Friday 30 December 2016

Honour Killing in Bradford, Father in the Dock.

  1. So they went on until, when they met a boy, he slew him. (Musa) said: "Have you slain an innocent person otherwise than for manslaughter? Certainly you have done an evil thing."
  2. He said: "Did I not say to you that you will not be able to have patience with me?"
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  1. "And as for the boy, his parents were believers & we feared lest he should make disobedience & ingratitude to come upon them:
  2. "So we desired that their Lord might give them in his place one better than him in purity & nearer to having compassion.

So Allah the pagan moon god tells his backward believers, in sura 18 of his repulsive & incoherent Koran. This is the Koran telling Muslims that it is moral to kill one's offspring if they are disobedient & ungrateful. This is were we get the newly imported phenomenon of honour killing, whereby Muslim families dispatch their own children into the hereafter for petty familial infractions.

We are often told that honour killing is nothing to do with Islam, that it is merely a backward tribal practice in the hills of Pakistan, which the light of Islam has been endeavouring to extisnguish. We see from the above passage, however, that honour killing has everything to do with Islam. So it is with the tragic story of Samia Shahid, first discussed on this site in August, who walked out on the cousin she was forced to marry & was, as a result, murdered with the collusion of her own family, as reported by MailOnline today (hat-tip to Vicky @tweetaboutit):

'I found her dead on the floor foaming at the mouth': Father of British beauty therapist 'raped and strangled' with a scarf in 'honour killing' reveals moment he found his daughter's body

  • British beautician Samia Shahid, 28, was allegedly lured to her death in Pakistan
  • She was allegedly raped and strangled on the bed with a scarf in honour killing
  • Her ex husband is accused of rape and murder, her father is accused of helping
  • Father Muhammad Shahid was freed on bail and denies involvement in her death
  • Shahid said they were close and told of moment he found her dead body on floor
  • She bought him a burger and chips for supper the night before she died and everything was normal, Shahid said

A father accused of helping to murder his British beauty therapist daughter in an alleged honour killing has revealed the moment he claims he found her slumped on the floor 'foaming at the mouth'.

Samia Shahid, 28, from Bradford, was allegedly raped and strangled with a scarf - the victim of a 'devious plan' by her family who wanted her dead because she left the cousin she was forced to marry, police in Pakistan claim.

Shahid (S)
Shahid (M)
In his first interview since his arrest in Pakistan, Samia's father Muhammad Shahid said: 'I saw Samia lying dead with some froth forming at her mouth. She may have fallen downstairs or somebody gave her something.

'I didn't touch her body and called police. I asked them to perform autopsy. The police lifted up her body. I handed over all her belongings including her mobile phone.'

Court papers in Pakistan claim that after arriving at her ancestral village in the Punjab her first husband Mohammed Shakeel was ordered by her father to watch her at all times.

On July 20, the day before she was due to return to her second husband Syed Mukhtar Kazam in Dubai, she refused to tell Shakeel where her passport and plane ticket were kept.

Shakeel terrorised her and threw her on the bed and raped her, prosecutors claim. Shakeel started to strangle her with her scarf while Shahid held her legs, it is alleged.

Shakeel is accused of Samia's rape and murder. He remains in custody. Her father Shahid is accused of assisting in her murder. He was released on bail last week after a court in Pakistan found there was insufficient evidence to keep him in custody.

But Shahid said: 'Samia came to my house in the morning. She was normal. She told me that she was going to lay flowers on grave of her mother-in-law. Everything was normal.

'I knew she was back at home alone after Shakeel had gone somewhere in the morning. I left my home around 12 noon and went to Samia's home. It was a routine visit. It took me two-three minutes to reach there.'

As soon as he opened the main gate he said he sensed something was wrong, Shahid said. He was shaken when he saw Samia's body, he added.

