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UK: Muslim parents suffocated daughter with a plastic bag, dumped her body in river, for being too “Westernized”

Apr 14, 2019 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Welcome to the new, multicultural Britain! There will be much, much more of this in Britain: Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but “the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour ‘provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.’” And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that “Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.”

Until the encouragement Islamic law gives to honor killing is acknowledged and confronted, more women will suffer.

“NO HONOUR ‘My best friend’s parents suffocated her with a plastic bag and made her siblings watch – all because she was wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt,’” by Sarah Holmes, The Sun, April 13, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

AS Shafilea Ahmed left work in her new T-shirt, she knew her mum was going to have something to say about it.

But she had no idea the row which was about to ensue over her dress sense would end in her being murdered in the family home in front of her siblings.

The 17-year-old’s parents were strict Muslims and hated Shafilea’s westernised fashion choices, often calling her a ‘prostitute’ and a ‘whore’ and beating and starving her as a punishment.

But on September 11, 2003, the argument over Shafilea’s T-shirt – a clothing choice which her parents said embarrassed them and brought shame on their family – ended with her mum and dad stuffing a carrier bag into her mouth until she turned blue.

Her horrified siblings watched on in horror as they killed their own daughter in a brutal attack in their Warrington home, before their dad bundled her lifeless body into the car and dumped her body in a river 70 miles away.

It would take nine years before her sister Alesha, 30, finally broke rank to reveal her family’s horrific secret to the police.

In a new documentary, When Missing Turns To Murder, journalists, investigators and friends of the Ahmed family reveal the harrowing extent of Shafilea’s abuse, and the wall of silence the police were met with from her family and the wider community following her death.

Even now, 16 years on, some of her siblings still refuse to admit their parent’s vile actions.
Killed for wearing make-up

Born in July 1986, Shafilea was the first child of Farzana and Iftikhar Ahmed, cousins who had an arranged marriage.

The life they built together was strict – but despite this, teenage Shafilea wore make-up and false nails.

She had an interest in fashion, and even dreamt of becoming a lawyer some day.

“She texted boys,” says family friend Shahin Munir, who attended the same mosque as Shafilea’s sisters. “But obviously it was hidden. It couldn’t be on her mobile phone because her parents would check.”

Iftikhar and Farzana deeply disproved of their daughter’s ‘westernised’ way of life.

“I’d heard there were physical beatings and a lot of emotional abuse,” says Shahin. “Her sister told me her parents would lock Shafilea in the garden. She wanted to escape her home, for her it was hell.”
‘She drank bleach in a suicide attempt’

Determined to curb her rebellious ways, the family arranged a family holiday to Pakistan where they intended to marry Shafilea off to one of her cousins.

But Shafilea was terrified, and refused to go. So her father drugged her with sleeping tablets and forced her to get on the flight.

When she woke up in Pakistan, Shafilea was so terrified about what may happen to her that she drank bleach in a desperate suicide attempt, severely burning her throat and oesophagus.

The family rushed her to hospital where she stayed for two months while she recovered.

Her father cashed in her return ticket for £250 and flew back to the UK with her two sisters.

When Shafilea returned to the UK, she spent a couple of weeks in hospital in Warrington, where Iftikhar claimed she’d mistaken a bottle of bleach for mouthwash.

When she eventually came home, her parents isolated Shafilea – and while she went to school and worked part-time in a call centre, her mum insisted on picking her up everyday, watching her every move.

Furious at her for refusing the marriage and for, in their opinion, bringing shame on the family, her parents decided to carry out an honour killing on their eldest daughter.

They executed it in front of Shafilea’s three younger sisters and brother.

After dumping Shafilea’s body in the river, her parents warned their other kids they’d kill them too if they ever spoke of the incident again….

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  1. Michael Copeland says

    Apr 14, 2019 at 1:19 pm

    A daughter is her father’s chattel. She is not to have any ideas of her own. Disobeying her father is a slur on his ownership and supremacy, about which all the others at the mosque will know and disapprove. It calls for purging of this shame. If the father were to refrain from acting then the retribution would be exacted on him as a failing muslim.
    In Islam your brother doubles as your punisher and even executioner.

    • Omar says

      Apr 14, 2019 at 6:20 pm

      Not in the name of Islam.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 14, 2019 at 10:11 pm

        Everything about this horror was in the name of Islam.

      • Westman says

        Apr 15, 2019 at 12:13 am

        Yes, in the name of Islam. Do you refute the Prophet? “…The Prophet said, ‘If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.’ ” – Sahih Bukari(52:260)

        • Mike says

          Apr 15, 2019 at 9:22 pm

          100% true
          And sadly there’s much more to come worldwide
          Islam = destructions, horror, slavery , it simply destroys everything in its path watch out Europe

    • William A Carr says

      Apr 15, 2019 at 11:16 am

      The wonderful family life of Extreme Muslims which exposes once again the fantasy of integration. They do not want our culture and they perpetrate their culture as though they were in the country of origin. Islam trumps everything.

