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Chaudhry Rashad was so outraged at his daughter, Sandela Kanwal, and her plans for divorce that he strangled the 25-year-old woman. This "honor killing" took place over the weekend in Clayton County, Georgia. Rashad told police that he killed his daughter as a matter of honor, because he felt her plans for divorce would have disgraced the family.

The victim had been forced into an arranged marriage and had not seen her husband for months. One local Muslim leader said the father murdered the daughter because he was depressed - but, according to the United Nations Population Fund, at least 5,000 women are victims of "honor murders" each year.

Damage to a Muslim daughter's "honor" is considered a great humiliation to the Muslim cultural-religious tradition of such immigrant families. Such dishonor comes from the young woman refusing to wear a hijab, having a non-Muslim boyfriend, being sexually active, rejecting arranged marriages, aggressively seeking employment and education, and attempting to assimilate into Western culture.

Residents of Lewisville, Texas were shocked on January 1st to hear about the brutal murder of teenage sisters Sarah and Amina Said. The two Muslim girls were found shot to death in a taxi. Their father allegedly murdered them in an "honor killing" because the girls were becoming too westernized. In December, 2007 another honor killing took place in Mississauga, Ontario. Sixteen-year-old Aqsa Parvez was strangled to death by her Pakistani father who opposed her westernized social life. . . .

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