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Why I had to kill my sister to defend our familyâs âhonorâ | New York Post
Sister dates then marries a christian man who converted to islam for her....... Her brother doesnt like it because he gets teased at his factory and is convinced that he needs a gun to kill her. Waits a week then shoots her to defend his families honour
These muslims are just backwards people.
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LAHORE, Pakistan â For two months, over the thunder of machines at the steel mill, the men taunted Mubeen Rajhu about his sister. Even now, they laugh at how easy it was to make him lose his temper.
Some people had seen Tasleem in their Lahore slum with a Christian man. She was 18, a good Muslim girl, out in public with a man. Even though the man had converted to Islam out of love for her, this couldnât be allowed.
âSome guys got to know that his sister was having a relationship,â says Ali Raza, a co-worker at the mill. âThey would say: âCanât you do anything? What is the matter with you? You are not a man.'â
Raza can barely contain a smile as he talks about the hours spent needling Rajhu.
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Pakistanâs Superintendent of Police Tariq MastoiPhoto: AP
His tale of conspiracy rings hollow. He is unable to explain how she could be so surreptitious in a home without doors and only a curtain concealing a small bathroom. He sees his family as victims of Tasleemâs deception.
Later, sitting on the broken steps of his neighborâs home, he nods firmly as his neighbors heap praise on the boy who killed his sister.
âI am proud of this man that he has done the right thing, to kill her,â says one of them, a man with a scraggly beard named Babar Ali. âWe cannot allow anyone to marry outside our religion. He did the right thing.â
After his son killed Tasleem, the elder Rajhu went to the police and filed a complaint. In Pakistan, parents often do so not to see the killer punished, but to lay the legal groundwork so they can forgive the culprit â a legal loophole that activists are fighting.
He wouldnât explicitly say he forgives his son, but it is clear that he thinks the young man had every right to kill his sister.
Not everyone agrees â women in particular. Down the dirt street, Fauzia Javed runs a hole-in-the-wall shop selling penny candy and biscuits. She knows too well the double standards of her society.
âEverything is destroyed only because of this shameful girl. Even after death I am destroyed because of her.â
- Mohammed Naseer Rajhu
âWhy did she have to die?â she asks. âMy husband is having an affair and he left me with four kids to support and no one is killing him. Why?â
The man Tasleem married, Jehangir, fled on the night she was killed. The gate to his home, barely a block from Tasleemâs, is padlocked. But the fallout from his love for Tasleem has engulfed the members of the small Christian community living in the area.
Earlier this month, just weeks after the killing, gunmen fired shots into their homes. No one was hurt, but no one has slept well since. In this majority Muslim country, Christians make up barely 5 percent of the population and in recent years have come under increasing attack by militants, who insist all non-Muslims are unbelievers. Yet Pakistanâs minorities, including Christians, are protected in the countryâs constitution.
âWe have been scared since the killing took place,â says a neighbor, Shahzia Masih, sitting in a small room decorated with pictures of Jesus and Mary. âThere are just a few houses of Christians here, but we have nowhere else to go.â
Jehangirâs cousin Abbas Ainat doesnât smile much and when he speaks, he is matter-of-fact.
âHe converted to Islam for the girl, but still the girlâs family didnât like it and they killed her.â
Rajhuâs jailers return. It is time. He must return to his cell to prepare to be taken the next day to Lahoreâs Kot Lakput prison, where he will await trial.
Darkness has settled on the sprawling police station that was humming with activity when Rajhu began his story. A policeman grabs hold of Rajhuâs chains to lead him down the concrete stairs.
His father is hanging behind in the shadows. He has been waiting. He comes to his sonâs side.
Earlier this year, a cow attacked two men in India who were stabbing a girl during an âhonorâ killing:
Sister dates then marries a christian man who converted to islam for her....... Her brother doesnt like it because he gets teased at his factory and is convinced that he needs a gun to kill her. Waits a week then shoots her to defend his families honour
These muslims are just backwards people.
________________________________________________________
LAHORE, Pakistan â For two months, over the thunder of machines at the steel mill, the men taunted Mubeen Rajhu about his sister. Even now, they laugh at how easy it was to make him lose his temper.
Some people had seen Tasleem in their Lahore slum with a Christian man. She was 18, a good Muslim girl, out in public with a man. Even though the man had converted to Islam out of love for her, this couldnât be allowed.
âSome guys got to know that his sister was having a relationship,â says Ali Raza, a co-worker at the mill. âThey would say: âCanât you do anything? What is the matter with you? You are not a man.'â
Raza can barely contain a smile as he talks about the hours spent needling Rajhu.
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Pakistanâs Superintendent of Police Tariq MastoiPhoto: AP
His tale of conspiracy rings hollow. He is unable to explain how she could be so surreptitious in a home without doors and only a curtain concealing a small bathroom. He sees his family as victims of Tasleemâs deception.
Later, sitting on the broken steps of his neighborâs home, he nods firmly as his neighbors heap praise on the boy who killed his sister.
âI am proud of this man that he has done the right thing, to kill her,â says one of them, a man with a scraggly beard named Babar Ali. âWe cannot allow anyone to marry outside our religion. He did the right thing.â
After his son killed Tasleem, the elder Rajhu went to the police and filed a complaint. In Pakistan, parents often do so not to see the killer punished, but to lay the legal groundwork so they can forgive the culprit â a legal loophole that activists are fighting.
He wouldnât explicitly say he forgives his son, but it is clear that he thinks the young man had every right to kill his sister.
Not everyone agrees â women in particular. Down the dirt street, Fauzia Javed runs a hole-in-the-wall shop selling penny candy and biscuits. She knows too well the double standards of her society.
âEverything is destroyed only because of this shameful girl. Even after death I am destroyed because of her.â
- Mohammed Naseer Rajhu
âWhy did she have to die?â she asks. âMy husband is having an affair and he left me with four kids to support and no one is killing him. Why?â
The man Tasleem married, Jehangir, fled on the night she was killed. The gate to his home, barely a block from Tasleemâs, is padlocked. But the fallout from his love for Tasleem has engulfed the members of the small Christian community living in the area.
Earlier this month, just weeks after the killing, gunmen fired shots into their homes. No one was hurt, but no one has slept well since. In this majority Muslim country, Christians make up barely 5 percent of the population and in recent years have come under increasing attack by militants, who insist all non-Muslims are unbelievers. Yet Pakistanâs minorities, including Christians, are protected in the countryâs constitution.
âWe have been scared since the killing took place,â says a neighbor, Shahzia Masih, sitting in a small room decorated with pictures of Jesus and Mary. âThere are just a few houses of Christians here, but we have nowhere else to go.â
Jehangirâs cousin Abbas Ainat doesnât smile much and when he speaks, he is matter-of-fact.
âHe converted to Islam for the girl, but still the girlâs family didnât like it and they killed her.â
Rajhuâs jailers return. It is time. He must return to his cell to prepare to be taken the next day to Lahoreâs Kot Lakput prison, where he will await trial.
Darkness has settled on the sprawling police station that was humming with activity when Rajhu began his story. A policeman grabs hold of Rajhuâs chains to lead him down the concrete stairs.
His father is hanging behind in the shadows. He has been waiting. He comes to his sonâs side.
Earlier this year, a cow attacked two men in India who were stabbing a girl during an âhonorâ killing:
