91% of the honor killings in the world today are committed by Muslims. The fathers, brothers, and sons of women who have by their behavior somehow “dishonored” the family may be severely punished, even killed, in order to restore that lost honor. Muslim males often exercise total control, or try to, over their female relatives. Years ago, the Said sisters — Amina and Sarah — were killed by their father Yasser in Texas for having dated non-Muslim boys. Some fathers have killed their daughters for refusing to wear the hijab, for getting a divorce, for looking at a boy in the wrong way. In some Muslim countries, fathers who commit such “honor killing” are let off with light sentences, and sometimes with no prison sentence at all.
A painful incident of honour killing has come to light from the Bahraich district in Uttar Pradesh where a person named Naeem brutally murdered his 17-year-old daughter Khushboo in the name of honour. He first severed her head and then cut the body into several pieces after he reportedly became aware of her love affair. Naeem repeatedly tried to convince Khushboo to snap ties with her boyfriend but she didn’t comply. The crime was committed on 2nd September.
The police, who arrived there at the information of the villagers, arrested the accused Naeem. They collected the body parts and sent them for postmortem. They also recovered the murder weapon from the spot. The matter pertains to the Laxmanpur Matehi village of the Motipur police station area. The victim was in a romantic relationship with a boy of the same village. She had already eloped with him twice. Naeem had also filed a case against his daughter’s lover in Motipur and Nanpara police stations. The authorities had even sent the youth to jail during the investigation.
On the fateful morning, Naeem spotted his daughter in conversation with her boyfriend, due to which he lost his temper and killed her outside their residence. He continued to sit beside his daughter’s corpse after ending her life. Senior police officials also visited the location due to the sensitive situation. Statements of the deceased’s mother were also recorded. She was at her maternal home during the crime.
According to the police, the issue is being thoroughly investigated and appropriate action will be taken moving forward. Circle Officer Hira Lal Kanaujia provided additional details on the issue and stated that the girl had run away with her boyfriend numerous times. The boy belonged to the Mangta community. A First Information Report was also filed against him in two police stations. Naeem has three more daughters and he claimed that the love affair was making a negative impact on his other children. He said they had to face humiliation in the village due to which he was forced to take the extreme step.
Khushboo’s insistence on publicly keeping company with her boyfriend, and even “running away” with him twice — but returning both times — was in the father’s view an unforgivable offense, that not only reflected badly on him, for his authority was being flouted, but also caused Khushboo’s three sisters great embarrassment at her untamed ways.
The source of Muslim male mistreatment of female relatives can be found in the Qur’an, which says: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” (Qur’an 4:34) As Robert Spencer notes, “A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that ‘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.’ (‘Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2). In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law.”
Honor killings will continue — between 5,000 and 10,000 every year — unless and until Muslim governments start to punish, severely, male relatives for killing female relatives, and can furthermore persuade some leading Islamic clerics to argue that “honor killings” are a “misinterpretation” of Qur’anic texts.
Alex says
The lafe Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of England, points out in one of his many books that their are religions of guilt (e.g., Judaism) where one can atone for one’s sins, and religions of shame (e.g., Isalm), where only death can remove the shame.
gravenimage says
Good point. Alex. Also, guilt is generally centered on one’s *own* actions, and how they can be improved–shame is centered on the actions of others and how they can be controlled, often violently.
Wellington says
The “but for” cause here is of course Islam. But for Islam a lot of tragedies and crimes would not be committed.
somehistory says
Back in the 90’s, a couple in the U.S. (it was somewhere up north, NY or PA) had a store and a daughter.
In the store, they took food stamps. And they committed fraud while doing so. They also had connections to other states where fraud was being committed and talk of terror, too.
The FBI was collecting information and evidence on this couple in order to charge them with the many crimes they had committed, and were continuing to commit.
Their teenaged daughter was unaware. She was busy with school and then got a part-time job to earn some spending money.
Legal means of earning money were abhorrent to this couple, devout mozlums they were, and so they told their daughter to quit her job. (it was too Western and she was becoming too much non mozlum in her thinking, etc)
The daughter, a good girl, refused to quit. So one afternoon when she returned from school, her parents attacked her. The ‘mother’ held her daughter down while the ‘father’ stabbed the poor girl to death.
