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| 10 Year Old Tortured and Murdered by her father for looking at a boy |
Asadullah Khan, 51, strangled his daughter Lareeb while she slept in the family home. He and his wife, Shazia Khan, then dressed Lareeb in her work clothes as a dental assistant and put her body in their car and discarded it in a nearby forest.
The pair is being charged with murder.
Asadullah Khan admitted the killing and told the court that his daughter had brought dishonor on the family by forming a relationship with a boyfriend he did not approve of. He wanted her to have an arranged marriage with someone from Pakistan.
“'Lareeb stayed away from the home for several nights in a row and stopped wearing the headscarf,” Shazia Khan, Lareeb's mother, told the court. “One day we received a letter from the police saying she had been caught trying to steal condoms. At this point it became clear that there was sexual contact. When I showed the letter to my husband he snapped.”
In the volatile world of Islam, it does not take much to cause a Muslim to 'snap'. The girl was 19 years old! She had every right to do what she wanted. Why did the police feel they needed to report the petty actions of a 19 year old to her parents? That makes no sense whatsoever.
With the flood of Muslim refugees entering Germany, one would think they should have some idea what Islam is about, but apparently not!
Shazia Khan claimed that she was a cowed and submissive wife who had been physically unable to restrain her husband and prevent the murder.
But Lareeb’s younger sister, Nida, 14, told the court that her mother was just as bad as her father and would beat the girls often.
“My Mama was not suppressed, she could do what she wanted. She used to hit me with a stick,” Nida said.
“We were never allowed to talk about her boyfriend. My father used to say my sister should be forcibly married in Pakistan.”
Honor violence campaigners in the UK harshly criticized the German police for their handling of the situation.
“German police did not acknowledge the risk of ‘honor’ killing to Lareeb when they told her family that she had been caught attempting to steal condoms” the Iranian and Kurdish Womens Rights Organization (IKWRO) said in a statement.
“We can only conclude that the police involved did not have a proper understanding of 'honour'-based violence and had not been sufficiently trained to know that providing this information to her parents could put her in greater danger. The German police must be held to account for their failures for true justice for Lareeb,” continued the statement.
Lareeb’s boyfriend Raheel, 25, told the court they had wanted to get married.
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