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.”
“Family who left arranged marriage bride in vegetative state by ‘dousing her with chemicals’ and ‘force-feeding her pills’ are jailed,” by Dan Grennan, Daily Mail, February 14, 2024:
A cruel family who left an arranged marriage bride in a vegetative state by ‘dousing her with chemicals’ and ‘force-feeding her pills’ have been jailed.
Ambreen Fatima Sheikh was 30 when she was given the anti-diabetes drug glimepiride, which induced catastrophic brain injury, after she was brought to the UK from Pakistan following an arranged marriage.
She was also doused in a caustic substance, probably some kind of cleaning fluid, as she was abused in the house in the days leading up to her admission to hospital on August 1, 2015.
It was initially thought Ms Sheikh, now 39, would die – but when her ventilator was turned off in hospital, she began to breathe for herself.
The court heard that she has been left unaware of herself or her environment, without motor response or response to pain, and will never recover. Prosecutors said she only survives by being fed through a tube and will eventually die as a consequence of what happened to her, although this may not happen for many years.
Sentencing judge, Mrs Justice Lambert said she rarely left the house and never by herself. She had no independent income, no friends in the UK and could speak only a little English.
The judge said: ‘It is difficult to imagine a more serious injury, short of death.’
On Wednesday, Ms Sheikh’s husband, Asgar Sheikh, 31, was jailed for seven years and nine months along with his father, Khalid Sheikh, 55, and his mother, Shabnam Sheikh, 52. Asgar Sheikh’s brother, Sakalayne Sheikh, 25, was given a six-month sentence, suspended for two years, and his sister, Shagufa Sheikh, 29, was given an 18-month sentence, also suspended for two years.
None of the family gave evidence in court and the judge said she could not say for sure when the abuse began.
The trial heard evidence that, soon after Ms Sheikh arrived in the UK, the family were not happy with her housework and chores, and Khalid Sheikh had suggested she should be sent back to Pakistan.
Concerns were raised by members of the extended family and two police officers carried out a welfare check in July but reported Ms Sheikh as being fit and well.
The judge said she attached ‘little weight to that assessment’ because Ms Sheikh spoke little English and her father-in-law was present during the visit.
She said she did not know who administered the corrosive substance, which left severe burns on Ms Sheikh’s lower back, bottom and right ear, and must have left her in considerable and lasting pain.
And she said she did not know who ‘tricked or forced’ her to take the glimpiride, which was prescribed to Shabnam Sheikh and is extremely dangerous to non-diabetics, even in small doses….
Christopher Watson says
Seven years?????!!!!!!!!!!
gravenimage says
Yes–a grotesquely short sentence. And he will likely serve just a small portion of it. Few in Britain serve their entire sentence.
ElderlyZionist says
Seven years for a bride burning. He’ll only serve half of it. Will his family have to pay the dowry back>
Taffy says
After his time is served will Sngland take out the trash and deport him ?
gravenimage says
I hope so, Taffy–but would not count on it.
sri krishna says
What joke uk is following pakistan like lenient punishment towards honor killers
Hudders. says
How much more will the UK people allow?
The country has been invaded & is being strangled.
Yet silence.
Goofy says
In Islam women are the property of men. So how a man treats a woman he has bought and paid for could not possibly be the business of anyone else!
The proof of this claim is the way the Muslims apply the Old Testament principle of “and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”
If a Muslim man causes the death of a woman
belonging to some other Muslim the “offended Muslim” is entitled to kill a woman belonging to the offender who himself is not liable to punishment! But one of his “wives” may have to pay with her life!
Do you need more evidence than that?
Mind watch says
It’s extremely disturbing that Muslims cling to this so called Holy book the Quran, it has little or no theoretical or doctrinal proof. As for actual proof, Muslims hardly exude a state of bliss or the characteristics of compassionate, outstanding humanitarians. The supposed unwitnessed, wishy – washy ‘revelation’ (‘mind disturbance’?) Muhammad reportedly experienced in that dingy bat cave would be relegated to the trash can in modern times. His gibberish and exhortations form the basis of this so called Holy book on which Muslims justify their killings. What’s worse, damagingly indoctrinated adherents further re-interpret such nonsense and render it even more ridiculous.
These people have lost their sight, their faculties, their grasp on reality and their sense of compassion and empathy to such an extend they will kill anyone who says ‘I don’t believe’ and spare anyone who says ‘I do’. A ‘yes’ or ‘no’ from a suspected disbeliever can mean life or death. It’s simply reached the height of lunacy. To use of acid and poison on innocents to conform with Quran nonsense is beyond anything. These people can’t be brought back from insanity and savagery. It’s seems these individuals need to be terrorised themselves to such an extend that they simply run and hide. The terrorists need terrorizing. But who’s going to do it?
