The media and apologists for Islam are busy attempting to blame Chaudhry Rashid’s brutal murder of his 25-year-old daughter on his ethnicity and are excusing his barbarous act by finding any other culture’s history of similar practices no matter how distant. It is poor service to the memory of Sandeela Kanwal that rather than hold Rashid accountable, and challenge those who support him the media attempt to shield criticism of fundamentalist Islamism, which in Rashid’s native Pakistan is the main shaper of cultural norms.

From the Atlanta-Journal Constitution:

A Pakistani man accused of killing his daughter five days after she filed for divorce to end her arranged marriage wept in court Tuesday, telling a Clayton County magistrate he is innocent.

“I have done nothing wrong,” Chaudhry Rashid told Chief Magistrate Daphne Walker through interpreter Younis Farhat. Farhat said Rashid speaks primarily Urdu and Punjabi.

But police say Rashid, 54, used a bungee cord to strangle Sandeela Kanwal, 25, early Sunday morning in the family’s Utah Drive home in Jonesboro.

Rashid, who is being held without bond, told the judge he wanted to observe his Muslim beliefs in the Clayton jail. He wants to follow a diet that forbids the consumption of pork in any form and requires other meats are prepared according to Islamic rules.

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In court, Rashid made guttural noises and cried. He rocked back and forth and appeared to be talking to himself before the hearing started. Through Farhat, Rashid told Walker he was mourning the loss of his daughter.

“My daughter just died and I am not in a state of mind to ask any questions,” he said.

The fiend is in mourning for the daughter he murdered by strangling with a bungee cord? This is outrageous and his insistence on religious accommodation when he’s facing a very long stay in jail tells me he’s not taking this seriously at all. Something tells me most religious groups don’t get a special diet in a Georgia lock-up and it’ll be an injustice for Sandeela if Rashid’s theatrics allow him to enjoy special rights he doesn’t deserve.

Let us make no mistake, Militant Islam is the driving force here. The same Militant Islam that drives brothers to kill sisters, the same Militant Islam that drives parents to kill their children, and ultimately the same Militant Islam that drove 17 well to do Arabs to kill themselves and 3000 of our countrymen.

To deny the Islamist element of this crime is to deny the motive of Rashid. I would put forward that the media would never be as careful to exempt a religious motivation if Rashid was a Satanist or a Wiccan or any other religion.  Islam should be as thoroughly examined as any religion in America.

h/ A.C.T.