    • smors says

      Apr 15, 2019 at 11:58 am

      Western “tolerance” props this crap up and betrays women and children. Thank you, Mrs. May. All cultures are not “equal”. The “culture” surrounding Islam s filthy and perverse. We in the West should condemn and reject it out of hand – not accommodate and praise it.

  2. Michael Copeland says

    Apr 14, 2019 at 1:24 pm

    Shafilea Ahmed’s name and story needs to be known by everyone.

    So also Kriss Donald.
    See https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/03/i-fought-back/

    • Val Coggin says

      Apr 14, 2019 at 2:13 pm

      These type of families need to live in the 21st century and not the dark ages. I hope they are jailed under Enush law and that their religious beliefs are not taken into consideration! It’s barbaric!

      • Jean (old) says

        Apr 15, 2019 at 4:30 am

        Val Coggin.

        It is quite mistaken to think that Muhammad’s behaviour was normal in the 7th century. It was not. People were shocked by it, then as now. He was not a man of his times; his time was far kinder than he was. He brought a new level of cruelty into the world, never surpassed before or after.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 14, 2019 at 10:38 pm

      Yes–the Kriss Donald case was terrible.

      There are apt to be many more.

  3. John Hawk says

    Apr 14, 2019 at 1:35 pm

    Just another day in Lesser Britistan. What are parents to do, whose heads are stuffed with life lessons brought to the world by the the vile and morally bankrupt Muhammad and his psychotic projection Allah?

  4. Jay says

    Apr 14, 2019 at 1:42 pm

    This is one of the most horrific stores I have ever read! May this child rest in the comfort of god’s hands.
    And hopefully her parents go to jail, and then to the fires in hell!
    This is what the U.K. gets for allowing the unfettered invasion of Muslims ! We must stop the insanity!
    PM Churchill is not resting easy today as England is lost! God save rhe queen.
    God save America too! Trump,2020. Our Only hope ! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

    • Kevin dodson says

      Apr 15, 2019 at 3:15 am

      Muslims are playing the victim in the United States because their numbers are low we have too many bleeding hearts towards Islam! LGBT supports them! Believe it or not! Thank God we have trump! We are 1 election away from open borders and socialism! who would’ve ever thought the United States would be facing the prospect of socialism! Pray for us! And pray trump wins again! God bless America! 🇺🇸

  5. elee says

    Apr 14, 2019 at 1:52 pm

    Somebody please educate this knuckle-dragging rube about how to be trendy and multicultural and value-neutral about this stuff. I just can’t get the hang of it…….no matter how much I try to be ashamed of myself and my culture, I just can’t manage it. I should apologise to these people for something and everything between the waves of nausea and disgust,, right? Nope, I just can’t get the hang of this trendy s**t.

  6. somehistory says

    Apr 14, 2019 at 1:54 pm

    So have the “parents”…the murderers, been arrested, tried, imprisoned? Faced a firing squad or a lethal needle? No, the U.K. doesn’t execute vile murderers like these two evil, scummy moslims. They may imprison them for a few years, if they do anything at all.

    It isn’t “honor killing.” It’s flat-out murder, and of a child, which is the worst kind. They carried it out like a mafia hit, an execution…and then walked around as free people, all of the time threatening their other children. Two of the devil’s spawn.

    • elee says

      Apr 14, 2019 at 2:00 pm

      They will live out the remainder of their lives at the Dawa Hilton at the expense of decent working folks. In Britain it’s called a sentence of imprisonment. In somebody else’s culture it’s called a lifetime of living on the jizya. Who are we kafirs to dispute another culture’s view of things?

    • James Lincoln says

      Apr 14, 2019 at 2:21 pm

      somehistory,

      You are correct, the media needs to stop using the words “honor killing” to describe acts such as these. It adds a modicum of “legitimacy” to the act, making it more of a “cultural” thing.

      It is nothing less than PREMEDICATED MURDER ONE!!!

      As Steve McGarrett would say, “book ’em Danno…”

      And may they be prosecuted to the absolute fullest extent of the law.

      • somehistory says

        Apr 14, 2019 at 2:31 pm

        James Lincoln

        Thank you. It absolutely does add to the horrific crime, as though somehow the family has a “right” to carry out their vile form of injustice.

        And premeditated murder is so much worse than murder in the heat of the moment…which is bad enough. Premeditation may be as short as a few moments. These moslim creatures planned ahead for the murder of their daughter. And they probably had in mind how they would carry out the murders of their other children if they didn’t tow the moslim line.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Apr 14, 2019 at 2:52 pm

      Shafilea Ahmed’s parents sentenced to at least 25 years in jail for her murder

      https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/shafilea-ahmeds-parents-sentenced-to-at-least-1214340

      • somehistory says

        Apr 14, 2019 at 4:19 pm

        Michael Copeland

        Thank you. Hoping they have to serve out their entire sentence.

