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.”
“Shooting at İstanbul court leaves woman, police officer dead,” from Today’s Zaman, March 11 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A man fatally shot a woman and the police officer assigned to protect her at İstanbul’s Çağlayan Courthouse on Tuesday morning.
Hanime Aslan, who had gone to the court for a divorce proceeding, died at the scene of the crime.
Police officers immediately detained the shooter, who Turkish media have reported was the woman’s son, Dursun Zeyir. The wounded policeman died after he was taken to a nearby hospital.
Aslan divorced her husband Hızır Zeyir on March 7, 2011 because of domestic violence. She came to court on Tuesday for divorce proceedings and to renew state-provided protection.
News outlets have reported that 20-year-old Dursun Zeyir shot his mother five times at the building’s security checkpoint. Turkish media have claimed that Zeyir had been trying to reconcile his parents.
The wounded police officer, Emrah Taşdemir, survived until he was taken to a nearby hospital. While receiving medical treatment, his heart stopped. He died soon after a call for blood donations was issued. İstanbul Police Chief Selami Altınok announced Taşdemir’s death.
According to media reports, Aslan’s 14-year-old son and her ex-husband were also present at the entrance to the Çağlayan Courthouse. Turkish media reported that Aslan’s youngest son, in tears, desperately tried to reach his mother, while Hızır Zeyir asked nearby officials what was going on.
Female homicides are a common and rising phenomenon in Turkey, which has been losing its battle to protect women from domestic violence. The Ministry of Family and Social Policy, established in 2011, has made preventing violence against women a top priority and opened shelters for female victims of domestic violence. Despite these measures, the Interior Ministry’s latest statistics show that the number of cases of femicides and other forms of violence against women in the country is still alarming, and activists say increased awareness and a change in mentality are required to prevent more women from becoming victims of domestic violence.
NGOs working on women’s rights issues have said that despite the adoption of a law on the protection of the family and the prevention of violence against women in 2012, 174 women have since been killed by their husbands or partners in Turkey. According to a report released by the National Police Department’s (EGM) Public Order Department, 153,000 women have been exposed to violence since the law came into effect in Turkey. The report stated that 171 women in 2009, 274 in 2010 and 161 in 2011 were murdered in incidents of domestic violence. In an interview with Today’s Zaman in January, Compassion Association (Şefkat-Der) President Hayrettin Bulan said that most of the murdered women were killed while under police protection.
That was the case with Aslan’s shooting on Tuesday.
Brian says
You know your religion is messed up when you kill your own mother.
YOUR OWN MOTHER! THE WOMAN THAT GAVE YOU LIFE???
NO WAY! THIS IS CRAZY!
Daredian says
in islam….women have no value…doesnt matter who they are…
Jahid Sahaballah Sh'shit says
what if ur mom is a bitch and doesnt giev u ipod 4 christmas
Eric Brazau says
Those who leave Islam or are not Islamic enough are killed. This is prescribed in the Koran. “They are doubly cursed by Allah his angles & all mankind”
billreitzes says
Islam, once you’re in, there is no way to leave, apostasy, and you can’t talk against it, blasphemy, both punishable by the ultimate of all punishments, death.
And, we wonder why, the so called, moderates don’t speak up?
Buraq says
Mohammed would have approved, of course. Clowns!
Steffen Larsen says
Some years ago the high incidence of honor murders had become an embarrassment, particularly in the eastern and more backward areas of Turkey. Tougher measures and sentences were promised.
It was somewhat successful, until it was realised that the suicide rate of women increased instead. The so-called “honor suicides”.
Defcon 4 says
Who determined the victims of “honor suicides” actually committed suicide? The all muslime authorities? I seem to remember a muslimah in Tamapstan, Fl. committed suicide — by beating herself to death.
Steffen Larsen says
As you point out, there are several kinds:
The ones where the woman feels it’s her duty to kill herself, or she’s harassed/forced into killing herself.
And the cases of f.ex. a determined young woman killing herself by repeatedly knocking her face against a hard surface.
Or making it seem she has been killed by a burglar or an islamophobe.
Jay Boo says
Yet, Muslims still recite the myth that their ‘prophet’ ascended to heaven,
even as they descend into Muhammad’s disgrace walking in his bloody footsteps.
Recite, Recite, Recite …
Champ says
There is no “honor” is murdering one’s own mother! Disgraceful and evil, really. Which describes islam on the whole.
Christian A. Beltram says
If the Turks had never been converted to Islam but instead continued to practice either their original faith which was Tengriism or Buddhism, which is what the Turks in China and Central Asia also practiced for centuries before Islam made inroads among them, such crimes would never be committed in Turkey today.
The practice of honor killing among non-Arab peoples who practice Islam today is a perfect example of Islamic Imperialism at work. Wherever Islamic Imperialism takes hold, societies march backward instead of forward. This is what will happen to the United States if nothing is done to stop the march of Islam.
fair_dinkum says
a clear indicator as to a womans’ value or worth under islam.
bill says
Islam is not a religion it is a psychosis. It is the only religion that not a only permits but actually tells its followers to kill people who oppose them in any way that can be construed as ‘religious’. This is applied in everyday practice to anything
voegelinian says
And yet some Jihad Watchers, as Rome is on fire, are fretting about whether Christians have the thought crime of believing in, or even merely just tacitly mentally assenting to certain Old Testament verses.
Mirren10 says
If you’re referring to that fatuous twat, ‘mr dude’, I certainly wouldn’t call him a Jihad Watcher ! 🙂
voegelinian says
Also “RodSerling”.
gravenimage says
For a pious Muslim, it is perfectly Islamic if your father is beating and abusing your mother, but if she dares to try to escape, she has besmirched the family “honor” and must be slaughtered.
God, I hate Islam.
dumbledoresarmy says
Above, voegelinian equates Rod Serling with the egregious and stupid “Mr Dude”, as if they were exactly the same kind of thing, and as if “Rod Serling” were equally unworthy of being called a “Jihadwatcher”.
For the record: I am a practising Christian (unlike Voegelinian who identifies himself as an agnostic) and I have not felt, from Rod Serling, the same neverending blasts of contempt, scorn and hatred as I have from Mr Dude.
And down through the years at this forum I have copied and kept many, many, many useful postings by “Rod Serling” (and by the same poster under a previous moniker) who for example in searching up and analysing the various “Pew Survey” results from the Muslim world, has done all of the rest of us here considerable service.
I have never felt the slightest interest in keeping, for future use and reference, *any* of the worthless rubbish posted by “Mr Dude”.