I have done this. Oh yea, play dumb American like I can’t understand Arabic, hoping that it doesn’t show I just pulled something stupid and want to get away with it. Like not looking when opening the car door and almost causing an accident, the thing that makes me steam on the roads (although I did it in a parking lot, not on Wadi Saqra, which seems to have become a one-lane road now with the badly planned idea of banks, pharmacies and stores on a narrow thoroughfare with NO PARKING).
But this is pretty bad. This Iraqi family is playing the culture card to dismiss the beating of a daughter. I watched another video, and the lies on the faces, in the words, is so visibly obvious.
PHOENIX – An Iraqi mother accused of beating her 19-year-old daughter for talking to a boy is back behind bars, along with her husband and another daughter.
Phoenix police told ABC15 that the victim claims her parents and her younger sister beat her, and then tied her to a bed in their home.
Younger sister.
The mother, Yursa Farhan, who sat down with ABC15 on Saturday, admitted to hitting her daughter, Aiya, who lied to her and used foul language, but denies ever beating her as police allege.
“She was talking to a boy and our culture says no boyfriends,” Farhan said. “We have to respect our culture.”
Talking to boy = having boyfriend.
Farhan was released from jail last week, but was re-arrested on Wednesday.
Investigators said Fahan also burned Aiya with a hot spoon as punishment back in November because the teenager refused to marry a 38-year-old man.
Refusing arranged marriage to 38 year old. Burned with a spoon? They must have seen Captain Abu Raed
Farhan’s husband, Mohammed Altameemi, and their 18-year-old daughter, Tabarak Altameemi, were arrested in connection with the most recent incident.
Aiya defended her mother on Saturday to ABC15 saying that she understood why her mother hit her, and said that she agreed with her discipline.
She also said that it didn’t happen the way the police said it did. She said she was only hit once and that she was never restrained.
Farhan told ABC15 that Aiya suffers seizures and she was having one the day she went to school and didn’t explain the incident to authorities correctly.
Seizures. Like the hospital couldn’t figure that out.
“I don’t speak good English,” said Aiya. “When I’m having a seizure I don’t know what I say.”
Aiya and her mother said that she was hospitalized for the seizure, not for injuries due to the beating as police alleged.
“I love my mother,” Aiya said. “I can’t live with out my mother.”
The family lives near 35th Avenue and Glendale, but investigators believe they are trying to leave the country and return to Iraq after these allegations.
Read more: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/pd-honor-beating-now-connected-to-entire-family-parents-and-sibling-arrested#ixzz1miRzIfb2
Silly people. Everyone knows hot spoons don’t work. Hot forks do.
Ignorance of the law is not an excuse!
And also the fact it is known when you live in a country you abide by their customs not by the ones you grew up with, that is what is called assimilation.