Woman, two children beheaded in Afghanistan honor killing

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 and deal with its root causes, there will be many more such murders.

"Woman, two children beheaded in Afghanistan 'honor killing,'" from Reuters, July 4 (thanks to Answering Muslims):

A 30-year-old woman and two of her children were beheaded overnight in Afghanistan's east, police said, in what appeared to be the latest in a rapidly growing trend of so-called honor killings.
Police said they suspected the woman Serata's divorced husband of barging into her house in the capital of Ghazni province and murdering her, alongside their eight-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter.

"The children saw the killer take their mother's head off, so he killed them too," a local policeman told Reuters, adding that the attacker had spared Sereta's two-year-old daughter.

Activists say there has been a sharp rise in violent attacks on women in Afghanistan over the past year.

They blame President Hamid Karzai's waning attention to women's rights as his government prepares for the exit of most foreign troops in 2014 and seeks to negotiate with the Taliban, Afghanistan's former Islamist rulers.

Excluding Serata's beheading, there have been 16 cases of "honor killings" recorded across the country over March and April, the first two months of the Afghan new year, according toAfghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC).

This compares to the 20 cases recorded for all of last year, said commissioner Suraya Subhrang, blaming increased insecurity and weak rule of law for the sharp rise. Since AIHRC started recording such killings in 2001, there have never been more than 20 cases a year.

"And there are many that go unreported. Men make a quick decision in their own courts to kill a girl and hold a prayer for her the next day," Subhrang told Reuters.

Serata divorced her husband Mohammad Arif, 38, a year ago after enduring almost a decade of domestic abuse, said Shukria Wali, head of Ghazni's department of women's affairs, which is attached to the ministry in Kabul.

Police said they were still hunting for Arif. Violent crimes against women often go unpunished in Afghanistan, with activists blaming police carelessness, corruption and a growing atmosphere of impunity.

Officers investigating the case described it as an honor killing - a phrase used to describe the murder of mostly women and girls by people who accuse them of besmirching a family's reputation....

Donors are expected to commit just under $4 billion in development aid annually to Afghanistan at a summit in Tokyo on Sunday, though the European Union - the biggest contributor - has said maintaining its support will be difficult if women's rights are not protected....

But they will give the money anyway.

Despite more than 10 years of war and billions of dollars in foreign aid, the country remains desperately poor. Female illiteracy rates in rural areas are above 90 percent and child marriages are still widespread despite being illegal.

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Walter | July 5, 2012 7:24 AM | Reply

Q. What is Islam ?. A. It's a ruthless murderous death cult.

Walter | July 5, 2012 7:34 AM | Reply

In the book FOR GOD OR FOR TYRANNY the former Muslim and jihadist, Walid Shoebat, who is now a Christian om page 270 wrote "The hatred of women in an Islamic society is so immense that even if a woman is raped, shwe is stoned to death." Furthermore, it's such a terrible thing to both outrageous and absurd to punish the woman who was raped and not the rapist. To this the Bible teaches in Proverbs 17:15. "Acquitting the guilty and condemming the innocent- the Lord detests them both." [NIV]

john spielman | July 5, 2012 7:41 AM | Reply

The Bible says the world will know the followers of Jesus by our Love (1 John) but muslim followers of the dead pseudoprohet Mohammed are known by the murderous rampages thefts rapes and generally spreading terror through out the land!

awake | July 5, 2012 7:41 AM | Reply

The murderous Muslim husband's name...yep, you guessed it...Mohammad. Knock me down with a feather.

I find a particular irony in the fact that supposedly Muhammad relayed that Allah forbade any idolotry, with any pictorial representations of Muhammad being haram, yet somehow the name of the "perfect model for human behavior" per 33:21, is applied to what seems like, every other Muslim male.

The standard Muslim male does indeed practice idolotry in my estimation. Idolotry of the name Muhammad and all the disgusting behaviors he exhibited historically and all perks that come with being an adult male in Islam currently.

Walter | July 5, 2012 7:43 AM | Reply

Brittee Gabriel, the founder of actforamerica.com, in her book THEY MUST BE STOPPED p.171,172 on the subject of women and "honor killings" wrote "The shocking reality is that most Muslim men, including those educated in the West,have no objection to honor killings and the degradation of women in their counrties. Across the Muslim world, even in moderate Islamic countries, women's rights are almost nonexistent...Women in islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt."

RonaldB | July 5, 2012 7:55 AM | Reply

Watching reports on stalking, domestic abuse, and the killing of wives and girlfriends in the West leaves the impression that the killers are shiftless losers. I think that killing and domestic abuse is an evolutionary last-ditch effort to maintain ties to a female who is actually productive.

In other words, the abuser is a loser who is going to be consigned to the garbage can of society anyway, so why not sink to the level of physical intimidation to force a woman to stay with him.

Islam raises the level of loser to a fine art, and to a social, rather than individual, phenomenon. Almost every male in a true Islamic society is a loser, consigned by the practice of Sharia to poverty, ignorance, poor health, and a short lifetime. So, why not practice violence and intimidation on that part of society most susceptible to their crowing and puffery? They eliminated their dogs, so women are the next in line to maintain the falsely-inflated egos of Muslim males.

tanstaafl replied to comment from RonaldB | July 5, 2012 10:32 AM | Reply

Very good observation. I also believe that Islam encourages sociopathic behavior.

ImNoDhimmi replied to comment from tanstaafl | July 5, 2012 2:26 PM | Reply

Islam not only condones sociopathic behaviour, it encourages, promotes, celebrates and rewards it. In fact, I would venture to say 99% of muslim men, and a good many of the women, are full-blown sociopaths.

