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.”
“Arrest in Spain of the father of two sisters murdered in Pakistan,” translated from “Arrestation en Espagne du père de deux sœurs assassinées au Pakistan,” Le Figaro, February 22, 2023 (thanks to Medforth):
The father of two young women residing in Spain who were murdered in May 2022 in Pakistan in a probable “honor killing,” after opposing their forced marriages, was arrested this Wednesday near Barcelona, it was reported from police sources.
This arrest took place in Terrassa, a city in the Catalonia region (northeast of Spain), where the family resides, this source told AFP. Six other members of the family of Aneesa and Arooj Abbas – including one of their brothers and an uncle, suspected of having committed this double assassination – had already been arrested in Pakistan shortly after the events.
Killed ‘for honour’
The Pakistani police consider that the two young women were killed for “honor,” a patriarchal practice which consists in killing women to wash the family honor, a concept deeply rooted in this very conservative country.Aneesa and Arooj, aged 24 and 21 respectively, were seeking separation from their Pakistani husbands who were also their cousins. They were lured in May 2022 to Gujrat, a city in eastern Pakistan, where they were strangled and shot dead, Gujrat police spokesman Nauman Hassan said at the time. “The family created a story to convince them to come to Pakistan for a few days,” he told AFP.
According to the Spanish daily El Pais, their family had told them that their mother, who was in Gujrat, was sick. The latter – who allegedly heard members of her family attack her daughters – named one of her sons as the main culprit, the newspaper said. According to the Pakistani police, the two sisters were under “pressure” from their spouses to help them emigrate to Spain.
In Pakistan, police recorded more than 470 so-called “honour” killings in 2021, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). Many cases, however, go unreported because families tend to shield those responsible.
Linde B. says
It is hard to believe that any person with 1/2 a brain could want to follow the dictates of Islam. ?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
They may have the brains, but surrounded by bullies who’ll always engage in violent intimidation, it’s not hard to see how most would fold, particularly if the bullying started from a young age. Most people are not the ‘give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death’ type, particularly when talking about younger people. (What’s happening in Iran now is at the breaking point, after enduring decades of persecution)
The problem muslimah girls have while they are minors is that their parents do have the right to take them to their countries of origin, and there, they undergo FGMs, honor killings and so on. These thugs are careful enough to commit these crimes while their kids are minors, knowing fully well that once they attain majority, they can legally assume a different identity and just disappear from their ‘parent’s’ radar. Hopefully, as many muslimah girls who are not mentally islamic would go for that route as they hit 18, or whatever the age of majority is in the country where they live
Walter Sieruk says
That malicious and brutal cruel murderous action that is unfittingly called “honor killing” is an affront to all that is actually just, good, humane and right.
Therefore, Islamic “culture” is not actually a real culture but cruel savage primitive murderous system of brutal religious vicious violence. As seen in that malicious murder “custom” called “honor killing” which is permitted under Sharia law.
Be that vicious murderous action take place in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in any other Islamic country and now even some Western nations, as in this incident of murder in Italy.
About the topic of Islamic violence which, something, takes the form of the brutal cruel vicious and murderous action that is so inappropriately called “honor killing.” This malicious misogyny is so heinous callous and malice- filled that it’s an affront to all that is good, decent and right. In addition, the author, Brigitte Gabriel in her book which is entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED on pages 171,172 , that “The shocking reality is that most Muslim men ,including those educated in the West ,have no objection to the degradation of women in their countries .Across the Muslim world, even in moderate Islamic countries, women’s’ rights are almost nonexistent…Women is Islam are considered unclean ,deemed inferior even to dirt.” In this just cited book it explains on page 176 that “Honor killings have also come to the West thanks to the rise of Islamic immigration. “
Indeed, they must be stopped !
Walter Sieruk says
The brutal, callous cruel, malice-filled and murderous Islamic tradition that so very inappropriately called “honor killing” by many Muslims in one of the many malicious and vicious deadly fruits of Islam.
Jesus taught, “By their fruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:20. [N.K. J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
The brutal, callous cruel, malice-filled and murderous Islamic tradition that so very inappropriately called “honor killing” by many Muslims in one of the many malicious and vicious deadly fruits of Islam.
Jesus taught, “By their fruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:20. [N.K. J.V.]