It seems this shameful, repugnant world sway against Jewish people and Israel etc by necessity has to accommodate Islam and Hamas. The most cruel, subhuman, depraved Islamic atrocities are now increasingly condoned. The shameful masses of ‘do-gooders’, ‘appeasers’ and apologists who show indifference an even support for these vile God-forsaken acts are of the same mind-set as these ‘Devil comic book’ killers. These killers have blood running down their hands. Surely that is enough. What could be possibly worst? How about such heinous life-taking acts being based on a ridiculously legitimized ‘Holy Book’ arising from some speculated, unwitnessed ‘Holy Revelation’ supposedly experienced by a mass killer, torturer, pedophile and rapist?
Yes, I know I’ve said all this stuff before. My apologies. But honestly, I find it hard to believe that human beings, even these infernal Muslims, can sink to such depravity – and then conveniently, kindly ‘let off the hook’.
Jayell1 says
This is the second corrosive-substance attack by muslims to hit the UK headlines within about a week or so. The first one happened in south London when a muslim, with two failed asylum claims but allowed to stay after he’d claimed to have converted to Christianity, threw alkaline cleaning fluid over his ex-partner and two of her children. Although he managed to squirt some of the stuff at himself, leaving half his face dissolving away and one eye hanging out, he managed to escape and even walked round a supermarket in that condition without being arrested. The islamically-corrupted Met Police claim they can’t find him and have even put on a well-publicised show of dragging the Thames for his body after a they claim that someone said they saw him about to throw himself in; but many believe that to be bullsh*t and that he’s actually gone underground hiding in a mosque, possibly with one of the NHS’s many bent muslim medics treating him with misappropriated medications. We’ll get the truth about that one day, no doubt. This animal’s hideously-disfigured ex-partner remains in hospital in an appalling condition.
Sadly, neither of the incidents reported here are in any way unique in the UK. The infamous Islamic Republic (aka ‘London Borough’) of Tower Hamlets earned the title of ‘Acid Attack Capital of the World’ some years ago.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that background, Jayell.
tim gallagher says
The dumbest move ever for civilised western countries has been to import subhuman, evil, knuckle dragging scum of the earth like this Sheikh creature and the rest of his Muslim family. His wife would have faced a hell of a life being at the mercy of sadistic scum like Sheikh, his parents and the rest of the knuckle dragging vermin that compose his family. Knuckle draggers like these belong only in Muslim societies where they live the 7th century Arab lifestyle. They should not be allowed anywhere near any civilised society. Without a doubt in the world, the dumbest move ever. Their compatibility with civilised human life is nil. As for the jail sentence, what a joke.
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
When Ambreen Fatima Sheikh dies, an additional charge of first-degree murder should be brought.
Rick Smith says
The level of evil in Islam is mind-boggling esp with the treatment of girls/women…beyond sickening…I believe in an eye-for an eye. What they did to the victim they deserve the same if not worse in punishment.
The article is wrong, death isn’t the worst thing that can happen, that is actually freedom from this life…living in horrendous pain is worse, esp for years. They should humanely put her down.
gravenimage says
UK: Muslim wife in vegetative state after acid attacks and poisoning from family, husband disliked her housework
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This *poor woman*. He “disliked her housework”–and so this Muslim and many pf his relatives torture and try to murder her.
God, I hate Islam.
And he only gets seven years for this planned assault. Sick.
Note also that virtually his entire family join in this savagery–including his sister.
Have I mentioned how much I hate Islam?
Hoi Polloi says
Tommy Robinson posted an interview with a 13yo muslim “bride” who was allowed, miraculously, to answer questions about her life. She said her family forced her into the marriage with a near 30yo and that she spent her days, having been forbidden then to attend school, cooking and cleaning for everyone. Nights brought him home with her not allowed to refuse him. They beat her for any reason they chose. He gripped her so tightly that it looked painful and was completely unashamed.
OldBrummie says
Seizure of all assets to pay for the poor woman’s care and immediate deportation for the entire family.
Justice for victims is now a joke in paradise UK.
Lisa Tea says
At least in America we know how to hand out an appropriate sentence. I watch a lot of true crime documentaries and am shocked at the sentences people get in Canada and the UK. When this poor lady ultimately dies (which doctors say will happen and is directly attributable to this attack) they should be recharged again, this time with murder.