TJFREEDOMJIHAD | July 5, 2012 5:57 PM | Reply

muslims, in all degrees, are the result of the utter sick degenerate madness of the gang of islam, until islam is ereased and banned worldwide. It does, or it will infect, each muslim's mind over time with its pathology. Such is the design of center of evil.

It is as though a round, well created baby's mind has a square box tightened around it, as the prison of unreality of the concepts of islam around it, and the result of the mental insult, is the creation of muslim sociopathy.

Brandon O'Connor replied to comment from TJFREEDOMJIHAD | July 6, 2012 10:44 AM | Reply

"...and the result of the mental insult, is the creation of muslim sociopathy."

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Great way to put it, I think.

The one thing to have in mind is that the sociopath has nowhere to regress. The average human, when in distress, goes back to early thumb sucking or other states of comfort. If they are unavailable, the average human regresses to the oceanic feeling of the womb, with or without alcohol or other help.
The sociopath has been borne by a mother who was disconnected from her womb, perceiving the unborn as a pimple, abortion, tumor,tic, predator anything but a human that she was planning to associate with.
Not consciously, usually.
At times consciously.
A Philippino nurse who used to work in Saudi Arabia as a midwife told me of a strange experience. A woman had given birth the previous day. Wife of a prominent citizen. The baby died. The nurse went to the greenhouse where the husband and wife were having tea, and announced the death of their child. The husband did not look at her, the wife gave her an irritated nod, and they were back to drinking tea and talking.
The Philippino nurse also told me that as Saudi women are in labor, some go into angry outbursts: "Wait till I get home and cut your d.. off!"

A woman with an eroded identity cannot help the child to acquire identity or to perceive himself/herself as human.
The child is forced to identify to the predatorial father pumping semen in the womb, or to the victim of the predator.
The regression goes directly there, bypassing any possibility for comfort or mental integration.

The unconscious hatred of the mother for her own offspring/pimples becomes conscious in the sons, eager to eradicate their "defective" daughters, as to protect their "honor" (wounded incomplete sense of identity).

The result of denying women identity is a rise in pathology,
and let's face it, women with suppressed anger are as dangerous to their children as men who have urges to kill and behead.
Islam puts the newborn in an emotional catch 22 state.
Pathology must be so widespread, that people raised by loving parents must feel suffocated, show it, and become victimized by the crowd.

Brandon O'Connor | July 6, 2012 10:57 AM | Reply

The interesting thing is that in our society most of the depleted people with sociopathic tendencies or other forms of inability to regress (borderline disorder - Michael Jackson who was only able to sleep when he passed out with anesthesia for surgery, Princess Diana, etc) are trying very hard to help others and fill their void with good deeds and interesting experiences. Many benefactors of humankind have had an eroded sense of self and an inability to experience long lasting comfort.
Our society puts value into replenishing, gives hope for replenishing.
Islam, apparently with the cult of "razzia' promotes emptying out anything that is not emptied out yet. Donations are collected for suicide bombers and their offsprings, for the destruction of America and Israel, for the constructions of mosques, where one has "to leave their mind at the door, before walking in".
Islam condones giving for destruction and cautions against giving for living.

dumbledoresarmy replied to comment from Brandon O'Connor | July 12, 2012 5:00 AM | Reply

Brandon

there may be simple physical pathology going on as well.

Women who wear the Islamic Slave Rag - especially in its most extreme forms - burqa, or niqab - and even somewhat less obscuring forms, such as the Iranian chador - and who are largely confined to the home, tend to suffer from Vitamin D deficiency.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3953628,00.html

Gaza university makes hijab obligatory

At the bottom of the article, this paragraph:

"Lack of Vitamin D because of veils

"A Jordanian study published this week asserted that 87% of women between the ages of 18 and 70 in Jordan suffer from a lack of Vitamin D as a result of insufficient sun exposure and not enough milk consumption.

"The researchers linked this phenomenon to wearing the hijab.

"According to the findings, 92% of women who wear a hijab suffer from a lack of Vitamin D.

"This figure increases to 96%, according to the survey, when it comes to women who cover their faces as well with a niqab."

And... Vitamin D deficiency in a pregnant woman seems affect the neurological development of the foetus, making it more likely to develop schizophrenia.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-09-07/researchers-link-low-vitamin-d-to-schizophrenia/2251250

'Researchers link low vitamin D to schizophrenia'

"Researchers say babies born with low vitamin D levels may have an increased risk of developing schizophrenia later in life.

The three-year study tested blood samples from babies in Denmark and found having low vitamin D levels doubles the risk of developing the disorder.

The findings could encourage pregnant women to get more sunshine or take a vitamin D supplement,,,

Professor John McGrath, from the Queensland Brain Institute, says the study is further evidence of vitamin D's link to brain development."

If A/ Vitamin D deficiency in a pregnant woman impairs the neurological development of the foetus

and

B/ all over dar al Islam women are dressed and forced to behave in a manner that severely reduces their exposure to sunlight (and in many places, too, they are malnourished) causing them to suffer marked Vitamin D deficiency

what does that imply about what is happening to their babies in the womb?

Brandon O'Connor | July 13, 2012 5:03 PM | Reply

Conceived in a tomb, living in a tomb, that's what it must imply. Psychologically, and physiologically.

Brandon O'Connor | July 13, 2012 5:07 PM | Reply

In Australia, there is a disease in the manual, linked to lack of exposure to sunlight, a form of depression.

Brandon O'Connor | July 13, 2012 5:09 PM | Reply

Not a disease, I meant a psychological disorder.

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