Extenuating circumstances were discovered--the girl had visited her mother without her father's permission. Unfortunately, the news media essentially covers up the truth about the legal oppression of mothers and daughters even in moderate Muslim countries like Jordan. (In fact,
some media outlets even glamorize it.) The many Western women who fall prey to an initially sweet-talking Muslim suitor have no idea what they face when they cross the border:
A Jordanian court has halved the jail term of a man who beat his daughter to death, because she visited her estranged mother without his permission, a judicial source said Sunday.
The criminal court initially jailed the man to 15 years' hard labor after the killing, but then reduced it to seven-and-a-half years "to give him a chance to improve himself," the source said.
The 41-year-old father clubbed his daughter to death January 23 last year, because she left home without his permission to visit her mother, who had left the family home after a dispute with her husband.
According to court papers, the victim "insulted her father" when he slapped her before he then beat her to death.
Here is a current story about a Hamas operative who found a bride on a Russian web site who was smuggled into Gaza:
Apparently Israel has been so successful at preventing Palestinian suicide bombers that Hamas operatives have had to try and lose their virginity elsewhere.
Palestinian journalist Ali Waked reports that one young would-be bomber has met the woman of his dreams via a Russian website. Following Hamas's takeover of Gaza in mid-June, she was smuggled into the Strip, where the two have wed, shortly after meeting for the first time.
His new wife has converted to Islam, and they were married in a traditional Muslim ceremony.
Here is the Israeli news media version of this 'love story,' in which there is no hint of the position into which this woman has just placed herself.
