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Tuesday, June 3, 2008 12:00 AM

Mother of "honor" killing victim murdered in Iraq

Leila Hussein, the Iraqi woman who dared to leave her husband after he brutally murdered their 17-year-old daughter, was shot in the street.
Catherine Price

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  • Tuesday, June 3, 2008 10:44 AM

    ah well

    so much for the much bandied about theory that this was a one-off by a crazed abuser, not much different than something that could plausibly happen in the West.

    Hint: In the West when a woman tries to leave her abuser the populance doen't come out into the streets to shoot her dead for it.

    It really is the religion, and it really is the culture. So the relativist bulshitters can just shut up already.

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