Iman Salih Mutlak was a 22-year old Iraqi woman who was shot to death while trying to attack US soldiers with grenades. Now her family is filled with shame over her appalling act.

Not the act of attempted murder. The act of leaving the house alone, without permission. Iraqi Woman Hailed, Villified for Attack. (Hat tip: speedster.)

ZAQANIYAH, Iraq - There were few tears for Iman Salih Mutlak at her wake. She is a hero to some — a martyr who tried to kill U.S. soldiers with grenades, then died in a hail of their bullets — but her family feels nothing but shame.

Their rage comes not because of her planned attack, but because the 22-year-old woman left the house alone and without permission from her father — thereby besmirching the honor of her tribe.

“When she left the house, she lost her innocence,” said her 71-year-old father, Salih Mutlak. “Had she returned home, I would have killed her myself and drunk her blood.”

Dear old dad.

The AP refers to Osama Bin Laden as a “Saudi dissident, suspected of the 9/11 attacks,” and surrounds every mention of “terrorism” with scare quotes to avoid offending delicate Muslim sensibilities. Yet the word “martyr” in the first sentence above is presented as a simple fact.