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Friends,

This brave reporter is simply asking a question – but look how Barrack Hussein Obama’s press officer avoids the issue.

Will somebody tell me why this official of the US Government is ignoring a pertinent question from a brave citizen reporter? The American people have a right to know if BHO supports sodomy and bestiality in the military.

Does the president want an armed force in which all of the soldiers are sodomising each other or assaulting livestock? And why does the president want our troops engaged in carnal abominations – is it to make us vulnerable to a fifth column of Islamists and secularists who are already plotting our nation’s destruction?

I can honestly say I do not know the answer to these questions – but what I do know is that there is no smoke without fire. What conspiracy is the Obama government hiding here? You tell me why the President’s spokesperson refused to deny Obama’s pro-bestiality position?

Yours in Christ,

Jimmy Goddard

Friends,

Why is the so-called President Barack Hussein Obama doing nothing as rioters are taking over the streets of our once-peaceful democratic allies in Bahrain and Kuwait. Does he not remember the brave sacrifice made by our American troops as they beat back Saddam’s army to restore constitutional democracy in the tiny desert-land of Kuwait? What of the innocent Kuwaitis caught up in this Islamist revolution?

I’m sure you will all agree – there’s only one possible solution to this problem. We have to stop the rot by cutting it off from it’s source before the whole of the world is engulfed conflict with the militant islamists. They have already taken over Egypt – the rest of Africa is sure to fall within months. Europe is not far behind – France, Germany, England – these once great nations have become overwhelmed by muslims.

What can we do: It’s simple we must bomb Iran now. It’s the only logical way to defend ourselves from this most grave of threats.

We need to nuke Iran – turn that entire country into one giant parking lot. It’s the only way to stop your daughters being raped by a Mullah.

Yours in Christ,

Jimmy Goddard

Michael Savage said it best with his book: Liberalism is a mental disorder. It is. Liberals are unable to cope with ugly truths with the hard immutable reality of these dangerous times.

On my way to church today I saw several cars in front of my swerving around an obstacle on the road. Wondering what is was I slowed down when I came closer. There was an injured dog in the middle of the road, unable to get out of the way because of what seemed to be a crushed hip. I din’t have much time to think about it because I already was late for church service, I aimed for the head with the massive right front tire of my Hummer and I got it. I ended the suffering of this dumb beast by crushing it’s head with 5000 pounds of Detroit steel. It was the most merciful thing to do.

Republicans are folks that see suffering and do something about it. We are doers, we are creators, we take matters into our own hands, instead of closing our eyes to the realities of life.

Liberals on the other hand are cowards, raised to be cowards by their hippy-parents, raised without clear values and goals in a life full of false understanding and relativism. That is also why liberals are unable to confront terrorism. They cower in fear, want to retreat and hide. If liberals wound have been in power on 9/11 we would have terrorists in America today. Towealheads would rule this mighty land with hateful attitudes of Islam.

Why does nobody have the guts to end this suffering?
A christian with a merciful heart would not idly stand by but act with good faith.

Don’t get me wrong, being of a soft heart is not all bad but theses people need to get out of the way and let us do our job. Let us defeat terrorism, let us kick out illegals, let us get the oil we need. Get out of the way liberals. Let us do the job!

Thanks for reading,
Shelley N. Goodman

Friends, we all know the world is filled with wickedness and temptation. But Jesus has shown us we can show moral courage and stand-up against vice and debauchery, much like He did when he took crucifixion rather than give-up his beliefs. That’s why if a woman is being a slut or staring at other men seductively you should realize it’s unacceptable in the eyes of the Lord. And the fact she’s from another race or religion doesn’t matter: we’re all equal in the eyes of God, at least when it comes to Sin and punishment.

Sharia Law: Islam may be a primitive death-cult masquerading as a religion, but at least they get some things right: when a woman acts like a slut, they make sure she gets dealt with, exactly like it should be!

Liberals are probably crying right now over this, but let’s not forget: this woman likely was either cheating or staring at other men, that’s why she got the beating that she did. And if she didn’t cheat, most likely she was probably going to cheat at some other time anyways. Sharia Law understands this aspect of women better than a lot of other religions, it’s one of the few bright spots Islam has to offer. As Christians we cannot condone violence of any kind, but sometimes women cannot control their urges like men can, or else women think they can fix everything by trying to run away from home or get a divorce or by having an affair. Well it isn’t the case, and as difficult as it is for men to come to harming a female, sometimes it’s just gotta be done, if only for her own good. It is this aspect of Jesus’ love that resonates with everyone.

