In the Qur’an, a mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So we intended that their Lord should substitute for them one better than him in purity and nearer to mercy.” (18:80-81)
And according to Islamic law, “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” However, “not subject to retaliation” is “a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring.” (Reliance of the Traveller o1.1-2).
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.” In Iran, according to the New York Times, the legal system “treats parents who murder their children with relative leniency, as the maximum sentence for the crime is only ten years.”
“Pakistani-Spanish sisters killed for ‘honour’ in Gujrat,” Express Tribune, May 21, 2022:
Punjab Police were on Saturday investigating the murder of two Pakistani-Spanish sisters as an “honour killing”, a brutal patriarchal practice that sees women put to death for bringing “shame” on their families.
A spokesperson for Punjab Police said Aneesa Abbas, 24, and Arooj Abbas, 21, were seeking separation from their husbands and were lured back from Spain to Gujrat where they were strangled and shot on Friday night.
Both the sisters, residents of Nathia village of Gujarat district, returned Pakistan from Spain on May 19, 2022, along with their mother Azra Bibi.
On the night of May 20, the two sisters were shot dead in the house of their maternal uncle, Hanif alias Goga….
The suspects include Anisa and Urooj’s brother Shehryar Abbas, uncle Hanif alias Goga and cousins — Qasid Hanif, Atiq Hanif, Farazna Hanif, Hassan Aurangzeb….
“The family created a story to convince them to come to Pakistan for a couple of days,” said Gujrat police spokesperson Nauman Hassan.
“Preliminary investigations show this is a case of honour killing, but it is still developing and the investigation is ongoing,” he added.
Police also said the women were being “pressurised” by their spouses — who were also their cousins — to aid their emigration to Spain.
Seven members of the sisters’ family are currently wanted for murder.
Gujarat DPO Ataur Rehman said that the preliminary investigation has revealed that the two sisters were married to their cousins a year ago and now they wanted divorce from their husbands.
The sisters wanted to marry someone else in Spain and they had been tricked into returning home with their mother, the official added.
The police officer said when the two sisters refused to sign papers to enable their husbands to emigrate to Spain and demanded a divorce, a bitter argument broke out between them and later they were tortured before being killed.
Azra Bibi, mother of the victims, said a few moments before the incident, she tried to protect her daughters but she was locked in a separate room.
Galyana Police Station SHO Shiraz Haider said that Azra Bibi did not want to be a plaintiff in this case so the police became the party….
Swathes of Pakistani society still operate according to strict codes of “honour” that radically undermine women’s rights….
There were more than 450 honour killings last year, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan….
somehistory says
The “mother” sounds very much like the woman in Texas who lured her daughters back to their home in order for the husband…no “father” was he…could murder them because they had jobs and boyfriends and had left home to escape him. when the evil deed was done, she pretended innocence, too.
In my mind, there is no doubt this “mother” knew exactly what was going to happen when she “returned with her daughters.” How could she not know? And, she didn’t want to press charges…because she played a part, and she didn’t want other relatives to go after her for helping to prosecute other mozlums.
The poor girls…forced into marrying their cousins….and when they were obtaining their freedom, tricked into giving up freedom and their lives.
Such is the evil, demonic, satanic connections mozlums have with the devil. There is no value, no virtue, no love or kindness, no morality or goodness in “submission” to that demon.
somehistory says
This is also like the couple who murdered their daughter, her husband and then lured their son home from Spain or it could have been the U.K., and murdered him. Difficult to recall all of the details in each case.
There are too many of these awful stories to recount them all. There is no honor in submitting to satan as these people have done, but they call it “honor killing” because they really know how bad it is, then pretend it is to restore “honor,” when in fact, they have none to restore.
gravenimage says
Yes, Somehistory. So often these “Honor Killings” are ‘family affairs’.
God, I hate Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
Islam is again revealed to be a murderous misogynist callous brutal death cult.
Nevertheless a terrible number of Westerners are still n a state of mental denial about this horrible reality about Islam.
Those type of people just completely refuse to take off their religious blinders recognize Islam for the vicious religion of death that it really is. They must just prefer in a comfort fantasy that “no major world religion would or could be that evil.”
Therefore that old saying must be true , Which is “Ignorance is bliss.”
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslim family lures two sisters home from Spain, murders them in honor killing
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These *poor young women*, They never should have gone back to Pakistan.
Pray Hard says
There is no such thing as an “honor killing”. These are shame murders. Moslems wouldn’t know honor if it sodomized them in Macy’s window on Christmas Eve.