Chesler decries the recent slaughter of Toronto’s Aqsa Parvez by her father, and the honor-murder as well as the ferocious honor-murder of sixteen-year-old Palestina Isa by her parents in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1989.
Ellen Harris wrote an important book about this latter case: Guarding the Secrets: Palestinian Terrorism and a Father’s Murder of His Too-American Daughter. Chesler says:
Palestina was clearly being physically abused at home. She attended school with visible bruises. She asked for help. She got none. The only reason her parents were prosecuted and sentenced was this: Her father, Zein Isa, was under federal surveillance. Why? Because he was a member of the Palestinian Abu Nidal terrorist group. Thus, the jury got to hear the horrendous twenty minute murder on tape and convicted her parents.
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