Always Right,
Charles “Chuck” Roast

Lemme ask you a question – what would you do if your third grade son or daughter come back from school and told you they learn how to perform an abortion?  I guess if you was a liberal you’d probably jump up and down for joy because you’d be saving a $15 co-pay every time you killed a pre-born and you could buy that much more crack cocaine.  If you was a decent person, you’d run right down to that school with a licensed handgun and march that principal right to jail.

A mild sample of the kinds of images third graders are allowed
to view in their school and public libraries

Lemme ask you another question – Let’s say once you get to that jail, the police chief puts you in jail because under the current socialist dictator it ain’t no big thing for a child to look at pictures of a woman’s nether regions either for sexual gratification or under the guise of "education"?

Lemme ask you one last question – what if the number two man at the Justice Department of the United States of America didn’t have no problem with that?

Meet David Ogden – defender of porn and number two man at the Justice Department.  God bless America?  I’d say God damn America!

The Bible says: "You are the company you keep." David Ogden keeps
company with Amazonian transexuals.  What does that say about him?

Ogden has made a career of perfecting his hatefulness towards God, America and the family.  How many pre-borns has he killed? Several million – and that’s a conservative number.  He’s one of those liberals that wanna see 11 years old having as much sex as they can (cuz it’s "healhty") and then slaughter the precious pre-born that could grow up to be the Supreme Court Justice that overturns Roe v. Wade once and for all.  It ain’t nothing but womb lynching and America ought hang its head in shame!

But how he’s gonna get a 11 year old interested in throwing away her childhood on the sins of the flesh with every single boy (and girl) in her school if her parents are trying to raise her right?  That’s real simple – the internets.  Ogden thinks that everybody has the right to watch hardcore straight and gay porn not only in a public library but also right in the school classroom. That’s right – if the so-called "teacher" wants to show [title redacted - Ed.] which features two men engaged in [act redacted - Ed.], [act redacted - Ed.] and felching because he thinks it’s "art" then he can just fire up the personal computer Bill Clinton loaded with Al Gore’s internets and show it right there in the classroom!  That’s what he argued for when he argued against the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 – hardcore gay porn in your child’s classroom.  You still think government schools is a good idea?  I don’t!

A scene from Spermyman 4, a homo porno easily available
for your 5 year old to download on Al Gore’s internets of
sin and sodomy.  Try finding scripture on the Al Gore’s internet -
I doubt you can.

If you send your children to a government school (and if you’re reading this you probably don’t), then Odgen wants to make sure that you ain’t got no choice as to where you’re child goes.  Do you want your child to go to a nice, clean school with kind, Christian teachers and students whose parents don’t traffic in the sex and drug industry?  Well, I guess you’re just too narrow minded for Mr. David Ogden.  He thinks you "fear the unknown" and "shy away from substantial interaction with people of other races."  Well, thank you so much for trying to run my life!  Last time I check, I thought I could decide whether my children should be allowed to talk to negros and Mexicans!

David Ogden thinks our children should learn the finer
points of "pimpin’" and crack dealing from the parents
of their classmates in government schools.  I disagree.

None of this means nothing compared to evil wickedness of his biggest, vilest act – defending braille versions of Playboy and Penthouse.  That’s right – porno for blind people.

I can understand a lot of things.  I can understand that lie-berals hate American because they love Satan and Joe Stalin.  I can even understand how being a homo can make you so bitter and desperate that you’d wanna make everyone bitter and desperate, too.  But I will never even begin to understand why you’d ever wanna corrupt blind people who God has already cursed for their sins.  That is the very definition of wickedness.  And that is exactly what David Ogden, under the guise of so-called "free speech", did: cement blind people’s place in Hell by giving them the most Godless pornography ever put on paper.  Now there are probably a couple of idiots saying, "but, Billy, there ain’t no pictures so it can’t be that bad."  Well, take a look at this -

A page from braille Playboy describing a lesbian four-way
involving blasphemous uses Christian symbols and multiple
instances of the Lord’s name taken in vain.

That combined with interviews with Jimmy Carter and Gore Vidal make this an immediate one-way ticket to Hell.

