Pakistan: Muslim murders sister for reporting her to police after he and his brothers beat her with clubs for wearing pants and riding a motorcycle

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.

The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. 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."

In light of all this, until authorities get the courage to tell the truth about honor killing, there will be many more such murders.

"Cop kills sister for not withdrawing case," by Rana Yasif for the Express Tribune, July 26 (thanks to David):

A woman was shot dead on July 20 by her brother, a police constable, for not withdrawing a case registered against him in April.
Tariq Shah, their elder brother of the deceased, said Najma, 35, part of the Sharqpur Inter College for Girls’ cricket team, used to wear pants and ride a motorcycle. He said he and his brothers did not approve of it. He said they had warned her several times but she did not stop.

Police said on April 23, Sajid and Wajid, beat Najma with clubs. She was rescued by some neighbours. She filed a case against her brothers and an uncle, Naseer Shah, under Sections 354 (assault)/452 (House-trespass for intentional assault) and 379 (theft) with Shahdara police.

Her father, Sarwar Shah, complainant in the FIR, said that her brothers had wanted her to withdraw the case, but she had refused. Sajid Shah has yet to be arrested.The investigation officer said the suspects were on bail till July 28. He said they were not cooperating in the investigation. He said he will write to the court about this and their bails will be cancelled.

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dumbledoresarmy | July 27, 2012 11:35 PM | Reply

Note: there appears to be an error in the headline.

Shouldn't it be 'murders sister for reporting HIM to the police', rather than 'murders sister for reporting HER to the police'?

dumbledoresarmy | July 27, 2012 11:45 PM | Reply

a further note, to those new to this site and this subject.

I have been a regular reader at this site since mid/ late 2006, and a commenter since April 2007. I have also extensively explored the archives (late 2003-2006).

Fairly early on, I created a folder I called simply 'Muslim minds', to do with the type of character and attitudes formed or encouraged by the ideology/ cult that is Islam.

Within that folder I created an e-clippings file called 'Islam's war on women', to act as a 'holder' for copies of stories like this, that show the ugly fruits of the almost unlimited licence-to-abuse that Islam grants to Muslim men vis a vis Muslim women (and, indeed, *all* women).

However: on my computer, which is not of the newest, once such a file reaches a certain size it becomes unwieldy (and difficult to search for any particular item), so I found myself creating another file - 'war on women, II'.

By now, I have on my hard disk no fewer than *seven* such files in the series, each about 1000 pages long (though that includes not only the news item itself but such among the accompanying comments as I find 'add value' or insight); and I have just had to create file no. 8.

Within Islam, it seems that women seem to be treated as a necessary but barely-tolerated evil; a sometimes-useful enemy under a temporarily suspended (but at any moment liable to be almost randomly activated) sentence of death.

Stuart Parsons | July 28, 2012 3:11 PM | Reply

Oh this is disgraceful. When will these Muslim women take the trouble to read Allah's Holy Revelation 4:34 ???

vnbushman | July 28, 2012 9:57 PM | Reply

It would be nice if the U.S. news media would print such news. How else can we expect to understand correctly what the ideology of Islam is? American news media are a bunch of cowards.

gravenimage | July 30, 2012 10:50 PM | Reply

Pakistan: Muslim murders sister for reporting her to police after he and his brothers beat her with clubs for wearing pants and riding a motorcycle

"Cop kills sister for not withdrawing case," by Rana Yasif for the Express Tribune, July 26 (thanks to David):

A woman was shot dead on July 20 by her brother, a police constable, for not withdrawing a case registered against him in April.
.................................

Wouldn't you think a police office would know the law? sarc/off

Tariq Shah, their elder brother of the deceased, said Najma, 35, part of the Sharqpur Inter College for Girls’ cricket team, used to wear pants and ride a motorcycle. He said he and his brothers did not approve of it. He said they had warned her several times but she did not stop.
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And when Muslims do not approve of something, this leads "naturally" to beatings and murder...

Police said on April 23, Sajid and Wajid, beat Najma with clubs. She was rescued by some neighbours.
.................................

Ah, Islam—where the neighbors sometimes have to save victims *from the police*. Much more frequently, though, there is no savior at all...which is what eventually happened with this poor girl...

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