Why is this a story for Dhimmi Watch? Because it is part of the culture that, because of the supine dhimmitude of Western authorities, is moving West — and only very recently are officials waking up to it.
From Reuters, with thanks to Twostellas:
MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Five family members were murdered in a suspected honour killing in Pakistan on Tuesday, police said, shortly before a law took effect making such crimes a capital offence.Gunmen broke into the home of Munnawar Mai and opened fire, killing Mai, her husband Mukhtar and their two-year-old son as well as the mother and a brother of Mukhtar, police said.
Mai and Mukhtar eloped and married in 2002, defying her parents wish that she wed a cousin. Mai's family was still angry over her marriage, police chief Mohammad Jamil said....
The incident happened shortly before President Pervez Musharraf signed a bill into law making such honour killings a capital offence, official media said.
Hundreds of women are murdered each year in rural Pakistan for adultery, choosing partners without family permission or failing to fetch an adequate dowry.
Rights activists say the new law is a step toward curbing violence against women but note it will allow murderers to settle their crime out of court by paying compensation to relatives of the victims under Islamic law.
There were more than 1,200 honour killings in Pakistan in 2003, officials said.
"Honor"?
Once against, the Islamic version of a word takes on the demonic opposite of its actual meaning.
"Holy" means hellish.
"Religion" means murderous lunacy.
"Law" means the arbitrary interpretation of vowel-less 1300 year old texts listing tribal whims.
"Peace" means slaughtering to global annihilation.
Ambrose Bierce could have had a field day with "The Muslim 'Demon Est Deus Inversus' Dictionary".
Bierce's definition of "KORAN" in his own "The Devil's Dictionary" is instructive. (Look it up.)
LOL profitsbeard! You're spot on there. They use a different dictionary than the rest of the world. Devil's Dictionary is a good title for it.
So the West naively goes around thinking Islam means Peace, not knowing how 'peace' is defined in Islam. Not the peace most normal people think of. But rather a hellish nightmare. But to a Muslim that is Peace. Not having to put up with nasty infidel superiority and technological advances, but rather the whole world being a backward, failed Islamic hellhole.
Ambrose Bierce could have had a field day with "The Muslim 'Demon Est Deus Inversus' Dictionary".
Bierce's definition of "KORAN" in his own "The Devil's Dictionary" is instructive. (Look it up.)
Posted by: profitsbeard at January 4, 2005 10:03 PM
Mr. Bierce succinctly summed up the Koran, quite aptly. When dealing with Islam, I've found it helpful to use a thesaurus, find the antonym for any given word, and that's the Islamic definition. Peace/conflict, love/hate democracy/Islam--it usually works perfectly!
Any words uttered by a muslim should be considered lies until proven otherwise. About the only Islamic rhetoric you can really trust are the sermons from Saudi Arabia and Iran every Friday. As vile as these diatribes are, at least you know exactly how they feel and what they think. No lies, no obfuscation; just pure, venomous hatred for Jews and Christians, uncut and uncensored! There are two things I like about these demons: they don't try to hide their hatred for us and they don't give a damn about political correctness.
As a woman I am horrified that our sex is of less value than a camel or 'pretty goat' in Islam.A Female is a mere commodity to be traded as her father and brothers feel fit and to be killed by all of them including her 'loving' husband. This evil Death Cult should be seen on the same level as Facism and Nazism and BANNED ACCORDINGLY!
If 1200 deaths is the "official" figure for such murders then you can bet your bottom dollar the real one is much much higher.
Another reason Sharia Law will not slot into the English Common Law system and CAN NOT be compared to Canon or Rabbinical Law. It does not spring from the same compatible beliefs, neither does it confine itself to purely spiritual matters.
OT, I have read and contributed to discussions on JW with several Sikhs recently. What sort of religious legal system is there within Sikhism? Also Hinduism?
In my experience the Consitory Courts of the Church of England deal with disputes over clergy stipends, how bequests for memorials should be administered, that sort of thing. Personal inheritance, distribution of property on divorce, and similar is the in the national domain.
"note it will allow murderers to settle their crime out of court by paying compensation to relatives of the victims under Islamic law."
So for example, if a father wants one of his daughters killed and then asks secretly for his son to do it, will the result be that the son gives the father blood money? Probably I guess. This sort of Islamic law is totally impractical and full of holes the guilty can exploit, but then again many laws from the dark ages from most cultures are full of major flaws.
The fact there are muslims who desperately want sharia, while sharia when analysed logically is often obviously unjust proves that people loose their rational faculties when intoxicated with fundamentalist Islam. It is like a kind of lobotomy of the frontal lobes (i.e. the rational part of the brain). With a persons logic/reasoning faculties gone the only thing left for them to do is to follow a clerics commandments literally like a robot and atrocities then occur because the person believes absurdities.
OT . . .
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_6-12-2004_pg7_39
Acid burning — just another statistic?: Scarred humanity cries for stricter laws
* No specific laws for acid-throwing
* Acid related cases cannot be tried in ATCs
By Mohammad Kamran
ISLAMABAD: Zarina Ramzan was happily married with an infant. The attractive 18-year-old had caught the eye of her neighbour, Nazar Hussain. When she rebuffed his advances, he reacted by throwing acid on her face on July 7, 2002. Her eyelids, nose and lower lip were badly mutilated. Today, after undergoing 11 surgeries she is barely able to regain her basic senses. Doctors at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, who have been treating her, are still recommending additional surgeries.
Almost two and half years after her attack, Hussain’s appeal is still pending and Zarina fears that he will be released from the jail. She staged a demonstration in front of Parliament House along with her family members a few months ago to draw the attention of women legislators to her ordeal, but her protest went unheard and unnoticed. She went back to her town in utter frustration.
“She is a living replica of horror, mutilation, isolation and helplessness. Few have the courage to look at her,” Shahnaz Bokhari, a women rights activist told Daily Times. “We have brought numerous similar cases into the limelight, but the tragedy is that the perpetrator of this crime is usually given an ordinary sentence whereas the whole life of the victim is utterly ruined.
It is deplorable that the law does not offer any compensation to the victims which matches the horror they have undergone,” said Ms Bukhari, the head of the Progressive Women Association.
Naheeda Mahboob Illahi, the deputy attorney general, told Daily Times that there were 38 sections in the Pakistan Penal Code which dealt with offences relating to the injury of human bodies but that there was a need to increase the prescribed punishment for violence against women, especially in acid burning cases. “The crimes where explosive material is used as weapons can be tried in the anti-terrorism courts (ATC) which is why cases where kerosene oil and petrol are used are referred to the ATCs. However, the acid cases are not within the jurisdiction of the anti-terrorism courts,” said Mr Illahi.
An official of the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan admitted that there was no specific law that dealt with acid burnings and added that there were currently no recommendations to draft a new law for this offence. “It is usually treated under the provisions of the Pakistan Penal Code although a District and Sessions Judge can award maximum prescribe punishment depending on the gravity of the violence.”
According to statistics from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), nine cases of acid throwing were reported in 2001 and since then this number has increased alarmingly. The Commission reported 46 cases in 2002 and 70 cases in 2003, the majority of which occurred in rural Punjab.
The Punjab Assembly passed a resolution in August 2003 proposing that acid throwing cases be treated as attempted murder, however the subsequent legislation is yet to be enforced and the perpetrators of this inhuman crime either go unpunished or get light punishments.
Although sale of acid is restricted in the market, a bottle can be purchased for domestic use by anyone and the district administration has no check over the sale of a commodity which has the potential to permanently ruin a life.