The FBI had it all on tape as they had tapped into the home above the store and had been listening and recording them for some time.
After the senseless murder, the evil they did against their one child, they were arrested and taken to trial.
islam is evil. Killing one’s own child, or mom, or wife or sister….pure demon-inspired as evil as evil can get..and then they claim it ‘restores their honor.’ If they had ever had any ‘honor,’ they would have left islam and found another way to live.
gravenimage says
Yes–a terrible but not uncommon case.
somehistory says
What made it more terrible, was the fact the authorities knew it and allowed it.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s very unlikely that many of those brave and courageous Iranians who are protesting against the cruel misogynistic oppressive and murderous tyranny of that brutal and despicable Islamic regime of Iran are aware of the wise Latin saying “Nil carborundum illegitimi ” meaning “Don’t let the bastards grind you down” but those Iranian people are going by the spirit of that old saying by their righteous rebellion against that horrific regime
For as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei along the other ayatollahs and mullahs as well as their Islamic state “police.”
Death for a for a slight infringement of Sharia regarding the proper wearing of her hijab was an horrendous action of evil by them ,therefore they are most despicable malice-filled Muslim villains in power in that tyrannical and oppressive Islamic regime of Iran.
Walter Sieruk says
That Islamic tyranny of Iran is based on Islam with its Sharia is, very much, anti-female towards both girls and women.
The de-humanizing burqa is demeaning and degrading to females , both girls and women.
The Burqa is one aspect of the oppressive misogyny of Islam.
A scholar of Islam who revealed the disturbing horrible truth in her book “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islam ideology.” Furthermore, the author also exposed that `” Women is Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [1]
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, pages 171,172.
Walter Sieruk says
The vicious Islamic “morality police” of Iran even go so far as to raise a terrible horrendous brutal fuss over a little bit of hair showing on a woman’s head not only proves true the old saying that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.” But this also further exposes the malicious and oppressive misogyny of Islam and of that Islamic tyranny of Iran.
That horrific vicious and cruel “mullah regime” of Iran is brutal and cruel violator of human rights. Especially regarding the human rights of girls and woman.
For example, to imprison women for not wearing the hijab is but one part of the anti-female tyranny of this tyrannical “mullah regime” of Iran.
That ruthless cruel brutal heinous Islamic regime of Iran that is so unfittingly has the word “Republic” in its title ,for its called “ The Islamic Republic of Iran” [ I R I].
That brutal cruel Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran is full of ruthless malicious misogyny.
On the topic of this Islamic tyranny of Iran a former Muslim revealed that “The IRI system recognizes women as dependent upon men and incomplete human beings who need to be supervised and controlled by men and the State. This author further exposed that “Women are created for the purposes of giving pleasure to men and child bearing – functions that confine them to the home” This is a male Chauvinistic as can possibly be.
In addition this writer further makes it known that “The IRI legal system still retains traditional patriarchal bias that can be described as nothing but systemic subordination of women , which is undoubtedly a human rights violation .”
This author further reveals that “Iran is of what Islamic fundamentalists desire, an Islamic State, and the consequence of achieving it “State Terror. Instead of utopia, Iran is an Islamic totalitarian nightmare…” and “the Islamic Republic of Iran exists and operates as what every Islamic fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by Sharia …What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premises; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1]
This heinous Islamic has been also exposed by another author who was born and lived in a Middle Eastern nation for many years. She wrote “Female freedom and independence is one of the greatest sins in Islam…” and “Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [2]
All this is wicked, unjust and misogynistic to the extreme. Islam had not regard for human life, regardless of what the apologists for this religion will claim.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM BY Ibn Warraq. pages 345-347.
[2] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel pages 62, 172
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
The misogynic persecution of females , both girls women can quickly become even worse than described in this ,above posting.
For example,that heinously cruel and murderous Islamic tyranny of Iran is very brutal and vicious to the Iranian people. Especially regarding females. Both girls and women.
The murder of Mahsa Amini is very sad and tragic and that horrendous evil of her being murdered is because of the oppressive vicious brutal cruel and deadly misogynistic Islamic regime of Iran.
