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A FATHER who allegedly mowed down his daughter with a Jeep because she was “too westernized” will come to court this week.
Cops say Iraqi immigrant Faleh Hassan Almaleki was furious that his 20-year-old daughter Noor because she had shunned an arranged marriage and was living with her boyfriend and his mother.
So in what prosecutors say was an October 2009 "honor killing" he smashed into both his daughter and her boyfriend’s mother because she was: “defying muslim values.”
Charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault and two counts of hit and run if convicted the 50-year-old Almaleki faces life in prison.
The United Nations has documented honor killings in Egypt, Iraq, Turkey and other countries, but the practice of killing a family member -- often a woman or a girl -- over perceived shame is relatively rare in the United States.
Following his daughter's death, Almaleki fled to Mexico and later to London, where he was taken into custody upon his arrival. He is being held on $5 million bail.
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