Iraqi Woman Critically Beaten in Calif. (Has Died); Threat Note Left at Scene

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60. Because while murder suicide is unfortunately increasingly common in the US

Murder among family members is extremely rare in Islamic countries.

While living in Malaysia, Indonesia and with Muslims in Thailand murder in any situation was very rare and among family members,
like it so frequently happens here, virtually unheard of.


So there is little reason to believe that any family member is involved here and the fact that you would see that it is possible in a case where a family received repeated written threats is without any foundation at all.

Here is a list of murder rates by country

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110518160742AAM0Ibu

The list tells that most of the countries listed are predominantly Christian countries including the bastions of the Western World: US, UK, France, Germany, South Africa, Canada and Australia. Though Muslim countries form one third of the total number of countries, only three Muslim countries, Yemen, Malaysia and Azerbaijan (that has more of a communist than Islamic history) appear in the list. There are no Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt and Indonesia, the countries that are supposed to be the biggest representatives of the Islamic world. Malaysia appears at the lower end. Obviously the murder rates in these countries as well as other Islamic countries are extraordinarily low. Most of the 60 odd Muslim countries occupy places in the last eighty countries.


So since there is little basis in fact or statistics to think that a muslim would be involved in a family related murder it would seem that you would go out of your way to include it in a case where the family has received multiple threats would be more of a reflection of your personal feelings than the facts in the case.