Brother on Trial for Killing Sister in Ottawa
Guess Where He's Originally From

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
May 8, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/456/brother-on-trial-for-killing-sister-in-ottawa

Excerpt:

In the fall of 2006, in Ottawa, Canada, a twenty three-year-old Afghan brother, Hasibullah Sadiqi, shot his 20 year-old sister, Khatera Sadiqi, and her fiance, Feroz Mangal, while they sat in a parked car. Both victims died.

Now, three years later, Sadiqi is on trial. According to the Ottawa Citizen, "The defence is expected to advance the argument of provocation, which could reduce a murder charge to manslaughter…The Crown, meanwhile, intends to prove that Sadiqi's actions were planned and deliberate."

In other words: Sadiqi will argue that the alleged "dishonor" his sister brought upon her family by choosing her own husband was a "provocation." This is similar to Zein Isa, the Palestinian terrorist father who, together with the sixteen year-old girl's mother, Maria, stabbed their allegedly "too-western" teenage daughter, Palestina, to death in St. Louis in 1989. Zein Isa insisted that he did this in "self-defense."

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