Time Immortal

…I know that a lot of the guys I worked with in restaurant kitchens would make a point of frying every last bit of this guy’s food in bacon grease.

A Pakistani man accused of killing his daughter five days after she filed for divorce to end her arranged marriage wept in court Tuesday, telling a Clayton County magistrate he is innocent.

“I have done nothing wrong,” Chaudhry Rashid told Chief Magistrate Daphne Walker through interpreter Younis Farhat. Farhat said Rashid speaks primarily Urdu and Punjabi.

But police say Rashid, 54, used a bungee cord to strangle Sandeela Kanwal, 25, early Sunday morning in the family’s Utah Drive home in Jonesboro.

Rashid, who is being held without bond, told the judge he wanted to observe his Muslim beliefs in the Clayton jail. He wants to follow a diet that forbids the consumption of pork in any form and requires other meats are prepared according to Islamic rules.

Sorry, Mr. Rashid, but you just brutally murdered your own daughter because she didn’t want to stay married to whatever man you sold her off to. About the last thing you get to do is dictate the menu that is served to you; indeed, what food you do receive is a courtesy.