Mother axes daughter to death in Jordan 'honour killing'

    A Jordanian woman has hacked her 26-year-old daughter to death in her sleep with an axe for giving birth out of wedlock, the Jordan Times reported.

    The 69-year-old mother and another daughter turned themselves in to police after Saturday's killing, claiming they had acted to cleanse the "family honour", the paper said, quoting official sources on Sunday.

    They were charged with premeditated murder, the sources said.


It seems as if, every few weeks or months, we hear about some Muslim killing his or her daughter for having sex out of wedlock. Conversely, however, I can't recall the last time that even an evangelical Christian did the same thing.