Arizona: Legal Jihad

In an honor killing case here in America, no less.

From this source, in an article entitled " Muslims Exempt from Death Penalty in U.S.?":

For the first time, the idea that all are not equal before the law, but that some are more equal than others, has been given credence by an American court. Despite the County Attorney’s Office denials, a precedent has been set that Islamic pressure groups are certain to exploit to the hilt.

Read it all.

"Some are more equal than others"? Orwellian, as in Animal Farm. And how did that little utopia turn out?

Of course, the dhimmiwitted will say, "Nothing to see here. Move right along."

(Crossposted from Always On Watch)

IN ITALY, TARGETS OF HONOR MURDERS GET PROPER PROTECTION

As the fate of Rifqa Bary appears on the horizon again, Atlas Shrugs features some news translated from Italian sources that show how, just like in France, authorities there too are making efforts to protect women from Muslim families who fear for their lives. For example, from Mediaset:

“He wants to kill me.” That is what a 15-year-old Moroccan girl says about her father, who frequently beat her, so she left home.

Her father is a Moroccan worker who has lived in Italy for 25 years. He beats her up because she has an Italian boyfriend, and he keeps reminding her that she is Muslim – “Tu sei musulmana” – and she should not have an Italian boyfriend. His beatings, and his attitude, became so worrisome that she fled from the house and is now staying in a “comunita” (a kind of group-home that serves as a refuge for those who flee their family situation).

At the end of the very short item, there is a brief interview by phone with a politician who discusses how how one political party, the Northern League or Lega, wants to have a national law passed that will ban the niqab, for at present the situation depends on the local officials, the mayor, of reach town, to decide for himself how to deal with the niqab problem as he sees fit.

And here's another from Il Giornale:

Amo un italiano, papà mi uccide" Marocchina di 15 anni sotto scorta “

I love an Italian, daddy wants to kill me” Moroccan 15-years-old under protection

(in Italian)

«Her request for help is heartbreaking: «Help me, I do not want to end up like Hina and Sanaa». She said in tears to the Carabinieri of Pavia, just a few hours ago, a Moroccan fifteen-years-old escaped from his home in Voghera. And the soldiers have moved immediately: "Now the student is in a protected location in Lombardy, away from the parents herself accused of having threatened to give her the same end of Sanaa. Besides, its history, for some months now, is similar to that of two girls, had their lives took for the only "guilty" of loving an Italian, and not a Muslim, man. A script already seen.

The young girl knows an Italian, they liked one another, they start to go out together. He has the same age: a clean story. Yet parents do not go at all well. The father, as soon as he discovers it, screams her again, and again, that she must break off this story. Finally, a bit for filial obedience, much more for fear the teenager obeyed. But only briefly. Finally she cannot bear it no more. She takes up to frequent the Italian kid. And unfortunately she is eventually discovered. The mother in fact found a note in his pants, thrown in the basket of dirty laundry for the washing machine. It says: "I cannot forget the past with you." From there, the hell with the family.

The harassment starts. Her father beat her repeatedly and threaten her of death: "I'll give you the same end of the others ..." alluding to the most horrific cases of poor Muslim girls massacred because they were trying to break free from a fundamentalist and dull world. Beatings and threats that the mother have witnessed as well, without blinking, but rather sharing this "method of education”. The girl tries to cling to whatever is around her, had her friends contact the Social Services, as she will explain later to the police too. But everything remains as is. Nobody took her away from that family that now beats and insulted her almost every day. The angry phrase she hear is always the same: «Raki daimen Muslima u-maghribiyya (you are still/forever Muslim and Moroccan). These are your roots, you must not forget, and that is why you cannot attend Italian boys who are not Muslims. Your father feels dishonoured». Then the blows.

The emphasis that the media have given to cases of Hina and Sanaa moves her react. Thanks to what she saw she is conscious of what can be the end. She rebels and saves herself. And the parents lose a daughter. When she decides to run away from home is disoriented, does not know what to do or where to go. But she proved stronger than she has ever suspected. Thinks of one Italian friend of her. Contacts her and goes to her place. She stayed there a night. The next day she took the train with her, destination Pavia. Once they arrived in the [provincial] capital the decision triggers: to get help from whom, certainly will not underestimate their cry of despair.

