A Twin Cities man is accused of killing his 20-year-old stepdaughter in Michigan because she left home and wasn't following Islam, police said Tuesday.
Rahim Alfetlawi, 45, of Coon Rapids, was being held without bond Tuesday in the Macomb County Jail after being charged with first-degree murder in the death of Jessica Mokdad on Saturday at her grandmother's home in the Detroit suburb of Warren.
The Associated Press article continues:
Torey said Mokdad had left her mother and stepfather to live with her father near Flint in Grand Blanc because she did not like their rules.
"He's a strict Muslim, she was more Americanized," Torey said.
How do we stamp out these sorts of barbaric religious "traditions" in the West? Honor killings are standard affair in the Muslim world if a woman dates a non-Muslim, dresses in Western clothing, or even if she gets raped, but this is not something that is okay in the United States of America, even if we must practice religious tolerance.