Ariz. Honor Killing: Police Worried Family Members Might Have Tried to Attack Daughter Again
- Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:03pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Noor Al-Maleki died in 2009 after she was hit by a car her father was driving. He was later convicted of her murder, but police feared she would be a target again while she was in the hospital in a coma. (Daily Mail)
In 2009, 20-year-old Noor Al-Maleki was killed after her father, Faleh Al-Maleki, ran her over with his car in Peoria, Ariz. She suffered multiple injuries and went into a coma. She was taken off life support and died less than two weeks later.
Prosecutors said it was an honor killing, because the Iraqi-born young woman who immigrated to the United States had become “too Westernized” and brought shame to the family for eschewing traditional Iraqi values — shunning an arranged marriage and instead living with a boyfriend and his parents.
In February, Faleh was found not guilty of murder in the first degree, but was convicted of murder in the second degree. He is currently serving a 34 1/2 year sentence.
Now, audio records obtained by Fox News show that police believed Noor would be attacked again by family members, even as she lay unconscious in a hospital bed.
In one tape, Peoria police detective Bill Laing refuses to tell Noor’s mother, Seham Al-Maleki, where her daughter was until her father — who at first fled to the United Kingdom before being extradited back — was found. Laing tells Seham that her husband ran over Noor and her friend Amal Khalaf:
“I want to see my daughter!” Seham Al-Maleki screams on the tape.
“Until he [Noor’s father] is located, we are not mentioning where she is at,” responds Laing, who told the mother that witnesses in the parking lot identified her husband as the driver.
“This woman, she is lying, because she is dirty,” Seham says, referring to Noor’s friend Khalaf, who survived being hit by Al-Maleki’s jeep.
“You are a sick person,” Laing snaps.
Mohamed El-Sharkawy of the Arizona Muslim Police Advisory Board told Fox News that authorities worried another family member might try to attack Noor again to be sure she was dead.
“They were afraid that, because he did not succeed, that somebody else, his son or a relative, will go and finish her off,” El-Sharkawy said.
Although Faleh was convicted of second-degree murder, because he was acquitted of first-degree murder, prosecutor Laura Reckart told Fox in an interview that she felt she had ultimately “failed” Noor.
“I’m not going to say I respect their verdict,” Reckart said.
During the trial, she played recorded prison phone calls of Faleh talking with his wife, discussing how “an Iraqi without honor is nothing” and even though he was in jail, Noor “is comfortable now” in her grave.
Still, Judge Roland Steinle told Fox he believed it was wrong to classify Noor’s murder as an honor killing:
“I think it sensationalizes what is nothing more than a parent killing a child,” he said.





















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godhatesacoward
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:43pmHow is that not 1st degree murder?
Report Post »Jackson
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:57pmExcuse me? “Nothing more than a parent killing their child”? Since when is that NOT enough?
Report Post »Cause4Liberty
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:09pmSuch a Beautiful young woman murdered over a sick idealogy. Rip pretty lady.
Report Post »Shellback
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:28pmI agree. The fact that they have “honor killing” is murder in the first degree. It is premeditated. I’m NOT a lawyer but have read that in order to get a 1st degree murder conviction is that the act was thought out in advance. “Honor Killing” is sacrosanct premeditated.
Report Post »I Love Howie Carr
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:03pmCause4liberty, she was really pretty. Probably smart too. These people are sick!!!! The whole family should be in jail
Report Post »bcshealy
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:10pmI agree 100% — but why would we expect our legal system to work in a case like this when they let so many other people skate? We could do with a little dose of the “eye for an eye” that is practiced in the Middle East. This man should have had certain parts fed into a meat grinder — STILL connected!
Report Post »ajvahala
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:17pmwere she 20 years younger, it would not even be considered a murder of any kind and
Report Post »Planned Parenthood would even contribute to the killing
Devil Dog 7175
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:36pmSuch a beautiful young lady just wanting to be free of the oppression that is Islam. Satin awaits her bastard father… The mother too I’m thinking…
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:54pmSend the rest of this SLIMEBALL family back to Iraq.. Live by
Report Post »OUR LAWS, PERIOD..It can’t be that complicated.. by the
way, i have a suggestion, send Casey Anthony with the family
when they all go back to Iraq.. one way ticket back..
