Bedouin teen likely victim of ‘honor killing’
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A Bedouin man from southern Israel is the prime suspect in the murder of his
16-year-daughter, whose body was found in a well in the Kuseife community in the Negev.
The man is suspected of an act of “honor killing,” allegedly throwing his daughter down the well over what the family deemed an “undesirable romantic involvement.”
An investigation was launched after the father filed a missing persons report with the police Feb. 24, saying his daughter had disappeared. He expressed concerned that she might have fallen into a local well.
The girl’s body was found following extensive police searches. Her father was promptly arrested.
During his arraignment hearing, the police revealed that they had evidence suggesting the family was opposed to the girl’s romantic affair. The police said all leads point to the father, who has a violent criminal record.
The suspect’s attorney denied the charges. — ynetnews.com
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03/01/2013 at 12:13 PM
Running such stories makes people think the problem with the Arabs is their own cultural and social shortcomings rather than something the Israelis are doing. Holding non-Western people to the same moral standard as Western people is now decried as somehow racist. In fact holding people to a different standard based on race or ethnicity is the very definition of racism.
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