A bestselling author and critic of Islam says a recent "honor killing" in Arizona illustrates that authorities need to come to grips with the Muslim problem in America.
Noor Faleh Almaleki, 20-year-old daughter to Faleh Hassan Almaleki, was placed in a hospital October 20, the day police say her father ran her and her boyfriend's mother down with his Jeep. The incident happened while the women were walking across a parking lot in the west Phoenix suburb of Peoria. Almaleki died from her injuries Monday, having been in a coma nearly two weeks following the mishap. The woman who accompanied her is expected to survive. Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, fled after the attack on his daughter, but was arrested Thursday when he arrived at Atlanta's airport, where he was sent from the United Kingdom after authorities denied him entrance. A prosecutor notified a judge that Almaleki admitted to committing the crime, saying that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family. The prosecutor has concluded that "this was an attempt at an honor killing." Family members told police that Almaleki attacked his daughter because he believed she had become "too Westernized" and was not living according to his traditional Iraqi values. Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, says authorities and the media need to stop the political correctness and admit this is an Islamic problem. "The reality of the situation is Islamic law in its traditional formulation does not mandate any penalty for a parent who kills a child -- and so this is something sanctioned by Islamic law and it's something that is defended by Islamic clerics," Spencer reports. "And so it is an Islamic problem, and we're not doing anybody any favors by pretending that it isn't, as the mainstream media does pretty much universally. And as long as we do nothing to challenge those attitudes and assumptions, there are going to be more 'honor killings' in the United States." Spencer says it is cowardice and ignorant to whitewash the Islamic connection to this murder.
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