But the harsh sentences were given not because the judge wanted to set an example for to deter future honor killings, but because the killers did not act in a sudden overflow of anger.
No, I am not making this up. From AP, with thanks to Jay.Mac:
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- A court issued Jordan's harshest punishment ever for an honor killing: 7 1/2 and 10-year jail terms for two brothers who stabbed their pregnant sister. But the judge said Wednesday while he wasn't setting a principle, he felt the men deserved hard time because they didn't act in a sudden fury.The ruling comes amid a campaign led by Jordan's Queen Rania to amend lenient laws that provide for sentences as light as six months in prison for honor killings. An average of 20 women a year are killed by male relatives each year, some for simply dating, according to government figures.
Lawmakers of conservative tribal backgrounds, however, have rejected changes, saying they would give rise to more vice.
The brothers, Raed and Bilal Rabah al-Ajouri, were convicted of premeditated murder in the killing of their sister Amira in April 2004.
According to the indictment sheet, Amira was in a relationship with an Egyptian man without her family's knowledge. When they found out she was pregnant, her father gave his blessing for the union to go ahead, and she later left for Egypt. But she returned to Jordan to give birth in her home country.
The indictment sheet said when her two brothers learned that their sister was in town, they planned to kill her "to get rid of the shame." The elder brother, Raed, took his 25-year-old sister to his house and stabbed her to death, also killing the fetus.
Ah, yes, Jordan: one of the countries which our Leftists like to call a "moderate" Muslim country.
Lawmakers of conservative tribal backgrounds, however, have rejected changes, saying they would give rise to more vice.
She was 8 months pregnant and the child was a boy. So how much more vicious than killing their unborn nephew do these conservatives think their society could get. I don't think I want to know the answer.
Thanks, judge. Now future dishonorable-murderers know that they should put on a show of "sudden fury" so that you'll go easy on them during their trial.
And Islam wonders why we don't respect it. Well, these murders they called "honor-killings" is one of many reasons.
"also killing the fetus." How sad. But the pregnancy was 1 month from term, when can we call it a baby?
With time off for good behavior, I'd guess two years, tops, will be served by these psychopathic scum.
But at least the poor kid, murdered a month before he was to be born, didn't have to end up in such a savage and deranged society.
I can only hope for him that the Hindus are right, reincarnation exists, and he has been born again somewhere where the maniacs don't run the place and the judges work for civilization and are not sick zombies of the bloodthirsty 7th century id.
islamic Definition of "hard labor".... raping goats and sheep vs. women, reading the kookran 7 times a day, and ass in the air 6 times a day vs. 5.
Carolyn2: in several American states, abortion clinics would be glad to get rid of an eight- or nine-month-old "lump of tissue". In the matter of abortion, the West is blood-soaked, so I suggest we do not make too much noise about this particular crime.