Jordan: Muslim man murders sister in honor killing

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." However, "not subject to retaliation" is "a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring." ('Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2). In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law.

In this case it was not a daughter but a sister who was the victim. Syria in 2009 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.'" And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that "Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values."

Nonetheless, the media drumbeat is constant: honor killings have nothing to do with Islam. And as long as that continues, we will see more and more murders like this one.

"Jordanian man charged over honour killing," from AAP, July 25 (thanks to George):

A JORDANIAN man has been charged with killing his 35-year-old sister when she was released from detention over allegedly having sex outside marriage, a judicial official said today.
"The suspect, in his 40s, was charged on Sunday with premeditated murder after fatally shooting his sister five times in Zarqa," northeast of Amman, the official told AFP.

"She had been in administrative detention since February over a fornication case. Apparently she had (sexual) relations with a man who took advantage of her and pretended he wanted to marry her."

Murder is punishable by death in Jordan but in so-called "honour killings" courts can commute or reduce sentences, particularly if the victim's family asks for leniency.

Between 15 and 20 women are murdered in such killings each year in the Arab kingdom, despite government efforts to curb such crimes.

Separately, the official said a 35-year-old man was charged with premeditated murder for slitting the throat of his wife's alleged lover, 26, before cutting off his penis in central Amman on Saturday.

"He handed himself in to police on the same day of the murder and confessed, giving them a bag that had the other man's penis. He was charged with premeditated murder," said the official.

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sean | July 25, 2011 6:46 AM | Reply

A conceptual framework for the Counterjihad...

Almost all Islamic activities - whether violent, predatory, supremacist, parasitic, deceptive, intimidatory, intolerant, corrupting, mutilating, dehumanising - or just plain disgusting and anti-social, can be categorized under the headings of one single webpage.

In this case the heading is Daughter Slaughter

Alarmed Pig Farmer | July 25, 2011 6:52 AM | Reply

A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam...

Oh the travails the Moslem Man must put himself through. You think it's easy for a fellow to keel his sister, even when he doesn't really want to, only because circumstances force him to?

*** 89:5 ***

There surely is an oath for thinking man.

I wonder what Anderson Cooper has to say on the Al Azhar ruling. How about the musings of Ibrahim Cooper?

Will Coop & Hoop fly the fictive coop and get serious here? Moslem rights are at stake here, fer Chrissakes.

Alarmed Pig Farmer replied to comment from sean | July 25, 2011 6:55 AM | Reply

... whether violent, predatory, supremacist, parasitic, deceptive, intimidatory, intolerant, corrupting, mutilating, dehumanising - or just plain disgusting and anti-social...

That's quite a list. Now that I think about it, as a group Moslems are a very accomplished people.

katharina | July 25, 2011 8:23 AM | Reply

These Muslim fanatics are even worst than animals - even animals love their families! Thus, such Muslim savages are the Devils' beasts. After all,Islam, a most evil and savage Arabic cult, is created by the RACIST Arabic Pedophile predatory rapist, robber, slave-owner (including sexual slaves such as young Jewish captive girls), and mass murderer of the Jews, Mohammed, in his evil goal to construct pure Arabian race and kingdom, and legitimize his and his tribe’s evil and savage Arabic socio-cultural practises and god (i.e. the Devil), especially against Judeo-Christian shared God and civilized tradition and laws!

salah | July 25, 2011 9:25 AM | Reply

He cut off his penis? So he won't be able to enjoy his 72 virgins, right?
Well, some MUSLIM scholars argue that the private parts of Muhammad, the prophet of islam, are actually in hellfire!!!
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/07/private-parts-of-muhammad.html

tanstaafl | July 25, 2011 9:27 AM | Reply

In Islam, who can you trust?

You cannot even trust your own family not to kill you. No wonder Muslims act so strangely. I am not saying that you have to have a mental illness to be a Muslim, but I'm willing to bet that it helps.

Caesar1 | July 25, 2011 11:58 AM | Reply

"Giving them a bag that had the other man's penis."

ROFL, that's the most amusing thing I have read all day.

gravenimage replied to comment from tanstaafl | July 25, 2011 12:05 PM | Reply

A JORDANIAN man has been charged with killing his 35-year-old sister when she was released from detention over allegedly having sex outside marriage, a judicial official said today.

"She had been in administrative detention since February over a fornication case. Apparently she had (sexual) relations with a man who took advantage of her and pretended he wanted to marry her."
............................

"Released from detention over allegedly having sex outside marriage"—imprisonment for "Zina". This, in "moderate" Jordan.

"The suspect, in his 40s, was charged on Sunday with premeditated murder after fatally shooting his sister five times in Zarqa," northeast of Amman, the official told AFP.

Separately, the official said a 35-year-old man was charged with premeditated murder for slitting the throat of his wife's alleged lover, 26, before cutting off his penis in central Amman on Saturday.

"He handed himself in to police on the same day of the murder and confessed, giving them a bag that had the other man's penis. He was charged with premeditated murder," said the official.
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In cases of "honor", often everyone involved must be eliminated. Compared to the savagery of what he did to this man, I suppose he "went easy" on his sister...

Murder is punishable by death in Jordan but in so-called "honour killings" courts can commute or reduce sentences, particularly if the victim's family asks for leniency.
............................

"Honor killings" courts...look for them soon in Dar-al-Harb...

And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that "Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values."
............................

After all, what could be more indicative of "family values" than murdering your own sister?

Tanstaafl wrote:

In Islam, who can you trust?

You cannot even trust your own family not to kill you.
............................

You're not wrong, Tanstaafl. An arbitrary, vengeful "God", enemies everywhere, forced marriages, family and community that will kill you for any breach of "honor" or any lapse of being "sufficiently Islamic".

The Muslim world view is paranoid, loveless, and without comfort. A hellish vision, and one they want to impose on the entire world.

charleston | July 25, 2011 1:21 PM | Reply

so what is the problem?

faster please

when*pigs*fly | July 25, 2011 3:45 PM | Reply

"And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that "Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values."

Doesn't this just just shine the light of truth on the oppression of females, complete barbarism & convenient duality of and by evil islam?

when*pigs*fly replied to comment from charleston | July 25, 2011 3:48 PM | Reply

Faster "what" please?

Ros | July 26, 2011 12:58 AM | Reply

So...where else are "honor" killings either common or practised on occasion by non-muslims? Philipines, Spain, Central and South America (esp. Brazil), Armenia, Greece.

What do those countries and regions have in common? Either their territories or the territories of their ancestral homelands were occupied by slave-of-allah.

In Tapachula, Mexico, wahabis convinced locals to "revert" to islam. Roman Catholic discreditation, following Vatican complicity in both covering up and enabling priest abuse atrocities, has created a window for global expansion of the disease of islam. We don't need to overstate the threat, but we need to squelch all denial of same.

Queenie | July 26, 2011 5:29 PM | Reply

If I'm not mistaken, I believe Abu Musab al-Zarqawi came from Zarqa, Jordan, one of the worst slum towns in that country.

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