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  johnpi 11:47 am on November 7, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Forced Marriage (8), Noor Almaleki

  The reports of Noor Almaleki’s ‘marriage’ reopens the issue of forced marriage, one that the UK has a great deal of experience with relative to US law enforcement. A hallmark of these marriages is that the victim is taken back to the home country so the crime is not committed on UK (or US) soil.

  A commenter in this thread at Muslimah Media Watch named Joanne who works with victims of domestic and honor-related violence in the UK was a wealth of information, and had this to say:

  The best source of information in the UK is in fact the Forced Marriage Unit, an excellent and very effective agency with excellent guidance which can be applied in cases of HBV. They have PDF’s online which are very useful if you can google them up. These guidelines will shortly be made mandatory for teachers, social workers etc in what will be a great step forward for the protection of minority women. Many women’s groups provide training, lectures etc to inform service providers in the issues of VAW for minority women.

  This Youtube video about the work of the Forced Marriage Unit is a good introduction. Here is the FMU’s web page with a number of downloadable publications listed.

   

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  johnpi 11:27 am on November 7, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: cultural conservatives (2), Forced Marriage (8), Honor Killings (13), Noor Almaleki, social conservatism

  AP covers family and friend’s response to Noor Almaleki death. More details about her relationship with her father, and her “marriage.” Also of note: The media is continuing to be responsible in its coverage and not bring in religion.

  Marcella Andregg, a friend for seven years, described Noor as independent, but far from rebellious and always respectful of her parents. She said Noor just wanted to live her own life, but that her father wouldn’t let her.

  “His whole persona was very controlling, very strong-minded in the ways he wanted it for her,” Andregg said. “He talked down to her very much, made sure she knew she wasn’t good enough and brought a lot of dishonor to the family.”

  Meanwhile, she said, Noor “just wanted to be a normal teenager,” and later, wanted to finish college, marry the man she loved, and have children.

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  In 2008, friends say Almaleki took Noor to Iraq under the guise of visiting family. Actually, he had picked out a husband for her and told her she couldn’t return to Arizona unless she married him. Noor married the man and returned, and friends say he was in the process of trying to move here, too.

  As with Aqsa Parvez, there is a move afoot to make her an “honor killing” martyr.

   
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  buzz 1:19 pm on November 5, 2009 | 10 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: CAIR (44), m. zuhdi jasser (2), Noor Almaleki, public relations (4)

  San Francisco Chronicle picks up on CAIR’s silence. How sad is it that FOX NEWS is more fair than CAIR? Fox News Phoenix running a story about a Muslim org that condemns this killing. CAIR? Nada… Letting Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser get the upper hand on your org, Ibrahim Hooper, is a profoundly stupid move.

  No justice for Noor Almaleki
  Debra J. Sanders

  Thursday, November 5, 2009

  The Council on American-Islamic Relations sent out its usual roundup Tuesday of news stories alleging the mistreatment of Muslims in America. There was a story critical of the FBI harassment of Muslims in Queens, N.Y., in the wake of the arrest of a suspected terrorist. Another story concerned calls for an investigation into an FBI shooting that left Detroit Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah dead. There were also notices of CAIR banquets.

  There was no story about Noor Faleh Almaleki.

   
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  johnpi 6:48 pm on November 2, 2009 | 8 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: honor (5), honor killing (16), Honor Killings (13), honor-related violence (5), Noor Almaleki, shame (4)

  Prosecutor cites “cultural aspect” of honor killing inside and outside of the family in asking for high bail at Arizona father’s hearing.

  The prosecutor called Noor Almaleki’s attempted (now completed – she died today) slaying an ‘honor killing,’ and expressed concern in court about the community of supporters behind her father, Faleh Hassan Almaleki, who helped in his attempted escape. The Almalekis are from Iraq.

  At the link above, you can watch the father’s first appearance in court where he is read the charges and the prosecutor makes the case for not allowing him bail, or setting his bail very high.

  Here’s my transcript of part of what the prosecutor says the state believes about his attempt to escape:

  We can’t be naive and not admit that there is a cultural aspect to this, and there may be people that would support him – including his family – but also others who share his beliefs. This was an attempt at an honor killing.

