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Jordan: Court reduces sentence of Muslim who murdered his daughter in honor killing

Feb 8, 2014 2:54 pm By Robert Spencer

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Here we go again. I have posted this information many times before and will keep on posting it every time there is another honor killing, if only to leave a record, for as long as this site remains up, of the cravenness of the mainstream media in never reporting on the Islamic justification for honor killings accurately, and thereby enabling the practice to continue.

This is an Islamic phenomenon, and can only be stopped if it is confronted as such. 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.”

“Jordanian gets reduced sentence for ‘honor killing,'” from AFP, February 6 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

AMMAN – A Jordanian court has reduced the sentence of a man who killed his daughter because she left home without her husband’s knowledge from death to 10 years in jail, an official said Thursday.

“On January 29, the court initially condemned the man to death but gave him a reduced jail sentence after the family dropped all legal claims against him,” the judicial official told AFP.

“He has confessed to shooting and killing his daughter, who was in her late 20s, because she left her house for several days without her husband’s knowledge.”

He said the crime took place on November 13, 2012 in Ruseifeh, east of the capital Amman.

“The convict, who is in his 50s, has also confessed that he killed the woman to cleanse the family’s honor,” the official added.

Murder is punishable by death in Jordan, but in so-called “honor killings” courts usually commute or reduce sentences if the victim’s family requests leniency.

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

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 8:01 pm

    ISLAM IS A CESSPOLL without honor

    Daddy’s Girl
    Little Anusha of Pakistan wiggled to life with a scream and a cry.
    She delighted all with her giggle, as she practiced to speak and to smile.
    The neighbors were so impressed at the sight of God’s precious gift.
    But as she grew her father became controlling and perversely jealous.
    Fathers like him have unnatural desires that they dare not confess.
    Anusha was accused of glancing at a boy on a motorcycle.
    Pious accusations project all guilt onto the Islamic daughter
    when dirty secrets bear witness against the ‘image’ of Islam’s honor?

    Her father beat “God’s precious gift” with his feet and fists
    then her mother drenched Anusha with acid to assist.
    Fifteen years earlier Anusha Zafar wiggled to life with a scream and a cry.
    See this baby girl who once so delighted all with her giggle and her smile.

    “HONOR KILLING” ANUSHA ZAFAR died October 30, 2012 Kashmir, Pakistan
    (She was left to suffer for 2 days without any medical treatment)

    The true face of Islam is so easily forgotten by those who wish to believe, its lies.
    Every Muslim still knows for each daughter murdered, the true sordid reasons these “honor” killings hide.
    YET, NO PROTESTS, NO OUTRAGE, at this INSULT and the news media quickly accepts to forget
    what is not politically correct to inspect, the sins of this filthy evil religion that turns insult into pride.

  2. Righteous Reverend Dynamite! says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 8:55 pm

    Perhaps, we Americans could pass a law that states that not only the perpetrator(s) of the honor killing gets executed, but the whole entire family (including aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, nieces, nephews) gets put in jail and then deported to a country of our choosing (but it has to be an abject hellhole of a place). They then might think twice. It would be similiar to what Gen. Napier did in India to stop widows being burned alive on pyres when their husbands died; his remedy pretty much stopped that barbaric practice cold! Sure, it might be a wee bit unconstitutional but put it on the books and wait for one of those jackasses to challenge it when they commit the next atrocity.

  3. Salah says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 11:30 pm

    “..a man who killed his daughter because she left home without her husband’s knowledge..”

    Aisha, the “mother of believers”, also left home without her husband’s knowledge and spent a whole night with a young, handsome soldier named Safwan!!!

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/10/aisha-and-safwan.html

  4. JamesonRocks says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 1:20 am

    This is “moderate” Jordan? Just wait and watch, he’ll be released soon for time-served on humanitarian grounds – his family needs him…

  5. Defcon 4 says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 1:30 am

    He’s just honoring his daughter’s memory — which is kinda hard to do when she’s still alive.

  6. Richard Hart says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 6:52 pm

    “for as long as this site remains up” – Historically, it might be prudent to collect the Jihad Watch daily posts together in book form? Obviously, there would be infinite volumes….

  7. gravenimage says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 10:03 pm

    Jordan: Court reduces sentence of Muslim who murdered his daughter in honor killing
    …………………………………….

    And remember—Jordan is supposed to be a “moderate” Muslim country. Here’s what’s going on elsewhere in Dar-al-Islam:

    “Afghanistan: New law will allow men to attack wives, children and sisters without fear of judicial punishment”

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/afghanistan-new-law-will-allow-men-to-attack-wives-children-and-sisters-without-fear-of-judicial-punishment.

    More:

    “On January 29, the court initially condemned the man to death but gave him a reduced jail sentence after the family dropped all legal claims against him,” the judicial official told AFP.
    …………………………………….

    This is *very, very common*. In the Muslim world, the family is *far* more likely to side with the murderer than with the victim when a Muslim kills his female relatives.

    More:

    Between 15 and 20 women are murdered in honor killings in Jordan each year, despite government efforts to curb such crimes.
    …………………………………….

    They aren’t trying very hard when they reduce penalties for “Honor Killings”. And I’m sure the figures are actually much higher than this—in Dar-al-Islam, they aren’t often even reported, because the whole family covers it up.

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