Morsal Obeidi (Dari: مرسال عابدي 7 September 1991 – 15 May 2008) was a German-Afghan girl who was murdered in an honour killing in Hamburg.

[3] He left the country as pro-Soviets lost control of Afghanistan at the end of the Soviet–Afghan War, and in 1992 arrived in Hamburg, which already had a sizeable expatriate Afghan population.

Her brother's first law enforcement record was at age 13, and he left school and did not gain a sufficient command of German.

[5] Law enforcement records stated that the father and brother began to abuse her, and she sought help from Hamburg's Children's and Youth Emergency Service [de] (Kinder- und Jugendnotdienst or KJND).

[3] She was murdered by stabbing at age 16 by Ahmad Obeidi on 15 May 2008,[2] in a car park of a McDonald's,[5] by the Berliner Tor station in St. Georg, Hamburg-Mitte.

[7] Der Spiegel wrote that Ahmad "resented" how his sister desired to assimilate into German society while he was a "failure in life" in what was "a foreign place".

[8] In an interview on Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) Ahmad's mother publicly expressed dislike for her son and his father labeled him as a criminal.

[4] Fox News stated that the crime "sparked a renewed debate in Germany over whether Islamic families can adapt to the social ways of the Western world.