Wilkins
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:15pm@ajvahala
Extremist-muslim late term abortion. Outrageous that they should call this ‘murder in the second degree’. This conviction is nothing more than state oppression of closely held religious beliefs. In Mohammed’s cult this is just a parent disciplining his child.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:05amGodhates—the jury foreman was not real brilliant. He originally went with 1st, but said it was 6 and 6 and finally he and five others gave in to come to an agreement. When asked if they considered the “honor killing” part, he said not really, they didn’t really know what that was. Excuse me? It was spelled out in the trial WHAT it was, but he says they aren’t familiar with it. This is how creeping Sharia will take over. On jail tapes the father was asking the wife what loopholes they could find to get him off. Also, when the police first called the wife, she said her daughter deserved it, then denied her husband did it…..then screamed to see her daughter. When the officer said “no, you said she deserved this, we are not revealing where she is…” and this lady goes on to scream that it isn’t fair and she will call the President. What does that tell you? These people have been told they can get away with this crap because our stupid system can be used against us. I am all for jury trials—but if people are too ignorant to LOOK at the facts and too lazy to examine them once in front of them, they shouldn’t serve. Casey Anthony—same difference.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:07amOh…and another juicy annoying tidbit, they were all living off of our system, welfare. We paid for him to oppress and eventually murder her. Makes you even sicker, doesn’t it?
Report Post »G3L
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:36amMuslims, they need to be stopped. This is pure crap. This pig of a so called father will burn is hell. Deport them all go to Detroit and see what a great job the muslim community is doing to that city. Rest my case.
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:15amHold on now. Didn’t Chris Christy say last week that those of us who fear a stealth sharia take over are “ignorant’ and “crazy, just crazy”?
Be really careful who back for president in 2012. Maybe Herman Cain is right.
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:18pmreligion of peace mmmmhhhhhhmmmmmm
Report Post »Searreigh
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 12:40amThe father is a true Muslim. When Glen starts that nonsense about good Muslims, he is talking about those that are not faithful to their book. The Koran and other Muslim texts insist on this Satanic behavior. Glen’s so called good Muslims are apostate.
Report Post »EagleSquadronSon
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:42pmAllowing Muslims into this country is like allowing cancer cells into your body. Look at what is happening in England.
Report Post »Anybody up for playing Cowboy and Muslim?
JJ Coolay
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:19pmYee hawww!!!
Report Post »sikupnfed
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:47pmYou bet your bippie I’m ready. Let’s rock!
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:03pmIf they don’t want their daughters “Westernized,” why come here except to infiltrate us?
Report Post »bcshealy
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:10pmBring it on, Eagle! I’m loading right now!
Report Post »Devil Dog 7175
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:31pmLocked, cocked, ready to rock!
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:18pm@loriann12
Report Post »You said it exactly!! and infiltrate is what is happening. Seems like some are coming here and seeing the light of day…like that beautiful young girl.
ecurbyy
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:32pmNever insult seven Muslims, when all you’re packing is a six gun! Lock and load everyone. It’s gonna be a wild ride.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:13pmCount Me In… Think the State Department is afraid to slip this
Report Post »CAMEL DUNG the needle..enough of this PC crap.. Just gave
the Green Light for this to happen again.. I say ZERO tolerence
for any hint of this, or DEPORTATION..PEROID !!!!!!
cromag11b
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 11:53amThanks for your summary of the Norway shooter’s manifesto. That apple don’t fall far from the tree does it.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:41pmA killing like this makes me just as ANGRY as I was on 9/1/2001. I want to see these lower than animals staked out on a FIRE ANT BED.
Report Post »bcshealy
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:11pmYup, do it Clint Eastwood style — was it Josie Wales?
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:23pmHOW and WHY are these people even in this Country,
Report Post »The_Outlaw
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:41pmThose Muslims are such a peaceful group of folks aren’t they??
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:10pmYep, he was just carrying out what the Koran calls for…it’s a religious freedom thang, eh?
The Koran needs a re-write, big time.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:20pmNay, a good rub down in pig blood.
Report Post »bz.bees_mom
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:37pm34 years = 15. He does not look that old. Hopefully, they will finish the job on the inside.
Report Post »PleaseStartBrainb4engagingmouth
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:47pmmaybe he can find honor on his knees ahead of some big black bro cell mate .. if there is any thing to this Karma thing … just maybe…
Report Post »orlandojon
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:33pmThose peaceful Mooslims at it again I see…
Report Post »LinkedIn G
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:33pmI can’t believe Liberals side with these animals.
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:48pm“I think it sensationalizes what is nothing more than a parent killing a child,” he said.
Hmm like this is just another routine everyday event!
Te judge is an idiot!
Report Post »kkentucky
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:52pmEspecially since Liberals claim to be advocats for womens rights!!!
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:13pmI do. Like atrracts like. Liberals don’t want to execute killers, but it‘s okay to kill so long as it’s not for punishment by the authorities. Liberals= high taxes, pro choice abortion, forced payment-lower quality healthcare, marxism/communism., abolishment of the 2nd amendment and well hell. all of those damn amendments including freedom of speech and Jesus… None of us will have to work. we can just get that stamp on our foreheads and we’ll all be good.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:41amChild killing is a constitutional right to a liberal. It’s called “choice”.
