Teen 'branded a whore and hit by sisters' over birthday kiss

Muslim siblings on trial for attacking sister days after Afghan family found guilty of honour killing

LAST UPDATED AT 11:26 ON Wed 1 Feb 2012

A MUSLIM teenager from Basingstoke, Hampshire was allegedly beaten, branded a "whore" and had her waist-length hair cut off by her brother and sisters after they caught her kissing a white man on her 18th birthday.
 
Shamima Akhtar was bundled into a car, taken home and attacked by her two sisters Nadiya, 25, and Nazira, 29, and her brother Kayum Mohammed-Abdul, 24, Winchester Crown Court heard yesterday. As the Daily Mail reports, the three siblings are on trial for kidnap, actual bodily harm and false imprisonment.

The trial comes just 48 hours after an Afghan couple living in Montreal were found guilty of drowning their three daughters in one of the most shocking cases of an honour attack seen in the West.
 
The jury in Winchester heard how Shamima, who worked at Argos, had sought permission from her strict Islamic family to celebrate her birthday with work colleagues on 1 April last year at a Basingstoke restaurant.
 
As the teenager left the restaurant to meet her 10.30pm curfew, she kissed a white colleague, Gary Pain, outside. It was at this point that her brother allegedly drove into the car park at speed, jumped out and grabbed Pain around the neck.
 
According to the prosecution, Kayum Mohammed-Abdul became "extremely aggressive and threatening" while Shamima's sisters bundled her into the car.
 
The 18-year-old claims she was thrown into the back seat of the car and punched by her sister Nazira before she was taken back to the family home and subjected to an "array of insults" including "whore and prostitute".
 
The jury heard how Nadiya punched her sister in the back of the head and Mohammed-Abdul kicked her, before the two older sisters decided to cut off her hair. Shamima called the police the next day and her siblings were arrested. All three deny the charges.

Britain saw a 47 per cent rise in honour-related attacks in 2010 - the last year for which officials figures are available - with police authorities reporting 2,283 cases. · 

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Submitted by guest on February 3, 2012 - 12:08am.
Her family was trying to protect from getting a disgusting disease. They don't want her to get sick.
Submitted by guest2 on February 3, 2012 - 1:37am.
They patently don't care one jot about whether her health was in jeopardy and obviously do not value their daughter in the slightest.Let's not pretend you think they were doing this for her own welfare- do you really think being dragged into a car,viciously attacked and abused by several people, then being held down while her hair was forcibly cut off, all the while having abuse screamed and shouted at her and probably feeing absolutely terrified and in considerable pain, was also for her welfare? They could have put her in hospital, or worse. Instead of just assuming she was a whore, why not trust in the daughter they had spent years bringing up to believe in the same things as them and trust her to know boundaries? A kiss is not sex, and can be a simple expression of acknowledgment, like a handshake or goodbye, and it is common practice in many European countries for two men to "kiss" hello on both cheeks. Are they prostitutes too? She must be utterly traumatised. But that's not important to them is it, at least she didn't make their family look stupid. They did that by themselves.
Submitted by guest on February 3, 2012 - 2:15am.
I never said she was a prostitute.  Although the family could have handled the situation in a different manner, it is important to not deviate from their main motive. Their main motive was not to kill or hurt her. They were worried about her well being, they want to wanted to protect her from some of the ills that society has. Secondhand, many individuals exaggerate what actually happened to win more sympathy. Also, she did not call the police right away. She waited. If she was that worried about her safety why not call them right away?

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