Samia was found with a 19cm red mark across her neck. Shahid said he thought the wound could have been caused by a necklance. [sic]

'She was wearing a gold chain, this scar most probably was because of that chain. There were no any torture sign on her body,' he said.

Shahid said he was 'very close' to his eldest daughter and the night before she bought him his favourite burger and chips for supper.

Shahid said: 'Everything was normal. Samia had no problem with Shakeel. She was happy with him and went with him to the house.

'I would not shy away to get a murder case registered even if Samia's husband, my nephew, might have been involved. But first I needed to know whether she was murdered, died from natural causes or it was an accident.'

In his near perfect English, he vowed: 'I will face this case and emerge as innocent.'

'It is so painful that my daughter has died and I am accused of being involved in her murder.

'We were not allowed to mourn her death. She was my daughter. I am grieved at her death but somebody else wants to become her legal heir and they want to get her father hanged. This is not fair.'

British Muslim Samia married first husband Shakeel in an arranged marriage in 2012.

But she left him after less than two years, divorcing him to marry Mr Kazam.

The couple's wedding was held at Leeds Town Hall in 2014. Shortly afterwards they moved to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Samia's family claim her second marriage was illegal because she had never obtained a proper divorce.

But Mr Kazam, 30, who works in the chemicals industry, disputes that and insists she was legally divorced.

He claims she angered her parents by converting to Shia Islam, his sect, and she was murdered for bringing 'dishonour' to the family.

Mr Kazam released a shocking photo of his wife's body showing the red mark around her neck. 'I want the world to know that she didn't die of natural causes,' he said. 'She was murdered. I'm shattered. I can't describe my pain, she is such a great loss.

At the time of her death, Samia was visiting her home in Punjab, Pakistan, after allegedly being told by her mother Imtiaz Bibi and younger sister Madiha Shahid in Bradford that her father was gravely ill.

They are wanted on suspicion of 'abetting the murder.' Prosecutors claim the pair used emotional blackmail in 'a devious plan' to lure Samia from the UAE to Pakistan.

The pair fled their home in Bradford before Christmas for a secret location in the city.

Shahid is a British-Pakistani citizen who spent 20 years living in the UK.

'The whole world turned against us. We were not given opportunity to clear our position,' he said.

Shahid is receiving British consular assistance. Pakistan still imposes the death penalty for killers and is ranked by Amnesty International as the third most prolific executioner in the world.

He went on: 'I have always been a law abiding citizen. I lived in UK for over two decades and not received even a traffic ticket. I am not well from last four years. I am diabetic and my right foot is in a bad shape.

'I could have applied social security benefits in UK but I have never applied for any benefits. I am using my money for the treatment.'

Shahid also attacked Samia's MP for Bradford West Naz Shah for 'making a lot of noise around this case' and accused her of using his daughter's death to further her political career.

Ms Shah said: 'I will fight for justice to be served till the last breath in me. Why isn't he screaming murder and justice from the rooftops as a bereaved father?

'The fact remains that a post mortem has concluded beyond any doubt that his daughter was raped and murdered.'

Shahid's wife and daughter Imtiaz and Madiha back in Britain are still wanted for questioning over the suspected honour killing and police in Pakistan issued warrants for their arrest.

They were declared proclaimed offenders two months ago in Pakistan after leaving the country days after her death and returning to the UK.

Ms Shah described the arrest warrants as 'a significant development.'

She said: 'I welcome the fact arrest warrants have been issued because it will encourage the family to assist with the inquiry and make themselves available to police.

'If they have nothing to do with Samia's death they will have nothing to fear. I am very pleased the Pakistan authorities are investigating this.

It shows they are keeping the inquiry alive and committed to getting justice for the killers.'

A Home Office spokesperson today refused to discuss 'the individual case' of Samia's mother and sister but said because there was no treaty between the two nations it would 'cause a long drawn out delay in proceedings.'

A Foreign Office spokesperson said: 'We have been providing assistance to a British national since his detention in Pakistan in July 2016.'

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