And that makes David Odgen the second most dangerous man in America next to Barak Osama Homo Bin Laden!

Move America Forward continues to refuse to accept that a Kenyan born, gay murderous voodoo priest cannot, should not and will never be President of the United States especially if he pals around with terrorists.  They also know that terrorism starts in schools.  Now that Obama duped America into thinking he’s president, his surrogate daddy and terrorism guru, William Ayers, is ready to use so-called institutions of higher learning to recruit the next generation of America-haters.  As a FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl spied on Ayers and got to get real close to him.  He knows what a terrorist scumbag he is.  That’s why all he’s only asking for plane fare, room, board and a small stipend to follow Ayers around the country and make sure that Ayers don’t get a chance to infect the feeble-minded youth of this country who prefer thinking over patriotism.  God bless you, Larry Grathwohl, and your sacrifice to America.

Briefly Patriotic – Larry Grathwohl

For all you socialist homos (and I know that’s the same thing) that thought Joe The Plumber was some kinda Nazi just ‘cuz he’s got a Kraut name and he’s bald I guess y’all got egg on yer face because why would he be going to Israel if he was a Nazi?

And would his publicist being saying that “Israeli officials are very excited to have him,” those Jews thought he was coming to wipe ‘em out?  I don’t think so.

So it stands to reason that he’s going over there as a "journalist" in the grand tradition of the CIA to kick…towelhead…butt.  I never said that they didn’t have no brain under their tablecothes so they know that once Joe The Plumber gets there they dang well better stop shelling our buddy Israel.

If y’all don’t believe how treacherous them so-called "palestinians" is then watch this commercial with the phone right next to ya ‘cuz yer gonna wanna call and help out in any way you can .

Yours,
Shanique Zambo

Barack HUSSEIN Obama ain’t a Christian and the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission is gonna prove it to ya with a SEVEN part series.  That’s same as the number of days in Creation Week except it’s gonna be  Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s destruction instead because as soon as American’s have the PROOF that Homobama ain’t a Christian then you know they dang well will not vote for him or the corrupt Catholic he got as a “running mate”.

Now, y’all maybe thinking that you ain’t heard of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission and maybe wondering if it’s got anything with them Jews.  It don’t.  It was founded by General William Hollis who’s “an unabashed American patriot who loves both God and country and has shown it by his life’s work.”  He don’t like nobody talking down Christians and I’m pretty sick of it, too.  I’ve said it before, but I can’t walk down the street without somebody spitting on me and calling me a Christian.  So, that’s why he founded it.  I’m hoping that he’s gonna be able to get some laws passed that make it illegal to discriminate against Christians.

Even though it was founded in 1999, there were some “extenuating circumstances” that kept Gen. Hollis from really gearing up to stop the slander against Christians.  But now that he’s been on the job for a year or so, things is gonna be looking up more than me watching the sky for the Rapture!

This is only the first of the seven parts, so y’all keep an eye out on their YouTube channel!

Friends,

Next time you take a break from campaigning and fund-raising for John McCain and Sarah Palin, why not chow down on these Obama Waffles – the tasty way to remind your friends about the Truth behind Barrack Hussein Obama:

I’m not sure if I’d trust Obama to run a waffle-house! The box design is great – it makes fun of the way that Obama is always talking about “Change”. Whoever said we conservatives don’t have a sense of humor!

Did you see the bit about pointing to Mecca – it’s because Barrack Hussein Obama is really a Muslim terrorist, just like in the picture of him.

Who put chocolate-sause on my waffle? I think I’ve lost my appetite!

I hope that gave you a great chuckle to start the week. Come back to Shelley The Republican every day leading up to the elections for more great Conservative humor and insightful pro-family political news and commentary.

Update:

Bob and Mark from ObamaWaffles.com asked us to remind you that this tasty product is now available online and from selected Christian retailers. Apparantly some libtards have complained that this product is “racist” – how could waffles be racist? I just don’t understand it. They also sent us this great rap that you can teach your kids, all about uppity Senator B. Hussein Obama:

Yours in Christ,

Jimmy Goddard

Friends,

Is Barrack Hussein Obama a Muslim or a Christian? We just do not know.