Report Post »tankyjo
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:30pmAnd, worst of the worst.
Report Post »Big Book Harry
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:29pmSharia coming to a city near YOU, should have been first degree with the death penalty no appeals, imediate execution. No Sharia/Islam, they are inseprateable and are completly incompatible with a democracy, GET OUT Who is to say when a moderate muslem will turn to an orthadox one, like a Doberman turning on his master.
Report Post »Nathan
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:33pmSharia is most definitely compatible with democracy…but not with a republic. Hopefully, Sharia and democracy will perish together.
Report Post »roostercogburn
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:55pmWith any luck the rest of the world will outlaw islam soon, it should have been done decades ago, Sharia law will be the death of us all, it’s not radical islam, it’s islam, islam is nothing more than a virus and needs to be stopped anyone have any idea how many thousand folks islam kills every year, has be be a lot.
Report Post »Big Book Harry
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:19amWhat part of Sharia that controls every aspect of a society’s life is compatible with democracy?
Report Post »http://thereligionofpeace.com/
Summary Answer:
Islamic law is absolutely incompatible with democracy. It is a theocratic system with Allah alone at its head. Allah’s law is interpreted by a ruling body of clerics. There is no room for a secular political system in which all people are treated as equals
tobywil2
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:28pmIt is not honor killing! it is daughter slaughter!!!!!! http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:28pmYes this is a non story muslims wouldn’t dream of spreading their religion globally and their shariah law, it wouldn’t cross their minds to do that.They are commanded through their koran to do both and if anybody is naive or stupid enough to believe otherwise really should research the topic.
It says in their koran non believers have to pay a tax to be tolerated, convert or die,progressives in the U.S have been patient,they started their BS one hundred years ago to bring us to this point.
Report Post »You see it today muslims trying to inject shariah law in U.S courts,and once they set precedence it’s game over.
rienheart
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:27pmThe Judge needs to be schooled. It was Obviously an Honor Killing by an EVIL Father against an Innocent Daughter and her friend. The Judge should be sitting in Prison with the Father for Just being Ignorent of the situation. Now that Governor Christie in New Jersey Appointed a Muslim Judge to the bench, we will more than likely be seeing more Sharia Compliant Sentences from New Jersey. God Help Christie if his Appointee Rules in favor of Honor Killings or Marital Rape in any of his Rulings.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:37pmBy officially recognizing it as an “honor killing” it validates the practice but by calling it a common crime you devalue this horrific practice.
The judge knew this a-hole’s intent was to conduct his deluded “honor killing” but he just wasn’t going to give this guy or others like him the satisfaction of calling it that.
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:45pmI had respect for Christey for fighting the unions but after appointing a muslim judge that did it for me , you can’t tell me that judge will use rule of law by the Contitution, BS he will throw in sharia law sooner or later
Report Post »cantbelieveallthisgarbagecouldhappenwhodoislap
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:09pmIts called Im pissed and IIII will have my way.
Report Post »Sorry for his kids.
Worth less pig meat,him, not anyone else
bad move creep!!!!!!
You make us all sick here in the usa
ashestoashes
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:22pm@Cassandra Thanks for the Golda Meir quote. I also agree with you about Christy in appointing that muslim judge.. He was just defiant about it, so I am thinking that the dude is not very bright and he’s really head strong about it . Now he reminds me of that guy who played Rose Ann’s husband.John Goodman. He has lost all credibility with me.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:20pmI agree w/ the judge’s rationale for not officially classifying this as an “honor killing” though there is no doubt that was this POS’s intent.
This is what is wrong w/ this culture; their value system is so messed up. Nowhere in their religious text does it condone or advocate this crap yet their culture has grown to think this is okay.
Report Post »rienheart
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:56pmBy not calling it what it is and not prosecuting it to the fullest extent of the Law (Premeditated Murder) and not recognizing that it is Happening here in America, Then the perpetuators get away with First Degree Murder and will continue their Murderous Religious Beliefs.
Report Post »Steve
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:52amRon_WA
Report Post »America’s had their head stuck in the sand for to long. What will it take for people to wake up and see what is really happening. To not call it what it is for the sake of giving credit to it is nonsense. When a man beats his wife in the street by sharia law that is allowed but what will an American judge call it. If a women commits adultery and is stoned to death by her family and neighbors what will an American judge call it. If a women is raped and cant find 4 males witness to testify in her behalf is it rape or kinky sex? If father kills his daughter because she has brought shame upon him and his family is it not 1st degree murder which implies intent or is it second degree murder which implies spontaneous rage. We keep sticking our head further down the hole and hoping that Islam will go away is just plain ridiculous and suicidal.
euragone
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:17amJust another reason to take our country back and kick these types of people out.. If you can‘t assimilate into our culture then you don’t belong here.. This country was formed “Under God” Not under allah.. Killing or beating anyone over Honor or less is Wrong.. and these people need to be put down like the rabid animals they are
Report Post »handsmcml
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:09pmIt may be true that the words “Honor Killing” are not in the Koran, but Muslims are told that Apostates are worse than infidels. Dishonoring the family by rejecting Islam or not obeying ones parents is, in their mind, punishable by death. What is the meaning of the word “is”?
