Monday, October 23, 2006

The Grace of Allah

Islam forbids abortion, but apparently it's ok to kill the mother.

ANKARA, Oct 23, 2006 (AFP) - A 15-year-old girl who gave birth to a child which she said resulted from a rape became the latest victim of so-called "honour killings" in Turkey, newspapers said on Monday. The young girl, from a mainly Kurdish town near Turkey's eastern border with Iran, was murdered by an elder brother on Saturday, press reports said. The victim, named only as Naile, had apparently not been aware she was pregnant until she started feeling unwell and was admitted to a hospital, where she gave birth to a boy, the reports added. She later told her mother that the pregnancy had resulted from a rape. When other members of the family heard the news, the elder brother shot her dead at point-blank range in a street of the town, and then fled. The Vatan newspaper quoted the local public prosecutor as saying that the family were believed to have convened a meeting at which they designated the brother to kill the girl, in order to remove what they saw as a stain on their honour.

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