Pakistani slays daughters to salvage ‘honor’

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10628136/

In shocking crime, man slits throat of 4 as his wife watches helplessly

MULTAN, Pakistan - Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throats of his three young daughters and their 25-year old stepsister to salvage his family’s “honor” — a crime that shocked Pakistan.

The 40-year old laborer, speaking to The Associated Press in police detention as he was being shifted to prison, confessed to just one regret — that he didn’t murder the stepsister’s alleged lover too.

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Speaking to AP in the back of police pickup truck late Tuesday as he was shifted to a prison in the city of Multan, Ahmed showed no contrition. Appearing disheveled but composed, he said he killed Muqadas because she had committed adultery, and his daughters because he didn’t want them to do the same when they grew up.

He said he bought a butcher’s knife and a machete after midday prayers on Friday and hid them in the house where he carried out the killings.

“I thought the younger girls would do what their eldest sister had done, so they should be eliminated,” he said, his hands cuffed, his face unshaven. “We are poor people and we have nothing else to protect but our honor.”

isn't safe in a families of men.

The Color Purple.

I read the book a number of years ago (it wasn't very good). I passed on the movie.

Thomas Cullen Davis (born 1933) was the head of the Kendavis oil company.

His wife was Priscilla Davis. Priscilla filed for divorce in 1974 and claimed Cullen was abusive. Cullen was as reserved as Priscilla was flamboyant. They couldn't stand each other. The divorce was messy, and Cullen was forced to pay Priscilla 5,000 dollars per month for separate maintenance, and another 52,000 dollars in legal fees. Furthermore Cullen had to give up his dream mansion over to Priscilla.

Priscilla was shot and injured, while her boyfriend, Stan Farr, and her daughter, Andrea Wilborn, were shot dead on August 2, 1976 at Priscilla's mansion.

Cullen Davis was tried and found innocent for the murder of Andrea Wilborn, his stepdaughter. He had hired Richard Haynes as his lawyer in the case.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla_Davis

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One doesn't have to pour over "news" of our "enemies" to find much to question, mourn, or flat-out hate.

:sarcasm:

My guess is that there is more to this story and that involves the concept of dowry, not honor.

A piece of scum who murders his girl children has no honor.

duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2006145