From here:
A Muslim father ran over and killed his 20-year-old daughter because he was enraged by her failure to obey him and her increasingly Westernised values, a prosecutor has claimed.
Faleh Almaleki allegedly accelerated his Jeep in a car park in Phoenix, Arizona, hitting Noor as well as her boyfriend’s mother, before fleeing the scene – and the country.
The mother survived but Noor died after two weeks in a coma.
One presumes that the irony of Mr. Almaleki’s use of a Jeep – a staple of Western military and civilian motoring since 1943 – to kill his daughter for being too Westernised entirely escaped him.
I have this odd reflex when I see UK media reporting a US event – I go look it up. This happened 20 October 2009. While still a nasty evil crime, hardly news.
So sorry to bore you. It’s back in the news because it has just come to trial.
And Almaleki has a unique spitting defense:
Henry,
It’s news because the trial has just begun and the “spitting” defence has been put forward.
Peace,
Jim