Unlike Syria and Jordan, Canada provides for an automatic life sentence. An update on this story. “Guilty plea in Aqsa Parvez honour killing,” by Michelle Mandel for the Toronto Sun, June 15: The father and brother of Aqsa Parvez have pleaded guilty to murdering the rebellious 16-year-old in an abhorrent honour killing. Muhammad Parvez, 60, […]
Muslim mother stabs daughter in attempted honor killing in Montreal
I’ll say it again: Syria recently 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.’” That’s right: […]
Jordan: 20-year-old woman shot in the head by her brothers for marrying against her family’s wishes
According to this report, “the victim was the second woman to be killed for reasons related to family honour during the month of June, and the seventh since the beginning of the year, according to medical sources.” Funny how that keeps happening. The unwillingness on Islamic grounds to stiffen penalties for honor killings within Jordan […]
Muslim throws acid on daughter and strangles her for marrying a non-Muslim man
Islam forbids Muslim women from marrying non-Muslim men. This is a supremacist law, since Muslim men may marry non-Muslim women. The idea is that the woman will join the man’s household, and thus the Muslim community will be ever growing and the non-Muslim community ever declining. Attempted honor killing in India: “Man throws acid on […]
Enraged over son-in-law’s relationship with a non-Muslim woman, they murder his parents and sister
Honor killing in Pakistan over a broken marriage and a Muslim’s relationship with a non-Muslim in Britain. “Secret love-child ‘sparked honour killing massacre’ of British family in Pakistan,” from the Daily Mail, May 30 (thanks to Alexandre): An Asian man whose marriage breakdown allegedly led to the murders of his parents and sister may have […]
Switzerland: Muslim father murders his teenage daughter with an axe in honor killing
The story unfolds in the Swiss press, ably translated by Norman and posted by Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs: Police knew about abuse by father Svera was frank: “I’m afraid of my father. He beats me.” But for the authorities it wasn’t clear enough. 16 year old Svera R. from Zurich-Hongg: A strong person who […]
Acid attacks for family “honor” on the rise in UK
Gee, I wonder why? The full article (not reproduced below) hastens to assure us that Buddhists in Cambodia and Christians in Uganda do this sort of thing too, but that doesn’t account for the rise in such attacks in Britain. Buddhists aren’t streaming into the U.K. from Cambodia, or Christians from Uganda, are they? The […]
Italy: Trial opens for Muslim father who murdered his daughter in honor killing
The victim’s “only guilt was being free.” “Italy: Slain Moroccan woman’s memory ‘honoured,’” from AKI, May 3 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Udine, 3 May (AKI) – As the trial of a Moroccan man accused of stabbing his daughter to death in an honour killing opened in the northern Italian city of Udine on Monday, a […]
Chicago: Muslim who murdered family on orders from “Allah” now the victim, “suffering greatly” in jail
This Chicago Sun-Times story, after being more honest than AP by noting that Larry killed all these people because he believed he had some responsibility before Allah to do so, makes sure to include the standard disclaimer from a local Muslim group — the kind of thing that is usually as a matter of course […]
Turkey: Two-day-old girl murdered in honor killing
Misunderstanders of Islam commit yet another honor killing — this time of a two-day-old girl — in modern, moderate, secular Turkey. “Two-day-old girl killed in ‘honour killing,’” from Reuters, April 17 (thanks to Thomas): Turkish police on Friday detained an unmarried mother and six other people near Istanbul for their suspected role in the so-called […]