According to records from the “madrassa” which Obama attended as a child his religion is written-down as “Muslim”. Leading Islamic scholars agree that somebody who is born a Muslim can never leave their religion. Why then has Obama refused to address any of the allegations against him? Our friend J. Grant Swank at Mosquewatch has the answer:

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

MUSLIM OBAMA BLASTS DR. JAMES DOBSON

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Focus on the Family’s Dr. James Dobson has been blasted by B. Hussein Obama.

“Even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools?” Obama said.

“Would we go with James Dobson’s or Al Sharpton’s?” referring to the civil rights leader per AP.

This is the true “Christian” Obama. He is not Christian. He is a religious relativist, otherwise known as a theological liberal.

Obama underscores Sharpton’s “Christian” because self-appointed Pentecostal preacher Sharpton endorses abortion, homosexual lifestyle and every other social sin popular today.

Jimmy: That’s exactly right: Sharpton’s deranged theology is clearly one of a self-appointed megalomaniac – whereas Dobsopn’s pure, biblically correct Christianity proves beyond doubt that he has been appointed by God to teach us all the error of our ways. Swank continues:

Further, Sharpton is not Pentecostal for no Pentecostal worldwide agrees with his liberal theology. It’s another hoodwinking gesture to get into the black biblical brain, just as Obama plays to the black biblical brain by hosting outdoor gospel concerts and mounting black pulpits on Sundays.

Obama has stated in his book, “Audacity,” that he would erase the Judeo-Christian backdrop from America’s history in order to meld all religions as one, just as his mother believed.

Biblical Christians must be aware that when Obama speaks of praying to Jesus, he is referring to the prophet Jesus as believed by Muslims. He is not referring to the incarnate deity who indwelt Jesus Christ as the Son of God.

Jimmy: Once again, J. Grant Swank hase it just right: Have you ever heard Obama pray publicly for Jesus Christ to wash away his sins? Did you ever hear Obama implore the holy name of Christ to keep him pure? Of course not – and that proves that he might be a Muslim.

I believe Obama to be a mask Muslim.

Therefore, his brand of “national religion” would all the more enhance Islam in America for he has Muslims on his campaign and Congressional staff.

Lous Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam lives within his Illinois political district. Obama helped plan with Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright the Muslim Million Man March on Washington DC in 1995. He endorsed anti-Jew Wright’s support of Hamas when Wright was head of the political plant known as the Trinity United Church of Christ.

Jimmy: I also note that Obama has never denied this connection with the Islamofascist Louis Farrakhan – is Obama still cavorting with known terrorists and enemies of America?

Dobson broadcasts on Focus on the Family his opinion of Obama, the detail given prior to the Associated Press.

“I think he’s deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology,” Dobson said.

“… He is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter.“

I think Mr. Swank can see through Obama’s pretense: Any person who attacks James Dobson is no real Christian. Only a Muslim or an atheist would attack a man as Holy and Sensible as Dobson.

Yours in Christ,

Jimmy Goddard

Last week the liberal press was full of wild and blatantly biased speculation about John McCain’s former wife. We at ShelleyTheRepublican do not wish to dignify the scandalous allegations against Senator McCain and his lovely wife Cindy, but we would like to restore some balance to this one-sided partisan talking-point:

Why is it that it’s OK to mention McCain’s previous marriage but not Obama’s? Barrack Hussein Obama likes to give the impression that he and Michelle have the ideal relationship. They want you to think that they are the perfect family – but do their smiles and hugs conceal a dark dark secret? Might this relationship be nothing more than a sham, set-up to fool the gullible left-wing press? This is a poissibility that the mainstream media has chosen to ignore.

According to Islam experts mosquewatch, Muslim men like Barrack Hussein Obama are suopposed to have at least four wives. As a devout muslim, Mr Hussein Obama will almost certainly have heeded this depraved commandment – so where are they? Where are the three other wives he is supposed to have? Why do we never see them hosting “The View” and swapping fried-chicken recipes with Oprah? These mysterious women are conspicuous by their absence.

According to the experts, Obama’s three other wives might look exactly like these women, except that they have been locked up in a prison cell in a secret dungeon far below Obama’s residence.

Leading mosque-wathchers agree – Obama’s three missing wives are most likely kept as prisoners in squalid cells far below Obama’s luxuary Senatorial mansion. It is possible that these three women, imprisoned in Obama’s sinister sex-den have never seen the light of day since they were kidnapped by Obama’s goons.

