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Thursday, 22 December 2016
"Honor-killing" Shock: Murdered Muslim Girls Replaced With Imposters
Written by Selwyn Duke
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"Honor-killing" Shock: Murdered Muslim Girls Replaced With Imposters
It sounds like the plot of an X-Files episode or something you’d read in a supermarket tabloid, but it’s actually a case of truth being stranger than fiction. It involves five Pakistani girls apparently murdered in “honor killings,” a happening not uncommon in their Muslim land. What occurred next, however, was truly bizarre.
The girls were replaced with imposters, in anticipation of an investigation by authorities.
One replacement even had her thumbs burned badly enough so that she couldn’t be identified, the result of a “cooking accident” according to her parents.
The strange saga began six years ago in the Pakistani hinterlands. As the Washington Post writes:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/24922-honor-killing-shock-murdered-muslim-girls-replaced-with-imposters
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They really, really want to keep the "honor killing" tradition alive and active.