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.”
“‘Killed my sister’: murder trial in Bremen,” translated from “„Habe meine Schwester umgebracht“: Mordprozess in Bremen,” Deutsche Presse-Agentur, April 17, 2024 (thanks to Medforth):
A wheeze can be heard on the line. “I just killed my sister,” the caller says. “Do you understand?” Another gasp. Then the man on the phone tells the police his full name again and describes the route to the crime scene – his sister’s apartment in Bremen. The Bremen regional court plays the audio recording at the start of the trial, and the defendant initially does not comment on the murder charge.
So the court tries to reconstruct the crime. The burden of evidence is overwhelming: the recording of the emergency call, photos of the defendant’s hands covered in blood and of a bent knife, two handwritten announcements and finally the descriptions of several police officers from the crime scene. The public prosecutor accuses the 24-year-old of not agreeing with his sister’s lifestyle. One photo shows a petite woman wearing a royal blue headscarf. According to the allegations, he allegedly wanted to restore his honor on her 23rd birthday.
The alleged perpetrator had already packed his bag for prison
It was December 9th, almost midnight, when the Somali man stood in front of his sister’s apartment, according to the prosecution. The 23-year-old opened the door for him and let him into her room. Then he is said to have stabbed her upper body several times with a kitchen knife. According to the prosecution, two stab wounds penetrated her body; she was injured in her heart and lungs and lost a lot of blood.According to police records, it only took a minute after the emergency call was made for the first patrol to arrive at the scene. A police officer told the court that he stormed into the apartment building with his colleague. The door to the apartment on the top floor was open and the defendant fell to his knees when he saw it and still kept his hands up. There was blood on his fingers and also on his black clothing. He started talking on his own: that he had done something to his sister, that he had used a kitchen knife – and that he had already packed a bag for prison as a precaution.
Witness: “That was crazy”
The police officer reports that he immediately went to the sister’s room. She was lying on her back on her bed in pink pajamas with the completely bent kitchen knife underneath. “I spoke to her, but there was no response,” says the police officer. He no longer felt a pulse and could not detect any breathing, but her body was still warm. He fought for her life until rescue workers took over. But there was nothing more they could do for the birthday child.His police colleague also still remembers the night four months ago. “I have seen many corpses in my life, and people have died in my arms. But the way she did it was crazy,” the 28-year-old said in court. The defendant admitted to her without emotion that he allegedly stabbed his sister in the name of honor. “It’s not an everyday operation, you don’t have that often.”
“I can live without a future, but not without honor”
When asked, the police do not know how often such a crime occurs. Statistically, actions are not categorized according to ideas of honor or religious affiliation. However, such murders are “often committed in an environment in which traditional, patriarchally defined gender roles are lived,” say the police.At the start of the trial, the presiding judge reads out two handwritten notes that were found in the defendant’s apartment. “My sister is trying to be a slut,” reads one of the sheets. And further: “I can live without a future, but not without honor.” The 24-year-old remains silent in court, only blowing his nose once. His lawyer announced that he might speak at the next hearing in early May. His mental state will play an important role in the proceedings; alcohol has not been proven. A verdict could come at the end of May.
BTeboe says
There is nothing mentally wrong with this man. This is what he was taught to believe from childhood. Women are second class citizens and if they offend you, it is your duty to kill them. End of story. There is no honor for women.
Rick Gordon says
The killer is a barbarian …. and those who taught him are as guilty of murder as he.
SC says
Soak him in gasoline and light him up. And the same should happen to every islamic murderer and for that matter attempted murderer too. Make them more afraid of us than they are of sharia and they will either tow the line or suffer one their own most barbaric punishments. Screw the UN and the EU dictats many nations are now fighting for their survival.
abu taleb says
Those who brought the barbarians to the west (Merkel for example) are also as guilty as he is.
somehistory says
If the Law there was like the Law in the U.S., they wouldn’t question his mental state. The fact that he called the police and told them that he had murdered his sister, packed a bag and was ready for prison, says that he was not ‘insane’ ….as in not knowing right from wrong at the time of the crime. He was fully aware that he had broken the law.