We asked Obama’s people to comment on the treatment of his three other wives, however true to form his campaign-team were unwilling to deny our allegations. Their blatent refusal to confront the issue of sexual-slavery is surely an indication of their leader’s lax morals.

Yours in Christ,

Jimmy Goddard

The girl who was stoned to death for falling in love

by NATALIE CLARKE

A teenage girl lies dead on the ground in a pool of her own blood.
Her once groomed hair is cast across her face like a rag doll’s, her skirt pulled up to complete her humiliation.

In another image, she is seen lying on her side, her face battered and bloodied, barely recognisable.

The concrete block used to smash in her face lies next to her.

Du’a Khalil Aswad was beaten, kicked and stoned for 30 minutes at the hands of a lynch mob before one of her attackers launched a carefully aimed fatal blow.

The murder was carried out in public, watched by hundreds of men cheering and yelling. Du’a's crime? To fall in love with a Sunni boy. Her family practised the Yezidi religion.

The Sunnis and Yezidis hate each other. When Du’a ran away with her Sunni boyfriend, a sentence of death was passed on her.

This act of medieval savagery took place last month in a town in northern Iraq, in the fledgling ‘democracy’ created by Bush and Blair when they invaded the country in 2003 and ‘freed’ its people.

The sickening scenes, which defy belief in every sense, were captured by some of the observers and participants who thought it would be proper to record these harrowing events as some sort of memento.

Perhaps they thought it would serve as a warning to other young people who dared to follow their hearts – not the strictures of a religion which will not brook dissent – and punishes adolescent impetuosity with the most brutal of public murders.

The killing was filmed on a number of mobile phones. The images were then – all too predictably – posted on the internet.

The Mail takes no pleasure in publishing these pictures. But we believe our readers should witness the depths of the depravity still being carried out in the 21st century in the name of ‘honour’.

Perhaps, then, something can be done to prevent it happening again.

Of course, anyone who takes even a passing interest in news is all too aware of the tragedy that has engulfed the people of Iraq: the daily bombings, murders and kidnappings.

The subjugation of its women, however, has been largely ignored. Yet according to cultural observers, the number of so-called ‘honour killings’ has increased in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Campaigners say there is an ‘epidemic’ of such killings in the wartorn country. Autopsy reports in Baghdad often conclude with the verdict: “Killed to wash away her disgrace.”

The filming of Du’a's death was just one more macabre element of her killing, but it has achieved something those bloodthirsty amateur filmmakers could not have predicted: it has brought such practices into the open and exposed them to the wider world.

It is, of course, too late for Du’a, a strikingly pretty young girl with long auburn hair. The 17-year-old must have hoped that the ‘liberation’ of her country would afford her opportunities she might otherwise never have had – for her education and a life of happiness free from oppression.

She lived with her family in the town of Bashika, near Mosul. They were neither rich nor poor.

It is believed Du’a met her Sunni boyfriend – whose name is not known – several months ago. They had grown up in an environment where hatred against rival factions is the norm.

The Yezidis – a Gnostic sect which combines Islamic teachings with Persian religions – despise the Sunnis; the Sunnis loathe the Yezidis.

Du’a and her boyfriend would have been all too aware that theirs was a forbidden love. But like so many teenagers before them, right back to the illicit love of Romeo and Juliet, they couldn’t help themselves.

For a while, they met in secret. It was during one such highly charged meeting that they came up with a plan to run away together.

It is not clear whether this desperate measure was a result of their having sought and been refused permission to marry, or if they decided to do it knowing that such permission would never be obtained.

“Her family would never have agreed to such a marriage,” says Diana Nammi, a leading Kurdish women’s rights campaigner.

Some Muslim groups have claimed that Du’a converted to Islam shortly before her murder. According to other reports, her boyfriend denies this.

They ran away together to an address in Bashika. The girl’s family alerted the police and Du’a and her boyfriend were found just a few days later.

According to Ms Nammi, who is calling for the girl’s killers to be brought to justice, Du’a was arrested and put into prison.

A few days later, the police apparently received assurances from the leader of her tribe – who Ms Nammi believes is Du’a's uncle – that the girl would not be harmed.

What happened next is the subject of conflicting reports. According to some, the house of the tribal leader was stormed by a mob and Du’a dragged out and killed.