That action of male Muslim who are officials murdering defenseless, helpless women in cold blood is a heinous and hideous has occurred before and if that murderous Islamic regime isn’t overthrown such wicked killing will continue
Another example of such callous despicable heartless anti-female evil is when a teenage girl in Iran was talking to her boyfriend on the phone and then the Islamic state “police” walked over to her and shot her dead. They did that wicked and malicious thing to her because she was talking to her boyfriend and they also didn’t like her clothing. [1]
That was a clear cut case of murder and vicious Islamic madness by Iran’s Islamic state “ police”, who call themselves the “Revolutionary Guards”, they got away with their hideous and malice –filled evil because the mullahs as well as other villains in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime.
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili page 240
gravenimage says
The Source of Muslim Male Mistreatment of Female Relatives Can Be Found in the Qur’an
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This is true, despite apologists claiming that wife beating has nothing to do with “Honor Killing”. really, they go hand in hand.
I know nothing aobut Kushgboo’s boyfriend, of course, but I wish that she *had* been able to escape with him. Certainly, the outcome for her could not have been worse.
E T says
I think of the song “You Must Remember This, A Kiss is Just a Kiss” and my mind always goes to the kiss of death we in the West have been reminded of and seemed to be conned into believing Islam is the Religion of Peace..
I have listened intently for many years now to what the Religion of Peace peoplekind have spewed.
In Canada the global clown Prime Minister, Justine Trudeau has told HIS citizens that Islam is compatible with Western Secular Democracy. He has appointed a Muslim woman as his Islamophobia czar. Has anyone ever mentioned to this useless little global tool what the Muslim Brotherhood hoods Explanatory Memorandum states?
“The process of settlement is a Civilization-Jihadist Process” with all the word means. The Ikhwan ( Muslim Brotherhood hoods) must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western Civilization from within and “ SABOTAGING “ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of believers so that it is ELIMINATED and God’s religion is made VICTORIOUS OVER ALL OTHER RELIGIONS”.
I guess if the globalist Pope cannot comprehend what their plan is ……………
somehistory says
E.T.
“The Ikhwan” are the worst of the worst. They are the ones who set up a ‘firm’ in Maylasia …a mzlum ruined nation…that has been severely abusing little kids; hundreds of them; many ill and disabled. selling them for rape. mozlums in a mozlum nation outdoing the mozlums in evil..
One can only imagine the nightmare for mankind if the “ikhwan” managed to do as they want.
gravenimage says
That is what “brotherhood” is in Islam.
Leonidas says
Islam ( submission)will collapse ,like USSR in 1989,if we DENOUNCE PSEUDO PROPHET MUHAMMAD,who according to his biography( Sira) and traditions( Hadith) was a pedophile( wife Aisha was 9 yo), rapist, murderer, bandit (keeping20% of the booty for himself),liar and sex-slave trader and also LIBERATE THE MUSLIM WOMEN from barbaric Sharia Law.The Koran states women are dumb, less intelligent than men,wives must be beaten for disobedience by their hudbands ,all women will go to hell unless in the last day their husband says he was pleased with her and all women must hide their curves and wear burkas ,so that men will not be aroused to rape them.Islam is a misogynistic ,violent , imperialist political ideology of Arab male supremacy ISLAMOFASCISM(~70%), DISGUISED AS A RELIGION(~ 30%) that strives through violent Jihad and soft cultural Jihad of immigration ( dawa)to subjugate the World.Jihadists are promised, if killed battling infidels-kafirs,) they will go to Paradise to enjoy 72 virgins ,taking along 70 of their relatives regardless of their sins!Withdraw from UN MIGRANT COMPACT ,that falsely claims immigration is a Human Right expecting Western countries to accept and provide for an endless number of muslim illegal immigrants ,thus islamizing them. Muslim “refugees “should stay in Turkey or vast rich Saudi Arabia ,until they can return to their countries.We must denounce islamic Sharia (=way)law of blasphemer,apostate ,homosexual , adulterer and hypocrite executions,misogyny,honor killings by stoning,hand amputations for theft,child brides,girls exclusion from schools,halal meat from tortured animals,clitorectomies,circumcisions,subjugation and segregation of women,burkas and Sharia banning of short skirts,bikinis,dancing,singing,painting ,sculptures of people,dogs,pork,alcohol and beauty contests .Demand gender equality for ALL muslim women.Punish severely those that kill apostates from Islam,blasphemers,adulterers or muslim hypocrites.Islam is incompatible with our freedom of speech, gender equality, values,way of life, Human Rights
Paul says
Stockholm syndrome. I don’t know that Muslim women would want to be freed. Some yes. Most irreparably brainwashed.
