I always wonder why religions have become a boundary for love. Why shouldn't people just intermarry and live happily? Is it that wrong to love someone with different spiritual faiths? 17-year-old young girl named Rand Abdel-Qade, who was a Muslim, is being murdered by her own father for falling in love with a Christian, British soldier in Iraq. However, he was not being charged for murdering as a crime but being ACCEPTED as "HONOR KILLING"?

I wonder why there are people who are still ignorant about other people's love. Can't they just respect and start to accept each other? Death shouldn't be a price to pay for Love.

I had not known about this until I read someone else's blog. These are some of the selected lines from the article.

"She was stamped on, suffocated and stabbed by her father. Several brutal knife wounds punctured her slender, bruised body - from her face to her feet."

"I screamed and called out for her two brothers so they could get their father away from her. But when he told them the reason, instead of saving her they helped him to end her life. "

"He was released two hours later because it was an "honor killing". And, unfortunately, that is something to be proud of for any Iraqi man."
- Leila Hussien, mother of the victim and wife of the murderer


"He was very different from the local men who usually are tough and illiterate. I was in heaven when she was speaking about him. Everything looked so beautiful. But, I always had to remind Rand that she was a Muslim and her family was never going to accept her marrying a Christian, British soldier. Unfortunately she never wanted to hear me. Her mind was very far from reality, but closer to an impossible dream."

"But the thing she used to like talking about best was how he praised her beauty and her intelligence. She told me he called her "princess"."

"She never did anything more than talk to him. She was proud to be a virgin and had a dream to give herself to the man she loved only after her marriage. But she was seen as an animal."
-Zeinab, best friend of the victim

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