“The suspect waited until his family left the house, then grabbed his sister by the hair, slit her throat and stabbed her several times to her chest, back and forehead,” the source added.
The suspect then headed to his relatives’ house and informed them that he killed his sister to cleanse his family’s honour, according to the source.
The suspect informed investigators that he was “100 per cent sure” his sister was involved in an affair and that is why he stabbed her to death.
“The suspect also said his sister screamed that she was innocent and had done nothing wrong as he was stabbing her,” the source, who is close to the investigations, added.
The physicians also established that she was not sexually active.
I hope that he has learned how poor his judgement of estimation is, among several other important lessons. Her screams will echo in his mind to underline his miscalculation of her guilt. Read it all.
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And even if she WAS guilty, so bloody what, you know? Men have affairs all the time in this society. I have married men hit on me all the time while I’m in Amman. Nobody’s stabbing them.
Damn!, I’m speechless
Natalia, Some women should stab a guy for him having a affair then maybe they will stop.
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Ali, I just don’t think that violence is a great way of resolving any family conflict, you know?
Yeah i agree.
Hi Layla, thanks for linking and posting
Hi Nat, thanks for the link and post. You know I only brought up her sexual status to show how OFF her brother was, not a statement of deserving such violence, right?
(I get hit on by married men, too. I knew of a nun who carried a hat pin to stab men who propositioned her, and she used it)
Ali, keep talkin’. (hey you were just my 9,000th comment
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9,000th comment, Wow i got you into history
Well, 3,000 of them were probably my responses, but it is a fun number!
why do they keep using suspect, victim, sources in the article. all you learn is that another woman was killed & she is innocent. its like a counter & its dehumanizing the story. why no names, no crime scene pictures, no relatives interviewed, no public opinion taken ?
Tala, good questions. I’m not a real journalist, so I don’t know if this is just the way news is reported or how much of it is influenced by not wanting to bring further ‘shame’ on the family by naming names. (i am treading in a realm I know not of, I think the whole concept is shameful)
I remember Rana Husseini once saying that the horrific facts stand for themselves. When I was at a writer’s training forum, learning about how to write on this very topic, I received serious criticism from a local male news-writer for adding emotion and details to my piece. It was telling.
Yet, seeing the faces of both victim and murderer, the crime scene, would indeed add to the horror of it, humanizing the victim and probably doing more to diminish this crime.
Kinzi, please just give up, there is no hope, “honor” crimes are here to stay for a very long time.
It pains me to see that someone who is not Jordanian is trying to change something for the better here, while Jordanians them selfs don’t want that change at all…just take the position of the parliament a few years ago.
Wissam, no way I am giving up, as there is real reason to hope and press through. You are right, dishonor crimes are here to stay for a very long time, but they have been steadily declining (until 2009).
Wissam, I love Jordan. It is an honor to live here and a gift from God to be a part of positive change that truly impacts for good. I am just a part, though. Did you see the FB group, La Sharaf Bil Jareemah? It’s a start.
I wish you could meet Rana, Deema, Reem, Taghreed, Lana, Carol, Hani, Fadi AbdelSalam and the MANY Jordanians who are, AT THIS MOMENT, implementing change. Not just wanting it, be implementing it.
Your generation will make a change. The powers that be are going to be replaced by your generation. Don’t give up before you have even begun to fight.