Ms Nammi, however, says she has information that it was the tribal leader who betrayed his niece to the mob. In this man’s eyes, Du’a had committed an unforgiveable crime, punishable by death.

The family’s ‘honour’ had been besmirched. The moment Du’a was placed in his house, her fate was sealed.

On April 7, Du’a was brought out of the house in a headlock to face the lynch mob. Hundreds of men were waiting for her – the excited atmosphere is said to have resembled a large sporting event – but no women.

On the video, Du’a's screams can be heard as she is dragged to the ground. In a further humiliation, her lower body has been stripped.

Instinctively, Du’a tries to cover herself; only later was a piece of clothing thrown over her.

She is surrounded by an enormous crowd jockeying for a good view of the ritualistic killing. About nine men take part in the attack, including, it is thought, members of the girl’s family.

To any father of a daughter, that a helpless girl should be set upon with such cowardly savagery is beyond comprehension. One can barely imagine her terror.

It is a profoundly disturbing spectacle. One man kicks her hard between the legs as she screams in agony. Du’a tries to lift herself up, but someone hurls a concrete block into her face.

Another man stamps on her face. Someone kicks her in the stomach. Police officers stand idly by, some of them apparently enjoying the spectacle as much as anyone else.

Meanwhile, some observers film the execution on their mobile phones – the modern world intruding on a spectacle that belongs more in the Roman arena than in an apparently civilised society.

After half an hour of this savagery, Du’a is finally – mercifully, perhaps – dead. In a final humiliation, a man tries to lift her up, but drops her again, and her bloodied body is rolled face down into a puddle of blood. The family has had its ‘honour’ restored.

According to Ms Nammi, Du’a's parents did not want her to be stoned, though it is not clear whether they might have agreed for her to be killed in some other way.

After her murder, according to Ms Nammi, two men were arrested by Iraqi police, but she has heard they were subsequently released without charge.

Reports suggest that two of Du’a's uncles and four other people fled the town as investigators began to search for the culprits. It is thought these included her brother, who appeared in the video of the murder.

As for Du’a's boyfriend – who has lost the girl he loved in the most awful circumstances imaginable – he went into hiding for a while, but it is believed that no action has been taken against him.

Du’a was buried in a simple unmarked grave. Later, says Ms Nammi, her body was exhumed by the Kurdish authorities, who have autonomous control of the region, and sent to the Medico-legal Institute in Mosul.

There her body was examined to find out whether she had been a virgin or not, before being returned to the Sheikh Shams cemetery.

To our Western eyes, this posthumous assault on Du’a's body is the final insult. But according to Ms Nammi, it did at least establish that she was still a virgin and innocent of the ‘crime’ of which she had been accused.

However, Ms Nammi believes the mere fact that Du’a had run off with a Sunni boy would have been enough to have her sentenced to death.

Meanwhile, the cycle of tit-for-tat murders continues in Iraq. In this instance, in an apparent act of retaliation for Du’a's murder, 23 Yezidi workers were attacked and killed two weeks later, apparently by members of an armed Sunni group.

The men were travelling on a bus between Mosul and Bashika when their vehicle was halted by the gunmen, who made them disembark before killing them.

Tomorrow evening, Ms Nammi, founding member of the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation, will lead a group of women meeting in Shoreditch, East London, to remember Du’a Khalil Aswad and give back to her the dignity torn from her by her violent death.

The women are pledged to campaign against the entrenched beliefs which lead to such senseless deaths – and the fact that the people who commit these crimes are not regarded as murderers, but as heroes of the community.

According to Ms Nammi, there have been an estimated 10,000 cases of honour killings in the Kurdistan region in the past decade.

Under Iraqi law, the punishment for anyone found guilty of an honour killing is just six months in prison.

“Something has to be done to stop this,” says Ms Nammi, who came to Britain in 1996. “There is an epidemic of so-called honour killings. It is almost routine and utterly unacceptable.

“We would greatly appreciate any contribution from the British Government in preventing these murders of women in Iraq.”

Ms Nammi has the support of Amnesty International.

“This young girl’s murder is truly abhorrent and her killers must be brought to justice,” says Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK Director.

“Unless the authorities respond vigorously to this and other reports of crimes in the name of “honour”, we must fear for the future of the women in Iraq.”

For the sake of 17-year-old Du’a, an innocent girl who simply fell in love with the wrong man, it is all too little, too late.