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October 10, 2006

Australia: Muslim Honor Or Merely Muslim Murder?

A sad case is reported in the Courier Mail, News.com.au, and in more detail in the Gold Coast Bulletin of the death of a Muslim woman in an apartment at Southport on the Gold Coast in Queensland, on the eastern seaboard of Australia, 50 miles south of Brisbane.

The incident involved three family members. Bangladeshi-born Dr Muhammad Hussain had moved to the Gold Coast a month ago, to take up a post as a doctor. At the weekend, his wife and their 17-year old daughter had arrived from Adelaide.

The 49-year old doctor is thought to have become enraged when he heard of his daughter's plans to become a convert to Christianity. Neighbours at the housing complex in Smith Street, Albatross Park, heard "blood-curdling screams" coming from the house before the 17-year old girl came running from the house around 7 pm on Monday (October 9). She had been stripped down to her underwear, and her back was covered in scratches.

Neighbour Caitlin Dalton was taking rubbish out when she heard the screams. She said: "She (the teenager) was yelling, 'Help me, help me, they're trying to kill me'. Everybody heard the screams but we couldn't work out which unit they were coming from. Then this girl emerged in the stairwell hysterical and crying. Her clothes had been ripped off, she was just in her underwear and she had quite severe scratches down her arm and across her back."

Police found the girl's 41-year old mother Yasmine lying dead in the house. She had stab wounds in the chest. Hussain, the father, was injured from a stab wound. He is now in a critical condition at Gold Coast Hospital under police guard.

It is believed that when the teenager told her father of her plans to become a Christian, her father tried to kill her. Her mother is thought to have tried to protect her daughter, and became stabbed with a kitchen knife.

Ms Dalton said that residents had tried to calm the sobbing teenager, who had said she wanted to "convert from the Islam religion and obviously her father didn't handle it very well. She said her parents were really strict."

A police officer from the Criminal Investigation Bureau at Surfers Paradise, Detective Inspector John Hartwell, said: "It's a domestic situation, a very tragic one, which has resulted in the death of the mother and serious injuries to the father."

He would not state if the police believed that religion was a motive for the killing, but confirmed that the 17-year old girl had received minor injuries and was now in crisis accommodation.

Hartwell said: "She is assisting police with our inquiries. She is not a suspect, merely a witness to what has transpired. Arrangements are being made through Crisis Care for accommodation for her at this stage, pending the contact of the next of kin and relatives. "At this stage we've been unable to locate the relatives, they're all overseas."

He did not state if Dr Hussain would be charged. Hartwell said: "
"This matter may end up in a criminal trial or may end up in a coroners court. Before we know the full facts I'm not willing to speculate. The outcome of the investigation will determine whether any charges are laid or a report is forwarded to the coroner."

According to the Gold Coast Bulletin, police are investigating the religious dimension as a possible motive.

A Muslim source told the Bulletin: "From what we understand the daughter decided to tell her father of her radical plan to convert to Christianity which, in the eyes of most Muslims, is totally unacceptable and to be honest, sadly, many would react as he has done."

"It is the Islamic way that if a son or daughter does or plans to do something that is unacceptable or wrong for a Muslim then it is the mother who is automatically at fault and will bear the brunt of the blame."

The three bedroom apartment was covered in blood. with blood dried onto the wall, and on the carpet near the front door. Blood was on the doorknob. The apartment had a large Turkish carpet and leather upholstered chairs.

Dr Hussain had completed his training in medicine at Chittagong Medical College, Bangladesh, in 1982. He gained a Masters in family medicine in Australia in 2001, and last year was awarded a fellowship by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

Now what was it the Pope said about Sura 2: 256? There shall be no compulsion in religion? Of course not......

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 10, 2006 9:22 PM

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