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.”
“Girl, 10, found dead when dad called cops from Pakistan was ‘known to local authorities,'” by Jacob Phillips and Ryan Merrifield, Mirror, August 20, 2023:
A 10-year-old girl who was found dead at her home was previously known to Surrey County Council, the local authority has said.
Sara Sharif was found in Woking after police received a call in the early hours of August 10 from her father Urfan Sharif, who was in Pakistan by that point, Surrey Police have said.
Mr Sharif, 41, his partner, Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother, Faisal Malik, 28, are wanted for questioning.
Police believe they travelled to Islamabad on August 9 along with five children aged between one and 13….
[Surrey County Council leader Tim Oliver] said on Sunday: “We can confirm Sara Sharif was known to Surrey County Council but we cannot comment further while the Surrey Safeguarding Children Partnership’s thorough review process is ongoing.”
On Saturday the Associated Press news agency reported that Pakistan police in the eastern province of Punjab are seeking to arrest Mr Sharif in connection with Sara’s death….
Sara suffered extensive injuries over a sustained period before she was found dead at the property in Hammond Road, a post-mortem examination showed.
BTeboe says
What did they do to her? Women and girls and less than second class citizens under Islam. I’m sure her father felt justified in ‘honor killing’ her. I hope they find the SOBs and string them up.
YHolansky says
The question is why isnt this printed and broadcast in Western media so the Public knows
gravenimage says
Yes–everyone in the West should know this.
somehistory says
If this is a true photo of the child, they had her made up to look 30.
Poor baby girl.
She likely didn’t want to be the lust-relief for some filthy old paki mozlum and to be tied to the snake for life. Perhaps she refused to go along with the plan and got regular beatings for her “disobedience”….finally being murdered.
I’ll be praying that they catch these murderous creeps and rescue the other little children from the claws of the monsters who beat this child to death.
If the LE don’t punish them and bring some justice to this little girl…beautiful child she was….I know Someone Who will.
tim gallagher says
Another day and another sickening murder by a Muslim barbarian. These knuckle draggers, such as the murderer of this young girl, caught in the mentality of primitive 7th century Arabia, are unfit to be allowed to live in any modern and civilised country. I hope they catch the murderer and he lives out the rest of evil life in jail.
Wathier says
I read about this odd story in the Quran, verses 65-88. It seems weird to interpret the story in a way that implies killing your offspring. When I read this passage I interpreted the “servant of god” as an entity or force that can affect state of affairs in the world. I am sure this is in line with divine intervention from different kinds of beings in theology. As I read this story it is the idea that (shared with eastern philosophy) one cannot judge circumstances as good or bad, because on a timeline new events might occur that changes past events. An easy example is to brake ones leg, and bcs of this buying a lottery ticket in the hospital and winning the jackpot. These stories with Moses seem to reflect this idea, and since this entity traveling with Moses is not a person, it is more as if the boy died from divine intervention, he was not physically killed by a person but an entity (like in the movies final destination). That this boy was going to grow up to become a wrongdoer. So there are no practical implications of behaviour in these stories, if one interprets them as conveying a metaphysical idea about not labelling events happening as good or bad. As humans we shouldn’t have the arrogance of believing that we know why events happen or if they are in essence “good” or “bad”. I cannot believe how one interprets this as implying killing your own offspring. If that is the real meaning of these passages then surely this is straight from hell, but it seems counterintuitive given the other two stories. This interpretation hinges on the essence of this “traveller” or “servant of god”, as a real person or more as a spirit/angel/entity of some sort.
gravenimage says
Yes, the boy is killed in the Khidr stories–for not being Islamic enough. This is indeed the very basis of “Honor Killings”.
Sam says
It’s not because he’s not Muslim enough; he killed him because he MIGHT raise up a Kafir and bring shame to his family.
gravenimage says
Becoming a Kafir *does* mean he is not Islamic enough.
OLD GUY says
Islam the religion of death and abuse.
somehistory says
Quite a bit more information on this horrible murder of a beautiful child. Some questions I had are answered; such as where was the mother of the little girl; and if the police in pakistan are actually doing some leg work to find these monsters.
“Everything we know so far about Sara Sharif’s tragic death”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/everything-we-know-so-far-about-sara-sharif-s-tragic-death/ar-AA1fJ8xs?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=902bce3ec0a946f485a31461513302ae&ei=31
gravenimage says
UK: 10-year-old Muslim girl found dead with extensive injuries, father flees to Pakistan, cops hunt for him
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This *poor child*. Was she being sent to school? Did the school miss her injuries, keep quiet about them, or did she never get a chance to go?
Murdering their children–girls especially–is orthodox Islam.
And I would not be surprised if dear old dad came to Britain as a “refugee”–despite his going back and forth to Pakistan.