20-year old Noor Faleh Almaleki will never see her 21st birthday.The pretty young Iraqi woman is dead after succumbing to massive injuries caused by her father who deliberately ran her down with his Jeep because she had become "too westernized."
Police said her father mowed down both Ms. Almaleki and her boyfriend's mother as they were walking in a parking lot in Peoria, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. It was, by his own admission, a Muslim "honor killing."
Comments Mark Steyn, "If there were a Matthew Shepard murder every few months, Frank Rich et al would be going bananas about the 'climate of hate' in our society, but you can run over your daughter, decapitate your wife, drown three teenage girls and a polygamous spouse, and progressive opinion and the press couldn't give a hoot. Indeed, as The Atlantic notes, it's merely an obsession of us right-wing kooks.
During the IRA's long campaign against Her Majesty's Government, British officials had a cynical phrase about containing Northern Ireland to 'an acceptable level of violence.' I wonder what the silent U.S. media will settle on as the 'acceptable level of violence' against Muslim women. Ten honor killings a year? A couple dozen? A hundred?"