Report Post »vivrobbins
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:19pm“I think it sensationalizes what is nothing more than a parent killing a child,” he said. I guess Judges see more parents killing children than we do. What a shame.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:43amRoe V. Wade.
Report Post »DEConservative
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:18pmIT’s about time we started publicly executing these “honor killers”…In this country, if your religion takes LIVES…you don’t have the freedom to practice it. PERIOD…So we need to hold these animals accountable for their murders.
Report Post »jeremyhayes
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:16pmHopefully he is surrounded by inmates who torture him and make his life in prison a true hell on earth!! Such a shame that his daughter had her life cut so short. It really saddens me that this is a part of life for many young people on earth who I’m sure would love to flee the confines of their fathers false religion of Islam!!
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:25pmMaybe the inmates will provide an honor killing of their own.
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:29pmRight Wing, HEAR HEAR!
Carry on soldier
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:32pmI strongly doubt it, unfortunately. Do a little research on Islam in the US prison system.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:43pmHe is not likely to live too long in the prison system unless they keep him in solitary.
While there are muslim gangs in prison there are also white supremacists which would like nothing more than put another notch in their resume’
Report Post »AlansTigg
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:09pmprisons are highly successful recruiting stations for islam
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:07pmHe will be very well protected by the muslems in prison. Infact he will probably be held in high esteem. That’s what our US prisons are like. Only chance of retribution happening in the joint is if he is caught “out of place” by the Klan or the Aryan Brotherhood. Shet like that can start a war inside.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:15pmWell it is the religion of peace and tolerance right?
Report Post »Deckle
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:15pmI think he should never get out of jail! It is more than a parent killing a child. It is a very sick way of thinking and it should not be allowed in America!
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:15pmThis is a BS story. She is dead, her murderer is in prison. The end.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:28pmSad that you could allow yourself to believe that Muslim honor killings are just isolated incidents. It is part of their culture, and now it is here in the US. This story is far from over.
Report Post »LinkedIn G
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:29pmIt was a muslim “honor killing”.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:30pmIf this is the end, why is my tax money still being used to keep him locked up. The End means Bubba finished it.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:35pmDid any of you actually READ the story? If you did, your reading comprehension skills are poor.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:44pmMODEL82A1:
Report Post »We have to comment on it before we can see what’s in it. OMG!!!! The Pelosi doctrine.
LinkedIn G
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:03pmLOL Chips
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 11:51pm@ MODEL
Report Post »I‘m afraid it’s only the begenning my Compassionate friend..
Keep your head buried in the sand if you wish, one way
to go through life…SAD !!
By the way, Fine piece, are you Qualified ??? OORAH !!
Marci
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:13amNo Model–your response is B.S. Because the rest of us are actually humane, we pray that you aren’t ever ignorantly caught in the radical Islam crossfire. They’ll take your head for no other reason than they CAN. Daniel Pearl.
Report Post »eadamico70
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:09amWhat are you basing your “BS” on?
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:12amIt may be “the end” of this particular incident, but many more young women will meet their “end” for a perverted sense of “honor” unless the law and society at large becomes proactive in saving them.
Report Post »How about a system of “safe houses”? If a young woman can take a life (by getting an abortion)without parental consent, she should be able to save her own life without parental consent.
Come on NOW, get in the game!
sixdogman
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:14pmthese are the people the left are joining to cause chaos and trouble here in America.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:13pmMuslim honor killing…truly an oxymoron.
Report Post »This animal should have been put to death, and if it is proven that other family members attacked her, they, too, should take the dirt nap with him.
Old Youth
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:13pmThere are some sick people out there
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:26pmThis judge doesn’t reflect the majority of our courts. His opinion comes from the Libs.
Report Post »termitebill
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:13pmThese are some sick puppy’s..
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:11pm**#**^^** #&* ^$##*** ^*&^$#**^^$$*^**$#*&***|
Report Post »And that‘s all I’d better say right now.
Jenny Lind
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:10pmJust looking at his face makes me feel ill. This is the face of a man who thought more of himself than his daughter, who would have happily enslaved her in a loveless marriage, rather than let her be happy, he wanted her dead. This religion of peace is evil to the core, and the men in it are twice evil.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:18pmI couldn’t agree with you more. Looking at the daughter, she was so pretty, had her whole life ahead of her. Muslim men are monsters, the whole religion is evil. May she rest in peace.
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