Another Muslim "Honor Killing" (This One Unsuccessful) Goes Unreported

Abraxas over at Uncoverage describes the Daily Mail's deliberate distortion of a major story; namely, an attempted Muslim "honor killing" of a famous actress.

The Muslim actress who plays ‘Padma’ in the Harry Potter films has fled her home in Manchester, England after her father and brother tried to kill her. The father and brother have since been charged with attempted murder (with the brother also being charged with physically assaulting his sister); both were jailed. In the meantime, the young girl, Afshan Azad, 22, has fled to London to stay with friends. She’s going to need some hiding because both the father and brother have now been released on bail. It’s clear that the police recognize the girl’s life is in grave danger because the police put restrictions on the bail...

The ‘unnamed man’ is clearly someone whom the young actress had been seeing. As a result of her association, the father and brother tried to kill her. In short, this was an attempted Muslim ‘honor killing’.

But the Daily Mail flatly refuses to state this obvious fact. You can read the article from top to bottom but not a single word of it identifies the father and brother’s murderous attack for what it is – an attempted honor killing. It gets worse – the Daily Mail won’t even identify the father and brother as Muslim. Why? It’s because the Daily Mail, like the media worldwide, quakes in cowardly fear of offending the ‘religion of peace’. Even when that religion orders a father to mercilessly slaughter his own child – as happened in this grisly case – the Daily Mail still won’t print the truth about the Muslim faith.

It’s painfully clear that wherever that wretched young girl is hiding, she has only to read this article to realize she can expect absolutely no support from the media. And she certainly can’t look to her Muslim family for help...

Mollie at Get Religion chimes in, "If you can’t get the media interested in covering these issues when the target is famous, what hope do we have for good coverage when the victims are from a small town in the middle of nowhere?"