‘Fatal Family Feuds’ TV show covers 2009 Arizona honor killing, ascribes it to ‘traditional Iraqi culture’

This honor murder happened in the United States fourteen years ago, but most people who watch “Fatal Family Feuds” will be hearing about it for the first time. This is because the establishment media and bogus media “watchdogs” such as NewsGuard relentlessly smear and defame those who speak about such stories, or about any stories that present Muslims or Islam in a negative light. Even now, “Fatal Family Feuds” is disingenuous about what led to this honor killing. The show says nothing about Islam, and gives no hint of the fact that “traditional Iraqi culture” is deeply rooted in Islam.

In the Qur’an, a mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So we intended that their Lord should substitute for them one better than him in purity and nearer to mercy.” (18:80-81)

And according to Islamic law, “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” However, “not subject to retaliation” is “a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring.” (Reliance of the Traveller o1.1-2).

Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but “the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour ‘provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.’” And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that “Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.”

We covered the honor murder of Noor Almaleki here at Jihad Watch quite extensively at the time, and we didn’t dissemble about its root causes.

“Father ‘Honor Killed’ His 20-Year-Old Daughter for Being ‘So Americanized,'” by Joe Dziemianowicz, Oxygen.com, December 16, 2023:

Minutes before he ran over her with his car, 20-year-old Noor Almaleki described her father as “so evil.”

Watch Fatal Family Feuds on Oxygen Saturday, Saturdays at 9/8c and next day on Peacock.

Callers reported that a silver-colored Jeep had hit two women in the parking lot. Upon arrival, officers found two injured women on the ground.

“Thankfully, both victims were still alive,” Jeffry Balson, a detective with the Peoria Police Department, told Fatal Family Feuds, airing Saturdays at 9/8c on Oxygen.

The victims, Noor Almaleki, 20, and Amal Khalaf, 43, were rushed to the hospital. At the scene, detectives observed tire tracks and a toppled tree as they reconstructed the incident.

Witnesses said the driver of the silver vehicle accelerated and aimed for the two women. “Then the vehicle tore out of the scene,” said Laura Reckhart, prosecutor for Maricopa County.

Investigators learned that both victims were from Iraq. Their families had come to the U.S. in the 1990s, according to Fatal Family Feuds.

Noor, whose name means “light of God,” Phoenix New Times reported, had six younger siblings. Her father, Felah, worked as a truck driver, while her mother, Sahem, worked as a military interpreter.

“Amal was raising her children in the Western culture,” said Reckhart. “Felah and Sahem tried to raise their family in the traditional Iraqi culture.”

Male-dominance and control are key to that tradition. “Noor definitely wanted to be independent,” said her friend Heather Goodin. “She couldn’t wait to move out.”

“That was the root of an incredible family feud that just escalated into something unthinkable,” said Abigail Pesta, journalist, whose report “An American Tragedy” covered the story.

At the crime scene, an accident reconstruction expert estimated that the driver of the vehicle was going 25 to 30 miles per hour upon impact. “It was becoming readily apparent that this was not an accident,” said Boughey.

Detectives went to the hospital. Noor had broken bones and brain injuries, which left her unconscious and fighting for life. Khalaf suffered a broken pelvis and other injuries that left her in serious condition.

Who did this? Khalaf’s 19-year-old son Marwan “directed investigators to look at the Almaleki family,” according to investigators.

Marwan told detectives “there was a lot of animosity” between the two families, said Boughey, adding that it began with Noor’s first steps toward independence.

“Her dad wanted her to live the way he wanted her to live,” said Goodin. “They just wanted her to stop being so Americanized.”

Felah was adamant that Noor not have any relationship of any type with other males, Reckhart said. Marwan told investigators that Felah saw Noor’s actions as “bringing dishonor to the family,” said Boughey….