Here is another article on honor killings in the Near East, this example from Jordan is another one involving a girl who disgraced her family by having been raped by one of her brothers (from the article, emphasis added):
On May 31, 1994, Kifaya Husayn, a 16-year-old Jordanian girl, was lashed to a chair by her 32-year-old brother. He gave her a drink of water and told her to recite an Islamic prayer. Then he slashed her throat. Immediately afterward, he ran out into the street, waving the bloody knife and crying, 'I have killed my sister to cleanse my honor.'
Kifaya's crime? She was raped by another brother, a 21-year-old man. Her judge and jury? Her own uncles, who convinced her eldest brother that Kifaya was too much of a disgrace to the family honor to be allowed to live."[1] The murderer was sentenced to fifteen years, but the sentence was subsequently reduced to seven and a half years, an extremely severe penalty by Jordanian standards.
However, it turns out that in this case the brother who murdered her actually felt some reorse for what he had done (from the article, emphasis added):
A Jordanian murdered his sister who was raped by another brother. The family tried initially to save its honor by marrying the victim to an old man, but this new husband turned her into a prostitute and she escaped from him. The murderer confessed that if he had to go through it all again he would not kill her, but rather would kill his father, mother, uncles, and all the relatives that pressured him to murder and led him to jail.
Instead of killing his sister and going to jail, he said he should have "tied her with a rope like a goat and let her spend her life like that until she dies.
So this ***hole would have liked to have shown his raped sister mercy by making her live like a goat for the rest of her life.
Here's another example from the article:
A young Palestinian who murdered his sister who had been sexually assaulted: "Before the incident, I drank tea and it tasted bitter because my honor was violated. After the killing I felt much better... I don't wish anybody the mental state I was in. I was under tremendous mental pressure."
Poor baby! He was under "tremendous mental pressure"! I wonder what sort of pressure his poor raped sister was under.
ETA: I did a Google images search on honor killing and found a lot of gruesome pictures. However
this picture of teenage sisters Amina and Sarah Said is far more damning (though I'm not necessarily a fan of the website on which I found the picture). These two girls were born in Texas of an Egyptian Muslim father and a Christian mother. Apparently, their father shot them (multiple times) to death for having Christian boyfriends.
