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.”
“Woman shot dead in Wah Cantt in suspected honour killing,” by Saleh Mughal, Express Tribune, January 2, 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A married woman was shot dead at her father’s home in Rawalpindi on Friday in what police described as an honour killing allegedly orchestrated by her husband and uncle through phone and video calls from Qatar.
Samira Aziz, who had been residing in Qatar with her husband, was brought to Pakistan a week earlier by two uncles under what her sister later alleged was a pretext. On the night of the incident, relatives arrived at the family home in the Lalazar area of Wah Cantt and, acting on instructions delivered via video call from Qatar, allegedly shot her multiple times.
According to the first information report lodged by Sub-Inspector Asif Iqbal Khan, the attackers, identified as Waleed and Asrar, who are close relatives of Aziz’s father, entered the house after her aunt was instructed by phone to open the door. The FIR states that Aziz’s husband, Suleman, then made a video call and directed the aunt to remove Aziz’s sister from the room and “let them finish Samira off”.
The two men allegedly drew pistols and opened fire, hitting Aziz in various parts of her body. She died at the scene.
The motive, as cited in the police report, stemmed from suspicions by Aziz’s husband, who had allegedly found her speaking on the phone with another man while in Qatar….
Troybeam says
Whisper on the wind in Islam allows for killing “an honor killing” no proof, nothing… just a whisper.
gravenimage says
Yes–in Islam a Muslim can beat his wives if he so much as *fears* disobedience.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Guess it’s the will of allah
Anyway, muslims being killed for whatever reason – honor or other – has long ceased to bother me. Let them cull the strength of the ummah themselves, since no one outside of China is doing it for them
gravenimage says
They are not going to stop at murdering other Muslims, as you well know.
Westman says
“…Aziz’s husband, who had allegedly found her speaking on the phone with another man while in Qatar…”
Isn’t it more likely that the husband found another woman in Qatar who he preferred to the wife and plotted to use others in Pakistan, a country with weak honor-killing laws, to carry out a permanent “divorce”? No matter why, it was murder protected by Islam.
gravenimage says
Yes, Westman–*quite* possible.
Walter Sieruk says
“Islamic culture” is not really a genuine culture. As observed in that so very savage cruel, brutal vicious and murderous that it’s not really an actual, genuine, culture but a result of a primitive deadly religion , because of its wicked Islamic practice of “honor killing.”
The terrible term “honor killing” is alone a dishonest term. For there is no honor, at all, it’s a malice -filled murder of a young female. Just giving an evil action a better sounding title doesn’t change the wicked nature of it. It’s like scrapping off the label of that jar of cyanide which reads “Danger Poison” and replacing on that jar another label that reads “ Apple Juice.” That doesn’t change the deadly content in that jar. As it has been wisely said that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
Second, the horrible reality is that Islam is able to in a sinister way, warp the cognation of the human mind that a man might even feel and think that a cold-blooded murder of a helpless young girl or woman is something that is “good” That’s outright demonic. So much so that it’s a reflection of the words found in the Bible in Isaiah 5:20. Which read “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who put darkness for light and light for darkness…” [N.K.J.V.]
Third. , the Muslim father who so vicious ,because of his religion that his wants to murder his own daughter in a so called ‘honor killing” and feels no remorse or guilt about the horrendously evil actions that they committed are so very heartless because ,as the Bible reveals they have had “their own conscience seared with a hot iron” First Timothy 4:2.
In that situation, that “hot iron” is Islam.
Forth , but not less important than the other three points is to have the knowledge that this 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.
abu taleb says
17:33 And do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden, except by right.
Because she is doing wrong, muslims can just kill her. That is Islam, you can kill people on a whim because you are the best people of Allah..
gravenimage says
Because her husband *says* she is doing wrong is enough.
And note that even this was just her speaking to another man on the phone.
Note: I had a conversation with a friend of mine today–a guy I had already known for some years when I met my husband. My husband heard me on the phone and said, “tell Larry and Dottie Happy New Year!”. He did not have his family “Honor Kill” me.
OLD GUY says
Islam will spread this around the world, it could be your daughter honor killed next if we allow the migration invasion to continue. Close the borders to muslim migration.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Woman shot dead at her father’s home in honor killing her husband and uncle orchestrated
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This *poor woman*. So often in Islam, murdering vulnerable people is a family affair.