She (the author) says it's not about Islam but i disagree. As the murderer says himself

"I had the support of ALL my friends"....oh ya...the support of the police as well.


http://timesonline.typepad.com/faith/2008/05/honour-killing.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/11/iraq.humanrights


sorry, this is the story link- the other is the blog I found it on.

Another gem from this story

"He said his daughter's 'bad genes were passed on from her mother'. Rand's mother, 41, remains in hiding after divorcing her husband in the immediate aftermath of the killing, living in fear of retribution from his family. She also still bears the scars of the severe beating he inflicted on her, breaking her arm in the process, when she told him she was going. 'They cannot accept me leaving him. When I first left I went to a cousin's home, but every day they were delivering notes to my door saying I was a prostitute and deserved the same death as Rand,' she said.

.'I don't have a daughter now, and I prefer to say that I never had
one. That girl humiliated me in front of my family and friends"

Incomprehensible.

I am no more shocked by this psychology after someone who I thot was a friend for over deacdes blackmailed his son over telephone that he wd committ suicide (plunging a knife into his stomach) if the son does not consent to stay in a hostel - in deep Tamil Nadu - and do his undergraduate engg studies and let the mother return to the Gulf where he (the father) was working! Scared by this violence the mother and son moved out overnite. Now this man is going around telling everyone that his wife is mentally deranged or is of suspect morals! And the irony is he is employed by a top notch computer services company in India who have been unable to trace his criminal past record of fraud and embezzlement!