There is no honor in islam. The idea that mozlums…male….have honor as mozlums is a sham, a fraud, an *excuse* to murder family members.
Lock him up and throw away the key. He has forfeited his ‘right to life’ by taking his sister’s, and since most nations now don’t use capital punishment for these crimes, locking him away from everyone is as much as can, or will, be done by man.
James Lincoln says
Yes, somehistory.
In a sane country, a slam dunk for murder one.
And execution within five years.
somehistory says
In a sane country, James,….and I don’t believe there is one left.
Every time a capital punishment State executes someone, the criers come out with how cruel it is to the criminal.
But reason would say, at least he wasn’t stabbed in the neck and heart until he died, but they don’t listen to reason. Even if the one being punished stabbed his victim in the neck and heart.
It’s an insane world.
James Lincoln says
To your point, somehistory, the rather “rare” executions in the West are carried out a lot more humanely than jihad attacks.
somehistory says
Yes, James, and more than the “ordinary” murder, even. Criminals are treated with kid gloves; and mozlum terrorists are also.
Barbara says
I am thinking when a Muslim woman decides to not live according to the strict Islamic dictatorship, she needs to move somewhere where no one knows her or her family.
If no one know her there can be no ‘honor’ murder.
How are her parents reacting to this fratricide?
somehistory says
You are right. The woman needs to go into hiding…change names and don’t admit anyone to the home who might be mozlum.
I met a young man some years ago who had married a young Christian woman after leaving islam. His family found out and he was hounded all across the globe with the intent to murder him. In the U.S., he and his wife were living with just the clothes and personal items they could pack on a moment’s notice.
With him and his wife, it was if they were running from the mob. And they were….just not one recognized by the governments.
rick says
The absurd thing is this person who murdered his own sister has no honor. He is an empty vessel except for the hate and mental illness his own religion taught him. He is too stupid to see past the lies and sickness of Islam. There are millions like him. Imams should be arrested on sight and forced to site in a prison cell in solitary confinement. After a month he should be questioned by a normal mentally stable person “Do you understand now the sick teaching of your religion?” If he answers “No”. He is send back to his cell for 3 months and then asked the same question again. If he answers “Yes” this time then he is asked, “What have you learned?”. And so on and so forth.
Christopher Watson says
Male moslems should never be allowed into the west. Those that are here should be closely watched and eventually sent back to the closest cess-pit. Female moslems, once they have escaped, should be helped to change their names and everything about their identities. The FBI do it all the time with witnesses they wish to protect. These moslem girls are equally in danger.
James Lincoln says
Only if the female muslimas become TRUE apostates, Christopher.
Otherwise, we do not want them in the West.
tim gallagher says
Any kind of honour and islam do not belong together. You have to be a complete knuckle dragging subhuman to behave like the evil piece of shit in this report and actually think that there is any honour in your character. Muslims should be ashamed to belong to such a primitive load of garbage as islam, an evil ideology that condones satanically evil behaviour such as this. The non-Muslim members of the human race have progressed but islam seeks to drag humanity back to living the way those knuckle draggers in 7th century Arabia lived. Any sane human being should be ashamed to belong to backward, barbaric and evil islam. As for this shithead, I would execute him and tell him that he is being executed in order to try to restore some degree of honour to the memory of his murdered sister. That would annoy the knuckle dragger before he was sent off to hell. Unfortunately. islam creates an endless supply of monsters like this murdering scumbag.
James Lincoln says
tim gallagher says,
“Muslims should be ashamed to belong to such a primitive load of garbage as islam…”
Yes, they should absolutely be ashamed.
But, in reality, they are “proud”.
somehistory says
That is where their so-called ‘honor’ lies….in the fact that they adhere to the scummy, feculent evil. They must maintain this adherence to every syllable of the book of evil filth, or the other mozlums around them will view them as slacking, apostatizing, and perhaps do a throat-cutting on them.
tim gallagher says
That’s right, James, they are told by their primitive, bullshit religion that they are the best of people. To me, islam, in endless ways is really only fit for backward knuckle draggers and it aims to drag the entire human race back to living the way 7th century Arabs lived, that is why I say that any modern, enlightened person should be bloody ashamed to belong to such backward garbage. somehistory, I’m sure that there must be many Muslims who would like to ditch the backward garbage but, as you say, would fear for their lives if they tried to leave and join the modern world.
