In Islamic law and the culture that results from it, the onus is on women in so many ways. Most notably, women must cover everything except their face and hands because it is their responsibility to keep men from being tempted. If men are tempted anyway, it’s the woman’s fault for failing to prevent this. […]
Iran: Film director murdered and chopped up by his family in honor killing because he was unmarried
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 […]
France: Muslim migrant known to police shoots his wife, burns her alive on public street
There is, of course, domestic violence in all cultures. So to post this is just “Islamophobic,” right? Wrong: there is domestic violence in all cultures, but only in one does it have divine sanction. The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority […]
Texas: Muslim Who Helped His Father Evade Capture After Murdering His Sisters Gets Ten Years
But no one is facing up to the reality of Islamic honor killing in the U.S. My latest in FrontPage: In Fort Worth, Texas on Tuesday, a 32-year-old Muslim named Islam Said was sentenced to ten years in prison for spending the last thirteen years helping his father, Yaser Said, one of the FBI’s Most Wanted criminals, evade […]
Islamic Republic of Iran: Muslim family beheads man for being homosexual
A hadith depicts Muhammad specifying the punishment for homosexual activity: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.’” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4462) Will gay rights […]
Texas: Muslim gets 10 years for hiding his father, a Most Wanted fugitive in honor killing of his two daughters
32-year-old Islam Said was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for helping his father, Yaser Said, evade capture since 2008, when Islam was only 19. Yaser Said was arrested in August, twelve years after “he is alleged to have shot and killed his two daughters, 18-year-old Amina and 17-year-old Sarah, in the back of […]
Germany: Muslim migrant stabs his wife to death in front of his three small children to cleanse his honor
They are not dangerous, they are in danger! Celebrate diversity! “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) 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 […]
India: Muslim woman murdered by her sister and brother-in-law after marrying a Hindu man
Islamic marriage laws are based on supremacist assumptions. The idea is that the Muslim community will always grow at the expense of the non-Muslim community, and that because that is a good outcome, any means, including deception, may be pursued in order to attain it. Also, pressure is brought on Hindu women to convert because […]
Egypt: Muslim stabs his sister in neck, murders her in honor killing, gets five years in prison
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) 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 […]
Honor killing in Egypt: Woman is beaten, thrown to her death from balcony for inviting male colleague to her flat
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 […]