Psychological counseling is not what they need. That just reinforces the idea that this kind of behavior is something Germans are just going to have to learn to accept. Instead, there needs to be a searching discussion of the wisdom of bringing in large numbers of people from a culture of violence, the foundational text of which commands men to beat women from whom they “fear disobedience” (Qur’an 4:34), and to what extent doing so is going to give rise to this sort of thing, just as that same foundational text’s calls for violence against unbelievers (2:191, 4:89, 9:5, 9:29, 47:4, etc.) are going to give rise to jihad violence.
And as for the murder, there is an unfortunate prevalence in many areas of the Islamic world of the idea that a man is justified under certain circumstances in killing his wife. Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but “the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour ‘provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.’” And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that “Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.”
Until the encouragement Islamic law gives to honor killing is acknowledged and confronted, more women will suffer.
“Passengers Offered Counselling After Witnessing Afghan Migrant Kill Wife on German Bus,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, July 8, 2020:
A 37-year-old Afghan asylum seeker was arrested after stabbing his estranged wife to death on a public bus in the German municipality of Obergünzburg on Monday.
Several others on the bus witnessed the attack and saw the Afghan stab the 27-year-old woman several times before fleeing the scene on foot and leaving the murder weapon behind.
Local police mobilised a helicopter and conducted a major search of the nearby area, catching the suspect a short time later, German newspaper Die Welt reports.
The victim was taken to a nearby clinic where emergency doctors were unsuccessful at reviving her, and she died of her wounds. The newspaper reports that the 27-year-old woman, who was also an Afghan, had split from her husband and had been living in a separate apartment before her death.
The 37-year-old alleged attacker is also no stranger to law enforcement in the area and is said to have previously attacked his wife in November of last year. Both the bus driver and those on board have been offered psychological counselling following the brutal murder.
The case is not the first time an asylum seeker in Germany has murdered a spouse. In 2016, a Syrian woman was killed by her husband when he beat her death, allegedly after physically assaulting her several times in the past.
The case in Obergünzburg also comes just months after a failed asylum seeker from Algeria was sentenced to eight years in prison for murdering a woman in a pub toilet in the city of Hamburg after the pair had sexual relations….