  7. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Apr 14, 2019 at 2:36 pm

    Although words cannot encompass her last moments on Earth, all I can think of is Marlon Brando’s line in, Apocalypse Now, “THE HORROR, THE HORROR.”
    The greatest threat to Muslims are other Muslims, especially female Muslims.
    What would Linda Sarsour have to say about this example of Sharia Law? What a crazy look is she.

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Apr 14, 2019 at 3:23 pm

    Islamic “culture” is not actually a real culture but cruel savage primitive murderous system of brutal religious vicious violence. As seen in that malicious murder “custom” called ‘honor killing.”

    About the topic of Islamic violence which, something, takes the form of the brutal cruel vicious and murderous action that is so inappropriately y called “honor killing.” This malicious misogyny is so heinous callous and malice- filled that it’s an affront to all that is good, decent and right. In addition, the author, Brigitte Gabriel in her book which is entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED on pages 171,172 , that “The shocking reality is that most Muslim men ,including those educated in the West ,have no objection to the degradation of women in their countries .Across the Muslim world, even in moderate Islamic countries, women’s’ rights are almost nonexistent…Women is Islam are considered unclean ,deemed inferior even to dirt.” Furthermore, as for Islamic violence against girls and women in Canada. In this just cited book it explains on page 176 that “Honor killings have also come to the West thanks to the rise of Islamic immigration. “

    Indeed, they must be stopped !

    • elee says

      Apr 14, 2019 at 3:53 pm

      Small semantic point: Remember Kenneth Clarke’s video series “Civilisation,” from the 1970’s? Lovely series, we should all watch it every few years. In it he comments on artifacts from I-forget-which tribe of Dark Ages barbarians. The artifacts are lovingly wrought, there is beauty in them…….then again what their makers did to monasteries and towns was not beautiful. His comment is that they had a culture, but not a civilisation. They had not learned to live in a civic and civil world. I acknowledge that there is a Muslim culture, it sometimes produces things of beauty, but it is not civilised. When I write of their culture it is always with an eye to the distinction Kenneth Clarke brought to my attention. Indeed, they must be stopped.

  9. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Apr 14, 2019 at 3:38 pm

    “O believers! The law of retaliation is set for you in cases of murder—a free man for a free man, a slave for a slave, and a female for a female,” (Qur’an 2:178).

    “The following are not subject to retaliation:
    …a father or mother …for killing their offspring,” Reliance of the Traveller, O1.2, 4 [Shari’a manual]

    Of course, not all Muslims, etc.

    • elee says

      Apr 14, 2019 at 4:01 pm

      Not all Muslims etc……..only the observant ones. And this is of particular significance when the children of “westernised” Muslims go looking for their origins……..and instead of the hardworking builders of civilisation that westerners find, these children find the Verse of the Sword and its ilk. The sleepers awaken, mayhem ensues, it happens a lot. If you take pathogens into your body, the first generation might be benign, then after the incubation period……..the men who launched this cult were savage, not stupid.

  10. Angelica says

    Apr 14, 2019 at 4:02 pm

    I don’t trust this source as you haven’t been banned from Facebook yet.

  11. jayell says

    Apr 14, 2019 at 5:48 pm

    ‘Honour killings’ have probably been going on in the UK since these people started arriving in the 1950’s, although nobody realised it then, as exemplified by the case in the papers of a young female body found dismembered in a suitcase in the River Roding in east London around that time. Murders were generally relatively rare then and this sort of thing was most certainly unheard of. And the term ‘honour killing’ would have horrified the average person as an obscene oxymoron. How times have changed!

  12. David M says

    Apr 14, 2019 at 9:29 pm

    How warped is the thinking of these Muslim parents. If they don’t like the west then stay in Pakistan, it’s not that hard,

  13. gravenimage says

    Apr 14, 2019 at 9:56 pm

    UK: Muslim parents suffocated daughter with a plastic bag, dumped her body in river, for being too “Westernized”
    ………………….

    *Horrifying*. This poor girl.

    I’m glad her sibling finally told the authorities.

  14. Pleasewakeup says

    Apr 14, 2019 at 10:38 pm

    Both her parents killed her IN FRONT of her three siblings!! They are not human. This is the stuff you see in very disturbing horror films. Why come here in the first place? Quite perplexing.

  15. elee says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 10:04 am

    It occurs to me that the Muslim scholars in an adjacent thread could cite this family as exemplars. Hey Muslims, the previous sentence should constitute neither a defense nor matter for mitigation at sentencing.

  16. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 11:08 am

    i.e: “She is too cute to live! Send her to Allah!”

  17. Adrian Thomas says

    Apr 16, 2019 at 6:09 am

    How how many Mxxxxx families are doing exactly the same thing
    to their children right here and now in UK 2019

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