  The defendant tries to hide behind his moral convictions, and yet he also fled. The state has serious concerns that this defendant would attempt to flee if he were to be released and that he does have the resources and others that would be willing to help him, as they obviously did.

  If the prosecutor keeps talking about culture and the “cultural aspect” to the case this could get sensationalized into headlines like “Culture of honor killing goes on trial in Arizona” or some such thing.

  Noor Almaleki’s friends and other who knew her have been communicating at this thread here at Talk Islam.

   
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  mirelle 6:48 pm on November 2, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: honor killing (16), Noor Almaleki

  Noor Almaleki, aged 20, died today of her injuries, which she received when she was run down in a Peoria (suburb of Phoenix) parking lot on Oct. 20. Her father, Faleh Hassan Almaleki, is alleged to have done this. Faleh Almaleki escaped through Mexico and attempted to enter the UK, but was caught and deported back to Atlanta, and has since been extradited to Arizona.

  The local press is calling it an honor killing. Charges (currently two counts of attempted manslaughter) are expected to be upgraded to murder.

  Perhaps we could talk about how the Muslim community should respond to events like this.

   
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  mirelle 6:34 am on October 30, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: honor-related violence (5), Noor Almaleki

  Update: Officials confirm the Peoria man who allegedly hit his daughter and a friend with his car because he believed his daughter had become “too westernized” is now in custody.

  Peoria Police Department Spokesperson Jay Davies confirmed that 48-year-old Faleh Hassan Almaleki was taken into custody in Atlanta, GA. [...]

  Noor Faleh Almaleki, 20, and Amal Edan Khalaf, 43, were rushed to the hospital after being struck by the car in the parking lot of a Department of Economic Security building on October 20, according to Peoria Police spokesperson Mike Tellef.

  (Not sure why they’d be in the parking lot of a state welfare office…)

  According to the Arizona Republic, the daughter, Noor Almaleki’s, condition is still described as “life-threatening.”

   
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  mirelle 8:25 pm on October 26, 2009 | 38 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Honor Killings (13), Noor Almaleki

  Update on the Noor Almaleki case, where her father Faleh Hassan Almeleki is accused of running her down:

  The brother of Noor Almaleki, whom police say was run over by her father last week, has told a local television news station that the father and daughter have been in conflict the past couple of years.

  Peter-Ali Almaleki told CBS 5 News that his sister went “out of her way to disrespect” her traditional Muslim father.

  Noor Almaleki had married a man in Iraq but returned to the United States and moved in with a boyfriend and his mother in Surprise. The father was furious about the arrangement, according to the brother.

  In addition to allegedly running down his daughter, Faleh Almaleki is alleged to have run down the mother of the boyfriend in the same incident. Noor Almaleki is still basically in a “life-threatening condition”; the boyfriend’s mother is “improving.”

  I’m having to bite my tongue to keep from spilling out with some pointed commentary about men who think that their family honor is wrapped up in their daughters’ sexual behavior, to the point of attempting murder.

  And this, this doesn’t make any sense to me:

  Peter-Ali Almaleki said he loves his sister and that should she not have to be suffering her injuries. But he added that the family lives by different cultural values.

  “One thing to one culture doesn’t make sense to another culture,” he added.

  No, Peter, murder is murder, no matter what culture it’s in. You want to talk, I’m in the Phoenix phone book. I’m not that hard to find.

   
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  johnpi 7:58 pm on October 21, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: culture (72), family violence, honor-related violence (5), Noor Almaleki

  Police: Man ran down ‘too Westernized’ daughter.

  Sigh. Here we go again.

  Arizona police are looking for an Iraqi man who they allege ran down his daughter and her friend because he believed his daughter had become “too Westernized.”

  Peoria, Arizona, police said Wednesday that Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, struck his 20-year-old daughter, Noor Faleh Almaleki, and her friend Amal Edan Khalaf with a vehicle he was driving in a parking lot Tuesday afternoon.

  Faleh Hassan Almaleki was angry with his daughter “as she had become too ‘Westernized’ and was not living according to [the family's] traditional Iraq[i] values,” Peoria police said in a statement released Wednesday.

  Noor Faleh Almaleki is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, according to the statement. Khalaf, 43, received injuries that are not life-threatening but is still in the hospital, police said.