Iraqi dad says killed daughter linked to al-Qaida

I don't know who's worse, the terrorists or the dad. I think there are a thousand other ways the father could have handled the situation, all of which would have been better than murdering his own daughter. What do you think of this? Is the father a hero, a villain, or just misunderstood?

 

thank you. I was just trying to read this story when an annoying pop up on the news page kept getting in my way..

 

That father could have saved many lives by doing that. But, like stated, we do not know the whole story or the real motives behind it.

 

Father is a psycho, not a hero.

 

The father could have alerted the proper authorities, instead he kills his own daughter instead.

 

Though after witnessing the situations on a daily basis of what the insurgent could do, PTSD could have played a large part in this.

 

They don't seem to respect law in that part of the world. Will they ever>

 

maybe the question is "does Baghdad have any proper authorities"

This sounds like normal over there..I'm not shocked at all by this story.

 

Baghdad is not like taking a walk in your own back yard.. Its a very stone age like mentality. Young people that have been robbed of their lives and education have nothing better to turn to really....
This is similar to the youth of America becoming corner drug dealing slingers carrying illegal firearms..
Should you be a parent and take your kid by the throat and put them through walls. The police will arrest you and not your 19yr kid..

this is a good point, I had thought of mentioning this but backspaced it. There really isnt anyways to know if the Iraq police are the good guys.
And what if this parent ran up to some coalition soldiers and said "my daughter is planning on making a bomb and killing people" They would take him into custody and surround the home from the ground and air, til she came out quietly or took actions to defend herself. Possibly killing herself and others in the process..

or getting her to surrender and in 20yrs shes the next Benazir Bhutto, and believes killing is wrong... We just dont know.

 

First of all, honor killings are deeeeeply ingrained in the culture, and I'd rather he carry out his (insane) islamic duty and strangle her for trying to murder people than for being raped.

If he told the authorties, he'd probly be the one in trouble, they wouldn't do anything about her (and as soon as she got out of custody, she'd go blow something up, anyway) and overall, lots of MORE bad things would happen.

I don't support him murdering his daughter, but it could have been a lot worse. At least he's a sharia beleiving muslim who's anti al-queda.

 

You know things are bad when you have people attempting to justify a father strangling his daughter.

 

its not really murder since she was set on killing herself anyway...he actually saved lives rather than took one

 

You know things are bad when the above is the answer to "I don't support..."


Again, I think it was wrong of him, for many obvious reasons. But there could have been many much worse outcomes, or she could have been subject to an honor killing for doing something that WASEN'T pure evil.... So all in all, there's much more disturbing things to worry about.

 

Wow, you are truly fucked up.

 

Can you explain?

A murderer murdered a would be mass-murderer, and I'm not that worried, given the scale of the world's murder. I hope they figure out what all the factors where, and that the father answers to his crime. But murders murder each other all over the world, from compton to sudan, and worse yet, they kill complete innocents all the time, this one guy just isn't at the top of the list on "bad guys".

 

For a father to kill his own daughter presents profound sociological problems and it's an indication that something is deeply wrong with a culture as far as I'm concerned.
For you to say that there is anything more disturbing is either jest or ignorance.

 

I think its obvious something is wrong with their culture, with or without this specific incident and with or without terrorism. There appears to be little to no value of life. I would also like to think their are far better ways the father could have handled the situation, But I am not surprised he killed her.

 

You're saying there's NOTHING more disturbing happening around the world? There's a LOT wrong with the culture in question, this is well known. Sharia causes the deaths of women all the time, again, frequently for being raped. If you think a judge who feels like seeing someone get stoned sentencing someone to death for BEING raped, at the testimony of the rapist that she didn't scream or struggle hard enough or whatever, is less messed up than this guy killing his daughter for attempted suicide bombing, well.... I think that would indicate problems with the cultural lens YOU'RE looking through...

Again, it's sad, I wish no one had to die at the hand of anyone else... but there's much worse happening, much sicker people killing much more innocent people, at this very moment.

 

Sorry, I don't quantify tragedies.
What disturbs me is emotional, not logical. I don't feel the need to compare. All I know is that this case is pretty fucked up and there is no excuse or justification for it.

 

i think they all are fucked up. the father, the daughter, and the cops. its all fucked. fuck those fucking fuckers.