It is not at all surprising that the State Department would not mention Islam in connection with honor killings. But this steadfast and universal refusal to identify the root cause of honor murders only ensures that there will be more of them.
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, of course, the victim was the murderer’s wife, a victim to the culture of violence and intimidation that such laws help create.
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.”
You can see video of the State Department spokesperson’s statement here.
“Condemning ‘Honor Killings,’ State Dept. Cites ‘Tradition’ But Not Religion as a Factor,” CNSNews.com, May 30, 2014 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):
The State Department on Thursday condemned the stoning of death of a Pakistani woman and other violence against women “in the name of tradition and honor,” but made no reference to religion as a factor.
Walter Sieruk says
Yes , “honor killing” is the result of tradition. This is Islamic tradition. As has been stated in Atlasshrugs.com “honor killing is very much an Islamic tradition.” and “honor killing s are sanctioned under Islam.” These cruel, vicous and muderous actions of “honor killings”do reflect the extreme misogyny of Islam. As Brigtte Gabriel explained in her book THEY MUST BE STOPPED “Women is Islam are considered unclean,deemed inferior even to dirt.”
Shane says
Good points. Of course, the Obama state dept. is not going to blame Islam for anything, including jihad and terrorism.
Félicien Leblanc says
Not only White House, but also mainstream medias adopt this position. They accuse the traditions and forget blaming the real culprit: Islam. Many traditions or practices called pagan are more civilized than the barbaric Muslim religion.
Whether African or Asian, these people have a superior idea of the individual or of women in their culture. It’s only contact with Islam that has lowered it. Throughout the world, it is the Christian cowardice which favored the expansion of Islam : the Byzantine failure opened the doors of Africa to Arab.
European colonialism has destroyed all traditional societies and promoted the emergence of Muslim elites and the teaching of Arabic at the expense of indigenous cultures : was not this the work of the Monarchy, Napoleon and the Republics in Africa and Asia ?
There are Judenrats, but let’s talk about Christianrats. We remember the movement “Manif Pour Tous” against gay marriage. What is the constant between it’s two successive leaders, Frigide Barjot and Ludovine de la Rochere ? An organization called “Muslims of France” that has participated in the movement.
Even the French Church recognizes and welcome this participation to defend the family values !!! OH so, I did not know that the traditional or christian family values were :
*Prepubescent wedding
*polygamy
*Essential inferiority of women : a subhuman
*Statutory and legal inferiority of women
Throughout the duration of the movement, the Catholic distinguished themselves by anti secularism, anti republican attacks, and collusion with Muslims. The Christians are lulled into complacency, they think that globalism does not concern them,
they are getting in bed with Islam and they think that this will lead to some ” sublimation ” willed by Christ … As an atheist I have more values than these Chrisatianrats that are working with islam for the degeneration of humanity.
Jay Boo says
There are prominent (right wing) preachers in the US such as John Hagee who criticize Islam but such preachers also angrily denounce gay marriage and atheism much more fervently then the Catholics you criticize.
Their followers can quote Old Testament scripture wrath much better than most Catholics but the Leftist use them as an example to ridicule all Christians as intolerant bigots.
To say that the Catholic are in collusion with Muslims is a bit of an unfair and inaccurate generalization of all Catholics.
Jay Boo says
I would suspect that Catholics in liberal leaning France are under constant assault by Liberal anti-Christian gays and their Leftist allies who also happen to be atheist.
These groups find it more politically convenient to criticize Catholics than Islam and not the other way around.
Jay Boo says
Anti-jihad gays and atheists excepted
mortimer says
Willful ignorance is bad enough, but Obama’s Leftists are guilty of CONTRIVED IGNORANCE in the matter of Islam, jihad and honor killing.
Cultural Marxists such as Obama court the votes of Muslims and pretend to themselves that Islam is not a misogynistic, fascist and totalitarian ideology.
In order to maintain the Leftist-Islamist alliance, the cultural Marxists must CONTRIVE and COOK UP a theory that Muslims are not woman-hating totalitarians.
kikorikid says
Very concise, very TRUE!
IQ al Rassooli says
Even 13 years after 911 and tens of thousands of acts of terror by Muslims a great percentage of Americans & Europeans have not been able to connect the dots
The fault lays MORE with their Criminally Negligent leaders in Academia, Politics, Religious and Media for NOT telling them the FACTS
The most guilty of all is the closeted Muslim B H Obama who FORBIDS all US departments CIA FBI HLS & State from ever associating Islam with Terror. The blood of any Americans slaughtered by Muslim terrorists in the USA falls on his head (Boston bombers)
After all, pope Francis has NOT been able to find – to my great surprise – Hate mongering or Warmongering verses in Muhammad’s Quran. He met the Mufti of Jerusalem and communed with him about what? The Mufti is ANTI CHRISTIAN so what did they agree upon?
The Protestant churches and leaders are no better. They have been ignoring the slaughter of Christians all over the Muslim world for the last 13 years by their deafening silence
Muslims are gaining NOT because they are clever BUT because of our leaders’ corrupt morality and intelligence
It is up to the ordinary men and women of the USA & Europe to demonstrate their anger by the millions just as was done and achieved by the Egyptian people against the Muslim Brotherhood
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
kikorikid says
You bring up the most telling attribute of Obama,
he is Shariah Compliant.
Raymond Hietapakka says
The pathological gangsters Owebama, Hillariah and Billilah Khlintoon-Al Arkansawia all work for the House of Saud.
kikorikid says
COMING SOON!
Shariah Compliance Patrols in your neighborhood!
NO-GO Zones!
Hallal food!
I have, literally, a ton of buddies who are waiting for
the appearance of “Shariah Compliance Patrols”.
It will not matter in the least if the “Patrol”
is 6 or 60. They will be in deep doo-doo!
Mirren10 says
islam. Now piss off.
dumbledoresarmy says
This little article’s a classic.
Hope the link still works. Recommended to any new persons here who haven’t yet come across it.
“Spengler” in Asia Times, discussing sharia and how both wife-beating and “honor” murders relate to the Islamic paradigm, and how that Islamic paradigm differs from the “western” paradigm.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LE25Ak01.html
Wife-beating, sharia, and Western law
By Spengler
“More than the Koran’s sanction of wife-beating, the legal grounds on which the Koran sanctions it reveals an impassable gulf between Islamic and Western law. …”.
“The practice of wife-beating, which is found in Muslim communities in Western countries, is embedded too profoundly in sharia law to be extracted.
“Nowhere to my knowledge has a Muslim religious authority of standing repudiated wife-beating as specified in Surah 4:32 of the Koran, for to do so would undermine the foundations of Muslim society.
By extension, the power of the little sovereign of the family can include the killing of wayward wives and female relations.
“Execution for domestic crimes, often called “honor killing”, is not mentioned in the Koran, but the practice is so widespread in Muslim countries – the United Nations Population Fund estimates an annual toll of 5,000 – that it is recognized in what we might term Islamic common law…”.
dumbledoresarmy says
Just checked.
As of today, 2nd June 2014, the link I provided will still take you to where you can read “Spengler”‘s article.