Yaser Said murdered his daughters for having non-Muslim boyfriends. This horrifying case points up the reality that honor murder can happen even in Western countries. 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, […]
Pakistan: Muslim brothers beat their sister to death with sticks for going to neighbor’s house without permission
This is Sharia. What is said here of the husband applies also to the male guardians of a woman who is unmarried: “The husband may forbid his wife to leave the home…because of the hadith related by Bayhaqi that the Prophet…said, ‘It is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last […]
Pakistan: Muslim murders his 19-year-old sister in honor killing because she talked to man in the neighborhood
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 […]
Pakistan: Muslims stone woman to death in honor killing
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 […]
Iran: Islamic regime pressures psychologists to stop talking publicly about violence against women
Three honor killings in less than a month have upset many Iranians, who have taken to social media to express their outrage over the treatment of women under Iran’s Islamic laws. Many Iranians are “blaming the Islamic government for policies of light punishment for the guilty perpetrators.” In response, the regime has gone into full […]
Iran: Muslim hunts down and beheads his 19-year-old bride after she fled two days into their forced marriage
It is noteworthy that “according to Iranian law,” which is based on Islamic law, “a man can kill his wife without punishment if he catches her with another man.” And also that “the victims’ family does not normally demand the punishment of the murderer.” That, too, is in accord with Islamic law. According to Islamic […]
Pakistan: Muslim hacks his sister to death with an axe for contracting a love marriage
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 […]
Iran: Muslim cleric says father who beheaded daughter can’t be executed “because it’s against Islamic law”
Mousa Ghazanfarabadi is not an “Islamophobe.” He is a Muslim cleric, a man who has dedicated his life to studying Islam and understanding it properly. Given the sanction honor killing has in Islamic law, it’s not all that surprising. According to Islamic law, “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally […]
“Palestinian” Islamic scholars say new law imposing harsh penalties for domestic abuse is un-Islamic
Of course. The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “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 […]
Indonesia: Muslim brothers hack their 16-year-old sister to death with machete for having sexual relations
There is no justification for a 45-year-old man having sex with a 16-year-old girl. But there is likewise no justification for murdering the 16-year-old girl. The article below says that it is unusual for this to happen in Indonesia, but given the sanction honor killing has in Islamic law, it’s not all that surprising. According […]