James Lincoln says
Spot-on, tim.
Thanks for your reply.
MD Anthony says
Victims of Islam know it is the religion of Hate.
Women know that Islam is the dishonorable religion that hates women.
rubiconcrest says
You have to make the punishment for using a religion to justify such actions so overwhelmingly negative so that no one would think of doing it. Since as Robert says the problem is over 90% Islamic in nature the religion must pay a heavy price until the problem is eradicated. That means Islamic institutions must be required to step up to end it’s acceptance.
The states and federal government have to go on offense against the Islamic ideology that aims to harm people just as it goes after child pornography, rape, prostitution, gangs etc… Islam is on offense all the time why isn’t the government using it’s power to end these practices?
Mike says
R.I.C.O. statutes need to be applied when possible, and sermons in many mosques need to be monitored, free speech laws not withstanding.
Westman says
The dishonorable cowardly act of killing a woman restores honor? People like this Muslim who stabbed his sister to death are the slime that drifts at the bottom of a sewer line.
Come to think of it, so is the Ayatollah Khamenei, his Mullahs and henchmen who send women to be raped and killed in their prisons and hang anyone they don’t like from cranes. No devil could think of worse torments than that evil regime inflicts on its own citizens.
And we have intelligent people like Judge Napolitano and his retired CIA and military buddies who don’t understand that Israel is in a religious war of survival, fueled by Iran. They talk of of murder and genocide of Iranian Generals who have been responsible for the deaths of Americans and Israelis through terrorist proxies and those “poor” murdering Hamas. Napolitano quotes Hamas’ absurd claims like they came from God.
Read the damned Quran, Napolitano! How did a man become a judge when he won’t read evidence?
It’s no wonder every US involvement in a Muslim country is a disaster because leaders refuse to accept that Muslims believe in a war religion of exclusion as the foundation of their society.
That’s why this idiot German migrant killed his sister – its the religion, stupid!
But then, maybe we have entered the Netflix-YouTube World where all is delusion while reality withers like a Boko Haram hostage wife.
James Lincoln says
Westman says,
“And we have intelligent people like Judge Napolitano and his retired CIA and military buddies who don’t understand that Israel is in a religious war of survival, fueled by Iran.”
They either:
1. Have no idea that it is a religious war – which is inexcusable ignorance for people in those positions.
2. Realize that it IS a religious war – but fear attacks, cancel culture, etc., for stating the truth about islam.
Goofy says
Islam is the ultimate “religion” of self-righteousness!
It knows nothing about forgiveness, even less about redemption of sins (how does Islam even define sins come to think about it?) apart from a claim that the Jews and the Christians on the day of judgement will pay for the sins committed by the Muslims!
How can hurt pride or “dignity” be repaired by way of murdering your sister? Is it more dignified to be a murderer than to have a sister who may fall short of the satanic ideals you have defined for your women? Would you ever treat men as harshly as that? (I know the difference between “justice” applicable to men and to women who are caught in homosexual relationships: the men will be beaten with sandals and the women will be locked up until they thirst and starve to death, so honourable!)
In sharp contrast stands Judaism and Christianity which rely on the grace and forgiveness of our God who wants to relate to us lovingly as family.
As Christians we are righteous before God in our faith in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. He taught us to forgive our brother 70 x 7 times, not to kill him!
Revenge belongs to the LORD, not to us. Allah the deceitful slaveowner has nothing in common with our God!
For Muslims who face death for apostasy it is time to preach the gospel to save them from their satanic cult.
Russ Wivell says
If there were a Hell it has to be overfilled with Muslims.
Bull Herman says
It’s too bad he’ll likely find comrades in prison.
Wonder how he’d grade his honor if he were raped.
Because then he’d be the slut. His own raping his own fault.
That’s an Islamic paradox.