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July 12, 2008
Exclusive: CRC Open Sources
W. Thomas Smith, Jr., Director, Counterterrorism Research Center
In this week's CRC Open Sources we look at Robert Spencer's piece in FrontPage that focuses on an often-underreported act of terrorism, honor killings.
According to Spencer:
"Last Sunday Chaudhry Rashid, a Pakistani immigrant living in Clayton County, Georgia, strangled his daughter to death. According to police, Rashid explained to them that he had killed his daughter, Sandeela Kanwal, in order to restore his family's honor, which she had sullied by planning to divorce the husband to whom she had been given in an arranged marriage. ...
"The price of this politically correct refusal to confront the ugly realities of the Islamic link to honor killing will be, quite simply, more honor killings. No one will call upon Islamic groups to do something about this practice. No special scrutiny will be focused upon Muslims in the United States, or any studies undertaken about how honor killings can be prevented. No one will examine the question of unrestricted Muslim immigration in light of this problem. While learned analysts search for clues in South Asian cultural habits and the practices of European royalty, more young women will be murdered by their Muslim fathers, husbands, and brothers to cleanse their family's honor. These young women are the ultimate victims of political correctness."
Though viewed as only a crime, the killing of Sandeela Kanwalan is an unacceptable result of an increasingly accepted twisted ideology which must be confronted as a deadly attack on civil society by the same sort of Islamic fundamentalists who would fly commercial aircraft into buildings.
- Visit W. Thomas Smith Jr. at uswriter.com.
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