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Abbas' Fake Honor Killing Outrage by Phyllis Chesler FrontPageMagazine.com June 22, 2011 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1008/abbas-fake-honor-killing-outrage Send Comment RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. Excerpt: Last month, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas "scrapped the laws" which guaranteed "leniency" for honor killers. Family honor will no longer be a mitigating factor in such cases. On the West Bank and in Gaza, such barbaric murders of girls and women routinely draw sentences of six months or less. Abbas was apparently driven to this unusual act by public outrage about an alleged honor killing which took place near Hebron on the West Bank. Over a year ago, on April 20, 2010, 20-year-old Aya Baradiya disappeared. Her paternal uncle, 37-year-old Iqab Baradiya, and two accomplices had kidnapped her, bound her hand and foot, and threw her down a well, leaving her to die a slow and painful death. Her remains were not found for more than a year. Aya was a religious woman who wore a hijab. Her university classmates described her as "chaste and noble-minded." Read the complete original version of this item... Related Topics: Honor Killings
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