was dug up, she was wearing jeans.

It is thought that Hina's mother, Bushra, had fled to Pakistan a few weeks ago, taking her younger children with her. Bushra had protected Hina from her father's rages, neighbours claimed. Muhammad's car was found nearby on Saturday, abandoned. As well as Hina's missing father, her brother-in-law and an uncle are being sought for her murder.

Police assume that these three had decided to murder Hina when she refused a final request to marry her cousin in Pakistan.

There are 40,000 Pakistanis in Italy, and according to someone who is described as their "leader" (are they an army?), Ejaz Ahmad, honour killings have less to do with Islam than they have to do with the failures of immigrant communities to integrate.

This is bull. We have shown in May and also in our special report from July that such incidents are common in Pakistan, and also Turkey, amongst Jordanians and "Palestinians", and that honour killings derive precisely from Islam. In Pakistan, Turkey and among native Kurdish communities, there is no problem about "failed integration". We also showed that honor killings are part of a larger system of Islamic abuse against women, which often begins with forced marriage.

In a case such as this, where the girl comes from a Muslim family and is having a relationship with a non-Muslim man, it is breaking a big tabu in Islam. As we reported earlier, it is permissable for a Muslim man to marry a Christian or Jewish wife, but not for a Muslim woman to marry outside her official faith. Abdul Fattah Idris, professor of comparative religious laws at Al-Azhar University in Cairo said: "Muslim women are prohibited by the Shari'a (Muslim law) from marrying people of the book (i.e., Jews and Christians).

So there is every reason to say that this case is a classic Muslim honour killing. The girl refuses the forced marriage, and is killed, especially because she has brought "shame" upon her family by being in a relationship with a kaffir.

Ahmad, still trying to justify his false theories about alienation, said: "In Sweden alone over the last five years four women have been murdered because they were or wanted to become romantically involved with non-Pakistani men. Britain, on the other hand is full of such cases."

Well, he is right about something.

UPDATE: 15 August. The father has now been arrested, states Reuters. Mohammed Saleem's lawyer, Alberto Bordone, said: "He has decided to exercise his right to remain silent. He seemed quite calm and aware of the accusations that are being levelled at him."

Days after the centre-left government under Prodi announced a relaxation of immigration rules, this case has sparked a controversy in Italy. A member of Prodi's Union coalition said the murder showed the left's "rather idyllic idea of multi-ethnic integration" had its limits.

AKI states that Saleem was picked up with another un-named individual in Gardone, near Bresscia.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at August 14, 2006 9:43 PM

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