Aug 3 - Parents murk daughter for liking western culture

a Ahmed, parents of Shafilea Ahmed.
The parents of Shafilea Ahmed have been found guilty of murking the 17-year-old, who was k!lled because they believed she had brought shame on the family.
The verdict at Chester crown court comes after a three-month trial and almost nine years after Shafilea was k!lled for defying her parents' wishes for an arranged marriage in Pakistan to a much older man.
Iftikhar Ahmed, a 52-year-old taxi driver, and his wife, Farzana, 49, from Warrington, Cheshire, had vehemently denied any involvement in their daughter's [rip] at the family home on 11 September 2003, but the jury disagreed with their account of events.
As the verdicts were delivered after two days of deliberations, Shafilea's brother Junyad and sister Mevish cried in court, as did a younger sibling who cannot be identified for legal reasons. The Ahmed parents remained impassive in the dock.
Shafilea's best friend, Melissa Powner, said: "We have waited for this day for many years. We have watched as her k!llers roamed free. Yet today we heard those important words – words that have finally brought our friend the justice she deserves.
"Shafilea was a caring, high spirited and brave young lady who even in her toughest times always strived to remain positive and hopeful that one day she too would be able to live the peaceful and happy life that she deserved."
The judge, Justice Roderick Evans, had earlier urged the jury to put aside feelings of sympathy and revulsion when considering the case and to discuss the evidence coolly and calmly.
Shafilea's badly decomposed remains were found on a flooded bank of the river Kent in Sedgwick, Cumbria, five months after her disappearance, in February 2004. The jury agreed with the prosecution's[..]ertion that she had been k!lled by her parents because they believed she had brought shame on the family as the result of her desire to lead a "westernized" lifestyle. In the six months before her [rip], Shafilea drank bleach during a family trip to Pakistan in an apparent cry for help.
The prosecution's key witness was Shafilea's 24-year-old sister, Alesha, who said she and her siblings had witnessed the murk at the family home. She said Farzana issued the command in Urdu: "Just finish it here," as her parents forced a plastic carrier bag into Shafilea's mouth and placed their hands over her it, blocking her airways as her father held her down. Alesha said Shafilea's eyes were wide open in horror and she was kicking her legs in protest. She realised her sister was dead when her legs stopped kicking. "That was it, she was gone," she told the court. She recalled seeing her father punching her sister's lifeless body in the chest after the k!lling. Later, she watched her mother prepare sheets, binbags and rolls of tape in the kitchen. She looked out of a window and saw her father carrying a heavy package, which she[..]umed was Shafilea's body.
Iftikhar Ahmed denied any involvement in Shafilea's [rip], maintaining she ran away from home in the middle of the night and he never saw her again. But midway through the trial, his wife changed her account of events and said her husband was responsible for a single, violent attack on Shafilea on the night of her disappearance. Her husband, she claimed, told her to never ask him about Shafilea again "if she cared for her dear life" and those of her children. However, the jury failed to be convinced by the couple's version of events and found them both guilty of murk.

This article originally appeared on guardian.co.uk


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I hope you parents Rest in!!when you die.

this !! has me pissed [pic]

religion can brainwash ppl into doing the foulest !!...

Yeah, it's !!ed up. It has Muslims in the Middle East hating Americans, and Americans hating Muslims in the Middle East. !! is stupid, all perpetuated by people who have nothing to do with us regular folk.

another victim claimed by religion

religion should be universally banned.

When will cultural evolution move from the west to the rest of the world? !!ing backward[..] !!s.

stupid mutha !!as, want there kids to amount to nothing just like they did.

We're a little more progressive in the West. But not by too much. As a nation, the majority of Americans are still nationalistic, homophobic, secksist, racist, and religiously prejudice. We still have a long way to go.

THIS right here. [pic]

RIP to her,glad the parents were finally charged and the other family members could get some closure.


.... ironic how some Americans emphasize their values of "freedom & liberty" but want to force their ways on others by cultural imperialism. I would hate for the whole world to be Americanized would take away diversity and defeat the whole point of traveling. Imagine goin way across the world only to eat McDonalds and see the same !! u see at home [pic] .... arranged marriages and the denigration of women is not exclusive to religion...women's equality is undermined even within current westernized cultrue( and it took years to get just basic rights lol) so banning religion and westernizing world wouldn't really make it better [pic]

STUPID AS INDIANS !!! I SEEN THSI !! ONCE ON AMERICAS MOST WANTED
TOO!!

PARENTS A LIL KOO KOO !!! LOL

Even though religion and culture are tightly coupled, this appears to be entirely cultural.

they're not indian, but no time to get petty. this is still sad

they livin under rocks.. when sum one wants out.. they get wacked

Forced marriages are not allowed in Islam this is pure culture based on tribal and old Hindu customs. Real shame though, these things happen

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why in the !! would somebody from the west want to evolve into not being allowed to work or walk around with !! wrapped around your head not to be seen or get your head chopped if you look at somebody ect ect ect

!! outta heaaa [pic]

reading is essential

[pic] Do you really think the West has got it together? The whole world is full of !!.

Is anybody responding in this thread a parent?