[ April 20, 2024 ]
“Aren’t you dead yet?,” the would-be honor killer asks severely wounded wife.
“Die. Die. And may Allah never bring you back.”
That’s what Abdul Rahman Sweidan told his wife as he plunged a knife 23 times into her chest, face and upper back.
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At some point, Sweidan stopped, took their 2-year-old son to a bedroom and locked him in, Deputy Prosecutor Emily Sullivan told jurors. Then Sweidan changed out of his bloody clothes, before returning to the living room to find his wife still breathing.
“You’re not dead yet?” he asked as he again stabbed her. She screamed, then went still.
Sweidan walked out of their apartment, locked the front door and drove himself to the emergency room for cuts to his hands, said Sullivan. He left behind his severely wounded wife and locked-up toddler.
“He needed to control Dania. When Dania worked, he needed to control the money. When Dania wanted to send money to family members, he needed to shut that down,” Sullivan said.
“And when Dania wanted to go about her day-to-day life, he could not handle that. He attacked her with questions. He asked her: ‘Where you going? What are you doing?’ He interrogated her incessantly because he needed control over her life, and over her,” she said.
Alhafeth, 40, suggested maybe they shouldn’t be together, maybe they should separate.
Sweidan “responded in no uncertain terms with ‘I will kill you before I divorce you. I will kill you before I divorce you,’” Sullivan said. “And ladies and gentleman, the evidence will show that that is exactly what the defendant attempted to do.”
Deputy Prosecutor Brian Hultgrenn “alleges that in the days leading up to the attack, Sweidan threatened to kill his wife before she could divorce him or leave him….Alhafeth, 40, filed for divorce in late October. Her petition states the couple married May 23, 1996, in Homs, Syria, but the marriage was ‘irretrievably broken’ on Aug. 30 when Sweidan ‘attempted to murder’ her.”
Washington state: Muslim migrant stabs his wife 23 times in front of their children
By Jihad Watch, April 14, 2018:
If she divorced or left him, it would have been an affront to his honor.
Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but “the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour ‘provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.’” And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that “Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.”
Until the encouragement Islamic law gives to honor killing is acknowledged and confronted, more women will suffer.
“This Kennewick father threatened his wife for days, police say. She was stabbed 23 times,” by Kristin M. Kraemer, Tri-City Herald, April 2, 2018:
A Kennewick father of four is on trial for an August attack that left his wife with 23 stab wounds.
Abdul Rahman Sweidan, 47, appeared Monday morning in Benton County Superior Court before an initial pool of 100 jurors….
Prosecutors allege the crimes happened within sight or sound of the couple’s toddler, and involved domestic violence and the use of a deadly weapon.
Sweidan has denied the allegations. His attorneys, Michael Vander Sys and Eric Scott, do not plan to call any witnesses.
Sweidan, who is from Syria, has been assigned two Arabic interpreters for the trial. The interpreters trade places next to Sweidan every 20 minutes.
Deputy prosecutors and defense attorneys said Monday that immigration will be a question for potential jurors during selection to make sure they do not have feelings against Sweidan or his wife, Dania Z. Alhafeth, because of the couple’s status.
The family in 2015 came to the United States legally through World Relief as refugees, the lawyers said. They first emigrated to Jordan because of the war in their home country.
Deputy Prosecutor Brian Hultgrenn told the court he plans to introduce in trial background information on the couple’s relationship, including the “pattern of power and control that (Sweidan) exercises over the victim.”
Alhafeth filed for divorce in late October.
Hultgrenn said it started in Syria, then ramped up after the family came to America, to “a culture where women have more rights and choices and freedoms.”
He alleges that in the days leading up to the attack, Sweidan threatened to kill his wife before she could divorce him or leave him. The breaking point was Aug. 30, Hultgrenn said.
Alhafeth, 40, filed for divorce in late October. Her petition states the couple married May 23, 1996, in Homs, Syria, but the marriage was “irretrievably broken” on Aug. 30 when Sweidan “attempted to murder” her….
Alhafeth was taken to Trios Southridge Hospital in Kennewick with severe injuries.
She had deep gashes on the front and back of her torso and on her face. Some of the cuts reached her internal organs, court documents said.
The toddler, who was found locked inside a bedroom, had a spot of blood on his shirt, documents said.
At about the same time the neighbor was calling 911, Sweidan showed up in the hospital emergency room with cuts to his hands.
He eventually was identified as Alhafeth’s husband, and told medical staff his wounds either were from cutting meat or from a machine at work, court documents said.
