The London Guardian/Observer, May 11, 2008 (HAT TIP 3 Quarks Daily):

For Abdel-Qader Ali there is only one regret: that he did not kill his daughter at birth. 'If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed her the instant her mother delivered her,' he said with no trace of remorse.

Two weeks after The Observer revealed the shocking story of Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, murdered because of her infatuation with a British soldier in Basra, southern Iraq, her father is defiant. Sitting in the front garden of his well-kept home in the city's Al-Fursi district, he remains a free man, despite having stamped on, suffocated and then stabbed his student daughter to death.

Abdel-Qader, 46, a government employee, was initially arrested but released after two hours. Astonishingly, he said, police congratulated him on what he had done. 'They are men and know what honour is,' he said.

Rand, who was studying English at Basra University, was deemed to have brought shame on her family after becoming infatuated with a British soldier, 22, known only as Paul.

She died a virgin, according to her closest friend Zeinab. Indeed, her 'relationship' with Paul, which began when she worked as a volunteer helping displaced families and he was distributing water, appears to have consisted of snatched conversations over less than four months.

Did I mention how much I love Islamic civilization and how glad I am that U.S. soldiers are in that country making oil cheap and safe and to protect substantial capital investments in luxury golf courses in the Green Zone?

There are days in the redneck side of me, the side that I try to repress, that I wish we had left Baghdad alone and roared through Mecca instead. A civilization that accommodates the killing of daughters by fathers over "honor" damage from the daughter falling in love with a Briton lacks ten righteous men. Were there ten righteous men, they would already arranged the killing of this man, not slapped him on the back for trampling, choking and stabbing his daughter to death.

In the past I have expressed admiration for aspects of Islamic civilization. The geometric mosaics, the calligraphy, etc. But I think that Islamic culture is not going to find this blog a very hospitable place. The entire Islamic world should be screaming for this man to die. Instead, he's a local hero. I know, I know, the occupation is idiotic and a train wreck, and it's a horrible indignity having a bunch of infidels doing home invasions at 3AM, violating local custom and being a colossal pain in the ass. But this murderer should be killed; he brags of the killing, so there's no due process issue, really. Quarter and gut him, trachea to testicles as far as I am concerned.