Killing his daughter for TikTok shame

[MsAmerica]

Her Father Took Her on a Trip to Pakistan. The Police Say It Was a Trap.
Hira Anwar was pulled out of middle school for what she thought was a vacation. Her death is being investigated as a so-called honor killing.
By Sarah Maslin Nir and Zia ur-Rehman

In late January, while on a vacation with her father to his hometown, Quetta, Pakistan, Hira was shot to death in front of her father’s family home. Shortly after, her father, Anwar ul-Haq Rajpoot, tearfully told the police that a random attack had taken his daughter’s life. But the Pakistani police now say that the shooting, and in fact the entire trip, was a trap that he orchestrated.

In a chilling confession, Mr. Rajpoot told investigators he ordered Hira’s execution because her behavior was an embarrassment. Mr. Rajpoot had his daughter killed, he told the police, because “Hira’s clothing choices, lifestyle and social relationships” had brought her family shame.

In Yonkers, her school, her friends and her family are reeling, unable to process the death of an eighth grader whose sass impressed her teachers and whose staunch character made her a go-to referee among her girlfriends.

“It is hard for us to even understand mentally that this actually happened,” the eldest of her two sisters, Heba Anwar, 22, said before declining to comment further. “We were living a very happy nice life.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/nyregion/hira-anwar-honor-killing-pakistan.html

Excuse me, but this kind of post, which is itself either biased or ignorant, just infuriates me. The NYT is the newspaper of record for the United States. It is at present the only American newspaper with a large number of foreign offices. It is one of the most accurate news outlets in the United States, and it's nonsense to call it a propaganda machine - in my experience, that is a view mostly promoted by President Trump, himself a compulsive liar.
I could argue with your silly statement about Israel, but I will limit myself to pointing out that this thread is about the killing of a daughter by Muslim parents - something that is noted in Muslim countries, not Israel.

Yes, that's just what I was thinking.

It certainly does seem as if the "honour murder" of a daughter is more prevalent with Muslims than with other religions. But in no way does it excuse it, and, in my opinion, in no way is the father a "lunatic."

What are you on about? The IRA weren't trying to bomb England into embracing Catholicism, you get that, right? Their acts of terror weren't designed to punish "infidels".

Probably because those chapters you mention were part of the long, slow development of our country as it grew into what it is today, events informed by the past that would go on to shape the future.

Which is quite different to men from regressive cultures immigrating to western nations and bringing their religion with them, that then results in women being randomly murdered.