So she enter the barracks of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, and tells all. She knows that to rebel could win her a life without regrets, where she can freely decide her own fate. And at the sentinel that stops her at the entrance she says, without hesitation: «I want to make a complaint." Allegation that begins with tears, but ends with a half smile. Because at once she is told that she will not return in that house. Finally her terror is listened. Now, of this case, will take care the Juvenile Court».

This is exactly what the US should be taking a page from, and helping women from Muslim families find the proper shelter they seek, not subjecting them to ludicrous legal procedures.

See also this article from Phyllis Chesler that tells more about how Italy's got a movement growing that wants to ban the burqa like in France, and how Egypt, of all places, wants to do the same.

THE THREAT TO RIFQA BARY IN ITS ULTIMATE CONTEXT

Andrew Bostom presents some work by the late Father Michael Hayek, a Lebanese Maronite Christian scholar whose works were widely sought, that provides more insight on the threat Rifqa Bary faces because of her apostasy from Islam.

On a related note, here's some more info on Tissy Said, the mother of Amina and Sarah Said who betrayed her 2 daughters to Yasser Said so he could honor-murder them. I fully agree that the mother should be in prison for being an accomplice to the crime, and not severing ties from that monster who's still at large.

Update: and here's some more on the Bary case: Jihad Watch discusses how the St. Petersburg Times propagandist Michael Kruse is trying to "explain" Islamic apostasy law to us. Kruse really is a most disgraceful man. Kruse, IMO, is actually rather Krude.

Update 2: Atlas Shrugs presents a special photograph of a fatwa document on apostasy.

NOW THAT IS SICK

Of all the filthiest acts the MSM could commit in their demonization of Rifqa Bary, not to mention the "parents" themselves, do you know what they've done now? They've given her diaries to the Orlando Sentinel to publish. Of course, there's the question if anything extra was fabricated in their drive to demonize her.

Is this what real parents do? Is this what any decent person does, to expose someone else's private properties, which is a violation of privacy? This is most truly disgusting, and Rifqa's counsel should sue the paper over this. Come to think of it, they should sue the "parents" as well. This exposes the "parents" as the attention-hungering hatemongers they really are. Such vile characters should be shunned and ostracized by any and all sensible society.

Update: Rusty at the Jawa Report has some extra things to observe on the case, including a certain blogmaster's surprising irresponsibility in how he addressed Rifqa's defenders.

Update 2: Atlas Shrugs and Jihad Watch have a new video of Rifqa from last May that's also interesting for viewing, as well as the following statement by Bruce Bawer for the Intl. Free Press Society and Free Thinking Films about Europe's multiculturalists:

And in many cases they shamefully close their eyes to honor killings. The murders by parents and siblings, of girls and women who in some cases doing no more than looking at a boy the wrong way, have according to Islamic beliefs, soiled family honor. European authorities are so much a prisoner of multiculturalism that they could actually believe that their obligation in such matters is not to protect innocent children from brutality, but to display sensitivity to cultural difference.

Within Muslim communities, there are only a very few unimaginably bold men and women, who dare to speak out against the traditional sharia based autocracy of the Mullahs and Imams. And when they did so, they were not defended, let alone praised for it by the government, media or by professors,but were rather accused of betraying their people and rocking the boat. Take the writer Whalid Al-Kalbaisi, who came to Norway from Iraq many years ago, and has recounted a conversation he had with the Ethnic Norwegian Director at what Al-Kalbaisi described as an "international cultural center".

This cultural bureaucrat plainly thought of himself as being devoted heart and soul to the welfare of immigrants, but when Al-Kalbaisi raised the question of the freedom of Muslims to criticize or even leave their own religion, the cultural bureaucrat was displeased. "You are a Muslim Whalid", he said, "and you must not lose your identity. " "But do you believe", Whalid asked, "that I will lose my identity if I believe in the freedom of expression?" "Listen" the man replied, "this is something that you decide yourself, but your attitude causes a lot of problems. We want to create a multicultural society and we don't want to dissolve these foreign cultures, your attitude alters all our plans, it creates conflicts between immigrants.

I think that's telling of what Norway for one has in mind for its own country.