When officers met up with Sweidan at the hospital, he “seemed calm and did not ask about his wife,” documents said….
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32 Comments
6 years ago
“The interpreters trade places next to Sweidan every 20 minutes.” That’s because he refuses to shower and he smells so bad.
“He eventually was identified as Alhafeth’s husband, and told medical
staff his wounds either were from cutting meat or from a machine at
work, court documents said.” Riiiiiiighhhht! A guy cuts his hands REAL good and he doesn’t know where it happened? Sure. He’s going to have a tough time getting around that one.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
He only cares about himself.
He leaves a toddler locked up while his wife is nearly dying and he tends to cuts on his hands. What a sadist with no conscience.
6 years ago
This is more evidence of how ISLAM is totally incompatible to western freedom. Males are sadistic control freaks. It seems like a miracle she survived 23 stab wounds! Islam is NOT compatible with the west. They should live in MUSLIM Sharia Law countries where it is legal for them to do this. I don’t want ANY of them here.
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
but why don’t these moslems STAY THERE IN MIDDLE EAST!!!
who brought them here? i certainly am sick of reading about muscat abuse, rape, child grooming pakis and FAKE asylum seekers; they want the Welfare and everyone knows this !
6 years ago
Yet another “good”, “moderate”, “decent”, “honorable” muslum gone wrong.
6 years ago
Now there’s a good mooSlime, more power to him. I hope all mooSlimes do this to their wives and children and then to each other.
6 years ago
How horrifying, it is shameful how some young Western women admire Islam when so many women are victims of its violence on a near-daily basis… 🙁
6 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
I think those western women that admire Islam must be stupid and idealistic. They are probably also very naive.
6 years ago
Reply to
anonQ
The term ‘Loving you to Death‘ nicely describes the relationship between the moslems and their satan/allah
They love their satan/allah, they love their satan/allah so much they want to die, in satan’s/allah’s name
No matter they die strapping themselves with explosive, or be killed by their husbands, they are happy, knowing they have died in the name of their eternal love, satan/allah
6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
I think you are correct. allah is the aribic word for god, but the god they worship is obviously not the same God we worship.
6 years ago
Deport him to somalia or arrange for a North Korean jail to keep him for a life sentence. Or, just shoot the worthless ape and kick the remains to the curb.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Not a bad idea. Pay North Korea to take some of our worst criminals 🙂
That would be more of a deterrent than the death penalty 🙂
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
It would be a nice gesture towards them to earn some hard currency as well as give the American tax payer a break as muslim criminal maintenance is getting expensive.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Put them on a plane, when in flight over the ocean, OPEN the exit door and let them be sucked out.
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
NK doesn’t want them. Nor does, China, Russia or most Muslim countries.
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
A man killing his wife for daring to divorce him wouldn’t be castigated for doing so in the muslum world.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
They should just shoot him and cremate the body. It costs a;lot less than putting him in jail or deportation.
6 years ago
Reply to
SNOWDIN
Why should WE pay for his cremation?
Give the bill to the family as they are deported.
6 years ago
Reply to
SNOWDIN
Why cremate a perfectly good body, when they could send it to a glue making plant.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Hide glue is making a big comeback, in traditional / old school woodworking.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
They have used it or guitars as it is easy to disassemble when heated. Company sales would drop drastically as nobody would want to buy a Guitar that smells as vile as a mudscum/mudslime..
5 years ago
After the daughter, seeing ISLAM in action by her dad,
HOW CAN SHE REMAIN A MUSLIM?
She’s even testifying against her father.
What is in it for FEMALES to be Muslims?
Do they get eternal orgies too?
6 years ago
The WILD MAN! He will do this to a human, but never to his donkey. In fact, I never heard a Moslem stab his donkey lover.
6 years ago
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6 years ago
Reply to
Thurston Howell III
Great comment! I hope it didn’t have both of your brain cells working overtime to come up with it muslum chimpanzee!
6 years ago
Same should be done to him for justice.
6 years ago
Any woman ‘in her right mind’ cannot possibly admire Islam. There is absolutely nothing in Islamic law that recognizes female rights………….period.
6 years ago
I believe an infamous “moderate” muslum television executive turned bad when his wife either threatened to divorce him or started such proceedings — he beheaded her.
6 years ago
Hot lead to eat for breakfast for this Islamic zombie ????♂️
6 years ago
The left in this country does not talk about this. Feminism is ok with it. Total denial for a problem that keeps getting worst.
