Muslim daughter killed over mini-skirt
Pastor Dale Morgan
Muslim daughter killed over mini-skirt*
From correspondents in St Petersburg
Agence France-Presse
April 13, 2009 11:20pm
AN Azeri immigrant in Russia's northern city of Saint Petersburg has
been charged with hiring hit men to kill his 21-year-old daughter for
wearing a mini-skirt, police said today.
The man's arrest follows the detention last week of two other citizens
of Azerbaijan, a majority Muslim state in the Caucasus, who confessed to
murdering the girl, a university medical student.
“They admitted to being paid 100,000 rubles ($4140) by the girl's
father. They said he wanted to punish his daughter for flouting national
traditions and wearing a mini-skirt,” a police source told said today.
The girl was abducted on the street in Russia's second city on March 8,
taken to the outskirts of Saint Petersburg and then shot twice in the
head, the source said.
Russia has experienced a revival of conservative religious tradition
since the fall of the Soviet Union both within its Russian Orthodox and
large Muslim communities.
The Saint Petersburg Mosque – the largest and northernmost in Europe
when it was built in 1913 – now counts mostly migrants from ex-Soviet
Azerbaijan among its worshippers.