Americans and Europeans have learned at least one unpleasant truth about unfettered immigration, even if government officials don’t want to admit it: many of the immigrants are criminals. European jails are full of North African Muslims. American jails are full of Mexicans and other Hispanic illegal aliens. Unhappily, however, another crime related to immigration is growing in the United States and Canada: honor killing.

The story of Rifqa Bary highlights the problem, but thankfully, the “honorable” murder has not occurred.

Honor killing is that Muslim practice of killing women because they misbehave. They might not want to wear the hijab, or Muslim headscarf. Perhaps they are “too” Western. Maybe a woman is dating the wrong boy. She could be a rape victim. Whatever the case, husbands, fathers, and brothers, sometimes assisted by women in the family, routinely kill wives, daughters, and sisters.

Young Rifqa, 17, is a convert to Christianity. She is an honor student and cheerleader at a high school. She escaped her family in Columbus, Ohio, and fled to Florida when she became convinced her father, having learned of her conversion, would kill her. She often went to school, a friend says, bearing the bruises of beatings at home.

Says Rifqa, “I had a laptop and he took that laptop and waved it in the air and he was about to beat me with it, and he said, ‘If you have this Jesus in your heart, you’re dead to me. You’re not my daughter.… I will kill you.’” As well, Rifqa says, “I can’t go back Ohio. You guys don’t understand.… I’ll die within a week.” Islamic defenders of the father say a “cult” brainwashed the girl, although her MySpace page shows she converted four years before she met her rescuers, a pastor and his wife. She is scheduled to appear in juvenile court in Orlando on August 21.

Rifqa is attempting to escape a fate that has been visited upon many other Muslim females. A few months ago, the media did what it could to suppress the truth about Muzzammil Hassan. Police in Buffalo, New York, allege that he beheaded his wife. The one question the media wanted to ignore was whether it was an honor killing, and so Hassan’s “money woes” became the story. In other words, he was stressed about the checkbook and therefore killed his wife. Most men stressed that way commit suicide, but in any event the truth eventually surfaced. Mrs. Hassan suffered years of beatings and abuse at the hands of her husband. The black humor of the story was that Hassan had started a cable channel, Bridges TV, that sought to combat negative “stereotypes” of his coreligionists.

In 2008, Yaser Abdel Said murdered his daughters Sarah and Amina, 17 and 18. In 1998, police investigated him for sexually abusing them, and schoolmates discussed his campaign of terror against them. He kicked Amina in the face over her choice of a boyfriend. Like Rifqa, Amina went to school with clear signs of physical abuse. Said is on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.

In 2007, Canadians witnessed the case of Aqsa Parvez. While Rifqa’s father only smashed her in the face for refusing to wear the hijab, Muhammed Parvez strangled Aqsa. According to Front Page online magazine, the media tried to cover up the religious aspect of this crime as well: the Toronto Star “disgracefully hid its own head in the sand“ and “avoided tackling head-on the issue of Muslim male intolerance and violence toward female family members who wish to establish their independence and lead their own lives. Instead, the Star published a story that, incredibly, accuses a supposedly racist Canadian society for being equally responsible for the cultural ‘tension’ in Muslim families concerning the issue of head coverings.”

Again, these crimes are spreading across Europe, as The New American reported in July:

The common thread running through all these stories, of course, is Islam, which George Bush famously labeled the religion of peace just days after September 11, 2001. Sadly, like Mr. Bush, most Americans and Europeans, as Rifqa rightly avers, don’t understand Islam.

Americans cannot understand this because they cannot imagine it. They cannot imagine that such misogyny is woven into the fabric of Islam. They cannot imagine a father’s killing his daughter for apostasy or a brother’s killing his sister for dating the wrong boy. They cannot comprehend that the rape of an Muslim woman brings shame not upon the rapist but upon the victim and her family. But this is what many Muslims believe.

More uncontrolled immigration, anyone?

AP Images: Rifqa Bary's father Mohamed Bary and his wife Aysha.

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Jeff Jenkins said:

Honor killings I have also done a blog article on Rifqa Bary at: http://jeffjenkinsocala.blogspot.com/ The United Nations estimates that as many as 5,000 women are murdered in such honor killings each year for offenses like immodesty or refusing an arranged marriage. And they may be on the rise in the U.S. Please contact the Governor and ask him to make sure that the Department of Children and Families keeps custody of Rifqa Bary. She cannot go back to Ohio. We have one shot with this girl. They only have to kill her once. People can also contact George Sheldon, Secretary of the DCF. Governor Charlie Crist: Phone: (850) 488-7146 Fax: (850) 487-0801 Email: Charlie.Crist@MyFlorida.com George Sheldon, Secretary: 1317 Winewood Blvd. Building 1, Room 202 Tallahassee, Florida 32301 Fax: (850) 922-2993 Please also check out this website dedicated to Rifqa Bary: http://rifqabary.com/index.html

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Brittanicus said:

Bombard the morons in Washington We should clog the switchboards in Washington at 202-224-3121, with our anger and frustration, as this is the only thing our legislators seem to understand. Hundreds and thousands, perhaps millions have already bombarded the politicians who are pandering only to corporate welfare and not the 9.5 percent of jobless American workers. E-verify has literary risen from the grave because we have pressured the morons in the Capitol. We must neither let them weaken the NO-MATCH-LETTER or police enforcement 287 G, not whittle away at the lightening raids of ICE. However, we should adjoin rescinding the misinterpreted birthright citizenships or anchor babies. law.American workers have a significant roll to play in contacting ICE if they hear or see illegal activity in the workplace. Read many undisclosed facts at the HERITAGE FOUNDATION AND NUMBERSUSA. I anticipate this is a ominous beginning to set the American people up for another AMNESTY? The 1986 didn't work and was subject to massive corruption and fraud. What makes them think in Congress, that this will not turn into a irreversible travesty. Illegal immigrants already receive free health care in emergency hospitals, so they are not going to participate in a public option. We must remove the illegal immigrants from the workplace methodically and leave our nation, so American jobless can step into that niche?

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Ian said:

So what you're saying is... ...that we should close immigration to muslims so that Riqfa can get murdered in the Middle East? Here she has a right to defend herself and ought to exercise it. The moment one sovereign individual threatens another, he has initiated a state of war and it is the right of the threatened to eliminate the threat. She should exercise that unalienable human right here, where it will not be denied her.

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