Earlier this month, two Iraqi refugees were charged with attempting to murder their daughter in October 2024 for having an American boyfriend. High schoolers in Olympia, Washington, had to pull the dad off the girl while the mom stood and watched 👇
[Warning: Barbarism]
Ihsan and Zahraa tried to put their daughter on a plane back to Iraq over fears that she was becoming too American (I guess it's okay to come to America and take advantage of it, but not to integrate, huh?). When the daughter caught wind of it, she ran away from home and went straight to her high school.
The parents caught up with her outside.
But in the most on-brand move ever, a Washington jury found the parents not guilty on Thursday.
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After three days of deliberations, a jury found both parents not guilty of attempted murder.
However, the girl's father, Ihsan, was found guilty of assault and unlawful imprisonment. The mother, Zahraa, was only found guilty of violating a court order, but was determined to be not guilty of attempted murder, unlawful imprisonment or assault.
Sentencing for both parents is set for mid-August. Mrs. Ali will be released from custody Thursday on her own personal recognizance but is ordered not to leave Thurston County and follow no contact orders that are in effect. Mr. Ali remains in custody until sentencing.
This woman has absolutely no relational, cultural, linguistic, or moral connection to America, let alone "Thurston County." You think she's actually going to wait around out of respect for the U.S. justice system?
According to prosecutors, Mr. Ali faces up to 14 months on the assault conviction and up to 12 months on his unlawful imprisonment conviction.
This man is not an American citizen. He was brought here as a refugee of war, out of our charity, and should be immediately sent back home, if not now, then when his sentence is over. He has absolutely no business being in America. None.
I know this is hard to fathom for most Americans, but most of the world does not believe in the squishy liberal things that Americans believe in. They do not see anything morally wrong with killing a wayward daughter to preserve the honor of their family name. In fact, their moral system demands it.
Multiple witnesses testified during the trial that they saw Ihsan Ali trying to strangle his 17-year-old daughter.
'She's unconscious, and he continues to strangle her around the neck for another 15-18 seconds and would have continued to do so even longer but for the intervention of those adults,' Stone said.
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During closing arguments, prosecutors said Zahraa Ali appeared to try to help her husband carry out the attempted murder.
'And when you look at that video, you see she does not provide any aid at any time to her child, zero aid,' Stone said. 'That is not an effort to comfort her child. Again, that is not where her loyalty lies in this situation, and she demonstrates that over and over again.'
There are many such cases that happen every day throughout the Islamic world. Thousands of women are murdered in this way every year, although we have no idea how many cases go unreported.
'There's no nefarious intent,' Erik Kaeding, who represents Ihsan Ali, said. 'There's no intent to hurt anybody badly, there's no intent to kill anybody, there's an intent to take your daughter home.'
This is what "taking your daughter home" looks like?
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