It is no accident or coincidence that Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. 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.” […]
Canada: Father accused in multiple honor killings says “Were they to come to life, I would do it again”
“They betrayed Islam,” he said, because they had boyfriends and didn’t want to wear hijabs. This report also details the many occasions on which the child protection system failed to protect the victims through procedural bungling, including interviewing the children in their parents’ presence after hearing of the parents’ threat to kill them, and a […]
Multiple honor killings in Canada: “God’s curse on them for generations. May the devil … (expletive) on their graves … They betrayed Islam.”
Qur’an 4:34 allows for physical violence (yes, it says to hit) against “disobedient women.” Islamic law is inconsistent at best on whether parents who kill their children face any consequences at all. It is no surprise, then, that Muslims commit 91 percent of “honor killings” worldwide. Even in Canada, in an update on this story. […]
Pakistan: Muslim murders three relatives in honor killing, dances happily around their dead bodies
Will the Islamophobia never end? “Celebrating death: Men dance around bodies after shooting 3 relatives,” by Shamsul Islam for The Express Tribune, October 8 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): FAISALABAD: A man shot and killed his sister, niece and another relative and began dancing around the dead bodies in the limits of Police Station […]
Family in Pakistan attacked, terrorized for refusing to carry out ‘honor killing’
As Marisol noted here, The Atlantic is running a piece on what has proven to be a rare exception in that dysfunctional culture known as Muslim-occupied India, AKA ‘Pakistan’ — a family that refuses to murder their daughter who was raped. In this case, the exception proves the rule, and the rule is that Pakistan […]
Pakistan: Family under threat for refusing to kill daughter in honor killing over gang rape
Needless to say, it is a sick, dysfunctional society in which not blaming the victim is a crime. “Refusing to Kill Daughter, Pakistani Family Defies Tradition, Draws Anger,” from The Atlantic, September 28: KARACHI, PAKISTAN — Kainat Soomro is a 17-year-old Pakistani girl who has become a local celebrity of sorts in her battle for […]
Pakistan: Muslim strangles his niece on suspicion she had illicit relations with Christian
It is no accident or coincidence that Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. 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.” […]
U.K.: Muslim parents of honor killing victim charged with murder 8 years after daughter’s disappearance
In some countries, Shafilea Ahmed’s parents might have faced little or no punishment under a legal system informed by Islamic law. In Britain, they could not hide forever. Unfortunately, authorities did miss opportunities to help Shafilea. In 2003, she reported to them that she was in danger of being pushed into a forced marriage in […]
Libya: Father slits throats of three daughters raped by Gadhafi’s troops
As we noted in a prior report on the risk of honor killings and rape in Libya, this is the population from which a tolerant, pluralistic civil society is supposed to spring forth now that it’s no longer hindered by a lone autocratic weirdo. A democracy is only as good as the values that inform […]
Aqsa Parvez Memorial Grove dedication in Israel, August 24
Wednesday at American Independence Park in Israel we had the dedication of the Aqsa Parvez Memorial Grove, dedicated to her memory and those of all victims of honor killing. This was the first public declaration anywhere by anyone that we will not allow these girls to be forgotten, and will keep speaking out against this […]