E T says
They may have a hard time controlling women of the West who have been raised to have some self worth.
somehistory says
That’s true of many ‘generations,’ but I’m not so sure about those who can’t discern that islam is evil, hamas/hezbollah/iran/houthis is the bag of feculent matter and they deserve whatever they get from Israel.
Just seeing how many young women are all in favor of harris winning is enough for a pause. If all she can comment on is her own life as a teenager, how can they believe she can make any good decisions for the nation in which they live?
Older women who have had to take care of their families, have necessary jobs and do real thinking, are the ones you write about, are they not?
CalvinsLutheran says
The View is an apocalyptic representation of the depthless critical thinking of Western Women on the Left in today’s Europe and America. So there you have it. 2Thessalonians 2nd Chapter.
Michael Skok says
Obama calls the Islam book “The Holy Koran.”
Yeah, sure!
Tony Rice says
He is MUSLIM, ingrained in Indonesia where was from just after birth in Kenya until teenager.. Still is Muslim, as admitted on Egyptian Tv.
As Islam is so anti female, I am surprised the prize for males is 72 virgins and not 72 young boys, as so favoured in Afghanistan, that country of intense basic Islam
FYI says
allah does not like Jews,women or people “whose faces are blackened”koran 3:106[who are doomed to allah’s hell..unless their faces turn white koran 3:107{pickthall verson anyway]
allah dislikess the Jews so much that he denies Abraham was a Jew
{allah has a suspiciously HUMAN bias and an amazing lack of omniscience..doesn’t he?}
“Abraham was not a Jew nor yet a Christian”
koran 3:67
How can islam be an “abrahamic faith if allah denies Abraham was a Jew?
musa the muslim moses koran 2:87 completely missed the entire
Commandments system of the REAL MOSES in the REAL TORAH .
so islam cannot be a Biblical religion.The koran’s teachings deFY the laws given to the Real Moses in the Real Torah!
musa the muslim moses is NOT the Biblical/Torah Jewish Moses
ibrahim the muslim abraham is NOT the Biblical Abraham
jesus the muslim of the koran is NOT the real Jewish Jesus
allah is NOT the Biblical/Torah YHWH/HA-SHEM/GOD..
allah,the “knower of ALL things” koran 2:29,mistakenly thinks Christians are polytheist who worship 3 gods{jesus {the muslim,MARY and allah}that’s not very omniscient of allah,the “knower of ALL things” is it?
ALL Things means ALL things
women in islam are HALF the value of men by allah’s calculus:they are a “tilth for the men”.unclean.I mean that’s a bit rich that allah the extremely misogynistic god of islam.who demands muslimas wear hijabs when allah doesn’t even understand human reproductive Biology {koran 86:6-7}as ex-muslims know.
.Smart women tend to leave islam..
Troybeam says
Family member or non family member ALL WOMEN are treat inhumanly in Islam.
OLD GUY says
There is no such thing as honor in murdering another human being. It is EVIL and should be severely punished.
Walter Sieruk says
That Islamic tyranny of Iran is extremely cruel, brutal and demonic misogyny of this hideous Islamic regime. Not only against women but even young girls.
As explained by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and how now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine”
The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [1]
This is as malice -filled cruel brutal oppressive malicious and murderous Islamic regime of Iran, since it took power in Iran it thrives on installing fear on the Iranian people.
First, the Bible reads, “All the days of the oppressed are wretched.” Proverbs 15:15. [N.I.V.]
Second, Benjamin Franklin had printed a very true statement in his periodical Poor Richard’s Almanac which may apply to that horrendous tyrannical regime of Iran. It’s “Those who are feared are also hated.”
One important this to understand that since that brutal .cruel oppressive and murderous Islamic regime of Iran was built on a bedrock of false and empty and unkempt promises its footing is based on a foundation of sand, therefore the collapse of that hostile horrific and horrendous Islamic tyranny of Iran should be inevitable.
[2] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.